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Drop him a line!

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In which Colossus is good at friendship; nobody notices when Amanda Sefton disappears; evil peaked in the disco era; and Pete Wisdom had hot claws before it was cool.

X-PLAINED:

• Fun times on Mount Wundagore
• Excalibur #111-113
• Rob Stotz
• Brooding
• Friendship
• Rory Campbell (again)
• The return of Sebastian Shaw
• MIS departments
• Two versions of the same conversation
• A palette-swapped wardrobe
• Invincible Head Technique
• A polite murderer
• Ogun, again
• A brief possession
• Mount Wundagore
• Bova
• Sir Ram
• Ursula
• Lord Gator
• The Knights of Wundagore
• Ace Duck
• The High Evolutionary
• Artistic turnover
• A kiss
• Were-girlfriends
• A sin-filled and disreputable club
• “Je Suis Rick Springfield”
• Storylines we’d like to see from bystanders’ perspectives
• Professor X’s crush on Marvel Girl

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