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In which we spend too long trying to place a time-travel miniseries in continuity, Al Kennedy does us a solid, Bernard Chang draws some excellent New Mutants young and old, Al Ewing x-plains X-Men: Red, Forearm and Random play Nintendo, and we reveal the winners of The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence!

X-PLAINED:

• Jay’s spatial and temporal whereabouts
• Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, and Douglock
• New Mutants: Truth or Death
• Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin, gal pals
• Triple-dog dares
• Nova Roma, or not
• Mikhail F**king Rasputin
• The arrogance of reality warpers
• How to write Magma
• The Technarchy and the Phalanx
• Hardee’s X-Men: Time Gliders
• Farmboy chic
• Bernard Chang’s 21 Panels
• Branching vs. overwriting timelines
• The effects of de-aging and history rewriting on immunology
• Found family
• She Who Swam With The Acanti
• Sleep-Eeze Mattresses Starring The Hulk
• Arrako
• Continuity synchronicity
• S.W.O.R.D. as a workplace drama
• The moral downfall of Abigail Brand
• The leadership styles of Storm, Magneto, and Sunspot
• Himbo disambiguation
• The fates of Armor, Risque, and Peeper
• Mysterium Clicker
• Santa Claus
• The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excel