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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.

X-PLAINED:

• Spider-Man’s head cold
• Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
• Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
• Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
• Horrible violence, expertly implied
• The ubiquity of sewers
• Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
• Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
• Improbable tracking
• Bilingual crime
• Chekhov’s waterfall
• DRUGS
• X-Factor #136-137
• The Hound program
• Skeumorphism
• Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
• Questionable wound-dressing
• Holograms
• Government jobs
• The sad fate of the Chase family
• Nimrod disambiguation
• The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss

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