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In which Douglock is Douglock; Kitty Pryde gets lost in nostalgia; it continues to suck to be Colossus; Professor Xavier is a jerk; the MLF makes one and only one valid point; Ben Raab’s Excalibur run begins; the Acolytes try to get the band back together; and the land mines are a metaphor that are also real land mines.

X-PLAINED:

• Exodus
• Excalibur #104-106
• The current state of Excalibur
• Douglock
• B.P.R.D.
• New Mutants #64 callbacks
• Wolfsbane’s default form
• Nostalgia
• The Xavier Protocols (again)
• The MLF (again)
• The Mysterious Moonstar
• Selby
• The Prodigy
• Character shifts between writers
• Age of Jay and Miles
• How not to write a letter in a comic book
• Assless chaps
• Land mines
• Unuscione
• Scanner
• Mutant lawyers
• Cyclops’s color vision

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