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In which we take a break from the lead-up to Onslaught; Hannah Conover is the queen of dangling plot threads (and also of the Brood); Wolverine is the strangest angel; William Conover is the chillest minister in the Marvel Universe; and Excalibur writer Tini Howard gives us the inside scoop on Gambit’s trench coat.

X-PLAINED:

• Mutant Brood
• The Brood vs. Brood X cicadas
• X-Men vs. Brood: Day of Wrath #1-2
• Theological origins of John Ostrander
• Hair
• An unspoken motif in pin-up art
• Reverend William Conover (more)(again)
• Hannah Conover (more)(again)
• The Brood (more)(again)
• The Brood Empress
• The Firstborn
• Atypical Queen-Broodling power dynamics
• Brood of the future
• A strange angel
• What Gambit’s trench coat is made of

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