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In which Pete Wisdom is the guy you love to glare at; Nightcrawler is right (and a delightfully complex individual); Colossus has a lot of issues; and Wolfsbane gets the confrontation we’ve been waiting for since the New Mutants graphic novel.

X-PLAINED:

• Wolfsbane’s powers
• Excalibur #91-93
• The somewhat nebulous age of Kitty Pryde
• Betrayal
• What’s been up on Muir Isle
• Organized sports, Excalibur-style
• Pubs and what happens in them
• Drinking with Excalibur
• Shovel talks
• Phonetic accents, redeemed
• A fairly one-sided fight
• Colossus’s issues (more) (again)
• Anatomy and physiology of organic steel
• Accountability, trauma, and their intersections
• An exceptionally cathartic confrontation
• A hoodie Jay desperately wants
• Where cold opens come from
• Whether and how Gambit passes for human

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