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In which Jay and/or patriarchy ruin everything; Archangel is dubiously aspirational; we need a moratorium on Jack the Ripper stories; there are a lot of Masterminds; and Arcade is a whole bundle of psychosexual weirdness.

X-PLAINED:

• Tom Malverne (Jack the Ripper)
• Lunch
• Wolverine and Gambit: Victims #1-4
• Loeb & Sale
• Jack the Ripper in fiction
• Alexandra Davies
• Fun on international flights
• That one time Jay thought the NSA was going to come for him
• Martinique Wyngarde (Mastermind II)
• Mastermind, Mastermind, and Lady Mastermind disambiguation
• Collateral damage
• Various Dies Hard
• Several heists
• Several hallucinations
• Variations on the death of Miss Locke
• Problematic third brothers

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