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In which ballistics get weird; Black Air is no W.H.O.; we have surprisingly mixed feelings about Pete Wisdom and Kitty Pryde as a couple; there is an actual creepy clown bar in Portland; blood eagles are excessively ostentatious; the Uncreated just want to be cool; and Rory Campbell continues his descent into supervillainy.

X-PLAINED:

• The Forever Man
• Turner D. Century
• Excalibur #87-90
• Excalibur (more) (again)
• Genosha (more) (again)
• Some extremely confusing bullets
• Philip Moreau
• Jenny Ransome
• Black Air
• Dream Nails
• Spy bars
• Foundations of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom’s relationship
• Captions
• Work/life separation
• A creepy clown bar
• Easy Tiger
• Blood eagles
• Shrine
• A virus and/or bacteria
• The Uncreated
• Gor the God-Butcher
• Data security
• Rory Campbell vs. Spoor
• How the X-Men got their name
• Terrigen toxicity

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