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In which we sit down with writer Chip Zdarsky to talk crossovers, continuity, metaphors, and X-Men/Fantastic Four!

X-PLAINED:

• X-Men/Fantastic Four
• A reunion
• Richards kids
• The state of Franklin Richards’ powers
• Balancing characters in team books
• Superhero teams as families
• Several metaphors
• Chip’s definitive X-Men
• Reed Richards vs. Charles Xavier
• Doom
• Krakoan fashion
• Switching gears
• An exchange of portraits
• Whether Garfield is a mutant
• Evolution

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