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In which Excalibur gets a regular writer again; we judge a book against against its covers; nothing good ever comes from being sexy on Muir Isle; and the soul sword’s real power is cutting through continuity.

X-PLAINED:

• Stegron
• Dinosaur powers
• Excalibur #83-85 (The Soul Sword Trilogy)
• Warren Ellis on Excalibur
• Excalibur (more) (again)
• Bends Sinister and Bend Sinister
• Outsider days
• Mail
• Boundaries
• Darkoth
• Gravemoss
• The Winding Way
• Shrill
• A problematic prosthesis
• Roger Corman’s The Raven
• A large number of continuity errors
• Gratuitous dickery
• An untold tale
• The semantics of skin removal
• Possession vs. retrograde amnesia
• The circle of nostalgia

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