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In which Nicole Miller is fashion designer to Earth-1218 and Earth-616, Jay rejects the word “bestest”, we kind of want to just read every word of X-Men #30 aloud, One is a perfect wedding song for Scott and Jean, and you save the last dance for who brought you.

X-PLAINED:

• The perils of animated weddings
• X-Men: The Wedding Album
• Nonstandard trim sizes
• Misattributed Oscar Wilde quotes
• Shatterstar’s favorite Olympic event
• Jean Grey’s short-lived modeling career
• Computo, Commander of the Robot Hive
• A most excellent wedding dress
• Cursive fonts in comics
• Jean Grey and Jubilation Lee, ambiguously excellent chosen family
• X-Men #30
• An event decades in the making
• Wolverine, Master of Penmanship
• Charles Xavier, reader stand-in
• The largely forgotten Madelyne Pryor
• The understandably tentative Rachel Summers
• The bow-tie scene
• A phenomenal two-page spread
• A set of perfect vows
• A bittersweet song for a bittersweet couple
• Victor Creed, vengeful kitty-cat
• Rogue and Gambit, best worst wedding guests
• Video albums vs. Instagram
• Beast and Banshee, jazz combo
• Scott and Jean as a couple vs. individuals
• The necessity of Scott and Jean’s relationship context

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