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Drop him a line!

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In which X-Men don’t get to take vacations; Jay makes a somewhat belated announcement; sometimes Gambit is legitimately pretty cool; the assassins get a day-glo-up; The Crow holds up surprisingly well; Gambit gets exiled again; and Artie and Leech damn well better get to live happily ever after.

X-PLAINED:

• Rogue and Gambit’s honeymoon
• A thing that Jay is working on
• Brood Trouble in the Big Easy
• Bella Donna Boudreaux
• Gambit #1-4
• The New Orleans trilogy
• “X-Ternally Yours”
• The tithe collector
• Things about which your mama may or may not have warned you
• Dramatic captions
• Candra
• The Thieves’ and Assassins’ Guilds
• The pact
• Julian Boudreaux (again)
• Henri LeBeau and his mustache
• Critical nudity
• Terminal nudity
• Marius Boudreaux
• Accent inconsistencies
• Draping
• Jean Luc LeBeau
• Treachery most foul
• (Select elements of) Gamit’s origin story
• How thieves get kids
• Gambit as a romantic hero
• Ungrateful children of the Marvel Universe
• Petite Chou
• Clubbing with Gambit
• Subtlety (for some value of the term)
• Lifestyles of the rich and immortal
• The Church of Lost Thieves
• The Elixir of Life
• An undersold side effect
• A very lucky break
• Artie and Leech’s probable adult lives
• Villains we’d like to see on the X-Men

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