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Drop him a line!

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In which we encounter one of comics’ greatest rarities; Spider-Man cannot actually do whatever a spider can; Flash Thompson subscribes to the X-Factor school of child endangerment; alliteration is the source of a very specific sort of powers; Spider-Man is not Phil; guilt is Spider-Man’s greatest motivator; we root for the antagonists; Guido Carosella would be an epic Twitter monster; a lot of people have hung out with the X-Men; and Glob Herman is a lovable, gross mystery.

X-PLAINED:

• Spider-Man / X-Men Crossovers
• Other media we have consumed recently
• Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadow Games
• What a spider can do
• What Spider-Man can do
• Shadow Force
• Hard Time
• Airborne
• Oversize
• Firefight
• Ambush
• Mirrorshade
• JELLO Jigglers(TM)
• Journalistic alliteration
• The government
• A comfortable fictional jacket
• How to find Flash Thompson
• Many sound effects
• The untimely death of Mirrorshade
• Why we’re not covering the Captain Marvel movie
• Glob Herman’s powers

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