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In which Alan Davis performs his pièce de résistance; the personification of Death is surprisingly supportive; Rachel Summers is the One True Phoenix; Kitty Pryde goes full ’90s; syntax saves the world; and the first Excalibur series should really have ended with #67.

X-PLAINED:

• Origins of Phoenix mythology
• Excalibur #61-67
• The Phoenix Force (more) (again)
• Rachel Summers (more) (again)
• Earth-811 (more) (again)
• Phoenix vs. Galactus
• A pep talk from Death
• The One True Phoenix
• The dark, distant future of 2013
• The dark, even more distant future of 2015
• The extremely complicated future of Kate Pryde
• Rory Campbell / Ahab
• What may or may not be Ahab’s theme song
• Moby Dick, kind of
• That one time Widget was a car
• Resistance Coordination Executive
• Dark Angel
• Killpower
• Albion
• Grace
• Tangerine
• Arthur
• An Excalibur #54 callback
• Excalibur (the gun)
• Kitty’s new image
• How to hack the robot apocalypse
• Saved by the Bell: The College Years
• Where Excalibur should have ended
• Tactical use of Magneto’s hat
• Anti-assimilation stories in X-Men

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