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In which Miles has a Dracula problem; we are really, really excited about FlameCon; Fabian Nicieza is the unsung hero of the early ’90s; Jay doesn’t explain the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Cable does not have a good history with trademark disputes; Cable: Blood and Metal is secretly an allegory for the X-books of the early 1990s; friendship and explosions don’t have to be mutually exclusive; and history evokes but doesn’t quite repeat itself.

X-PLAINED:

• Dracula disambiguation
• One way to stop a vampire invasion
• Wang beams
• Cable: Blood and Metal #1-2
• The continuing miracle that is Fabian Nicieza
• Cable (as established in 1992)
• Stryfe
• The Wild Pack and/or Six Pack
• The ongoing evolution of John Romita, Jr.
• Tolliver
• Several heists of varying quality
• Numerous patches and their contents
• How the Wild Pack became the Six Pack
• An idiom, examined
• A total dick move
• Muscles-and-guns power creep
• Guns of tomorrow
• The McNinja point
• A brief flirtation with Magic: The Gathering
• A typo that became canon
• The new She-Ra
• The new, improved Garrison Kane
• European nipple lasers
• Mr. Richter
• The evolution of Cable

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