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In which you should all come see us at FlameCon; all lizards are good lizards; we recap a recap; the Phoenix force is really complicated; Earth-99476 may or may not be the secret history of Earth-616; Alan Davis takes on continuity; the X-Men fail to save the day; the Phoenix says its piece; Rachel takes a vacation in space; Captain Britain doesn’t like to be psychoanalyzed; and the Crazy Gang gets a happy ending.

X-PLAINED:

• Evil Shadowcats
• Jay & Miles at FlameCon
• Excalibur #51, 52, and 54
• A brief history of Excalibur
• The Phoenix Force
• A recap of a recap
• What this episode isn’t covering
• Lizard Excalibur
• The most meta t-shirt in the multiverse
• Several long-ago Halloween costumes
• Dinosaurs of Earths-616 and -99476
• National Lampoon Vacation apocrypha
• Earth-99476 and its Savage Land
• The Fantastic Five
• A vow of vengeance
• Feron as an antecedent to Kubark
• Alan Davis’s modern authorial counterpart
• A telepathic journey
• The full history of the Phoenix Force (as established circa 1991)
• Inherited vs. inherent mutant powers (and a No-Prize explanation thereof)
• The rehabilitation of Rachel Summers
• Several retcons yet to come
• Jean Grey’s inconsistent relationship to the Phoenix Force
• A mysterious disappearance
• What the Crazy Gang has been up to
• The nicest kind of twist
• A very easy way to make Kitty Pryde textually queer
• Differentiating X-teams
• The X-Plain Discord
• Strong Guy’s new hobby

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