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In which Wolverine is an eternal teenager; most of what Jay knows about Hawaii comes from Lilo and Stitch; Shiv is a complicated fellow; Nightcrawler represents an unattainable beauty standard; the Easter Bunny flies at dawn; Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure is delightful; Logan inadvertently starts a cult; Gahk does as she pleases; Jay and Miles are going to FlameCon; and we are all now Honkers forever.

X-PLAINED:

• What Bloodscream and Roughouse have been up to
• Albert and Elsie Dee
• An unorthodox vocal warm-up
• Wolverine: Bloody Choices
• Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure
• The Wolverine formula
• Kamehameha Day (which Jay mispronounced; sorry!)
• Mr. Bullfinch
• Mr. Kapeland
• Shiv
• Doc Corbel
• Nick Fury’s penmanship
• How retail works
• Secret agents, maybe
• A stimulating combination
• Karate pants
• A darker, grittier version of the Easter bunny
• Wolverine’s apocryphal childhood
• Characters who can pull off the Wolverine hairstyle
• Don Adams as Wolverine
• Win/win murder scenarios
• Two adult men discussing their feelings
• Honkers
• Cargo cults
• The Tribe of Fire
• Gahck
• Some romance
• A Spiny Honker
• The Honker of Doom
• Pit traps, with and without shallow holes
• A dastardly but ineffectual plot
• Apocalypse, kind of
• One of Wolverine’s many kids (who may or may not be Erista)
• Jay & Miles at FlameCon 2018
• How to get us at your local convention
• Reading comics with Miles’s dad
• Seriously, though: honkers

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