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In which space bugs break time; you may already be a member of Excalibur; Earth-616 remains somewhat baffled by basic telecommunications technology; you should absolutely not order monkeys from an ad in a comic book; Widget gets a new look; Excalibur gets a new logo; Merlin X-Plains everything; and Rachel gets in touch with her roots.

X-PLAINED:

• The Timebroker
• Excalibur #48-50
• What “fair use” doesn’t mean
• Penis bones, revisited
• Feron
• Prophylactic levitation
• Several inaccurate flashbacks
• Someone who is neither a Nazi nor Charles Xavier
• Necrom (again)
• The art of heroic exposition
• Monastic population maintenance
• Mail-order monkeys
• Widget’s new look
• Kylun’s mutant power
• Several alternate Excaliburs
• The True Secret Purpose of Excalibur
• The new Excalibur logo
• Fighting weird with weird
• A whole lot of history
• Phoenix vs. Anti-Phoenix
• Some very epic thwarting
• The end of an era
• Alan Davis’s Excalibur
• How we work alternate timelines into coverage
• Bishop and Deathbird as a couple

NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure and Bloody Choices!

UPDATE: Apparently the dead mail-order monkeys were apocryphal, although we were able to dig up some fairly nightmarish accounts of live mail-order monkeys. …Yay?

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