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In which Lee Forrester deserved better; we have somehow made 187 of these; Bizarre Adventures is accurately named; the Grey sisters do not steal a yacht; trite jerks are doubly offensive; Black Panther is everything and you should go see it right now; Namor has a type; Attuma reads like an import from Game of Thrones; Florida is the Australia of North America; Iceman has a good weekend; half of the Vanisher materializes in Poughkeepsie; and Jay’s mom is the best Cable.

X-PLAINED:

• What Lee Forester has been up to
• How this happened
• Bizarre Adventures #27
• The not-particularly-secret lives of the X-Men
• Jay’s Book of Irrelevant Headcanon
• “The Brides of Attuma”
• Sara Grey
• Several incidents in the life of Jean Grey
• A plan as ineffectual as it is dastardly
• “Winter Carnival”
• “Titan Up the Defense”
• The peculiar predominance of ice sculpture in the Marvel Universe
• Bubba
• The Apple Profile
• Festive bandits
• A heist
• A very fancy cane
• “Show Me the Way to Go Home”
• Nightcrawler’s favorite movie
• The Count Duckula theme song
• Some very friendly ladies
• ECCC cosplay
• Sev the Oracle
• Whether Buffy is a Summers sibling
• Whom we would merge with cosmic forces
• The Queen of Nevers

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