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In which Gambit is transatlantically terrible; Rick Leonardi is the poor man’s Alan Davis (but in a good way); we try and fail to care about British royals; Miles should probably read some Oscar Wilde already; Jay has a lot of feelings about The Rocketeer; Shadowcat gets a genuinely stylish costume; and we would read the hell out of a series about Destiny, Mystique, and Wolverine’s WWII adventures.

X-PLAINED:

• Why Gambit isn’t welcome in the United Kingdom
• X-Men: True Friends #1-3
• The poor man’s Alan Davis
• Trad night
• Laird Alasdhair Kinross and his nonthreatening but convenient heterosexuality
• Inexplicably absent familial relationships
• Queen Lilibet the Second
• Lady Regina Windermere
• Several notable British fascists of the 1930s
• A snazzy airplane
• Several nefarious plots
• Formal pajamas
• The mystery of the Hypercolor kilt
• A large number of strong feelings about The Rocketeer
• Kitty Pryde’s best costumes
• Weaponized cosmic queerness (again)
• Power, agency, and the Dark Phoenix Saga
• How characters end up with their specific mutations.

NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine, again.

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