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Drop him a line!

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In which Rose City Comic Con was in fact pretty awesome; we return to Marvel Presents; Colossus has a bad day; Ann Nocenti engages in some bipartisan satire; Cyclops has a bad day; Moira MacTaggert gets possessed again; Master Mold is really hard to kill; you should absolutely not send Jay naked leprechaun pictures; sentinels are basically rationalization engines; and that is really not how consciences work.

NOTE: In this episode, we said that the U.S.S.R. dissolved in 1989. That actually happened in 1991.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: THE NYCC PANEL HAS BEEN MOVED. IT IS ON THURSDAY, NOT FRIDAY.

X-PLAINED:

• Sentinel Aesthetics
• Prime Sentinels
• “Colossus: God’s Country”
• Butt physics
• The Cold War
• Colossus’s feelings about porn
• The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library
• Some varyingly dubious politics
• The Cold Warriors
• Alexander, who is probably not actually either Colonel Sanders or Howard Hughes
• Bipartisan satire
• Jay’s grandfather
• An uncomfortable picnic
• Limbs
• Number Six (but not that one)
• Terrible neighbors
• “Cyclops: The Retribution Affair”
• Bobbie and Mary Campbell
• Master Mold (again)
• Stephen Lang (again)
• Servitors
• A well-honed lobster alert system
• The Retribution Virus
• Conscience
• A terrible party
• Kitty Pryde’s Gal Pal Squad
• Community Organizer Magneto

NEXT EPISODE: Live from Rose City Comic Con!

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