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In which we return to Excalibur, and Excalibur returns to form; “Girls’ School from Heck” is way better than we remembered; Jay has strong feelings about penmanship; we examine the semantics of field hockey; the band gets back together; Dai Thomas has no time for your comic-book bullshit; and you should never, ever install a good/evil switch in your technological abominations.

X-PLAINED

• The first appearances of Colonel Vazhin
• Perks of home recording
• FlameCon 2017
• Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
• Excalibur #32-36
• “Girls’ School from Heck!”
• St. Searle’s School for Young Ladies
• St. Trinian’s and a large number of references thereto
• Regional variations in boarding school hijinks
• Miss Rutherford
• A poorly staged panel
• Phoebe Huntsman
• Kitty Pryde’s penmanship
• Margaret Thatcher’s weirdly wholesome fantasies
• The kinda-reformation of Mesmero
• The end of Chris Claremont’s run on Excalibur
• Some complicated contradictions related to the ethics of consumption
• An abduction
• The ethics of psychic interrogation (kinda)
• Mariner disambiguation
• A rescue
• An unlikely partnership
• Darkmoor Research Center
• Dr. Walshe
• A somewhat convoluted plot
• Whether the Danger Room could function as a bathroom
• The physics of Asteroid M

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