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In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else’s geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis’s brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything’s sticky in Madripoor.

X-PLAINED:

• X-Manga
• Excalibur #16-19
• Crosstime
• A John Carter riff
• A mysterious and dubiously reliable narrator
• A terrible pick-up line
• Kymri
• Anjulie
• Gender-neutral fantasy armor
• Implicit fellatio in several media
• Space Fred Savage
• An alternate Jean Grey (and her untimely demise)
• Tullamore Voge
• A grand tourney
• A deeply disappointing pastiche
• ORZ-1
• Dirty Pair (and a sustained riff thereon)
• What makes a train sexy
• Wolverine’s table manners
• Jim Jaspers vs. Jamie Braddock vs. Jamie Jeffers

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