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at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

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In which Rusty is an honorary Bluth; we bid a sad farewell to Bret Blevins; Hogan the Grim is probably the best at bedtime stories; Asgard has really tight hat game; Hela is a remarkably competent supervillain; there are some sound effects you have to earn; Rusty and Skids fight the Vulture; and Miles has so many feelings about Thor.

X-PLAINED:

• Cortex
• Damian Tryp
• Our weird 2016 recording schedule
• Jay & Miles at Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest 2016
• Recent ResurrXion announcements
• The second half of the Asgard Adventure
• The end of Bret Blevins’ New Mutants run
• New Mutants #82-85
• The Odinsleep
• A fairly upsetting board game
• Volstagg’s awesome kids
• Tiwaz of the Wastes
• Many excellent hats
• Ula and the Savage Swarm
• Garm
• Miles’s favorite Fenrir story
• A remarkably clever villainous plan
• A signature sound effect
• Karnilla the Norn Queen
• Cable’s relationship to Longshot
• Recommendations for a comics newcomer

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