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In which “Cross-Time Caper” is something of a misnomer; Excalibur is an awful lot of fun to summarize; none of us will ever live up to Oscar Wilde’s expectations; Captain Britain secretly derives his powers from genre; sometimes things turn out to be simple; Kitty Pryde is better at everything than you; manipulation and murder are the new flowers and candy; context may or may not ruin everything; Meggan gets a new outfit; Technet takes Brighton; and some universes are just too silly to survive.

X-PLAINED:

• Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme
• The Cross-Time Caper
• Excalibur #12-15
• Three love triangles
• Jay’s mom’s late iguana
• Captain Marshall, Lord Champion of the Realm
• Prince William
• Butch the ogre
• Princess Kate
• Fisticuffs
• Instant air conditioning, Excalibur-style
• Bagpipe Vader
• An anticlimactic solution to a protracted problem
• Sorcery 101
• Several profoundly unethical ways to initiate a relationship
• Arrested Excalibur
• The Campsite Rule of relationships
• The logistics and social history of tarring and feathering
• A protracted parody
• A very large number and several names for it
• A theoretical team-up
• Ultimate Hunger
• An unidentified comic that is not Ultimate Hunger
• Some less-than-ideal creative choic