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In which Havok and Wolverine head to Mexico; Havok tries his hand at noir; Wolverine gets serious about hair gel; Meltdown is probably not actually a common Russian surname; Susan X-Plains nuclear reactors; and we are pretty thoroughly besotted with Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown.

X-PLAINED:

• Age of Apocalypse Corsair
• Epic Comics
• Marvel Comics Presents #24-31
• Leila O’Toole (Plasma)
• The Cold War
• Samantha Smith
• Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown #1-4
• General Meltdown
• Dr. Neutron
• The varying deadliness of vices
• Scarlett McKenzie (Quark)
• Some exceptionally gorgeous artwork
• Why we love Havok
• Chernobyl
• How nuclear reactors do and don’t work
• Other characters we’d like to see in Meltdown-type stories
• Adamantium vs. vibranium

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