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In which continuity has its eyes on you; the multiverse is so complex that we have to drag Al Ewing out of the audience to X-plain it; the X-Men mean a lot of different (but mostly compatible) things to all of us; we will accept any retcons necessary to maintain Magneto’s history as a Holocaust survivor; and ECCC rocks our world.

X-PLAINED:

• Secret Wars
• Alternate universes vs. alternate timelines
• Multiversal problem-solving
• New Arcadia
• Definitive alternate-timeline X-Men
• The weird joy of reading comics out of order
• That one alternate timeline where Storm has a leather jacket and is hooking up with Wolverine
• The only happy Cyclops in the multiverse
• What makes the X-Men the X-Men
• Intersections we’d like to see explored in canon
• The appeal of universe-hopping
• Relative ratios of metaphors to punching
• Proof of concept in comics publishing
• Battleworld characters we’d like to import into the 616.1
• Which X-Men should get solo series

NEXT WEEK: X-Terminators!

CORRECTION: During the panel, Jay claimed that Spider-Man had been married for their entire life. Jay was in fact five years old when Spider-Man got married. We regret the error, but maintain our stance that Spider-Man is totally married.

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