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

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In which Franklin Richards is the center of a disproportionate number of X-Men specials; Quicksilver without powers is comedy gold; Luna is the best little girl on the moon (but it’s kind of a low bar); Jay accidentally cares about the Inhumans; Jean Grey may or may not be the Wesley Willis of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge’s exit interview is weirdly professional; Boom Boom is the best reluctant hero; and Archangel makes his debut.

X-PLAINED:

• Quicksilver’s team associations
• Knights of Wundagore
• Chthon
• X-Factor Annual #2
• X-Factor #21-23
• The Inhumans
• Black Bolt
• Medusa
• Crystal
• Lockjaw
• QWOP Quicksilver
• Leech’s wildly inconsistent powers
• Gorgon
• Luna
• Headbutting ghosts, or, why sentence structure matters
• Maximus
• Several methods of mind control
• A really terrible place for a date
• Cameron Hodge: Bureaucrat Supervillain
• The last will & testament of Warren Worthington III
• Another superpower pet peeve
• A theoretical team-up we would love to see
• The Arlington Interactive Museum of (evil) Science
• Some really dumb armor
• Archangel
• Our preferred third Summers brothers

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