Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else's geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis's brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything's sticky in Madripoor.

X-PLAINED:

X-Manga

Excalibur #16-19

Crosstime

A John Carter riff

A mysterious and dubiously reliable narrator

A terrible pick-up line

Kymri

Anjulie

Gender-neutral fantasy armor

Implicit fellatio in several media

Space Fred Savage

An alternate Jean Grey (and her untimely demise)

Tullamore Voge

A grand tourney

A deeply disappointing pastiche

ORZ-1

Dirty Pair (and a sustained riff thereon)

What makes a train sexy

Wolverine's table manners

Jim Jaspers vs. Jamie Braddock vs. Jamie Jeffers

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