Art by David Wynne.

In which the Cross-Time Caper has finally outstayed its welcome; we bid a reluctant farewell to Alan Davis; Inferno may or may not finally actually be over; Evil Doug Ramsey rocks our socks; the Shadow King is not a particularly nuanced villain; Kitty Pryde celebrates a birthday; and Courtney Ross represents an awful lot of dangling plot threads.

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Nocturne

Excalibur #21-24

The end of the Cross-Time Caper

Post-Alan Davis Excalibur

Chris Wozniak

Crusader X

Earth-2122

How to track Excalibur

Phoenix-related telepathic idiosyncracies

Our general indifference to the Shadow King

An alternate history of Earth-811

Earth-23238

An extended Judge Dredd riff

Puberty

Another John Byrne cameo

Several variations on Courtney Ross

Kitty Pryde's 15th birthday

Nightcrawler's beard

The Siege Courageous

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