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In which Alan Davis performs his pièce de résistance; the personification of Death is surprisingly supportive; Rachel Summers is the One True Phoenix; Kitty Pryde goes full '90s; syntax saves the world; and the first Excalibur series should really have ended with #67.

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Origins of Phoenix mythology

Excalibur #61-67

The Phoenix Force (more) (again)

Rachel Summers (more) (again)

Earth-811 (more) (again)

Phoenix vs. Galactus

A pep talk from Death

The One True Phoenix

The dark, distant future of 2013

The dark, even more distant future of 2015

The extremely complicated future of Kate Pryde

Rory Campbell / Ahab

What may or may not be Ahab's theme song

Moby Dick, kind of

That one time Widget was a car

Resistance Coordination Executive

Dark Angel

Killpower

Albion

Grace

Tangerine

Arthur

An Excalibur #54 callback

Excalibur (the gun)

Kitty's new image

How to hack the robot apocalypse

Saved by the Bell: The College Years

Where Excalibur should have ended

Tactical use of Magneto's hat

Anti-assimilation stories in X-Men

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