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In which Nicole Miller is fashion designer to Earth-1218 and Earth-616, Jay rejects the word “bestest”, we kind of want to just read every word of X-Men #30 aloud, One is a perfect wedding song for Scott and Jean, and you save the last dance for who brought you.

X-PLAINED:

The perils of animated weddings

X-Men: The Wedding Album

Nonstandard trim sizes

Misattributed Oscar Wilde quotes

Shatterstar’s favorite Olympic event

Jean Grey’s short-lived modeling career

Computo, Commander of the Robot Hive

A most excellent wedding dress

Cursive fonts in comics

Jean Grey and Jubilation Lee, ambiguously excellent chosen family

X-Men #30

An event decades in the making

Wolverine, Master of Penmanship

Charles Xavier, reader stand-in

The largely forgotten Madelyne Pryor

The understandably tentative Rachel Summers

The bow-tie scene

A phenomenal two-page spread

A set of perfect vows

A bittersweet song for a bittersweet couple

Victor Creed, vengeful kitty-cat

Rogue and Gambit, best worst wedding guests

Video albums vs. Instagram

Beast and Banshee, jazz combo

Scott and Jean as a couple vs. individuals

The necessity of Scott and Jean’s relationship context

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