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In which Excalibur addresses a number of dangling plot threads, Britanic finally gets (somewhat) interesting, Kitty really wants Douglock to be Doug, Professor Xavier and Moira MacTaggert are the best exes, and the future has peculiar priorities.

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The life and death of Jamie Braddock

Excalibur #81

Douglock (more) (again)

Inker ambiguity

Britanic and Meggan’s Christmas costumes

The Excalibur Lighthouse’s sudden and inexplicable resurrection

Mo’ time travel, mo’ problems

20,097 rocks on a shoreline

Douglock: overly literal, dryly funny, or just plain thirsty?

The Emotional Beat of Damocles

The problems with crunch time

Princess Diana: Excalibur vs. X-Statix

Language and time

Excalibur Annual #2

Appropriately bombastic narration

Fashions of the future

Psychic psychotherapy

Sibling rivalry

Mr. Poo

Braddock moppets

Oversimplification vs. ambiguity

Spooling chambers (more)

Excalibur as an X-leftovers book

Air travel: leg-room vs. sorcerous doom

Hannibal King: vampire detective and/or penciler

Shadowcat and the pain of hope

A Doug’s-eye view of New Mutants

Emma Frost and aging

Dazzler and roller derby

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