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In which we spend too long trying to place a time-travel miniseries in continuity, Al Kennedy does us a solid, Bernard Chang draws some excellent New Mutants young and old, Al Ewing x-plains X-Men: Red, Forearm and Random play Nintendo, and we reveal the winners of The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence!

X-PLAINED:

Jay's spatial and temporal whereabouts

Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, and Douglock

New Mutants: Truth or Death

Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin, gal pals

Triple-dog dares

Nova Roma, or not

Mikhail F**king Rasputin

The arrogance of reality warpers

How to write Magma

The Technarchy and the Phalanx

Hardee's X-Men: Time Gliders

Farmboy chic

Bernard Chang's 21 Panels

Branching vs. overwriting timelines

The effects of de-aging and history rewriting on immunology

Found family

She Who Swam With The Acanti

Sleep-Eeze Mattresses Starring The Hulk

Arrako

Continuity synchronicity

S.W.O.R.D. as a workplace drama

The moral downfall of Abigail Brand

The leadership styles of Storm, Magneto, and Sunspot

Himbo disambiguation

The fates of Armor, Risque, and Peeper

Mysterium Clicker

Santa Claus

The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

(Note: Our interview with Al Ewing contains spoilers for X-Men: Red!)

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