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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.

X-PLAINED:

Spider-Man's head cold

Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1

Sabretooth (Victor Creed)

Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)

Horrible violence, expertly implied

The ubiquity of sewers

Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies

Serial killers with G.I. Joe names

Improbable tracking

Bilingual crime

Chekhov's waterfall

DRUGS

X-Factor #136-137

The Hound program

Skeumorphism

Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes

Questionable wound-dressing

Holograms

Government jobs

The sad fate of the Chase family

Nimrod disambiguation

The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss

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