Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which Miles has a brush with nostalgia; Angelica Jones is secretly a Thomas Hardy protagonist; it doesn’t need to make sense if it’s awesome; and Emma Frost really needs a mustache to twirl.

X-Plained:

Trevor Fitzroy

Firestar (Angelica Jones)

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

Nostalgia

X-Men, if sometimes the main characters were bears

Inexplicably Australian Wolverine

Ms. Lion

Marvel Divas

Sudsy fun

Superhero sitcoms

Firestar #1-4

Basic palmistry

Generic mean girls

Coen Brothers YA

The reinvention of Emma Frost

Some epic gaslighting

Butter Rum

Mutivac

Miles’s favorite star-crossed ‘ship

Why Thunderbird I has stayed dead

Contextual definitions of “organic”

NEXT WEEK: Secret Wars

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