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In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.
X-PLAINED:
- What happened to the World
- Weapon XVI
- New X-Men #142-145
- Fantomex (more) (again)
- The Weapon Plus program
- A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
- How to murder a nice, romantic mood
- The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
- Jake Danials Whisky
- A drinking contest
- The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
- The World
- Weapon XV
- A series of B&Es
- Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
- Car cops
- Weapon XV’s feelings
- Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
- Education at the Xavier School
- Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes
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Australian magpies have their babies in the spring, and swoop from behind to protect them, even though most people completely ignore them. Though I remember them swooping my dog, who would leap and try to bite them in return. Good times.
It’s rare that they actually peck people, but it’s been known to happen sometimes. I’ve heard that people in Canberra stick fake eyes on their bike helmets so the magpies don’t know which direction to attack from.
I remember back when IO9 was good. One article suggested that Psylocke’s exercise class would look like the video to Call On Me by Eric Prydz. I miss that site. Nowhere else I’ve found hits a good mix of nerd news with some actual science.