224 – Fix the Future

In which Alan Davis performs his pièce de résistance; the personification of Death is surprisingly supportive; Rachel Summers is the One True Phoenix; Kitty Pryde goes full ’90s; syntax saves the world; and the first Excalibur series should really have ended with #67.
X-PLAINED:

* Origins of Phoenix mythology
* Excalibur #61-67
* The Phoenix Force (more) (again)
* Rachel Summers (more) (again)
* Earth-811 (more) (again)
* Phoenix vs. Galactus
* A pep talk from Death
* The One True Phoenix
* The dark, distant future of 2013
* The dark, even more distant future of 2015
* The extremely complicated future of Kate Pryde
* Rory Campbell / Ahab
* What may or may not be Ahab’s theme song
* Moby Dick, kind of
* That one time Widget was a car
* Resistance Coordination Executive
* Dark Angel
* Killpower
* Albion
* Grace
* Tangerine
* Arthur
* An Excalibur #54 callback
* Excaibur (the gun)
* Kitty’s new image
* How to hack the robot apocalypse
* Saved by the Bell: The College Years
* Where Excalibur should have ended
* Tactical use of Magneto’s hat
* Anti-assimilation stories in X-Men

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