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So here’s the deal:

We were working out the solicit information for X-Factor #208. Now you know I’ve been making a big deal about X-Factor #207, the issue before that, and been endeavoring to keep a lid on it. However in trying to prep the solicits for #208–both the issue info and the cover–I was left in something of a quandary. If we continue to keep our cards hidden, and write the solicit in the vaguest of terms and make the cover generic, it’s going to be absolutely impossible to get people stoked about what’s happening. I mean, when we did the stuff with the baby and Layla’s return, we could finesse our way around it. This time it’s impossible: All this cool stuff is coming up, and if we don’t say what it is, then there’s nothing to say at all unless we make it sound really, really boring, which it most definitely is not. But the solicit info is going to be publicly available two months before issue #207 hits the stands. What to do, what to do?

So we figured, y’know what? Let’s let people in on it this time. But if anyone’s gonna blow the bit, it’s gonna be me (although Marvel’s signed off on it, don’t worry; I’m not getting into trouble over it.)

So here, below the cut line, two days before the solicit information, is the cover art for X-Factor #208.

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Or at least come back tomorrow (May 16th) about Noon for some really cool news.

And to pass the time I thought I would do an Ask the Wife but just to change things up a bit, I picked a theme.

So ask me questions about Puppets or Puppetry.

This is Food Allergy Awareness Week.

Until just now, I was unaware of that.

Perhaps last week should have been Food Allergy Awareness Week Awareness Week, in order to promote awareness of Food Allergy Awareness Week.

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The only major element of the 7th season of “West Wing” that hasn’t played out in the real world is a nuclear power plant in the U.S. melting down.

Should we be concerned?

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Kath, Caroline and I just came back from visiting with my folks and my sister. We basically had as many David moms in one place as we could manage.

Hope everyone else did as much for their moms as they could today.

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British actress Alex Kingston: On “Doctor Who,” she played “River Song.” On “FlashForward,” she played “Fiona Banks.” On “Law and Order: SVU” she played “Miranda Pond.”

What IS it with this woman and bodies of water?

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Rich Johnston reports on a pirate website…one that was reported on by others as far back as early last year. The site gets shut down. And fans with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement, embracing the logical fallacy of “Post hoc ergo propter hoc” declare it’s his fault.

Welcome to my world, Rich.

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