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It's because he knows he can't like, oust him as the mayor which is what his base would love to see. So if he pretends his own inaction is his own decision, he comes off as less weak.

I think part of the appeal of Emma Frost is that she's a supervillain who turned hero who NEVER lost her villain aura. She's was a cold hard bitch before and she's a cold hard bitch how.

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

LYLE LYLE WAKE UP.

Goodbye, 1981! 1982 will bring... Wolverine's first solo series? I think?

They should start contacting teams that don't have monthly titles. Like, what do you think the Champions are doing rn? Probably not much! Their book was cancelled!

I respect Cockrum drawing Scott's glasses completely covering his eyes. Like... the way Byrne drew them was sexier but they made less sense. Both are valid, I think it's an acceptable suspension of disbelief, but like I said I respect the attention to detail.

I like the way Storm's anxieties about leading the team alongside Scott are tackled. She's much more confident speaking about it than in her internal narration.

Logan: "yeah. Must be tough. Not remembering and all."

Where did this phrase come from? Because I've been saying it forever and I have no idea where I got it from, or wherever that was referencing.

My "I just got paid and I don't know how to manage my money" haul.

ZOWIE! It's legs o' clock.

This comic implies that every "Satan" figure in the marvel universe are one and the same. I'm glad that never stuck, I like the idea that there's a zillion demonic figures all bidding that THEY'RE the "real" devil.

HELSTROM HAD A HULU SHOW, WHAT?

This next issue is John Byrne's last. And I mean last issue ever, as he died immediately after completing it. It's sad that we'll never see any of his other work or hear his no-doubt good and unproblematic opinions about various topics, but such is life.

APPARENTLY it's later canonized that the hellfire club were all on coke for this, and I believe it.

COMICS WENT UP TO 60 CENTS ARGH. This issue was neat. Spooky vibe, lots of interesting ideas, and DeMatties got to vent about nihilism. Everyone wins.

I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

Listening to the Cerebro podcast, this was in 2020 (before the Mystique/Destiny Nightcrawler parentage was canonized) and the host Connor is talking about the prospect of potentially retconning The Draco.

Self-replicating cars cause the apocalypse From: Automania 2000 (1963), dir. John Halas, Halas & Batchelor

The comic's mostly pretty dry exposition, with a brief detour into how much Alison's life is falling apart back home. Then in the last like, 3 pages the art direction gets really compelling.

She's a MUTANT.

Carol goes off on the Avengers. Aka, Chris Claremont goes off on the Avengers writers.

I might sound like a broken record because it's like the third time I've said this, but I love that Claremont address it for how awful it was, rather than just letting Marvel sweep it under the rug, pretending it didn't happen like most "oopsies" moments in comic history.

...do the glasses also make them laser proof?

I like that the comic leans into Alison's anxiety around the world learning she's a mutant.

This scene is very sweet.

It's not like Spider-Man where he'll spend like, a year or two at most in a phase, a slightly different look, but everyone knows he'll go back to the red and blue by next tax season. Dazzler hasn't had this look since 1984, she is an entirely different person than she was 40 years ago.

Maybe a hot take? I don't like that they put Dazzler back in her classic design. It feels like they're limiting her to a simple novelty, rather than a character who's evolved and grown, not always in happy ways, but valid ones.

This arc was weird. It was an odd choice to follow up something like the dark phoenix saga with something as goofy as this. Imo they should've leaned into Scott's resentment toward Shaw and Frost, they're tangentially to blame for Jean going off the deep end, but he's barely in this.

1000% valid (except I know the alternative school they're talking about).

Now this is a blast from the past, a piece I made ages ago for my local comic book shop calendar.

Every fucking time a redhead is mentioned as being rumored to be in an MCU movie everyone goes "MAYDAY SHE'S PLAYING MAYDAY OH MY GOD YOU GUYS THIS IS HOW WE GET LIVE ACTION MAYDAY." Guys. If the MCU gives us a live action Mayday it'll certainly be the daughter of Tom and Zendaya's versions.

Kinda neat to have that element of synergy with the previous panel. I don't think it'll be any form of continuation, just a nod by mentioning Arkon.

The comic's most well known as the first appearance of Rogue, but the way the comic approaches the accountability of the Avengers is what made it special. Especially the way they sold the sense of betrayal from Carol? Heartbreaking.

I BEG YOUR PARDON??? Your name is W H A T?

Really good scene between hulk and dazzler. The fat drummer jokes got old by the second one. Out of about 20.

I think it's kind of interesting that Dazzler doesn't have a secret identity in the traditional sense, the secret's just that she's a hero at all, to the point that she denies it herself.

Fantastic scene to demonstrate the size change of Bruce.

Can't watch it rn because I'm at work, is it gay?

I wonder if this inspired the "just following orders" scene in First Class.

I think Kitty has never felt like the "team mascot" more than this specific moment in time. Which might be by design, I know what happens in this arc. I think they want to endear us to the idea of Kitty being endangered so we feel like nothing can hurt her.

People referring to sex as "reproduction" has gotta be some kind of red flag, right?

Idk, they didn't capture him. Clearly. But they kicked Eric's ass pretty, in Antarctica. He took months to recover, I think it's safe to say he was beaten.

It actually is a little eerie, I wonder if there's any possibility that somehow inspired this.

Oh, this one hurts. She's so innocent here.

Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some. Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.

Look at this panel, he just brings her to life in a very special way.