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Cyclops has mixed feelings about fatherhood. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Rick Leonardi is so good. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Let’s pause for a moment to admire Rachel’s super sharp outfit. Those yellow shoes! (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Not actually story-relevant. I just really like this panel. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
You do you, Rogue. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Madelyne Was Right. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Look at Magneto on the end, like, “I’m a supervillain, and I think these people are out of their damn minds.” (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Like the outcome was ever in question. Also, how awesome is Leonardi’s Storm? So awesome. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Cyclops’s father issues are basically their own character in this issue.
Grey house break-in #1 of 2. (Uncanny X-Men #201)
Love, love, love the way Mary Wilshire draws contemporary fashion–and uses it as a subtle storytelling element. (New Mutants #35)
This is what happens when, between the inks and the colors, someone decides you can’t show characters in just their underwear. (New Mutants #35)
Lee Forrester has no time for your ridiculous superhero hijinks. Lady’s got a job to do. (New Mutants #35)
Fun Fact: This poppy-field environment first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #175, where Cyclops used it to take down Rogue. (New Mutants #35)
On one hand: poor Warlock. On the other hand: I LOVE THIS PANEL SO MUCH. (New Mutants #35)
THE MIRACLE OF MAGNETISM! (New Mutants #35)
Horses are fucking terrifying. (New Mutants #35)
Warloooooooooock. (New Mutants #35)
Sienkiewicz eyebrows are the best eyebrows. (New Mutants #35)
Magneto is the cool teacher. (New Mutants #35)
This is what happens when you flout FAA guidelines for the safe transport of Kirby dots. (Avengers #263)
GOOD QUESTION, Captain Marvel! (Avengers #263)
Spoiler: This entire plot line is a pointless red herring. (Avengers #263)
Bonus Namor abs for you. (Avengers #263)
WHAT A SHOCKING TWIST! (Avengers #263)
If no one sends in lyrics to “Like a Phoenix,” we’re going to be kind of disappointed. (Fantastic Four #286)
1) Those credits, man. 2) THAT EPIGRAM. (Fantastic Four #286)
Look at She-Hulk and Hercules being all charming in the background. (Fantastic Four #286)
Hi, Jean. We missed you, too. (Fantastic Four #286)
“Also, there’s no way any actual human being would get that haircut.” (Fantastic Four #286)
Grey house break-in #2. Doesn’t anyone ever think to call ahead? (Fantastic Four #286)
Beast X-plains the Dark Phoenix Saga. (Fantastic Four #286)
“I’m a retcon, Jean. Just run with it.” (Fantastic Four #286)
Aw. (Fantastic Four #286)
Classic X-Men #8 does the whole thing over again, somewhat more graphically.
Next Week: X-Factor begins (for real, this time)!
That panel of Captain Marvel standing underwater, checking out the discarded mattress made me annoyed with Kelly Sue DeConnick’s “Monica Rambeau is terrified of water” business in her first Carol Danvers “Captain Marvel” series.
Mid-eighties Hercules is the best of all possible Herculeses. I particularly like the way Roy Thomas wrote him as impossibly, unendingly, bottomlessly strong. He one-punches a Growing Man in an issue in this run.
I believe the plural form is Herculi
Tomato, tomato. 😛
Can’t remember the Issue number, but at one point in the Avengers Monica uses her powers while underwater against Marrina in which she basically her atoms scatter so hard she can barely get back together and spend a decade afraid of her powers.
It’s brought up a couple of times before KSD touched upon it, so it’s not so unlikely!
… “In which she basically scatters her atoms so hard” is what I meant to say. Curse my porky fingers.
After looking through the Avengers/FF section of the visual companion I have MAJOR QUESTIONS about the Mattress Physics of the Marvel Universe.
Well, since you asked…
“Like a Phoenix”
By Ron
(To the tune of Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”)
She made it through the atmosphere
Somehow she made it thro-o-o-ough
Didn’t know she was a cosmic force
She had become the Phoe-e-nix
Mastermind
Touched her mind
Made her mad, and then she turned bad
And she was rebo-oh-orn
Yeah, she w-a-a-as reborn
As the Dark Phoenix
Like a Phoenix
Genocide for the very first time
Like a phoe-e-e-e-nix
Feel the fire
In your mind
Gonna blow up a fucking star
Slaughter all those aliens
But the X-men brought Jean back
‘Cause in comics love does that
She’s so fine
And her mind
Was so strong, yeah, and edito-o-rial
Wanted to bring her ba-ah-ack
So, yeah, they brought her ba-ah-ack
With the Phoenix Retcon!
Turns out the Phoenix—hey!
Wasn’t exactly Jean!
No, the Phoe-e-e-e-nix
Borrowed her image
and her mi-e-a-e-ind
Wo-oo-wo-oo-whoah
Wo-oo-wo-oo-whoah
Wo-oo-wo-oo-whoah
The real Jean
She’s just fine!
She was in
A cocoon the whole time
And now she’s back on X-Force
Yeah, she’s o-oh-on X-Force
And everything’s fine!
Jean’s not the Phoenix—well
Not at this moment in time
Her future da-a-a-augther
Has the power
At this time
But this is X-Men
Ooooh! So retcons happen
All the flarking time
So it’ll change soon
And eventually
Jean’s gonna be
oh-ohhh-woah-woah!
oh-oh-oh
(The Phoenix)
Can’t wait for the retcons!
To bring Phoenix-Jean back!
*X-Factor*. I meant “X-Factor.” This is what happens when you hit “enter” without proofreading.
..I like yours much better than mine.
Amazing!
I get the theory about why Cyclops left his wife and child. But I’m afraid that doesn’t make it any better.
I also don’t see it, because Scott surely would believe in keeping his word. Which he totally failed to do.
I’ve just been rereading all the books in question and I feel sorry for Madelyne.
I don’t know that it’s super in character for him either, but to be fair he wasn’t TRYING to leave his wife. He was just going to check on Jean and come back. But Madelyne told him not to come back and when he did anyway, she was nowhere to be found.
Can we talk about Claremont’s ridiculously frequent use of “chum” as a term of semi-endearment? I was a kid in the 1980s but I do not recall folks using this word any more than they do nowadays. Is this just Claremont being Claremont? With the amount of X-books I have been reading recently it’s only a matter of time before this enters my diction and people start giving me weird looks.