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The Great X-Men Storytime - Vol. 5: Fall of the Mutants (Part 1) 2017-03-02 02:16:51 Post No. 90350171
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The Great X-Men Storytime - Vol. 5: Fall of the Mutants (Part 1)
X-Anon
2017-03-02 02:16:51
Post No. 90350171
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And we're back, just like the Five Musketeers!
So sorry for keeping you guys waiting for so long, I just needed a breather after how hectic things got during the last part of 2016, but now I'm fully recharged and ready to continue.
But enough blogposting, let's read some fucking comics!
PREVIOUSLY ON X-MEN:
http://desuarchive.org/co/thread/87038340
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Based X-anon
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no post in 3 minutes, OP is dead
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Also, sorry for starting so late, I had a friend surprise visit me.
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>>90350303
These pages are just too damn heavy.
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>>90350303
>>90350370
And just like an X-Man, he came back from the dead!
Wait, I think I used that joke last time.
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Peter Rasputin: Comic Book Artist
Somehow, I don't think that ongoing would take off.
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would this be a good time to jump on? I like the x-men, mostly through other media, but have only really read Morrison's work.
I found other stuff too hard to get in to, mostly because of all the various adjectives on different teams. I did find two very large torrents recently though.
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>>90350617
It's always a good time, Anonymous.
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Yes, listen to the kid! Get rid of the Inhumans! Keep the muties tho.
>>90350499
Knowing me, that joke won't get old any time soon.
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>>90350587
>The Good Guys win!!
And this is how I know, the X-Men aren't going to stay in Edinburgh. Or Asgard. Or anywhere that's not populated by people who hate them.
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>>90350587
Peter and Cap doing a comic together when.
there's a really cute x-men classic back up where he talks about sending Illyana comics of his X-Men adventures
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>>90350617
That's the fun part of older comics, anon! It's always a good time to join in!
Alternatively, you can use the Mega that I was too dumb to include in the OP. I recommend starting with Vol. 2, unless you REALLY dig 60's comics.
https://mega.nz/#F!5kJFCBjJ!TG-NaDE3TdmkZ_uVOkD3eg
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>>90350787
Colossus is pretty good if he did THAT with his off hand.
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>>90350787
>hopey and maggot
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>>90350698
Don't worry, they don't really like them here either.
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>>90350787
>I recommend starting with Vol. 2, unless you REALLY dig 60's comics.
Ehh, it was fun to read vol. 1 with /co/
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>>90350587
Child starts talking to him
>Nervous sweating
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These pages are unbearably slow to upload.
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>>90350171
Ah hell man, it cant be because of Trump because I remember you leaving before the election was over, like JSA did for a while
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>>90350918
Oh, absolutely, but reading it by yourself can be... rough.
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>>90350938
Think clean thoughts, chum.
>>90351072
Nope, nothing to do with Trump.
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>when you get it up and can't get it down
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>>90351183
Is this before or after he started his relationship with the young Kitty?
>Marko broke this and we got the blame! I'm so angry I'll break the last remaining wall!
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>>90351357
Way after.
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>>90351354
Speaking of Colossus and dick jokes, does he still have junk when he goes metalic? Given what a notorious pervert Claremont was, that had to come up at some point.
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>>90351562
I can't see why he wouldn't desu
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>>90350171
Oh shit, Longshot and Spiral?
Looks interesting.
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I'm not sure if "kayo" is the right terminology when destroying laser-shooting thingamajigs, Alison.
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I can already tell what Alex's thinking.
>Uh, sure, that's totally what I meant to do! Nice catch, Rogue!
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>>90351562
>does he still have junk when he goes metalic?
Yes
In Cable and X-Force he and Domino have sex while he's on steel form
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will you storytime New Mutants' and X-Factor's issues?
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Man, poor Wolvie.
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>>90352064
Logan's face says " Maybe I should've stayed with Alpha Flight"
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>>90352047
As a certain big guy said once: of coursh!
Not tonight tho.
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>>90352325
Did this dude just knock out Dazzler with sound?
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Maybe if you guys hadn't acted like dicks this wouldn't have happened. Mystique.
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>>90352325
Holy shit those are some heavy hangers on Mystique
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>>90352428
That he did.
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>>90352428
I think it was the force of the snap, like a weaker version of Hulk's clap.
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>>90352534
>Nothing personel, kid
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>>90352578
She's tanked the force of Blackbolt's voice. This here, is bullshit.
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Getting a lot of "connection lost" here.
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>>90352613
This might have been at a different point of power creep.
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>>90352629
I remember this particular issue because of this page. Funny stuff.
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>>90352629
I can only hear the goofy scream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUL5w91dzbo
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>>90352635
Nah, it was in her Solo Series, some crooks kidnapped her and wanted to use her to rob the Inhumans for some ungodly reason.
Admittedly, nobody fucking read their solo series, I only read it, because X-Anon was storytiming it, and even HE wasn't reading it.
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Jeebus, this is getting annoying.
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I forget. Did Spider-Woman bail from Freedom Force already?
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My connection better knock this shit off because we're about to start a double-sized ish.
>>90352714
lmao, true dat
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>>90352821
Have you tried restarting?
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This X-Men lineup is really underappreciated
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>>90352789
I think she bailed in an Avengers issue, not sure though.
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Logan... had a hard life.
>>90352846
I'm gonna wait for a bit, but if it gets really insufferable, I'll try that.
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>>90352936
Have you tried resizing the images to be slightly smaller? I used ifranview earlier to resize some images because 4chan kept freaking out
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>>90352936
Sad. Having a woman with six arms and a woman dressed as a creature that has 8 limbs on the same team as the token non-mutants with names that start with Spi- was cool.
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>>90352752
Years reading X-Men and I still don't get how does Havok's white circles work
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>>90353042
Or imugr
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>>90353084
Punches from the Punch dimension
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>>90353118
but they are always facing the reader! how does that work??
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>>90353084
I think it was a visual trick Neal Adams came up with and it just sort of became Havok's thing. Let's be honest, Alex never had much.
Besides a sweet 90's costume
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>>90353156
and fucking his brother's wife
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>>90353042
That may just be it, actually.
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>>90353181
We don't talk about Inferno.
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>>90353152
Alex instinctively realizes he could be at home in his shitty desert, fucking the worst X-Girl if it wasn't for the fans. He's trying to make us pay for keeping him from his happy, oblivious life and heaven help us all when he actually manages to reach us.
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Alright, I'm going to try and restart my computer. If that don't work, then, I dunno, avenge my death. Or keep the thread bumped until I come back! Yeah, that's better.
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>>90350171
Whoops. Missed the start of this.
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>>90353442
4chan seems to be acting up for some people, OP included, so you have not missed much
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ill continue reading in the morning, thanks op (its 1:22 here)
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>>90353437
disclaimer: Neal Conan is friends with Chris Claremont
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>>90350370
Wolverine NEVER cleans the claws.
Do not let him help in the kitchen unless you want some horrible disease his healing factor makes him immune to.
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>>90350481
Those kids are surprisingly chill with a dude with a thick Russian accent in the dead center of Reaganopolypse Now's heightened tensions.
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>>90350587
>Peter Rasputin: Comic Book Artist
>Somehow, I don't think that ongoing would take off.
I don't know, this is around the time Gru started on Cap. Maybe Steve Rogers could have gotten him a job drawing for Marvel comics.
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>>90353195
so can we talk about Alex fucking Madelyne while we wait?
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>>90350674
Man, Cameron Hodge really did a mad marketing blitz, didn't he?
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im gonna marry X-anon!!!
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>>90350787
>>90350874
Yeah, a bit early for Maggott name drops, huh? He's still nearly a decade away.
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>>90352629
Is Blob's only power being a total fatass? Does that really even count as a power?
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>>90351092
I caught up on my own- The comments are fun to read along with even if you can't join in.
And it honestly wasn't THAT bad. Just largely mediocre 60s Marvel. And then Roy Thomas took over and hired Adams.
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>>90351183
Okay, panel 1 is straight up just an album cover.
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>>90353885
He's immoveable when he doesn't want to be moved.
So, yes?
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>>90354043
Also most attacks bounce off him
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>>90353501
This
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>>90353885
No, he's also got super strength. And nigh indestructibility.
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>>90352064
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAGGS4pHFFI
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>>90352132
Yeah, but then he'd have probably got sat on by Pink Pearl instead.
There's no shortage of "My Superpower is FAT" in the Marvel Universe.
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>>90351183
Silvestri's Colossus is great.
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>>90353187
Wow. People worried Logan's healing won't work fast enough.
This must be before they hit true Wankverine power levels.
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>>90353437
That's some creepy imagery.
https://youtu.be/HFfz4x2fF6k
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>>90350171
HE LIVES
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>>90355093
Well's he's dead now
RIP x-anon, good luck tomorrow
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In which issue does Longshot join the team?
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>>90355732
Uncanny X-men Annual 10 I think
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bumping for a successful comp restart
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>>90350171
Glad to see you back x-anon! I've been on my own journey through the Claremont era, post-inferno. Right now at the part Jubilee first shown up and saving Wolve from Deathstrike and Marauders. Plus Psylock getting his shut ninja costume.
As a kid I read the 90's x-men stuff all the time but never read any 80's stuff so it's interesting seeing how the characters came to that point.
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>>90355237
The entire East Coast is going through a mean Storm, X-Anon is likely a weather casualty.
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>>90352613
>>90352325
Maybe Alison Blaire snaps his fingers with more force than Blackbolt screams. Hm? You have to at least consider the possibility!
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>>90350171
My mugga. Welcome back.
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>>90350787
>>90350918
The early issues were a chore, especially with the amount of words they loved to cram into each page. It took me forever to read vol. 1.
Having said that though, I really enjoyed myself once they introduced Polaris and the sentinels.
Good times for sure.
Also thanks for the mega, OP.
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>>90353195
Inferno's good. Maybe not out of context, and maybe it didn't need to be an event that affected other characters than the mutant teams, but the story itself does the best that Claremont and Simonson could do to salvage a bunch of editorial bullshit that got heaped on them. All because of Jean Grey "needing to come back."
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Ah, my favorite era of X-Men. I love the way it builds on the past and the dream like weirdness that moves things forward.
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>>90358336
This
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Bump Of The Mutants
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bed bump
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>>90350171
welcome back !
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Oof. So in case someone is wondering just what the hell happened, the gist of it is I restarted my computer, but then the bastard thought it was a good time to update, so I sat there waiting for it to finish all night, and then I just kinda fell asleep. So... yeah. Sorry?
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Also holy macaroni, that is a lot of posts. Thanks, guys.
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Damn. Poor Betsy.
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Dogs and cats living together!
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>>90363811
It's all g, X-Anon.
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>>90364227
Thanks for understanding, anon!Also, that restart did jackshit anyway. I mean, I'm not getting "connection lost" anymore, but it's still a bitch to upload.
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Was Spiral another sexual fetish?
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Dayum, Pyro don't fuck around.
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>>90363811
bump
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>>90364551
She was created by Nocenti, but it's very likely the character appealed to Claremont for very... particular reasons.
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>>90364653
Thank you!
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>>90364551
Eventually probably but remember, she wasn't created by Claremont. She's a Nocenti/Adams character originally.
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Ororo's hair is out of control.
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>>90364337
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>>90364762
Man, this issue is extra moralizing-y.
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>>90364337
Piotr is so based in this.
>>90364436
Hey man, you're doing your best.
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Forge, you dork. That whole "queens" thing probably sounded better in your head.
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Way better than the M-word speech, Alex.
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>>90364551
Well, she WAS a fairly standard humanoid surgically altered and brainwashed into being Spiral, and she eventually opens The Bodyshop to surgically alter other people, so yes.
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>>90364612
I don't know. Depends on how much you take the Legacy Virus as a literal AIDS allegory. He might fuck around a lot.
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That last panel is very nice.
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>>90364970
>Way to go, X-Men. That's telling the world!
This is a nice page.
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Fucking idiots.
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>>90364551
Depends if "best woman" is a fetish
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>How can anyone be an X-Man an' NOT be a romantic?
Hah, true that.
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Aw Rogue, you ol' softie.
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Warm fuzzy feelings all over the place.
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So yeah, for those of you who forgot, Forge was a Vietnam vet. I don't think they've retconned that out yet either.
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>ywn shake Wolverine's hand
;_;
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As you can tell by Ororo's fucking insane hair, mohawk punk-rock Storm era is over.
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>You got no brains, but the heart of a grizzly
Yowch. Thanks?
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Only fair that the guy who took away her powers gives them back too.
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Jay-sus, these two kiss more often than... I dunno, some guy doing CPR on someone? Yeah, whatever.
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>Screw you guys, I'm going home!
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Alright, last issue for today because I won't be able to storytime tonight!
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This is best Rogue, love her design
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Gotta feel bad for Maddie.
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So yeah, despite Colossus' doubts, there actually were demons in Vietnam in the Marvel U. War IS hell after all, I guess.
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That was one quick air strike.
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So much for the cavalry, eh?
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Don't be obtuse, Logan.
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I love Betsy's mental butterfly gimmick. Everything looks so generic and same-y these days, you forget back when comic book artists didn't just rip stuff off from video games and anime.
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>the ultimate longshot
Ba-dum-tsshh
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I actually do wonder what MLK would have thought about mutants.
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Ewww. Man, the sacrifices a mugga's gotta make...
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>>90350171
Speedo Colossus is worst Colossus
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>>90368080
As a non-mutant, he would have hatred of them on a genetic level.
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>>90368080
This little speech by Pryor kind of loses its weight now that we know she was an evil clone all along.
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>>90368267
>not wanting to see those shiny metal pecs in all their glory
It's like you're gay or something, anon.
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>>90368380
Yeah...
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>>90368380
That was by forces beyond her control. She tried living the best life she could.
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Maddie just keeps getting the shit end of the stick.
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Has the Adversary shown up in any recent stories?
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I can't believe the X-Men are fucking dead.
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>>90368643
Again?
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>>90366704
Pity. I'm probably a minority, but I liked the 'rohawk.
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>>90368613
I remember he came back during the 90's in X-Factor.
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>>90368714
It had a place in 'Ro's history, and we've left that particular stage.The Anka redesign is just him missing the point of it badly
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Aw shit, you know what this means...
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>>90368879
X-Babies?
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ALL NEW STATUS QUO!
But first, what was going on with the New Mutants and X-Factor while this was going on? We'll find out next time, until then see you around!Oh, and here's some good comics, in case you feel like reading some more
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>>90365575
trumpvoters.png
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>>90366548
That's some weird word bubble construction in the last panel, too easy to read as
"Troop wasn't
lots more Cong
are heavy, they're
close by.
Alone scents."
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>>90365497
Huh. So these guys AREN'T time travelers, like the Hypoborean barbarians from earlier?
Or are they?
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>>90371101
this
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>>90366548
>I don't think they've retconned that out yet either.
Good thing he invented that age-countering sleep pod, then.
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When will you post your reading order, OP?
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>>90367559
Wasn't Pryor up in Alaska facedown in a tide pool? I feel like I missed something?
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>>90367201
>X-Men I have returned! And Forge invented Flight Rings for you all!
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>>90367229
The panties exist only to make her look lewd, though.
They serve no purpose and the design would probably work without them.But they are super hot. They'd probably do some killer cameltoe on a cosplayer.
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>>90368343
holy shit
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>>90368982
Gotta say I was a bit disappointed by #226's lead-in. I thought a big hole in the sky + "X-Men will die" would be something more interesting than generic timequack stuff. Some Apocalypse-related events or something.
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>>90367559
have writers forgotten forge's magical powers?
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>>90367855
But he's the best he is at what he does, and what he does isn't pretty. (Because it's being obtuse)
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>>90367917
Yeah. They USED to steal stuff from Music Videos too!
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>>90368244
>Trickster is weak to cold iron
Wow, must be nice to have avoided Europe for the majority of the occupation of the Americas.
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>>90368730
Man, with Storm AND Colossus dead, who's going to be inappropriately sexual with Kitty?
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>>90379949
Magik?
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>>90380184
Eh, with the weird timey wimey stuff around her, it's almost more like Kitty being inappropriately sexual with Illyana.
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>>90353054
Spider-Woman left in 1986 Avengers Annual, which was fixing bullshit Claremont did by having her join FF in the first place.
(Claremont wrote the bulk of the original Spider-Woman series, and hated Julia and hated Jum Shooter for creating her as a replacement for Jessica. So first chance he had he put her on Freedom Force and made her a villain after Shooter basically told him to write an issue of Uncanny with Julia (Shooter didn't give any instruction for HOW Claremont was to use her, which was Claremont's defense for doing so).
She only appeared in FF one more time after that (in X-Factor #8-9) before Shooter realized what was going on and had the Avengers writers have her betray Freedom Force.
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>>90364551
>>90364695
Art Adams created Spiral not Nocenti.
Adams created a bunch of henchmen designs for Mojo, one of which was Spiral. Nocenti liked Spiral's design enough that she instructed Adams that she was using Spiral as Mojo's top henchman.
In the original Longshot series, Spiral was just generic henchwoman. Claremont gave her an actual personality and set up the plot point that Spiral has a vendetta against Longshot, which he never got around resolving. Fabian Niceiza eventually settled on Spiral being Ricochet Rita (Longshot's love interest from the Longshot mini), sent back in time by Mojo to fuck with Longshot.
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>>90381828
>>90381938
Comic books are amazing.
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>>90375418
Maddie was lured down to San Fran by Mr Sinister between UXM #201/X-Factor #1 and #206 (#206 has Maddie, having been shot several times by Scalphunter, being rushed into the ER just as the X-Men were being forced to flee San Fran lest Freedom Force arrest them)
Maddie was in a coma until #215 (which has a flashback sequence showing the Marauders as her attackers) and reunited with the X-Men in 221-222.
>>90376853
The entire Fall of the Mutants storyline, X-Men-wise, was a huge rush last minute replacement storyline after Alan Moore decided to be a shit and forced Marvel to make Claremont jetison pretty much ALL of his original plans for #200-227.
(Fall of the Mutants was supposed to be a direct sequel to Days of Future Past/stealth remake of Jasper's Warp. Jasper teams up with Nimrod to reality warp Manhattan into the Manhattan of the DOFP timeline so that they can wipe out all mutantkind. Forge/Storm's stuff still happened in terms of Forge restoring Storm's power and shit, but in the original premise, with Rachel a prisoner of Mojo and Shadowcat injured by Nimrod in the mutant massacre, Forge is the only person who realizes Jasper is planning to warp reality and he and Storm end up reuniting right before hell breaks lose and Manhattan gets warped.
Adversary was created as a replacement for Jasper/Nimrod and supposed, was originally intended for a planned Demon Bear sequel that never happened in New Mutants)
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