101 – Not Bad, Just Drawn That Way

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

In which it’s pretty much always terrible to be Magik; Y is a sometimes vowel; Wolfsbane is a secret Disney Princess; feelings ruin everything; and Gossamyr may or may not be an allegory (but is pretty interesting either way).

X-PLAINED:

• What Lila Cheney is up to these days
• New Mutants #67-70
• Gratuitous space spelling
• Gossamyr
• Spyder
• The Accountants
• Magneto’s ongoing slide into supervillainy
• A few fairly specific elements of teen-girl social dynamics
• Wolfsbane’s greatest desire
• Practical logistics of teleporting aliens into a sun
• Approaching the X-books as a new writer
• Who we’d put on an all-X-Men trivia team

NEXT EPISODE: BabyRace 2000; and Archangel vs. Cameron Hodge

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Special thanks to Kieron Gillen for the X-pert consult; and to Arvin Bautista for the use of “I Will Steal Your Heart.”

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InfernoWatch:

• Illyana’s descent continues
• S’ym gains near-complete control of Limbo
• First instances of possessed machinery and architecture

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