42 – A Firestar Is Born

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which Miles has a brush with nostalgia; Angelica Jones is secretly a Thomas Hardy protagonist; it doesn’t need to make sense if it’s awesome; and Emma Frost really needs a mustache to twirl.

X-Plained:

• Trevor Fitzroy
• Firestar (Angelica Jones)
• Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
• Nostalgia
• X-Men, if sometimes the main characters were bears
• Inexplicably Australian Wolverine
• Ms. Lion
• Marvel Divas
• Sudsy fun
• Superhero sitcoms
• Firestar #1-4
• Basic palmistry
• Generic mean girls
• Coen Brothers YA
• The reinvention of Emma Frost
• Some epic gaslighting
• Butter Rum
• Mutivac
• Miles’s favorite star-crossed ‘ship
• Why Thunderbird I has stayed dead
• Contextual definitions of “organic”

NEXT WEEK: Secret Wars

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