Joshua Cassara’s lovely wife, Martha, announced that on September 22, we lost Joshua Cassara due to heart complications.
Joshua Cassara was such an amazing and talented artist.
The amount of times I have used X-Men V6 32 to show off my three favorite characters, would be too much to count.
Heck, I even used it for the one meme I’ve created.
I love this cover so much.
Joshua Cassara was always so nice to engage with me over at Twitter. He would post art, and I would compliment him, and sometimes it was no more than a “thank you,” but sometimes we would interact, and it was always cool to get a response from him.
Darkstar, Cable, Monica Rambeau, Cloak and Dagger, are all doing their best against the symbiotes.
Amelia Voght is involved, which definitely piques my interest.
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Then she introduces Magik, and now I am all in!
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Because the Dark Dimension is involved, so is Limbo. I wonder where Madelyne Pyror is?
It is very cool to see Magik working along side of Cable and Darkstar.
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Magik was only involved enough to get the team to the Moon, so they can link up with Manifold. Fun to see him again. Also ,a nice way to tell us readers that we don’t have to track Queen in Black.
Beta Ray Bill does something very cool to the Queen in Black.
Issue ends with Knull ready to attack Earth, but it is covered in symbiote, and this story concludes in Queen in Black 5.
Mojo wastes no time in letting Jeff know that Mojo has Ken captive.
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Magikhot and the rest of the Jeff Coast Avengers are powerless to do anything, they just want to work, and Mojo rules all.
Jeff isn’t happy with them, or the situation, calls them a name, and will come up with his own plan.
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Magikhot and JCA will just wait and see what the shark with the plan is.
Ken does his best to fight off Spiral and Mojo, but Spiral isn’t giving him an easy win.
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Jeff watches Magikhot and the rest of JCA train in the Precarity Room, and a plan begins to form.
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Magikhot and JCA pose for their pictures. They look very cool.
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I would totally buy a Magikhot trade card! She is the perfect combination of Magik and Longshot. Maximum hot, and maximum cool, but also, maximum rebellion. Apparently she is a he. Those are some pecs!
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We are treated to another pretty cool team shot.
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Jeff shares his plan, and it makes total sense to incorporate Magikhot’s rebellious nature.
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So funny that Wolverine-Man only now learns that he is the team’s tech guy, AND the “Man” in his name comes from “Iron Man.”
Wolverine is going to make sure this rebellion will be televised.
This is such a fun comic.
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Jeff knocks on his door, and we see the star with his name on it, revealing a star with an Alex name on it, which also falls out, revealing a chat with Chet’s name on it.
Is this a Ninja Turtle reference?!
Jeff keeps knocking down stars. Chet to Darla to Curly to Pork Chop.
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The Jeff Coast Avengers assemble!
Meanwhile on NYC Earth, Gwenpool is realizing that Jeff and Ken are missing, and Kate Bishop is going to help look for clues.
Issue ends with Mojo revealing to Spiral that he has MODOK priosoner, with the goal that MODOK creates a Jeff that Mojo controls. MODOK is not happy about this develop.
We see a young Rogue, who has a very religious Aunt Carrie. Whatever happened to this lady?
Repent, the mutant exorcist, is trying to exorcise either Agrippa, the Child Ripper, or Kristen.
Rogue tries to overpower Repent, but he is able to cut her hand. Gabriel tries to calm everybody down.
I like playing up the fact that Rogue is sort of a vampire.
Meanwhile at Haven House, Monet is having a hard time getting Howler to relax enough to come into the house. Poor guy has clearly been beaten, and believes he doesn’t deserve the pleasures of indoors.
I love that we see The New New Mutants relaxing in someone’s room, I’m betting it is Calico’s room as she has a horse painting on the wall. I love that they are just in their nightwear. They’re not cartoon characters always wearing their uniforms. Unlike the X-Men, who are always dressed for battle.
I like Logan trying to relate to Howler, as they walk the line in both worlds, animal and human.
The St. Juniors try their best to tell Howler he is welcomed inside.
Quicksilver, the forever jerk, has an aside to Monet that Howler might be beyond help. She rightfully tells him to never talk that way to her.
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I love so much Calico instructing Ember to watch over Howler. He is a good horse, a kind horse.
Alce St. Junior makes Howler a nice bed in the barn, and oopsie, has made an extra plate of bacon so he can enjoy it without worrying about resources.
Something about Howler’s “I thank” that also feels traumatic.
Howler asks why everyone is so accepting of Nightcrawler, as he looks like a demon. He’s the most best friend Logan has.
Howler wonders if Logan is going to kill his captures, and they sound horrible.
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Ember keeps proving how good of a boy he is, and sleeps next to Howler.
Monet has Quicksilver, Jubilee, and Kurt at a table, while Alice is doing the dishes. Quicksilver wants to rush into the house, and save the mutants. Kurt wants to teleport in, and get all of the mutants. Alice offers up that they should be working together, which is odd as Kurt usually does think within the terms of the team. Tensions must be high. I do love Monet remembering she has telepathy. Monet has a plan, but it involves the New New Mutants.
I do appreciate Monet telling Alice it is her turn to do the dishes, she’s trying to be nice
Agrippa attacks everybody, and Gambit turns into Wyrven.
Jubilee pretends to have car trouble, she’s wearing very short shorts, and using the alias, Shogo.
The security for the Gunther Estate is suspicious, but a call to Vig settles things. Shogo is transporting the New New Mutants.
Mister Gunther looks like a stereotypical “dashing” Southern man, but with an electric baton.
We see a new mutant, Tabby, who has a very striped left arm, being held captive. Mister Gunther isn’t too thrilled that Howler has escaped. He hits her as mutants are a disease, it is infectious, and needs to be burned away. Gross. Also, is this Simone’s soft way to connect to DNX?
Alice goes to check on Howler, and he’s gone, writing “I Thank” on the wall. Did Ember go with him? Or is Calico out of range?
Jubilee learns the Etate has a big guy named, Calamity.
I like Monet flying Logan around. He recognizes the emblem on the barn as the World of Strength that he met way back in issues 20 & 21. Oh, they are the thugs Logan and Ransom met at the Comic Convention in Argentina.
I was picturing big, but Calamity is big big, like Hulk big. But he’s purple, and with a Bane like mask.
Meanwhile, Gambit cures Kristen. Repent feels like he can cure Gambit, but it will be a bitter pill. Repent is sending Gambit and Rogue to the Iron Cathedral.
I got the JeeHyng Lee variant, as it was the solo Magik (Darkchild) cover.
3K is preparing to unleash their version of the Revelation virus onto Philadelphia. We are seeing that there are clear cracks in this alliance.
Beast and Ben Liu are getting help from Reed Richards to help save Magneto. That cursed Richards! is hesitant in returning Magneto to his full powers, due to his history. Reed really is the worst.
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Cyclops has brought Magik and the rest of the Alaskan X-Men to Philly. They know 3K has to arrive eventually, and they are done reacting to them.
Scott mentions how he has an inside man, and I’m wondering if Schwarzchild was snuck back onto the team.
I really like Vicentini’s art here.
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I do like this use of Quinten Quire’s telepathy. He can’t sense 3K through their stealth technology, but there are a lot of birds dying – which I don’t love – so, he knows where their ship is. Would it have been nice if the birds were just being knocked aside? Yes.
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Such a cool team shot!
3K is so untrusting of each other, that they won’t even drink Chairmain Beast’s Heidsieck 1907.
I was wondering if we should read X-Men V6 37 first, or DNX 1 first, but I feel it plays better to read X-Men V6 37, as that issue takes place during this page.
Reed is trying to defend his harsh decision to not help Magneto, even knowing 3K has their own fully powered Magneto in Joseph.
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Inside 3K’s Airship. Alaskan X-Men are making their way through the ship. Psylocke is filling in as psychic support, though she doesn’t like it.
I do appreciate that Cyclops name checks Timebomb, as I just can’t keep the 3K X-Men’s names in my head. It is nice not to have to go back to the character recap page.
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Oya gives Timebomb the slip, and Magik makes her go to sleep. Cyclops is fully prepared to take down 3K.
Cyclops’ mentions Schwarzchild is gone, so I’m not sure who Scott’s inside man is now.
70s Beast is trying to still convince Reed to help Magneto. Dr. Sue Richards comes into the room, and since she’s the best, she tells Reed he wants to help, and introduces herself to Ben, which is nice of her.
Sue asks the right questions, and 70s Beast reveals what the X-Men are really up against. There will be a virus, a version of him, ten years from now, or X years from now, if you will, creates it, it was sent back to the present, and Magneto has that virus code in his blood. For some reason.
Chairman Beast figures out how Cyclops got the codes, but we’re not told how. I like Chairman Beast shouting about how they can’t trust each other. This entire plan rests on their trust for each other, and it is falling apart. In the meantime, he’s going to just drop the virus, rapid style.
Before he can do that, the issue ends with Human Torch and Ben Grimm crashing into 3K’s ship.
AIPT asked my very specific Lockheed question to Kieron Gillen! Who is promoting his upcoming Alien vs X-Men four issue miniseries, that Chris Claremont is writing a Kitty Pryde specific back up in.
I knew it was more of a question for Chris Claremont, but it is fun to learn that Lockheed was in Gillen’s script at one point.
Also, I had no idea that the first issue took place during the Astonishing X-Men V3 era, that’s super cool.
We are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Marvel Mangaverse with brand new stories.
Issue opens with Doctor Strange trying to save the day, and that causes this Earth and its Negative Zone to mix. In doing so, several hundred people were giving visions of a bad future, but no one person got a full image of it.
Laura Kinney, Weapon X-Tremis, has mutated her body so that she can hold the Phoenix Force, as of course the Phoenix Force is involved in this.
She’s opposed by her old friend, Illyana Rasputina, Legion. Laura becomes tech is the solution, and Illyana believes magik is the solution.
Another old friend, Miles Morales, Spinja, he’s still trying to find a name that sticks. Pun intended.
He believes the Spider-Clan is the solution, and wants his old friends to stop fighting.
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Miles was told by Master Wong that Illyana was trapped in Limbo by Yokai. Legion (Illyana) creates a very cute purple Yokai (Lockheed), and I was already loving this issue, and then I truly loved this issue.
Apparently creating a Yokai is forbidden, and punishable by death.
I like working Ezekiel into Miles’ mythos here. Remember Ezekiel and Spider-Totems? Joe Kelly does.
I also like that Illyana creates Bamfs to help out. We’re getting all of the cuties here.
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Illyana summons the Crimson Engine Infinite Battle March Yokai-God Cyttorak, so even here she has a friend in Juggernaut.
I like Miles summarizing the differences here. Illyana is with demons, and Laura is with technomancy.
To combat Cyttorak, Laura summons an X-Man, Illyana’s dead brother, Colossus. Which is a line that can never be uncrossed.
So these two are not going to get along going forward.
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We get another match up between Laura and Illyana with Lockheed, as we see Cyttorak and Colossus fighting behind them.
This comic just looks cool.
Miles is determined to stop all of this nonsense.
Laura is about to embrace the Phoenix vessel when . . . she gets sniped to the head.
By the SCARLET SPIDER!!! Who is Miles on a name that he believes will stick now, as he wraps the planet in scarlet bonds. Or webs, if you will.
Next up in the event, is Iron Knight, where Riri Williams is Iron Heart, and teams up with sorcerer Moon Knight.
I know for a fact that Legion is back at the conclusion issue, web of Destiny, but not sure if she’s involved in the other issues of the event. I do like her book ending the event.
Chad Anderson, the brilliant host of Graymalkin Lane, is my guest for Episode 245 of Shadow and Flame with Magik, as we chat about Giant Size Nightcrawler!
