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X-Men Unlimited Volume One Issue 32

Posted by John Klein III on January 31, 2014
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Cover Dated September 2001

Look at that great cover by Jill Thompson!  She draws a fun Kitty and Lockheed!

Kitty nor Lockheed appear in the Dazzler story but at least they got on the cover.  And as we all know here at S&FwM, that’s all it takes for make this guy buy your comic.

No, the real gem is the pin up by Bill Sienkiewicz of Magik!

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Besides co-creator Bob Layton himself, Sienkiewicz is the other New Mutants legendary artist.

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Now I never made it official or anything, but today is my birthday and I thought it would be fun to do all of the 32nd issues that I have of various series in my collection.  Thanks everyone for being such good sports!  I thought it would be fun to just do it and see what the reaction will be.

Tomorrow begins Lockheed month!  And to my surprised, and I really should have thought about this ahead of time, the first several Lockheed posts will also be drawn by Paul Smith!  That’s two things!  So excited!

Ultimate Comics X-Men (2011)

Posted by John Klein III on January 30, 2014
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Of the 33 issues, I own 29 of them!

I own these issues :

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 14 (Granov Variant), 15, 16, 17, 18, 18.1, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33

I am missing then :

9, 10, 11, 12 – all were a concentration camp storyline, not having Kitty but Storm and Colossus – I believe I will pass, thank you.

28 I was suppose to get.

Issues

1, 2, 3, 4, 5            Nick Spencer and Paco Medina

6            Nick Spencer and Paco Medina / Carlo Barberi

7, 8            Nick Spencer with Carlo Barberi

9, 10, 11, 12            Nick Spencer with Paco Medina (boo to these!)

13            Nick Spencer with Paco Medina / Reilly Brown

14            Brian Wood with Paco Medina / Reilly Brown

15            Brian Wood with Paco Medina

16            Brian Wood and Paco Medina / Carlo Barberi

17            Brian Wood and Carlo Barberi

18            Brian Wood and Carlo Barberi / Agustin Padilla

18.1            Brian Wood and Filipe Andrade

19            Brain Wood and Paco Medina

20            Brian Wood and Carlo Barberi

21            Brain Wood and Carlo Barberi also Nathan Edmondson and David Baldeon

22            Brian Wood / Nathan Edmondson with Carlo Barberi

23            Brian Wood and Carlo Barberi

24, 25, 26, 27, 28            Brain Wood with Mahmud Asrar

29, 30, 31, 32, 33            Brian Wood with Alvero Martinez

On my Wishlist :

Only 5 Issues!

1 Bagley Variant Cover

1 Paco Medina Variant

13 Jorge Molina Variant

28 Regular issue

29 Pagulayan Variant

Nick Spencer started the run out with some amazing concepts and  rich characterization.

Brian Wood took over at the halfway mark and made the title into more of a political comic.

Both of them made and continually made Kitty Pryde the leader of mutants and she really became the face of the franchise.

Both had amazing work done on the title.

Such storylines were :

Divided We Fall

United We Stand

Reservation X

Natural Resources

World War X

With this final part over, anything can happen to the Ultimate X-Men as Galataus is next!

I did not realize that we had such a committed cast of artists on the title :

Paco Medina, Carlo Berberi, Reilly Brown, Mahmud Asrar and Alvero Martinez.

The cast was pretty much Kitty Pryde, Iceman, Rogue and Wolverine’s son, Jim Hudson.  Johnny Storm started out in the night under Nick Spencer and then he stayed behind in New York as Kitty and the gang took to Texas to fight the Sentinels.

This version of the X-Men is the second title in the Ultimate Universe, once Ultimatum happen and made mutants truly the outlaws and feared and hated more than their proper Marvel counterparts have ever felt.

It was like Operation Zero Tolerance, except for two years.  It was like Decimation but on a global scale.  Instead of 200 mutants, we only had 20 left in America.

Not too many stories that were basically “Let’s Introduce this character” type of stories.  They had established these characters and were now able to start telling proper stories.

Ultimate Rogue came off very well.  As did Kitty, they were no longer boy crazy young girls but had become women in their own right.

This title was pretty female dominant, which I didn’t realize until right now.

If Kitty wasn’t fighting a faceless government, she was being threatened by Mach Two or Jean Grey.

Iceman sort of disappeared and Jim Hudson was pretty much just Kitty’s boyfriend more than he was Wolverine’s son, except for that Ultimate Wolverine mini.

Nick Spencer started out with Kitty telling the story (from a future point) stating she was American’s number one terrorist.  I can see where that idea sort of drop but in the age we live in, I can see the news outlets continuing to warm people of Utopia in New Mexico.

Such a great series, push come to shove, I would say that it was the better of the two Ultimate X-Men volumes.  It helps that it had two creative voices guiding the ship and I’ not sure what happen to Nick Spencer but Brian Wood has proven to be quite the talent at Marvel and with the proper X-Men.

Marvel Knights X-Men 3

Posted by John Klein III on January 29, 2014
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Marvel Knights X-Men 3

Story and Art Brahm Revel

Color Artist Christiane Peter

Letterer & Production VC’s Joe Sabino

Haunted Part Three of Five

This issue reads like an old school issue of Claremont’s.  By that, I mean, there is at least 100 words per page, or at least, that is how it feels at times.  Which is nice, that it took me a minutes to read and then I reread it a couple of times.  This issue feels like the middle of the story, where we resolve what came before and build to where we are going to end.  Which makes sense that it is the third part of five.

We find the Sheriff at the Cooks’ Compound.  We get a glimpse of who these people are, imagine super creepy hippies, who are using mutants to make their drugs.

Meanwhile, back in town, the giant Sentinels are attacking the section of town where Kitty, Rogue and Wolverine are at.  Darla is freaking out, as her powers have never been shown at this level.  Wolverine is slowly losing his mind.  We get the impression that Krystal may be playing a bigger role in the madness.

Wolverine keeps getting haunted by the green mutant who took a bullet to the eye.  Rogue mentions later that these are no longer Darla’s memories but now Wolverine’s memories of her memories.  Which I sort of dig this take on Darla’s powers.  So now that it is Wolverine’s memories, that means these new memories that are being acted out, are now informed by his impressions.  Darla is a very interesting character with a power that still has me thinking about it.

Wolverine charges at Darla, as he knows that the Sentinels are only attacking due to the X-Men’s memories of Sentinels.  Rogue throws a Sentinel head at him, to stop him.

Kitty takes Krystal away from the epicenter.

My one problem with this issue, is that one of the charms of last issue was the villains were from X-Men lore.  This issue, it seems we are given generic demons and cyborgs.  I imagine that Revel got all of the characters he wanted to draw out of his system, and now he is telling the story that he wants to.

Darla takes off, and Wolverine chases her.

Mr. Cook explains the mutant killing / making drugs out of them enterprise.

Wolverine catches up to Darla.  She sends all of these cyborg soldiers after him.  That is an interesting use of her powers, she can take villains from your memory, then control them to attack you.  Though now that I write that, if she pulls villains from your memory, then are they not attacking you only because that is what they originally did?  Am I the only one thinking about Darla?  Besides Revel, I mean.

Kitty begins to encounter the Juggernaut.  I may have been to quick to state Revel was done drawing known characters.  I really like his take on Juggernaut.  Also, call back to X3.

Kitty and Krystal begin being chased by the motorcycle gang from the first issue.  Krystal starts being haunted by visions of her uncle, the sheriff.

Cook has injected so much mutant DNA that he has grown a third eye on his forehead.  The third eye gives him future vision.  Also, he straight up shoots Sheriff Jasper at close range.

Rogue finally meets up with Darla.  Poor Darla has been cutting herself to try to shut down her powers.  Rogue tries to comfort Darla.  Wolverine slashes Rogue’s back with his claws.  I don’t see blood, but still, that has to hurt.

Wolverine notices that Rogue and Darla have things in common.  Both ladies are bad seeds.  Then Wolverine starts to really get out of hand.  He starts calling Rogue a thief and a villain.  Even her powers make her a literal theif, her original power.  Her super strength comes from her villain era, when she stole Carol Danvers’ powers.  Wolverine is the worst, and poor Rogue’s feelings are hurt.

Remembering her villain era, we see Mystique, Destiny, Pyro and Blob.  Blob is behind Wolverine, and forces his face into the wall. There is a great exchange of Wolverine stating the writing is on the wall, with Rogue cleverly retorts that it isn’t writing but his own blood.  I like Rogue in this mini thus far.

We haven’t gotten a Rogue and Wolverine fight since X-Men 103, when they fought for leadership.  It was friendly and Wolverine also didn’t want it.  It was nowhere as good as the Storm and Cyclops duel in Uncanny X-Men 201.

Issue ends with Kitty and Krystal in a car.  The memory of the sheriff grabs Kitty, she remembers she can phase and does so.  She passes out, as the biker gang surrounds Kitty.

What will happen!?!

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My new Top Ten is for 2014 is :

1.  All New X-Men 22

2.  X-Men Legacy 22

3.  Uncanny X-Men 16

4.  Marvel Knights X-Men 3

5.  Savage Wolverine 13

6.  All New X-Men 21

7.  Wolverine 13

8.  Cataclysm 3

Two more to have a full list!  Slated to get Cataclysm 4 and Guardians of the Galaxy 11, Uncanny Avengers 16 (if Magik or Kitty show up) same as X-Men Legacy 23, if Magik shows up.

Empire’s 25 X-Men : Days of Future Past Covers

Posted by John Klein III on January 28, 2014
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I wish the Kitty cover was better.  I wish she had a more distinguish look.  Instead it looks like something Ellen Page was already wearing and production didn’t want to bother with a new outfit.

Jennifer Lawrence looks great as Mystique.

I really like Fassbender in the proper Magneto uniform.

How amazing do the Sentinels look?

Poor Anna Paquin, she is in the same pose so many bad cheesecake comic artists place comic book ladies in.  Not flattering in either medium.

I also feel bad about Paquin being cut out of the movie, yet is part of the marketing materials.  Hopefully, Singer puts her back into the film.

My wife pointed out that the cover logos are either in blue and purple.  Took me a few seconds to figure out the significance but blue is the past and purple is the future / present.  Nice touch.

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Update May 4, 2014 :

Empire posted 25 ‘new’ posters on their website, but really, they are the same but with a different background and no logos.

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So, it is cool but not worthy of a new post.

All New X-Men 22

Posted by John Klein III on January 27, 2014
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All New X-Men 22

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Penciler Stuart Immonen

Inker Wade Von Grawbadger

Colorist Marte Gracia

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

The Trial of Jean Grey Part One

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Issue opens with a quick glimpse of what some members of the title are doing.  X23 is in the Danger Room, and Kitty is watching her.  Beast is in the Laboratory.  Not sure if anything on the chalk board makes any sense but there are some nice references.  M-Day, Cyclops being merged with Apocalypse, Mister Sinister, Utopia, Hope, Professor X dies and Iceman in the back yard.  Bobby is singing Run DMC’s It’s Tricky, as he makes snow angels.

Thanks to YouTuber RUNDMCVEVO for hosting the video.

The real treat of the issue is the scene with Angel, Scott and Jean.  Angel is about to eat a burger.  Scott sits down next to him, he has a sensible sandwich.  Then Jean sits down with a salad.  Warren is about to take a bite of his burger when Jean loses it.

Apparently Scott was having a thought and Jean, once again, wants to talk about it as she isn’t respecting other people’s privacy.  This issue takes place the very next day after the Purficers issue.

Scott wants to talk about Jean and how she knows everything that happens to her and the Original Five.  She knows she is going to die, twice and she witness her own future self die in front of her during Battle of the Atom.  Scott calls her a friend, later he will say she is his best friend.  Jean is dealing with all of this knowledge, by herself.  She doesn’t want to talk about it.  Poor Angel has to sit there between the two of them.  He is wise to not speak up at all.

Scott was going to ask a question about his future but changes his mind.  He only wants to know that she is okay and she can talk to him whenever.

Jean makes this awesome reference to how Scott marries Jean but still ends up with “Silver Boobs McGee” which has to be a reference to Emma.  That should add some tension as now Jean and Emma live in the giant Weapon X facility.

Jean states she is dealing with it and walks away.  Scott isn’t hungry anymore and also walks away.

Warren talks aloud about how uncomfortable it is, and how Bobby would have loved it.

I still do not care for how the new uniforms for the Original Five have those floating belt buckles.  I think it might have to do with how they clearly have a belt like design around their waist, but then it stops at the white portion of their uniform and then it disappears.  Leaving the buckle to float there.

Meanwhile, outside Bobby is still singing It’s Tricky, when he notices four lights.

A red alarm goes off inside the facility.

Bobby tries to create an ice barrier but the Shi’ar soldiers destroy it.  I like how we don’t get the Shi’ar language translated, we don’t need it, it makes perfect sense what is being said.

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Scott is leading the rest of the team outside.  Kitty states that the aliens are Shi’ar, as she jumps at one of them.  She phases her hand through one of their guns, thinking it should short it out.  Instead, she gets electro-shocked for it.  Jean states that is not suppose to happen, she is the genius of the group.  I like how Scott shouts “Professor!” as that is what she is to him,

There is a moment when Hank, which I really like, comments that these are real aliens.  To me, as a long time fan, the concept of aliens in the Marvel Universe, is no big deal but Hank has only been around for eight issues of Uncanny X-Men and then these issues of All New X-Men.  He doesn’t know that aliens are a common occurrence.  Scott states that he isn’t as impress as Hank would want him to be.

X23 gets flung back, Warren catches her, asking her to watch the claws.  Which is smart, they haven’t fought together so he doesn’t know how to look out for them.

Jean gets placed in an energy bubble.  Then the Shi’ar places the rest of the team into individuals bubbles.  Bobby breaks out of his, and tries to rescue Jean.  It is an effort but he gets placed into another energy bubble.

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With that, Jean is taken into their ship and they take off.  The team has nothing to do but look up in the sky as Jean is gone.

Kitty explains to Hank who the Shi’ar are, and how they are allies of theirs.  We see five more lights.  We get a double page spread of, the Guardians of the Galaxy.

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I am not that familiar with this team, though they have been around for a couple years and will be the stars of their own movie in August.  I know Angela and I really like Groot (who can only say his name) and Rocket Raccoon.

Should be getting the second part and I feel we are off to a good start.

This is what the Guardians see (from Guardians of the Galaxy V3 11)

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Marvel 25th Anniversary Covers

Posted by John Klein III on January 26, 2014
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Transformers 22Masters of the Universe 4

Daredevil 236 Fantastic Four 296

Ewoks 10

Alpha Flight (1983) #40

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #282

The Avengers (1963) #273

Captain America (1968) #323

Care Bears (1985) #7

Classic X-Men (1986) #3

Cloak and Dagger (1985) #9

Conan the Barbarian (1970) #188

Conan the King (1984) #37

Daredevil (1964) #236

Ewoks (1985) #10

Fantastic Four (1961) #296

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982) #53

Heathcliff (1985) #12

The Incredible Hulk (1968) #325

Iron Man (1968) #212

Marvel Age (1983) #44

Marvel Tales (1964) #193

Masters of the Universe (1986) #4

Muppet Babies (1985) #10

The New Mutants (1983) #45

Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985) #12

The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #120

Thor (1966) #373

The Transformers (1984) #22

Uncanny X-Men (1963) #211

Web of Spider-Man (1985) #20

West Coast Avengers (1985) #14

X-Factor (1986) #10

I own all of these except for Care Bears 7, Masters of the Universe 4 and Muppet Babies 10.

Whenever I buy back issues online, those three are nearly impossible to find!  One of these days!

The fun thing with these, is when I’m going through my short boxes, I have to take a pause and wonder why that issue is there.

All because Kitty was part of the border.  Some great comics and some dated comics.

These were all published cover date  November 1986.

Look at that border, I own all but three of these.

Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Captain Marvel (Monica), Dr. Strange, Namor, Captain America, Wasp, Ant Man, Puck, Shadowcat, Rogue, Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, Rachel Summers, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Daredevil, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Hawkeye, Luke Cage, Thing, She-Hulk, Invisible Woman, Reed Richards, Human Torch and Thor

For Timely’s 70th Anniversary (the company Marvel will come from) they do another one of those borders.  I didn’t care for how they said Marvel’s 70th anniversary, as that isn’t quite right.  Also, who celebrates 70th anniversary, when if you wait five years, you get a proper 75th Anniversary?  Bonkers.

Kitty wasn’t part of that border – it was mostly men, but she showed up on an issue and Magik got on another one.

The one she did show up on was the Women of Marvel border, that was awesome!

The only problem with the Timely 70 and Women of Marvel was that they were variants instead of proper covers but that’s what this current age is like these days.

X-Men Legacy 22

Posted by John Klein III on January 25, 2014
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Writer Simon Spurrier

Artist Khoi Pham

Color Artist Rachelle Rosenberg

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

David is still fighting the combination of Luca and the Gold Xavier Fiend.  The fiend turns into a giant concrete monster and sets off all of these missiles.  Actually, the fiend takes control of a near by battleship and then uses that to transform into a giant monster.

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Apparently, David at some point called for reinforcements.  Those who showed up – Pixie, Chamber, Lila Cheney, Agent Brand, Frenzy, Beast, Storm, Wolverine, Doop, Psylocke, Magneto, Sydren, Goldballs, Tempus, Triage, Emma, the Cockoos and Magik.

David is impressed that they are all heroes.  The heroes start taking out missiles.  I do enjoy seeing Cyclops’ current display of his optic blasts, with the circle flare at the base.

Once the missiles are taken care of, the fiend is all that is left.  He is in the form of a man again.  Both Wolverine and Cyclops come to David to know what to do next.  David says “to me my X-Men” it is cool how it is broken over three panels.

There is a narly splash page of the heroes attacking something to the right.  Was this suppose to be a double page spread?  The narration captions of David are reflecting his quote of the year winner, I rule me.

The fiend is back to the battleship monster form.

Sydren detects a change in David, of course having to say it aloud. Brand is running at him and takes a blast.  All that is left is a green glove or a hand in the glove.  Could Spurrier really kill off Brand?  I know she hasn’t been used as much, so she could be on an okay to kill off list.  Nice touch having Beast nearby to witness her death.  Were they still dating?  I really like how Pham draws Beast as he takes in her death, he looks like a nice mixture of cat face and gorilla head.

Magneto tries to compliment David, and he quickly dismisses him – stating he is not his father, even though he quoted Xavier’s ‘to me my X-Men.’

Karasu Tengui was another hero who showed up, but I don’t know her.  She is straight up smashed to death.  David makes it a mantra that he is not his father.  Even though he just sent a child to her death.

David asks Wolverine and Cyclops if they can work together.  They hesitate, he takes it has a yes, and tells them to keep the monster busy.  David is taking the fight inside his mind.

Chamber gets killed by a blast.  Are these characters really dead, or is David going to bring them back once this story is over?  I can see Chamber being allowed to be killed, Brand seems okay if it is done shockingly – which it was and I believe Spurrier created Karasu so he can kill her anytime.

The heroes destroy Luca’s monster body and he dies.  Once he is dead, Blindfold is healed.  She no longer is broken and has her full power for the first time.

The heroes catch their breath.  Frenzy is sad over Chamber’s death.  They were close during Age of X, which she was one of the few to keep those memories.  That story turned out to be a Legion story.  Nice touch, as that was a Mike Carey story so Spurrier didn’t have to reference that story.

Blindfold’s astra form appears at the battlefield.  She explains what happened.  Also, she takes off her blindfold, she has eyes now.  Also, she is going to go by Destiny now, her mother’s name.  She is on her way, she can project herself for the time being.

Inside David’s mind, he is fighting the Gold Xavier.  He beats him to the point when he can’t maintain the Xavier appearance, now he looks like a gold goblin.

David comes back to the battlefield but turns into the World Worm, that the series has been building to.  Ruth is going to have to deal with David, which has also been foretold.

Can only imagine I will get the next issue, as they have to still be at the scene so Magik should still be there.

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My new Top Ten is for 2014 is :

1.  X-Men Legacy 22

2.  Uncanny X-Men 16

3.  Savage Wolverine 13

4.  All New X-Men 21

5.  Wolverine 13

6.  Cataclysm 3

I need to buy buy four more comics to make ten.  I am slated to buy two comics, All New X-Men 22 and Marvel Knights X-Men 3.

VC

Posted by John Klein III on January 24, 2014
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So, for months now, I have been typing VC’s Clayton Cowles or VC’s Cory Petit and I finally had enough!

I had to figure out what VC stood for, as it wasn’t making sense to me. Clearly they are an elite group of Letterers, maybe on par with Richard Starkings’ Comiccraft or Todd Klein, the two names of Lettering that I knew.  Well, them and a third one, dear to all of our hearts.

That third gentleman would be … Chris Eliopoulos!

Who of course, gave the world, The Pet Avengers!  Staring Lockheed and a few other animals!

Thanks to :

http://marvel.wikia.com/Virtual_Calligraphy

I now know that VC stands for Virtual Calligraphy and it is Chris Eliopoulos’ lettering studio!

I am not familiar with Rus Wooton or Randy Gentile but I’ve been typing Cory Petit and Clayton Cowles a bunch lately.

I know that Eliopoulos lettered Infinity 1, but he doesn’t call himself VC’s Chris Eliopoulos but that makes sense as then it would have to read Chris Eliopoulos of VC fame or something along those lines.

I’m not sure how we are suppose to know what VC stood for without doing the Google search but I finally had enough this morning and had to get some answers.

Reading some back issues, there has been credits that read : VC’s Chris Eliopoulos.

All New X-Men 21

Posted by John Klein III on January 23, 2014
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Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Artist Brandon Peterson

Color Artist Israel Silva

Flashback Art Brent Anderson with James Campbell

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

I simply adore that Marvel brought Anderson back to recreate the atmosphere of X-Men : God Loves, Man Kills.  Such a genius move and so great to see that he hasn’t lost a step.  My only problem is, it only lasts four pages.

I still maintain that if you have anyone quote from the Bible, outside of church, and it comes off both creepy and menacing.

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We return to the present day, with the X-Men of the past, Kitty and X23.

Stryker Junior wants to kill the past X-Men.  Luckily, a few of his Purifiers think this is a bad idea and want a second opinion.

While they wait, X23 is woken up.  I like how she is chained, so her claws are not angled to slice the chains.  Turns out, the events of Avengers Arena were broadcast around the world.  I am not sure if this is correct, or if only villains and subscribers had access to it.  I didn’t read that series but from the shown footage, X23 had to do horrible acts to survive.

Styker moves on to Scott, who makes jokes. I like how him knowing his future lightens him up.  He doesn’t need to be so serious, all of the hard work and decisions have been made already.

Dr. Monica Rappaccini of AIM is the second opinion.  I know her from Uncanny X-Men 15, she is conducting experiments on the new Inhumans.  She wants the Purifiers to release the past X-Men, as she wants to not damage time – nice that someone doesn’t.

The floating X belt buckles are not very good, what are they holding up?  Do they serve a purpose?

I like Jean waking up and getting in touch with the team, telepathically.  I even like Bobby screwing it up.

Dr. Rappaccini reveals she can help Styker with his headaches, also that AIM and the Purifiers have a long history of working together.

Dr. Rappaccini states they can kill Kitty, as she is from the present.  She tries to cut her and phases through.  Then Scott does his thing and the X-Men are loose.  Chris Sims must be happy as Hank kicks a fool to the face!

The X-Men are escaping.  Scott runs across X23, she hugs him.

Issue ends with Stryker telling the X-Men, that the whole world will know about the past X-Men.

Which he doesn’t know the half of it, the universe will know as we enter the four part crossover with the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Trial of Jean Grey.

Bendis shared a page on his Twitter account, of Kitty being in space so I figure I am getting at least the first part for sure.

Magik

Posted by John Klein III on January 22, 2014
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I apparently have plenty of time on my hands, so I did some more research.  Just using comicbookdb.com’s character file just for Magik, so not Illyana Rasputin or the alternate Magiks of the multi-verse, just pure Magik, of her 296 appearances, I am only missing 25 of them.  Which brings me to a 0.08% missing rate.

I did a quick search on the pure Illyana Rasputin, and I didn’t notice I was missing any of there.

I had to add All-New Wolverine Saga, Doctor Strange (1988) 2, Doctor Voodoo: Avenger of the Supernatural (2009) 5 and The Marvel Tarot.

Which is frustrating as I had bought Doctor Strange (1988) 1 a while back and could have sworn that she was not listed as part of issue two or three.

I had already added Doctor Voodoo 4 to my list, and would have sworn that I looked at the other issues to make sure she wasn’t involved in them but I must have missed that as well.

That Hot Shots : X-Men shows up again for her as it did Nightcrawler.  He is also shows up in Marvel Collectible Classics : X-Men 5, and X-Men : Hellbound 1.

What I am looking forward to getting eventually is X-Club 3, 4, 5 as I heard many great things regarding that series.  How funny it is and how likeable it makes Dr. Nemesis.

Other versions of her include the Exiles version, who is dead now so I doubt we will get anymore appearances of her, unless they bring that title back for the third time (not counting the second X-Treme X-Men, which was sort of the same thing – without the rules, from what I remember – I only flipped through the pages at the store.  I have issue 7.1 on my Wishlist though.  But if they ever bring Exiles back, I’m sure at one point, they will look back and show previous members, that’s just what happens.