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.
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.
Yaga Dyara has been trying to kill the Rasputin bloodline for centuries.
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This issue takes place right after Uncanny X-Men 231, as Colossus is upset that he just liked to his sister, Magik, that he was dead, and only his ghost visited her in Limbo.
I really do like seeing Betsy and Colossus being friends.
Yaga Dyara attacks, and the X-Men fight back.
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I do like how often Colossus thinks about Illyana this issue.
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Betsy goes into Colossus’ mind, and she knows just how to motivate him, that Illyana will never let him live this down.
(Also, you are welcome for the feet pics)
Colossus wins the day, and begins sculpting.
Issue ends with Havok checking on Madelyne Pryor, who didn’t do much, and is feeling bad about that.
Rogue and Remy are having a date night, so Jubilee is in charge of the New Mutants. She resents being constantly placed on the sidelines, as she just can’t shake her junior X-Men status. Then an orb arrives.
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Calio and Ember, and the rest of the New Mutants, are going to locate Logan.
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Ember looks great here!
As Jubilee is about to enter the portal to who knows where, hint, it is the Tomb of Apocalypse, Logan shows up, so they both go in. Logan wants to remain calm, and back out, especially once he learns this is Apocalypse related. Jubilee is tried of him calling her a kid, and wants to push on. They immediately get over their heads, and Jubilee has to keep pushing herself, until she’s actually inside the tomb. There Apocalypse tells Jubilee he was looking for Gambit, but she’ll do. Issue ends with Rictor and Shatterstar showing up, so we’re building our cast.
I suppose the New Mutants are never going to find Logan.
Variant Artist Rod Reis, I had to get the Magik cover.
Krakoa Beast, the 3K Chairman, wants Magneto on his side, and he can restore Magneto’s powers to sway him.
Meanwhile, Joseph, in Magneto’s purple boots, is leading the 3K X-Men – Timebomb, Psychovore, Juice, and Galatea.
The 3K X-Men do NOT care for Joseph.
Cyclops and the Alaskan X-Men (I’m going to try to be as clear as possible with this) are immediately ready for a fight.
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70s Beast and Magik are making their way back to the Factory.
I like how Chairman Beast fumbles his pitch with Magneto. Magneto is Right, we all know this. Magneto’s current state is because it is a message from the future.
Quintin Quire is taken out, so the X-Men have to fight old school.
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Constellation, I’m so happy Magik name checked this guy, as I wouldn’t have known.
I do love Cyclops fighting Joseph, and saying how the 3K X-Men are still unknown to them, but he’s fought Magneto for years.
This entire attack was a distraction as Chairman Beast only needed Magneto’s DNA, and no interference, and he gets what he wants.
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Magik tells her X-Men that she took Magneto to town, which Cyclops immediately knows what the goal was.
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Krakoa Beast has really went to town on Magneto!
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Epilogue. Scott is telling the X-Men how important it was that 3K didn’t get all of their objectives completed.
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Cyclops has a plan, they are going to data mine everything Schwarzchild knows.
The graphic novel follows Neesha Sparks and Gabby Graciana on their respected first days of school at Durham Western High School, probably named after a racist.
Neesha is black, lesbian, activist, costume designer, and has spastic diplegia cerebral palsy. Formerly from New York.
Gabby is a bisexual, Puerto Rican -Mexican surfer, who has PTSD, and incredible shoulders. Formerly from Florida.
Both of them find themselves in North Carolina, Ric Flair country, even though I’ve met several people from North Carolina, and none of them have known who Ric Flair is.
They find each other, and find a way to navigate through the junior year of high school.
This is one of those graphic novels you read, then reread, then think about for a full week, and then feel compelled to tell other people about it.
I love the characters so much, I love the art, and the lettering makes it so easy to read.
Neesha is a defender of all, especially of herself and her friends. She immediately starts the book off confronting her principal about his misconceptions of her disability.
Gabby has a mysterious past that once we find out what happened one stormy night, we completely get her on a different level.
These ladies really enjoy manga, especially Super Navigator Nozomi by Hiromu Takeuchi. Don’t worry dear reader, we are treated to pages of Super Navigator Nozomi that may or may not tie into what the ladies are experiencing in their current lives. There are seven volumes of Super Navigator Nozomi, that they are determined to seek out all seven volumes.
Neesha’s parents are divorced, she is currently living with her mother, Holly, and her father still lives in New York City.
Gabby’s father is a widower, and she lives with him, and her two younger brothers, Ian and Alexander, who are not twins.
I adore seeing how Gabby softens Neesha, who didn’t want any new friends, but gets a great one in Gabby.
I really appreciate how supportive their families are with their daughters, and their friends.
At first, I didn’t like Gabby’s father, Gabriel, who came off extremely intense, but then we get more of an understanding of why that is.
We learn about Neesha and Gabby’s romantic pasts. Gabby starts the novel with her boyfriend, Josh, who is a jerk. She’s dated a Caridad, who kissed Gabby, then broke up with her over text a week later.
Neesha has dated Star, who introduced her to anime and manga, and then dated another gal who . . . didn’t have great intentions.
How they receive the seventh volume, had my eyes start tearing up. Such a lovely moment.
There is also a second volume coming out in November, that you have to read!
Issue opens with Jeff versus Street Sharks, which is very fun.
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We are treated to a great team shot of the Jeff Coast Avengers with Magikhot.
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I can only hope the JCA attack with honor.
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I love so much that we are treated to Jeff figuring out who at least half the Amalgam characters are. He knows who Magik is, but not necessarily who Longshot is.
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This is a very cute comic.
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Jeff destroyed the set, so now everyone has to stop acting.
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Mojo shows up to yell at Jeff, as Mojo is a jerk.
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Magikhot, Jeff, and the rest of the Jeff Coast Avengers are banished to the green room, which is a fancy breakroom.
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Like Kate Bishop, Kate-Locke (a combination with Psylocke), can understand Jeff, so now she’s deputy leader.
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So cute how Magikhot doesn’t want any part of this nonsense.
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Kate-Locke finally gets around to naming everyone for Jeff’s sake. We are also introduced to Wolvie-Kawaii. Who is also super cute.
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Aw, Wolvie-Kawaii is sad that his entire team was scrapped.
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Jeff is immediately taking by Wolvie-Kawaii, and truly, who isn’t?! And now the team has a new mission, keep the little guy super safe.
Issue ends with Spiral picking up Ken, Jeff’s other cute friend who is a squid or octopus. One of those. Maybe. He’s a Septapus.
