Final Fungal Thoughts as AfterShock’s I Breathed a Body #5 Wraps the Series

Everything ends, everything begins in the techno-organic hellscape of I Breathed a Body #5 by Zac Thompson, Andy MacDonald, Triona Farrell and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.  Robert Secundus: Flesh fades; data dissipates; even languages are someday lost; all is dust. Stories end. And so too, this comic, and our conversations about it. Still, I think, this is…

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Entry 048 – Squid-Boy

Art by Ron Garney and Mark Morales Name: Sammy Paré Code Names: Squid-Boy First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #410 (Oct ’02) Powers: Generic Aquatic Powers Teams Affiliation: X-Men About In the 2010 Christmas episode of the show Community, Abed Nadir (the website TVTropes given human form) gets asked by his friend why he is excited to do something that he should otherwise hate….

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Entry 092 – Senator Robert Kelly

Name: Robert Kelly Code Names: N/A First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #133 (May ‘80) Powers: Political ones Team Affiliation: The US Senate About The mutant metaphor isn’t perfect. Unlike every other persecuted minority in the real world, there is a clear and present danger from mutant powers, especially from those who don’t know how to control them. Bryan Singer addressed this…

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