So here’s a fun fact: Magik is a fairly decent seller for Marvel. According to ICv2’s sales tracking data, based on shops that use the ComicHub point-of-sale system, Magik #8 was the 23rd best selling comic of August. That also makes it the second-best selling X-office comic of August, after Uncanny X-Men #19. Maybe it’s…
Do you think Dani Moonstar ever gets tired of being the sensible, level-headed New Mutant? Like, remember when she yelled at Professor Xavier about her belt? That was her first appearance, and it’s the only act of teenage rebellion of hers that I can immediately recall. Cyclops has rebelled more than her. And why is…
Who’s that young adult with the giant broadsword, sorcerous powers, blond bangs, an unquenchable drive to save lost kids and enough long-term childhood trauma to fill an arena? It’s Illyana Rasputina, of course. Who’s that demonic gunfighter trying to conquer the world from his base in Juneau, Alaska? Can Illyana stop him? Find out in…
From the Ashes has been about a lot of X-Men characters reverting to type, possibly as a coping mechanism after the fall of Krakoa. But many of them have gotten new uniforms in the relaunch, as new artists come aboard and seek to put their stamp on characters. And then there’s Illyana Rasputin, Magik, who…
“No, I didn’t like it. At all.” She told me (of all people!) she doesn’t like Black Panther. Not the movie, not the comic. Nothing. But I wasn’t mad. How could I be? She was born in East Africa, educated in Kenya and Namibia. She speaks Amharic to her mother and father. How could she…
Between man and country, between country and king; between friends; between ex-lovers; between the love of ideology and the love of individualism – there’s a lot of love in Black Panther #200. We find T’Challa and his partner-cum-conscience Omolola mid-fight, as the masked ideologues who’ve been stalking and killing T’Challa’s secret Wakandan spies have finally…