Welcome to Limbo! Our group chose Illyana Rasputina, the marvelous Magik, for this round! Introduced as the younger sister of Colossus, Magik joined the ’80s New Mutants team as a teen and has since flourished into an A-lister in her own right. She’s been a member of the Phoenix Five, Cyclops’ renegade X-Men squad, the…
Everyone loves Amanda Sefton; it’s hard not to, despite the many terrible comics she has been in. We also love her and find, perhaps, a good gem that she has done. Ranked This Episode:
Did you know Chris Bachalo is very good at drawing Illyana Rasputina, aka Magik? Maybe you didn’t because you came up in the 1990s and fell off comics and you only remember Bachalo as the Generation X guy. OK, well, picture Husk but taller and a demon anime princess with a huge Final Fantasy sword….
Will the Sons stop the ritual and cancel the apocalypse? It’s Midnight Sons #5 written by Ethan Sacks, with art by Luigi Zagaria and Alberto Foche, colors by Antonio Fabela, and letters by Joe Sabino. The issue begins years ago in New Orleans as Agatha Harkness pays a visit to The Laveaus. Agatha tries to…
The Midnight Suns brave the darkest and most horrifying journey imaginable to secure aid from one of the most ancient and dangerous beings in all of existence. What terrible secret from the past is Agatha Harkness hiding? And what does the truth mean for Zoe Laveau’s future?! Written by Ethan Sacks, with art by Luigi…
Freshmen Year is almost over! From day one, people have been wondering – who is the savior of Strange Academy, and who can bring it all down? The future of Marvel Magic is going to be decided here and it will take FAR more than the Sorcerer Supreme and his school if magic has a…
The Midnight Suns…Are Doomed! The new team of Midnight Suns – Magik, Wolverine, Blade, Spirit Rider, And Nico Minoru – face their first brutal test when DOCTOR DOOM lays siege to Strange Academy! What is Doom after?! And an even bigger threat awaits IF they survive – a threat tied to the Sorcerer Supreme and…
Rise of the Midnight Suns! A dark prophesy and apocalyptic new villains with horrifying powers the likes of which Earth has never faced before ordains a team of MIDNIGHT SUNS to rise and tear @#$% up: Magik, Wolverine, Blade, Spirit Rider & Nico Minoru. But what does this new threat have to do with the…
Let’s take a trip to Wonderland in New Mutants #27, with writing by Vita Ayala, art by Rod Reis and Jan Duursema, colors (on Duursema’s art) by Ruth Redmond, letters by Travis Lanham. Liz Large: It’s time for the third part of the Labors of Magik, and you know what that means: time for our…
Continuing their unbeaten streak of kicking ass, Vita Ayala and Rod Reis are delivering the next in their fantastic run on New Mutants with New Mutants #27. This arc, “The Trials Of Magik” has been a fantastic and detailed look at Illyana Rasputin, the break-out start of the last decade of X-Men comics. Along with…
Finally. We have been waiting for New Mutants #25 for far too long and now it is here from writer Vita Ayala and artists Rod Reis, Jan Duursema and Ruth Redmond. You know it has that Leinil Francis Yu cover. Maddy Pryor is back and maybe she has some thoughts about how Magik is running…
It’s reunion time! It’s also time for forgiveness and kisses! Join us for an in-depth discussion of New Mutants #24.
We all love a Man-Thing. How many other Marvel character have a song written about them by The Mountain Goats? It’s not shocking in our organic, Krakoan era, Man-Thing would come in conflict with the mutants, but who could have predicted this? Steve Orlando and Andrea Broccardo have been building to a crescendo in in…
Carol and co enter deep into the hospitality and territory of Ove. But are things as they seem? Of course not, in this comic written by Kelly Thompson, art by Lee Garbett and Belén Ortega, colors by Antonio Fabela, and letters by Clayton Cowles. Cat Purcell: Phew! For all the questions this one made me…
Art by Chris Bachalo Name: Illyana Rasputin Code Names: Magik, Darkchild First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct ‘75) Powers: Creates “Stepping-Disks” that allow her to teleport through time and space, Sorcery, Mystical Soulsword and Soularmor Teams Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Men About The X-Men have always walked the line between light and darkness and none…