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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 52933, member: 3864"] [ATTACH type="full" align="right" width="258px" alt="1737832196470.png"]17383[/ATTACH]Oh the lore from some of the Claremont X-Men days of the 80's is damned impenetrable, and Magik/Illyana was maybe the worst part. She was Colossus's kid sister who made portals on The New Mutants, then she got a four part mini-series where she was trapped in Limbo and taught soul magic by Belasco (*a* satan but not *the* Satan), and an alt-history Storm and Shadowcat teach her other magic and how to fight. Fast-forward to the 90's and she outright dies to the Legacy virus, which I've always taken to be a metaphor for AIDS. Skip ahead about thirteen years and she's back as the Queen of Limbo, and returns to Earth as a mortal again (sort of, it's comics) after some shenanigans in New X-Men, which were an intentional callback to The New Mutants from twenty years prior... [ATTACH type="full" align="left" width="266px" alt="1737832083385.png"]17381[/ATTACH] Yeah, no, my eyes are crossing on their own, it's a mutiny in my skull. The fun part though? Starting around 2012 or so, she got a redesign in her current black (occasionally with yellow/gold) outfit with a conspicuously larger Soulsword, and she's exploded in popularity ever since. Does the story of a young survivor, hardened by a childhood of exploitation, find a more receptive audience in the modern day? Does the giant blazing sword grab more attention in a world where manga is the premiere mode of graphic novel? Maybe the boots and leather, paired with a personality that screams "I'll kill you, worm", like a mutant dominatrix? Hell, I don't know, maybe all of the above. She *is* pretty great though, the X-Men have always had the best female characters in comics and Magik is no exception. The first issue of her new book is pretty interesting, with Magik getting involved with a Lovecraftian entity sealed in Juneau, Alaska, and some kind of prophecy involving mutants. Gibberish, but it might be a fun gibberish, I'll keep reading. Also, there's a gun-slinging crow devil out to free Not-Cthulu. [ATTACH type="full" width="379px" alt="1737833791288.png"]17386[/ATTACH] Yes. More. Thank You. (The color work by Arthur Hesli is particularly eye-grabbing too, the various sigils and magic effects pop with a neon intensity.) [/QUOTE]

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