This is a collection of my posts from X, my main social and the first place I post everything. You’ll find video game guides, comics, fiction, my writing and author updates, and other topics I cover.
4,845 posts are available here. Each entry keeps the original wording and links back to X.
4,845 posts.
· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
His relationship with Dazzler develops during that Australian stretch. There's affection there, but Alison is getting involved with somebody who has an enormous amount of his own life missing. And the missing past keeps intruding. He can't...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
X-Men Annual #10 brings him into the team's life with Mojo involved again. The X-Men are being manipulated and turned into children, the New Mutants get pulled in, and Longshot ends up staying with the group. He doesn't arrive with a comple...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
The luck power sounds like an easy way out of any fight until you look at how it works. Longshot isn't simply guaranteed to win whatever he wants. His motives matter, and acting selfishly can interfere with the luck he's relying on. He also...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Longshot starts with his own six-issue miniseries before he joins the X-Men. He turns up on Earth without a usable memory of his past, and people from that past don't conveniently leave him alone while he figures things out. The series brin...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
After the Siege Perilous, Alison turns up in the Hollywood stories in #259–260 with her memory gone. Guido finds her, and she gets pulled back toward the entertainment world and people connected with her earlier attempt to make a movie. So...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
By the Dallas fight in #227, Dazzler is one of the X-Men willing to sacrifice herself to stop the Adversary. Roma brings them back, and Alison goes with the group to Australia while the world believes they're dead. That's a long way from tu...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
The Juggernaut fight in #217–218 is a good example of how much more there is to her than the disco image. She throws a tremendous amount of power at him. She's able to make it a real fight, but doing that takes a lot out of her, and Juggern...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
By Uncanny #214, Alison is working with Lila Cheney when Malice takes possession of her. The X-Men have to deal with an attacker who is using their friend's body. That pulls her much closer to the team, but she doesn't arrive without baggag...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Then she gets 42 issues of her own series, plus the graphic novel and the Beauty and the Beast miniseries. There's a lot between her first meeting with the X-Men and her actually moving in with them. She's dealing with jobs, performances, f...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Dazzler has a whole career before she becomes a regular X-Man. Her introduction in X-Men #130–131 is during the Hellfire Club story, but Alison Blaire isn't there looking for a superhero job. She's trying to be a singer. Her powers fit that...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
There's also the Danger Room fight with Wolverine in #273. Gambit wins it, but the circumstances matter. Logan is still recovering and knows he's lost a step. During the exercise, a Lady Deathstrike simulation distracts him, and Gambit take...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Once Storm is back with the X-Men, Gambit sticks around. That gets him into X-Tinction Agenda almost immediately. He's barely had time to meet these people before he's mixed up in the Genosha situation and a crossover involving the X-Men, X...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
A lot of the basic Gambit stuff is already there. The coat, the accent, the cards, the confidence, and the fact that stealing things is a skill he's quite comfortable using. His mutant power lets him charge objects with energy so they'll ex...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Gambit's introduction has one of those publication-order problems. X-Men Annual #14 reached readers before Uncanny X-Men #266. But #266 is the story that actually introduces him through his first meeting with Storm. The annual takes place a...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
By #273, Jubilee is around the reunited X-Men instead of just traveling with Logan. That means sharing him with people who have known him a lot longer, watching him get back into fights, and finding out where she fits in a much larger group...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
The Lady Mandarin story in #257–258 makes it clear that Jubilee's powers can do considerably more than make a nice light show. Psylocke has been turned into the Mandarin's weapon. Jubilee gets caught in the middle of that, and when she cuts...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
When the Reavers take the base back, the remaining X-Men have already gone through the Siege Perilous. Wolverine comes back and gets absolutely wrecked. They leave him nailed to a cross. Jubilee is still there. In #251–252, she helps him ge...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Jubilee starts out living in a shopping mall. That's her introduction in Uncanny X-Men #244. She's getting by on her own, using her fireworks to put on little shows, and trying to avoid people who want her gone. Meanwhile, Storm, Rogue, Psy...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Where I'm stopping, Alex has chosen to remain in Genosha and keep an eye on what happens there after Hodge. Rahne stays too. He doesn't just leave with the others once the fighting ends. The books have put a lot of distance between him and...
Read the full post· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
The team keeps coming apart. Lorna's rescue in the Savage Land ends with Zaladane stealing her powers, and Alex isn't able to prevent it. Then the Siege Perilous takes him out of the life he knows. When he turns up again, he's a Genoshan ma...
Read the full post