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
Beast has already been through several very different lives by the point I'm at in X-Men. Hank McCoy was there at the beginning, and going back to that original version makes the changes easier to appreciate. He wasn't always the blue, furr...
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My thoughts on Jean Grey’s personas Jean Grey’s history gets complicated in a way that goes well beyond somebody changing their costume or taking a new name. You start with Jean, then you have Phoenix, then you find out Jean has been underw...
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Inferno brings Jean face to face with Madelyne, and the resemblance between them becomes a much uglier story than an uncomfortable coincidence. Madelyne is revealed as a clone created by Mister Sinister, with her life tied into his plans fo...
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Jean’s return is a strange kind of homecoming. The Avengers find the cocoon, and the Fantastic Four become involved in finding out what it contains. When Jean comes out of it, her life has carried on without her in ways she couldn’t possibl...
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The Dark Phoenix story takes its time getting into the damage Mastermind is doing. His Jason Wyngarde identity and the Hellfire Club’s manipulation work through perception, desire and a false history. By the time the consequences become obv...
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The shuttle flight is the place where Jean’s story becomes impossible to separate from Phoenix, but Jean’s decision comes first. She puts herself in danger trying to get the others back to Earth. The radiation is killing her, and she keeps...
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Jean’s two familiar abilities, telekinesis and telepathy, also need to be kept separate. Moving something with her mind and entering somebody else’s thoughts aren’t interchangeable, even if both look like Jean concentrating while something...
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Jean Grey deserves some time as Jean Grey. The Phoenix is a huge part of the history around her, obviously, but she was already one of the original X-Men before any of that happened. I’m only covering her through the part of the books I’ve...
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X-Factor brings Scott back together with the original five, but it doesn’t put them back at the beginning. They have years of history now, and the problems they bring with them are much bigger than they were when they first walked into Xavi...
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Madelyne Pryor makes Scott’s personal life much harder to talk about honestly. He meets someone who looks startlingly like Jean, and that resemblance immediately hangs over their relationship. Mastermind exploits those fears, but Scott and...
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Scott and Jean’s relationship is tied into almost every stage of his early history, but it changes a lot from the original school days. There’s the shy attraction, the difficulty admitting what they feel, and then the years of shared danger...
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The change from the original X-Men to the newer team really tests Scott as a leader. He’s used to working with people who learned together under Xavier. After the Krakoa rescue, he’s helping lead a very different group, with Storm, Nightcra...
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Scott’s family history is another part of him that gets much bigger as the books go along. He and Alex survive the loss of their parents’ plane, but that doesn’t mean they get to grow up together afterward. They are separated, and Scott spe...
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Cyclops has been there from the beginning of my X-Men reading, and I want to spend some time on Scott himself. There’s a lot more to cover than the visor, the optic blasts, or his relationship with Jean. I’m keeping this to the material I’v...
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My Writing is coming along. - One poem - One short story Both ready to publish. A new universe I am putting together called "Nextborn". Three short stories written within that universe, and still working on ideas for a few more. I'm still t...
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I got a lot further in Kingdom Come Deliverance. I started on the DLC for Hans Capon's girlfriend/scenario. I am at the end of that and just got him the potion he wanted. That DLC actually led into two very big and complex quests alongside...
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The Queen of Clubs rounds out Wonderland's four competing royal courts, and her connection to the Queen of Diamonds is an important part of where she fits. Clubs and Diamonds are lovers. They have their own titles and places in the royal st...
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The Clubs court is one of Wonderland's four royal powers, with its own Queen and an army behind her. It becomes part of the struggle over the Ebony Blade alongside Hearts, Spades and Diamonds. The conflict starts from an uneasy balance betw...
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The Queen of Diamonds has a history that starts a long way from being a ruler. Her name is Adina, and before that title she was another person trying to make it through Wonderland alive. Her story connects directly to Johnny Liddle. After b...
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