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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
5. Shaman's calm has a painful history Michael Twoyoungmen is a doctor as well as a magician, and the origin backups explain how difficult the distance between those two parts of his life has been. He cannot save his wife. His daughter Eliz...
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4. Marrina brings the first big mystery Marrina Smallwood has a family and a home in Newfoundland before Alpha Flight ever enters her life. Her unusual appearance doesn't stop the Smallwoods from raising her. The mystery is where she came f...
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3. Puck gets a hospital story before a victory lap Eugene Judd arrives with an instantly recognizable look and a fighting style built around speed, balance and acrobatics. Then the book puts him in a hospital almost immediately. Marrina ser...
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2. Mac and Heather built more than a costume James Hudson's origin gets room to breathe in the early backup stories. He designed an exploratory suit, then discovered that his employer intended to turn his work into a weapon. His response le...
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1. Alpha Flight gets its own book, and loses its funding Alpha Flight's ongoing starts with a fairly awkward problem for a team getting its own title: the government has shut the operation down. John Byrne is writing and drawing the series,...
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7. What is left when the fighting ends The end of The Killing Stroke is a mess for both sides. Kurtzmann is dead. Pyro kills him rather than let him fall into enemy hands. Whatever else Desert Sword accomplishes against Freedom Force, the s...
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6. Black Raazer brings something supernatural into the fight Black Raazer is the sword-wielding supernatural presence in this lineup. Alongside the wind and fog powers, his enchanted blade gives Desert Sword another kind of threat at close...
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5. Arabian Knight is being forced to fight Arabian Knight needs a little more care than a name in the villain lineup. This is Abdul Qamar, the Saudi hero with the enchanted equipment, including his sword and flying carpet. He is fighting al...
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4. Veil controls what the other side can see Veil supplies the fog that makes fighting this group even more difficult. She can obscure the area around her and use that concealment against people who are already struggling to locate their at...
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3. Aminedi makes the ambush lethal Aminedi is called the Invisible One, and the name doesn't really tell you the worst part. His body can become a cutting wind. He can move unseen and strike with an edge capable of slicing through a person....
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2. Sirocco keeps the pursuit moving Sirocco is the leader, with wind powers that let him move through the air and create powerful currents. In a group this small, though, his orders tell us as much about his place on the team as his powers...
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1. Desert Sword arrives in the middle of a disaster Desert Sword has now come up in my read-through, so this is the point where they belong in these team posts. I'm keeping this one to The Killing Stroke, the three-part backup story in the...
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SCP-107: The Turtle Shell A little hollow shell that makes it rain sounds like the sort of discovery people would immediately start imagining uses for. SCP-107 certainly encourages that first impression. Put liquid inside it, the liquid dis...
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SCP-106: The Old Man SCP-106 is frightening partly because so much of its file reads like people trying to buy a little more time. The Foundation keeps redesigning its containment, adding layers, empty spaces, fluids, irregular structures,...
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SCP-105: Iris Iris Thompson has an ability that should have made for an incredible life. When she holds a photograph taken with her personal Polaroid camera, the image becomes a live view of that place. She can reach through it and physical...
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SCP-104: The Lonely Ball SCP-104 sounds almost harmless until you think about never being able to put it down and leave it behind. It's a small glass-covered sphere with an intricate carved wooden center. Touch it while it isn't attached to...
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SCP-103: Rhys' Head/Mara's Heart SCP-103 starts with a man being kept alive and a colleague who cannot accept that saving him may already be impossible. Dr. Ewan Mara has stomach cancer. During an aggressive experimental treatment, his stom...
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SCP-102: Property of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. SCP-102 starts with a luxury that sounds almost childish: rent a house and gain the ability to disappear. The current article turns that premise into a much heavier story about someone wh...
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SCP-101: Hungry Bag SCP-101 is the sort of thing that makes me question the Foundation's confidence in its own procedures. They find a container with a mouth inside it, suspect it connects to something beyond ordinary space, and eventually...
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SCP-100: Jamaican Joe's Junkyard Jubilee SCP-100 has a scrapyard worker made out of scrap, and somehow the part that sticks with me most is how familiar its working day feels. It runs a counter, maintains equipment, looks after its companio...
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