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.
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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
6/12 By X-Factor #21, the team is trying to get away from the mutant-hunter act and Hodge's handling of it. The situation doesn't just end with him losing a job. The Right attacks, people get killed, and the violence becomes another opportu...
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5/12 Hodge's treatment of Warren follows the same willingness to use somebody's vulnerability. Warren gets his wings badly injured during the Mutant Massacre. Hodge takes advantage of what follows, including arranging the court process that...
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4/12 Rictor's introduction in X-Factor #17 is a good example of exactly how that works. The Right captures him and forces his earthquake powers into use. They want the destruction, and they want people to associate that destruction with mut...
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3/12 The Right takes that hostility and puts it in armor. Those smiley-faced suits are one of the things that immediately identify them. There's something particularly nasty about people coming after mutant kids with those cheerful faces pa...
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2/12 The original X-Factor setup gives him a pretty ridiculous opportunity. The team poses as mutant hunters so people will report mutants to them. Then they can get those mutants somewhere safe and help them learn to control their powers....
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1/12 Spoilers for the X-Men, X-Factor, and New Mutants stories through the end of the Muir Island Saga. That's where I'm at, so that's where I'm stopping. Cameron Hodge starts out with access to something most of the X-Men's enemies have to...
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14/14 That's why I put the Brood so high among the enemies the X-Men have faced up to where I've read. They can get inside people before anybody understands what's happening, and the person's own abilities can become part of what makes the...
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13/14 Wolverine gets infected again in this arc, and #234 makes it clear that his earlier survival doesn't give him a free pass. He goes through another transformation, with the Brood briefly asserting itself before his healing factor purge...
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12/14 The mutant Brood in that story show how bad the combination can get. The group has abilities involving destructive energy, restraint, and manipulation, so the X-Men can't treat them all as interchangeable opponents. Temptress is espec...
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11/14 The Brood come back during the Australia period in Uncanny X-Men #232–234, although the actual outbreak happens around Denver. This time Harry Palmer, a paramedic, becomes infected after encountering the aliens at a crash site in New...
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10/14 And even after all of that, the Brood still have something waiting back on Earth. Professor Xavier is carrying a royal embryo. In Uncanny X-Men #167, he transforms into a Brood Queen, and that Queen has access to his telepathy. Think...
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9/14 The ending in #166 brings those pieces together. The Acanti's imprisoned racial soul has to be freed, and Binary provides the power that makes that possible. When it is released, it purges the remaining embryos from the infected X-Men...
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8/14 Storm has her own nightmare to work through in #165. She knows what is growing inside her and struggles with what killing it means to her beliefs about life. The transformation begins before she has found an answer she can live with. S...
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7/14 Carol becoming Binary comes out of this story too. The Brood's experimentation on her genetic structure unlocks an enormous new level of power. By #164, she's operating on a cosmic scale, and that changes what she can contribute to the...
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6/14 The X-Men being infected doesn't mean they spend the entire story completely under the Brood's control. They still struggle, think, argue, and try to get each other out. That makes the situation worse in its own way, because they're st...
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5/14 That was one of the most bad ass feats Wolverine did in early comics. People talk about his claws and the fights he wins, but this is one of those moments where his healing factor deserves just as much attention. He's suffering through...
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4/14 Uncanny X-Men #162 is the Wolverine issue I keep coming back to. Logan finds out that a Brood embryo is growing inside him, and the other X-Men have been implanted too. He sees what happens to Fang, which gives him a pretty clear idea...
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3/14 Physically, they're already dangerous. They have hard outer bodies, sharp teeth, limbs that can grab and restrain people, wings, and stingers. Some can deliver venom. They're strong enough that you don't want to get into a fight with o...
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2/14 The Brood first show up in Uncanny X-Men #155, during the trouble involving Lilandra, Deathbird, and the Shi'ar. That puts them in the middle of a much bigger space story almost immediately. By the time the main Brood Saga gets going,...
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1/14 Spoilers for the X-Men stories I've read through the end of the Muir Island Saga. Nothing beyond that point. The Brood is one of the most dangerous enemies the X-Men have ever faced. They take over their hosts, replace them, and can co...
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