Comic versus cartoon, 1984 versus 2024. I feel like there's a full undergraduate essay to be written in comparing these 2 images (I could go on about the difference in skin tones, levels of violence and drama portrayed), but I'll just say that they're both impactful in their own way. The X-Men '97 version is a lot softer of course, but the look in her eyes conveys just as much anger and hurt as in the original.
Anyway, don't hit your boyfriends, people. Unless they designed the gun that de-powered you, in which case they probably deserve it. At the same time it's quite clear that they have regrets and they would take it all back if they could and if it were you wouldn't you have tried to hide it for as long as possible too probably I mean come on we all make mistakes or colossal idiotic mistakes as the case may be.
Finally started X-Men 97 and honestly feel crazed after watching 4 years of comics get condensed into 3 episodes.
If you haven't read the Claremont run, I need you to know that so much happens in a single issue compared to modern comics.
THEY DID ALL OF INFERNO IN A THIRD OF AN EPISODE!THAT'S WILD!
Anyway I think i like the series but it also gave my brain whiplash. They are setting up Lifedeath though and I'm absolutely stoked for it so long as they allow the story to breathe.
Things about Lifedeath that have always confused me
How exactly did Forge introduce himself to Ororo? "Hi, I'm just some rando who fished you out of the river and you're in my house because reasons"?
Genius mutant inventor, can make anything...doesn't own a waterproof prosthetic.
Ororo: stupid me, I should never have tried to impress him with that dress. Also Ororo: Let me put on this super tight outfit with low cleavage.
Ok guys, is there a joke with the Hyderabadi baigan subji (if that's even how you spell it)? I know I'm showing my whiteness here, but I definitely didn't know what it was, and I'm going to assume I'm not the only one. So is the joke the coincidence of both Forge and Storm knowing about it? Or is a white writer trying to make me feel uncultured for not recognising a dish he probably only knows about from living in England (the country that colonised India)? I guess it would have been too pedestrian for Storm and Forge to bond over chicken biryani, but I'm confused all the same.
Genius mutant inventor, can make anything, defeated by...a landline.
Can you tell I've read this comic waaaay too many times?