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Feb. 1st, 2023

We're tying off threads and closing arcs in this one, finishing the Abigail Brand storyline I started back in Empyre: Avengers Aftermath and continued into this book once it became clear that, actually, she's still the same person who had Colossus tortured for years because something something the hard choices. From here, we go into Sins Of Sinister, which is kinda sorta the Metal Gear Solid 4 to this book's Metal Gear Solid V, except I'm at least 80% sure we've got the budget to end X-MEN RED properly. -- Al Ewing

( Endgame. )

laughing_tree

The “keep politics out of comics!” crowd have not been paying attention for [checks notes] 60 freaking years. In the Krakoan era, those possibilities are still very much on the table – they always will be, so long as there are fascinating mutant characters doing fascinating things. But now we also have access to a far grander and more abstract canon of metaphors. Now we can speak to civilizations, cultures, polities, policies, faiths, and fates. It’s an extraordinarily clever widening of the micro to the macro. -- Si Spurrier

( Parental control )

iamrman

Wakana Gojo loves hina dolls and aspires to be a master craftsman making the dolls like his grandfather. However, a childhood incident has left Gojo terrified of revealing his passion to anybody.

Marin Kitagawa is a pretty classmate. One day, she discovers Gojo working on a sewing machine in one of the classrooms. Instead of heaping scorn on Gojo, Marin asks him to help her make clothes so she can cosplay as her favourite characters. Wackiness ensues.

I thought posting all these pages at once would be too much, so I decided to split them in two.

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