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The X-Men Go Out with a Bang. (Sorry Mr. Worthington!)

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Hey folx! I’m back, and we have some weird X-Men stuff to talk about. I didn’t get as much reading done on our camping trip as I’d thought, but that’s just because Kevin and I were having too much fun with our friends and we never got the rain that was forecasted. (I’d planned on spending the rainy day in the tent reading and listening to the rain on the tent. It’s my favorite thing!) Between that, an insanely busy week at work thus far, and two D&D campaigns, I’m just now getting time to write about the rest of the series. So, let’s get into it, shall we?

So, my darlings, we only have three, that’s right, THREE, issues left of the original X-Men run. This run ends with issue #66. Technically, the series will start back up with issue #67 in December of 1970, but these will just be reprints of the original stories. This was a format that Marvel used a lot at this time. X-Men had been cancelled, but then, seeing the sales numbers of the Neal Adams issues we’re going to talk about today, they decided to bring it back as reprints. Since we’ve already talked about these stories, we won’t be covering them again in the blog. I will let you know which issues were printed during the months we’re covering each time so we can keep up with it. But for now, let’s talk about these last few issues.

Issues 64 is a fun little romp that introduces us to a new mutant named Sunfire. The issue takes place right as the X-Men get home from their ordeal in the Savage Land, and they’re all still exhausted. But, while watching the news, they get a ping from their mini-Cerebro and Bobby, Hank, and Warren decide to go check it out. (Jean and Scott aren’t there). It’s Sunfire! He’s a Japanese diplomat’s son who wants to ruin his father’s legacy of working with the US. See, Shiro’s (Sunfire’s) mom was gravely injured by the bomb in Hiroshima and then died in childbirth. Shiro’s uncle has been raising him to hate the Americans for the bombing and the war. So, now, under his uncle’s conditioning, he sees his father as a traitor and attacks him at the UN in NYC. (Papa doesn’t know Sunfire is his sun, FWIW.) The three X-Men try to stop him, but Sunfire ends up hurting Beast pretty bad before getting away and the X-Men retreat to their city apartment to regroup. They meet up with Jean and Scott and the five of them follow Shiro and his father to DC, where they’re set to meet with Congress. Sunfire tries to blow up the Capital Building!! The X-Men try to stop him. Cyke’s powers are a fairly even match for Sunfire’s, but it takes Marvel Girl stepping in to help to turn the tide of the battle. And then, figuring out that this villain is his son, Shiro’s dad appears at the top of the Capital Building to reason with his son. But then evil uncle shows up and shoots dad. This is way too much for Sunfire, and he kills his uncle before rushing to his father’s side to renounce he behavior and turn himself over to the police. The X-Men shrink away into the trees before they can again be blamed for something that wasn’t their fault.

Like I said, this was a fun little issue, and overall I really enjoyed it. Per a note in the beginning of the issue, Don Heck subbed in on art for Neal Adams on this one, but this didn’t bother me as much as I’d thought it would. I do still have a problem with Scott CONSTANTLY telling Jean to stay out of the fighting, but since it’s just Scott doing it at this point, it’s less about overall treatment of women on the team, and more about super icky chauvinism from Scott towards his girlfriend. It’s a theme that’s going to continue in the series. The women are more and more treated like equal members of the teams, but the guys start exhibiting really problematic behavior in their romantic relationships that are presented as good or virtuous. So, best believe we’ll be talking about all of that toxic masculinity as we come across it! And speaking of toxic masculinity, lets jump over to our next issue!

We know you don’t, Scott. But you’re gonna have to figure it out ASAP.

Issue 65 begins with the X-Men arriving back at the mansion from DC to find Lorna and Alex in full costume waiting for them at the door. They say there’s no time to wait, the gang needs to change back into their uniforms because there’s a terrible danger. But either because the team is tired, or maybe because Roy Thomas is gone this month and Dennis O’Neil is writing, or maybe just because they needed to fill some pages, the X-Men proceed to start fighting with Alex and Lorna about this, going so far as to all use their powers on each other until FINALLY Scott takes his head out of his ass and calls for order. They all go in and change and then fight again. SOME. MORE. about these aliens that are headed towards earth to take over and enslave everyone. The X-Men are still skeptical, even after Alex lays out all the evidence and they fight some more until Alex reveals how they formed the plan to stop the aliens. Are you ready for this, my loves?… Fucking Xavier is still alive.

Not back from the dead. He’s been alive this entire fucking time. And Jean KNEW but was forbidden from telling anyone else. And it gets worse. He was never actually “dying” like he told the X-Men a few months back (a few years in real time, but only months in comic time.). What actually happened was this: He was researching this alien civilization because he figured out they were moving their planet towards ours to come conquer the Earth. In the meantime, apparently Changeling (remember him?) shows up and tells Chuck he’s dying, and wants to redeem himself. So Chuck asks Changeling to impersonate him so he can focus on this research, and then LETS HIM DIE IMPERSONATING HIM and lets the whole world think he’s dead. Oh, and apparently he’s been IN THE BASEMENT OF THE MANSION THIS ENITRE FUCKING TIME. So yeah, we’re going to stop right here and talk about how INCREDIBLY ABUSIVE this all is. Guys, Xavier is a MONSTER. Let’s make a list of the evidence, shall we? First, he took a venerable, dying mutant that came to him for help and manipulated the poor guy into dying for him. Next, he lied to everyone but Jean for MONTHS and then made her lie to all of her teammates/friends and her boyfriend. (I won’t even get into the shitty, patriarchal bullshit that is making the only woman on the team be Xavier’s emotional confidant because it’s automatically a woman’s job to be the emotional sounding board for toxic men.) Then, he just shows back up, apparently weakened, and just starts ordering everyone around again. THEN he takes this band of exhausted, confused, and betrayed kids, MENTALLY ERASES THEIR EXHAUSTION, forces them to keep training, and then sends them on a suicide mission. All in one goddamn issue! I seriously want to scream. This man cares NOTHING about these kids. They are simply tools for him to use to advance his plans. The writers gloss over his jumping into their brains to erase their exhaustion, but we’re not going to. This is so fucking fucked up. Because look, the kids have been running non-stop for days now. They just got done fighting Sunfire, who really messed them up, and they haven’t rested or slept. They’re not just mentally tired. They’re physically exhausted and injured. So, a mental wipe isn’t healing injuries, it’s just making their brains ignore it. He’s forcing them to keep training through physical exhaustion and injury. Someone is going to get REALLY hurt. I mean, not literally, because obviously the writers didn’t actually think this plot point through to it’s conclusion. But for real, it sucks!

But, back to the plot. The kids head to the magnetic south pole to fight the scout ship that’s already there, while Lorna stays back to help Xavier with his part of the plan. They get there just in time to see SHIELD send some jets at the ship and get completely destroyed. (We also get a quick cameo from Nick Fury himself!) But our X-Men are stupid brave and fly their specially designed ship directly inside of the scout ship, fight a giant green alien puppy/sea monster thing, and then fight some of the aliens. Meanwhile, Chuck connects himself telepathically to EVERYONE on the planet, and zeroes in on the good will of those who have it. Polaris (Lorna for those that don’t remember) uses her magnetic powers to help him direct all of this good will to Marvel Girl at the magnetic south pole. MG directs this at Havok, who somehow uses his powers to amplify it and send it into Cyke, who then sends it via his solar eye beams up at the planet of the would-be invaders. Meanwhile, Iceman uses his powers to keep Cyke from overheating from the raw power running through him. This plan succeeds in turning the aliens away because apparently, they have no sense of compassion or empathy, so sending all of that to them freaks them out and they run away. I know it sounds SO. FUCKING. CORNY. But, I have to be totally honest. It kind of works! It at very least gives us some gorgeous artwork of how all of the powers build on each other.

The downside to all of this awesome power combining? Chuck is in a coma!! Did I say downside? I meant bonus. (Look, I’ve made my feelings about Chuck known since the beginning, so let’s not act surprised that I’m happy he’s out of commission.) And it’s this comatose leader that moves us into our final X-Men issue for awhile: Issue #66.

See, the kids don’t know how to help Xavier out of his coma, so they fight amongst themselves like always. Especially Alex and Bobby, who seem to be fighting over Lorna until she puts them both in their place. They try mind-probing the prof, but it doesn’t really work. And only then do they realize that they have a fucking telepath in the room as ask Jean to try and get into his head. This really bothers me, because Jean has been getting stronger and stronger lately, she was the only one who knew Xavier was alive, and she’s been communicating with him telepathically for months. So, there is no reason she shouldn’t have offered to try right away, or why no one else should’ve thought of it too. I have a really hard time with how much Jean is pushed to the side constantly, basically until Claremont gets his hands on her in the 70’s and 80’s. She’s so incredibly awesome and powerful and these early writers don’t get that AT ALL. It’s so frustrating.

Anyway, Jean finally jumps into Xavier’s head and gets flashes of the Hulk. Eventually, the gang figures out it’s probably Bruce Banner, and not the Hulk that the prof needs, and they head out to find him. Scott asks Alex to stay behind to guard the professor. Lorna offers to stay with him, so, OF COURSE, a crazy jealous Bobby insists on staying too. Because, they don’t need everyone available to confront the FUCKING HULK or anything, Bobby. Goddess, I can’t even with this toxic jealousy between these boys. I am so fucking over it. I love Bobby Drake y’all, but I really hate him in this era. I miss the sweet kid who went on double dates with Hank and didn’t pick fights with everyone. He’s turning into Hawkeye. I take that back, it’s worse than that. He’s turning into fucking Henry Pym. Don’t do that to my Bobby, Roy Thomas! Seriously!!

Okay, so, Marvel Girl, Cyke, Beast, and Angel head out to find Bruce Banner. They find the Hulk in Vegas, and of course Hulk won’t listen to them so they fight. MG finally brings him down mentally (Yay Jeanie!!) and he turns back into Bruce Banner. Bruce tells them he worked on a device with Xavier that should help save him, and that it’s in one of Bruce’s hidden labs. But just then, the Army shows up to get the Hulk, which just turns Bruce BACK into a giant green rage monster, and he takes off. The X-Men follow before the Army can arrest them, and they end up out in the desert. They fight again because Hulk doesn’t like people talking about Bruce. Their fight causes an avalanche, which reveals a hidden lap in the mountain. The kids find the device in there, and let the Hulk take off as they head home with the device and save the professor. And we end the series with the whole team around the professor’s bed getting ready to fight another day.

Let’s pause here to talk about this run of X-Men as a whole. I’ve gotta be honest, loves. This was REALLY HARD to get through. This over-the-top, hyper masculine writing its not for me at all. I know there are a LOT of people who love these old comics for the nostalgia of the beginnings. And that’s totally fair. Maybe it’s because my intro to the X-Men was the 90’s cartoon, but for me, this was just painful. Honestly, there’s a part of me that feels a little guilty for hating this era so much. I really WANT to like it. But I just can’t overall. I mean, there are definitely good moments throughout. Magneto is so over-the-top and fun during this era. And it’s been a lot of fun seeing the first appearances of characters like Havok, Polaris, Ka-Zar, and Sauron. Plus, I think starting at the very beginning for this project was important, no matter how painful it was. But I’m not gonna lie folx, I am so excited to be moving on to the Claremont run. We’ve got some of my absolute favorite characters coming up once we get to Giant Size and I cannot wait. We’ve got some Avengers to read before we get there, but we’re getting close!

Before we get to Avengers or Giant Size, we need to talk about parts of Ka-Zar 2&3. So, this series of Ka-Zar only lasted three issues, and it was a quarterly magazine with multiple stories in each issue. Issues 2 & 3 included a story about Angel that we are going to cover. It seems to take place after issue 66 of X-Men, even though issue 2 came out the month before. In these issues, Warren’s father, Warren Worthington Jr., is ill and Warren is at home visiting after stopping a bank robbery solo as Angel. He leaves for the evening to take his girlfriend, Candy out on a date. (We’ve met Candy once or twice in the X-Men comic, and, if I remember correctly, this won’t be the last time we see her either.) Anyway, we cut to the goons Angel stopped earlier, and they work for a villain called The Dazzler (not to be confused the the AMAZING Alison Blaire who won’t make her spectacular debut for another nine years!). The Dazzler has some nefarious plan we never really learn the details of, but somehow pulling them off hinges on murdering Mr. Worthington Jr. So, the goons sneak into the Worthington mansion and do just that. Because Warren’s father is a well known businessman and socialite in NYC, his murder is reported on the radio as soon as the police arrive at the mansion. Unfortunately for everyone, Warren hears this report in the car on his way home with Candy. He FREAKS out, and takes off to chase the murderers, leaving Candy alone on the side of the road (luckily, he also left her the car since he ran into the woods and then took off as Angel). He finds the murderers on their flying pogo sticks (Yes, that’s really what they’re called. LOL.) and fights them. He’s beating one of them mercilessly when the police show up. They’re about to arrest Angel as well as the murderer, but luckily FBI Agent Duncan is there too, and let’s Angel go with a warning about not taking the law into his own hands, which Angel is clearly not going to listen to. For those that don’t remember Agent Duncan, he was the FBI agent we met all the way back in X-Men #44 and he’s being coordinating with Xavier to help the X-Men save the day. (Yeah, I’d completely forgotten about him too!)

Warren heads home to console his mother before going to find The Dazzler, but he doesn’t get the chance, because apparently The Dazzler has technology to transport Warren from his mansion to Dazzler’s lair. So now Warren is a prisoner. But, since no one knows he’s Angel, he easily sneaks out of his cell and confronts The Dazzler, who tries to convince Angel to back down by revealing that he also has Candy prisoner. He’s banking on a hero not being willing to let her die, even if he doesn’t know her. (Cause, you know, no one’s figured out that Angel is Warren. LOL) The thing is, Warren was already blaming Candy for his father’s death, because our egotistical, hot-tempered Angel is not coping with his very fresh grief well, my loves. He freezes in place and The Dazzler’s goons close in to remove his mask. And that’s where we end! We’re told the rest of this story will appear in Marvel Tale’s #30, but that won’t be published until April of 1971, so we’ll have to wait to see how it plays out. I have to say, this was a good little arc thus far! It’s super sad, and just the beginning of a pattern of tragedy and trauma for all of our mutants. Angel is super angry and hyper-masculine in this arc, but this time it doesn’t bother me. All of this takes place in two days, and his father was just violently murdered. This feels like a REAL response from a young kid who is also a superhero in this situation. I just hope it’s wrapped up well when we get to MT#30.

And with that, we’re done with our X-Men for a few years. We’ll be jumping back into Avengers with our next outing, as our favorite mutant twins are making their return to the group. And we’ll be there for awhile while we wait for Giant Size to come in 1975. We’ll also be adding more titles before then, as our wayward mutants join some other teams to bide their time. I’m excited to move on to this next chapter, and meet some really fun new characters. So, until next time my loves, keep searching….

1969 Part Two: This is More Fun!

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Hello my loves! I’m back already with the remainder of 1969. There’s only four issues left to cover, so this will be a much quicker discussion than yesterday. I’m flying through stuff right now in the excitement (and ADHD hyper focus) of starting the blog back up. But I can’t promise I’ll be able to maintain this pace long-term. So fair warning, we may slow down a bit eventually. But there won’t be any more five year hiatuses, so don’t worry too much! Just understand that I do have a career to navigate, an incredibly spirited 6.5 year old to parent, and an amazing husband and friends to spend time with. So let’s set some expectations now. LOL.

Speaking of amazing husbands and friends, we’re going camping this weekend with some awesome comic-shop friends and some awesome non-comic-shop friends, and I’m super excited! We do this trip every year, and it’s where Kevin proposed two years ago, so it holds a special place in my heart. It’s also the perfect excuse to run over to Carol & John’s later today to pick up some trades. I mean, what if I don’t have a cell signal this weekend and can’t get on Marvel Unlimited?! I need to be able to do some reading while we’re there. But seriously, I’ve been using Marvel Unlimited exclusively since I’ve been back. I lost most of my Avengers and early X-Men trades in the divorce. C seemed to think all of the comics were just automatically his I guess, and I wasn’t in a healthy enough place to fight him on it. I was able to hold on to my Uncanny X-Men Omnibus, my Adamantium Collection that I highlighted on the blog a few years ago when I got it, and my copy of God Loves, Man Kills, but that was about it. Those three were the most important to me, and two of them are now signed by Chris Claremont, so I’ll survive and rebuild my collection as I go! It’ll be fun to share my purchases and finds with you all as we go anyway, so look out for shopping posts in the future!

My copy of God Loves, Man Kills sign by Chris Claremont and letterer Tom Orzechowski

For now, let’s jump into our comics for today. We’re starting with Issues 60-61. You’ll remember we left off after the craziness with the Sentinels with the X-Men reaching out to a Dr. Lykos, who is apparently an old colleague of Charles’. We pick up exactly where we left off at the beginning of issue 60. The X-Men are rushing Alex to this doctor because he’s apparently gravely injured from the fight with the Sentinels. and they don’t want to chance a public hospital since there’s been so much anti-mutant sentiment lately. So, they drop Alex off and leave, and have some fun in the danger room. It’s a great little sequence of the guys training, while Jean and Lorna use their powers from the sidelines to fuck with the guys by activating different parts of the room. It’s great to see the danger room again. It’s been a really long time since we’ve seen it, and it’s such a wonderful part of the X-Men. And it’s great to see the girls have some fun, mess with the guys, and show off their powers. It’s also nice to see Jean have another girl to interact with and not just be there for the guys to infantilize. Meanwhile, we learn Dr. Lykos’ backstory. He used to live in the Antarctic with his dad, and they were guides for rich people who wanted to explore. One day, a rich guy and his kid had hired them for exploration and the little girl, Tanya goes missing. Young Karl finds her in a cave being attacked by Pteranodons and fights them off but gets injured. (Do you guys know where this is going yet? No? Okay, let’s keep going!) Rich guy is a doctor and helps him, but he now has the ability to drain living things of their energy! (Still unsure? Let’s keep reading…) His dad eventually dies and rich guys takes him in to repay the debt he owes Karl for saving Tanya. Karl and Tanya grow up and fall in love, but rich guy doesn’t want his daughter to marry Karl because he’s poor. So Karl leaves to find his fortune as a doctor and win the hand of his love. But, in the process, he finds he needs to drain life from people to gain strength and stay alive. Also, something is driving him to do it more and more. He’s battling with himself over the ethics and of this and it’s clear there is a good Karl and an evil voice fighting for control in his mind. We learn he worked with Charles before to try to get access to mutants because he thinks draining them will give him powers and allow him to amass a fortune to buy his bride. (He says it’s to win her hand, but we all know what it really is. He has to buy her from her father. That’s the not so subtle implication here. Tanya has absolutely no agency in this story!) So, now Lykos has his hands on an unconscious Alex, and he begins draining him of his energy. And as he does, he transforms! Into a fucking dinosaur! A Pteranodon to be exact! That’s right my loves, this is the very first appearance of SAURON!!!!!!!

Quick aside: I fucking love Sauron. He’s a talking Pteranodon that has a hypnotic stare and can only turn into/maintain his dinosaur form by draining life force from mutants. It’s just the kind of absolute ridiculousness that I love from my X-Men villains. Also, Lykos specifically tells us that he chose his name directly from The Lord of the Rings mythos, (see panel above) so that’s a fun fact I didn’t know about him! Seems fitting since he says that he’s giving in the the evil in his head, and given that his powers derive from his eyes. I like it!

Anyway, Sauron takes off to go be evil, and the X-Men catch wind of it on a news report and take off to stop him. They fight. He loses his form, but not before hypnotizing Angel to help him and take him home. Sauron having gotten away, and the kids unsure why Angel helped him, they rush off to pick up Alex from Dr. Lykos. But Tanya has also shown up at his office, having run away to be with him. Alex is awake with no idea about what Lykos did to him, and feeling better then ever. And just then, Tanya’s rich dad shows up to demand she come home and never see Karl again. There is SO much happening in this office all at once! OMG. Tanya insists she’s staying with Karl, but Karl refuses her, saying he has to earn the money first to show her dad. Again, she has no fucking agency. It’s annoying. But since both of these men are villains, I can look over a bit and chalk it up to them being assholes. So lets move on. The kids head back to the mansion to find a dazed Angel bring looked after by Lorna. They decide they need Lykos’ help with Warren, but Warren freaks out at hearing the name, so Beast knocks him out! Because, you know, that’s the responsible way to deal with your mentally unwell team mate Hank! The X-Men leave to go get Lykos while Alex and Lorna stay to watch Warren and look through Chucks notes about the doctor. But Lykos shows up while the X-Men are away, and drains all three of them, turning back into Sauron. He leaves to find Tanya and her dad, and they all converge, with the X-Men. Karl wins out over Sauron when he sees how freaked out Tanya is, and he takes off. Tanya follows, and then the X-Men. He’s headed to his old home in the Antarctic. Tanya gets there before the X-Men, and Karl THROWS HIMSELF OFF A CLIFF so that Sauron can’t force him to kill Tanya for her energy. Seriously. The X-Men show up just in time to be too late, but they do stop Tanya from jumping over the edge after Karl. So, I guess that’s good? Cyke even makes a comment about how the man won out over the monster and that’s all they could hope for.

This was a fun little arc, and a fitting intro to Sauron, who is a great X-Men villain. (Spoiler alert I guess? You didn’t think he was REALLY, TRULY dead, did you? If you did, you haven’t been paying attention.) I have to say, as much as I’ve really not liked a lot of this 60’s stuff, the one silver lining to all of the it is getting to see the beginnings for all of these great, classic characters. And this next arc is no exception, so lets get to it, shall we?

Issues 62 & 63 start off with Angel, alone, fighting Pteranodons. Huh?!? He loses and begins to plummet from a deadly height. And as he falls, we get the story of what’s happened to bring us to this point. See, he woke up at the mansion to find the X-Men gone, and followed their trail. He showed up at Lykos’ a bit too late, but found his journal and guessed they were headed to the Antarctic. He got there too late as well, but was told by Tanya that the X-Men went down the cliff to recover Karl’s body for her. So, Angel heads that way as well and is attacked by the flying monsters we saw. All caught up, we watch Angel land on the ground in a tropical location, seemingly dead. He’s found by a frog-man and a mysterious stranger and they take him back to their base to try to revive him. Meanwhile, the rest of the X-Men are somewhere near-by fighting a T-Rex!!! Have you guessed where we are yet, my loves?!? No? Here’s another hint: As they’re fighting, an old friend and his feline companion show up to tell them to leave. It’s none other than Ka’Zar and Zabu!!!!!! That’s right, we’re in the SAVAGE LAND!!!!

Like before, Ka’Zar is having none of the X-Men’s shit and basically yells at them to leave because he has his own problems to deal with here. But, because these boys all have egos that are too big for their own good, Iceman fucking attacks Ka-Zar just for pointing at them, and they fight until Zabu pins Beast to the ground and the X-Men realize they’re outmatched. They follow Ka-Zar and watch him fight some locals who seem to have mutant powers. They join the fight to help him. Meanwhile, we see “The Creator”, the stranger from earlier, using a machine to revive Angel. He’s also put Angel into a snazzy new blue and white costume. Angel awakes and the Creator tells him how he’s been rescuing mutants in the Savage Land from being discriminated against by non-mutants, and says that Ka-Zar and the X-Men are trying to stop him. Angel agrees to talk to them to try to help the Creator and takes off to find his friends. He finds them quickly, but Ka-Zar attacks him before he can say anything since apparently the people who have lived and fought with Warren for the last five years can’t fucking recognize him just because he changed his fucking clothes?!?!? Poor Warren. These people either don’t give a shit about him, or they’re really really stupid. LOL. Anyway, he tries to tell them all to stand down, but just then the Creator’s mutants attack them all and a huge fight ensues. The X-Men prevail and fight their way into the base. We learn that the Creator is actually…. wait for it…. MAGNETO!!!! No joke. Our favorite bad guys is back!!! Horary!!!!!!!

Turns out he lied to Angel (I know, I’m shocked too.) He’s been making mutants by capturing the locals and doing experiments on them. His newest mutant is Lorelei, a gorgeous blonde with a siren song that seems to hypnotize and stop all the guys in their tracks. Marvel Girl is unaffected, and tries to fight Mags. She’s not doing great until she uses her telekinesis to lift Cyke’s visor and destroys Mags machine. The bad mutants revert to their normal, human selves, and Mags throws himself under the falling wreckage of his machine, seemingly dying. (This man is so emo and I am so here for it!) But, we’re smarter than that, right my loves? We know better than to fall for that again. However, the X-Men aren’t apparently, because they just assume Mags is dead. Really guys?!?! This is like, the fourth time he’s “died” and you’re just going to take it at face value and not look for a body or anything? GRRR. That said, we finally got a story where Marvel Girl gets to save everyone! I’m not thrilled that she acted like a weak little girl through most of the fight, but she still won out in the end and outsmarted Mags to save the day. So, YAY!!!!

And yay for finally being out of the fucking ’60’s. Overall, these last four issues had way less problems then the previous ones, and we got to spend time with a lot of my favorite X-Men baddies, so it was a nice end to an annoying decade! We’ll pick back up with 1970 soon. We’ll be hitting a break in the X-Men as the title ends soon, but we’ll be jumping back into Avengers, so there’s still plenty of mutant madness to go around! I’m excited to keep going. If you’re excited too, come back for more, and in the mean time, check out the brand new Facebook page for the blog: Searching for Genosha! It’s a great way to stay up-to-date on posts if you’re not following the blog on WordPress. There will also be more content there, as I share photos and quick updates about my life and about the shopping and writing/creative processes behind all of this. I hope you’ll join us over there, and until next time, my loves, keep searching!!!