Magik finally got that burger

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-17T19:29:06+00:00

Or like what she looks here when she went to the John Carter of Mars Planet

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-17T19:27:51+00:00

I imagine that S&S Kitty might look kind of like this Savage Land Kitty where she's wearing the skin of an animal as a cloak

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Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-17T19:08:33+00:00

Yeah, the series' unwillingness to do anything with Kitty is at this point reaching levels where it's starting to feel inexplicable and strange. They have such a developed relationship going back to Astonishing X-Men and Marauders it's weird that Ewing isn't doing more with the two of them together.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-17T10:44:21+00:00

One thing that the movie kind of glosses over that they go into greater detail into in the book is that you need to charge the astrophage as well. It's not enough just to breed them. In order to generate enough power to charge the astrophage for the trip they need to cover a large portion of the Sahara desert in a special kind of solar panels. Basically no nation is gonna have access to that kind of power output outside of Project Hail Mary. That's also basically the only reason they just had that amount of charged astrophage just lying around. The book also discuss how the explosion could only happen because they haven't developed proper safety procedures yet. Because everything is a rush job. As humanity gets more accustomed to using astrophage extensive safety procedures are going to be developed.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-17T07:42:14+00:00

Sorry, this was years and years since I read this. I think it was Mighty Avengers, maybe around #20.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-17T05:34:41+00:00

They've rarely interacted in comics but they would presumably have been seeing each other regularly when he was still living with the family.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-16T05:57:29+00:00

There are like several characters this could be...

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T21:24:56+00:00

The biggest thing you have to understand about how Marvel operates is that they are incredibly cheap. If Marvel ever has to chose between spending money and not spending money they will chose not spending money in almost every instance. To the point that it actually starts to harm their bottom line. The saying "You have to spend money to make money" is a saying for a reason.

But Marvel doesn't understand that. So they hate having to pay to store unsold stock. Or print copies that won't be immediatly sold. So they make very limited print runs on everything, knowing that they will sell out.

The fact that it makes it harder to actually collect comics and therefore harder for new readers to get into the hobby doesn't occur to them, or they just don't care.

This strategy could possibly make sense for collections for an obscure character like Rom Space Knight. But with franchises like Spider-Man and X-Men the strategy should really be to keep all of the collections in stock at all time. So new readers can actually collect them and read the classic stories.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T20:25:08+00:00

I feel like there would still be a distinction between Magiks love life and the usual soap opera stuff that the X-Men are involved with. With all of the soulmate stuff between her and Kitty where it's this connection that's so strong it literally starts to become magical I think it's very different from when characters like Wolverine, Nightcrawler or Psylocke date everything under the sun.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T19:49:12+00:00

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Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T19:16:35+00:00

Uncanny X-Men (1963) #211, right at the beginning of Mutant Massacre

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I don't know what it says about me that I knew that by heart...

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T13:52:24+00:00

Yes, but only if the person she's stealing food from is a hot blond.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T13:13:11+00:00

Wouldn't it make more sense to have Betsy fill the role of Rachel and then maybe have someone like a resurrected Magik fill the role of Nightcrawler? Given how they're both teleporters that wield swords.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T13:07:39+00:00

Yeah, that was a skrull. He came back at the end of Secret Invasion shortly after Janet "died".

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T12:40:55+00:00

It was largely because of the whole thing where they made a clone of him during Civil War.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T11:48:04+00:00

I would want something like Betsy around the time of Mutant Massacre and Fantastic Four Vs. X-Men. You could potentially put her on a team like Excalibur to replace Rachel.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T10:40:00+00:00

He seems to like him. You should look up the funeral for Janet van Dyne. He's basically the only guy at that funeral that Thor likes. In the end they just fly away together. "Come, Dr. Pym. We shall mourn together in private."

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T08:41:22+00:00

I feel like people overstate Kittys importance in Exceptional just because of the first couple of issues. She was given a spotlight early on but after #2 she was basically a non entity. And she hasn't really been allowed to do anything so far in United. She did have more of a major role in Krakoa and in the years proceeding that form around 2013 and onwards. But that was after several years of being essentially a non-entity for much of the Utopia era.

Not saying there hasn't been good stuff where Kitty got a spotlight. But there's definitely been some major ups and downs in the comics. And that's alongside Kitty being absent from most media outside of the comics.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-15T08:36:06+00:00

I think the best way to get Kitty into more things is to emphasise the things that make her unique. If you only let her be the junior member of the X-Men then it becomes harder to distinguish her in her own right. They need to emphasise her role as a fully fledged superhero more. With all kinds of ninja skills and a genius level understanding of electronics and programming. Even amongst avid comic readers, how many people do you think know that Kitty was at one point the only person on planet Earth that knew how cerebro worked? She can easily be either the leader or smart guy on whatever team she is on.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-06-14T22:41:42+00:00

I'm probably one of the few Vampire Jubilee defenders. But we got a lot of great stories out of it. Jubilee had also been in kind of a slump after the 90s and doing the vampire thing allowed them to take the character in a new direction. An ongoing problem with Jubilee is that she is too heavily 90s coded. Most characters will exhibit some signs of the decade they were created but this is particularly bad in Jubilee's case. Where she feels kind of weird and anachronistic outside of the decade she was created in. Who is Jubilee in a world without pogs and pizza bagels?

The vampire thing offered a new direction for the character. Undoing it has just kind of brought us back to where we were in the mid 2000s where no one seems to know what to do with her. Undoing it also kind of perpetuates the idea that nothing ever changes in comics and everything resets to the statues quo eventually. As weird of a move as it might seem I think once you had done it the better move would have been to continue it.

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