Imagine Kitty Pryde in a 1986 where she’d already grown up and been nonstop training for combat since 1980.

I mean, come on guys. What’s the whip for? She doesn’t need it for fighting. She doesn’t use it for fighting. Y’all ain’t fooling nobody. (Labeled not because it’s actually NSFW but because it’s a very mild spoiler)

Today in “a pervert’s guide to vintage Marvel”: The Hellfire Club has usually been depicted as a powerful, secretive cabal disguised as a harmless BDSM dungeon club for billionaires. This is of course hella cool but the real feat is that they got this concept past the Comics Code Authority people.

“The disembodied Phoenix Force could look like anything, so let’s make it look like a naked Jean Grey.”

When the FF and Avengers free Jean Grey from the cocoon Phoenix put her in (FF #286), she’s wearing the dress Wolvie shredded in X-Men #98. And then they fly her to her parents house to recover her memories still wearing it. They don’t even give her shoes. (Today in “pervert’s guide to old Marvel”)

Jean Grey - mutant, telekinetic, telepath, X-Man, future Phoenix.. but also a Tasty Package of Goods(tm)

Creepy-ass shit, yes, but it’s also ableist!

No matter how blatantly horny you assume silver age x-men writing was about Jean Grey, it’s worse.

The idea that “bronze age” and “dark age” (modern) comics are separated by, like, Watchmen or Crisis, doesn’t sit right with me. The real change was when they started selling multiple covers in sealed bags and everything suddenly started looking like this. (X-men 256, Jim Lee’s debut as penciler)

I distinctly recall seeing this panel - this exact panel - in 1987 and thinking “oh now those two are just straight up fuckin! his dick is physically inside her, right there”, and my dad glancing over my shoulder at what I was reading and coming to the same conclusion. FF vs X-Men #3

X-Men 142 (part 2 of DOFP) was written before the 1980 election, knowing it wouldn’t be released until after.. So they couldn’t show the President’s face without risking a “Dewey Defeats Truman” situation. I’m sure this is widely known but I just independently arrived at this understanding.

I thought I remembered Dark Phoenix pretty well but I did not remember that when things get to the point where Jimmy Carter is calling up the Avengers - fucking Claremont writes his accent phonetically, and it’s basically the same as he’ll use for Rogue.

From New Mutants annual no. 2. I am seriously having a hard time believing this is from 1986. I was alive in 1986. I remember what 1986 looked like. Nothing in 1986 looked remotely like this. This looks like Flash animation. There was no Flash in 1986. I want some of whatever Alan Davis was smoking.

This really is the first time Forge appears in a panel. Yes, in those shorts.

I’ve been thinking a lot about 80s comic books lately and I’m just going to post about them whether it’s relevant to anything or not. Starting with this letter to the editor from x-men 139. April Curry, I hope you and your whole family are ok wherever you are.

This map shows _approximately_ the route I took to move from Atlanta to Springfield, IL. On paper its even worse than the folks in the OP. But it was mostly in an RV and took a year a half and involved several stops of at least 1 week and up to 3 months in places along the way.

“They pay me to tell a computer program to code other computer programs” sounds like how Grandpa Simpson explained his job at the Itchy and Scratchy Show - “They pay me to tell a cat and mouse what to do”.

Uh, yeah, if you wanted “mass deportation”, you were always guaranteed to get all this shit with along with it. There’s no non-authoritarian way to remove 12 million people from the country. I assumed the supporters of it knew this.

Duh.

Was thinking of temporarily putting up a Minneapolis flag next to our US and Ukraine flags, at least while the occupation there continues, so went to go see what it looks like. And its a really cool flag.

We (liberals, "the left") should wage aesthetic warfare to take back the look of the New Deal, WWII, New Frontier, Great Society. We let the fascists have Norman Rockwell. We let the white nationalists have this aesthetic, just because dude is white? "This is what they took from you", indeed.

“Why it's the AT-5000 Auto-Dialer. My very first patent. Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you saying, it's sad and alarming” - how every early inventor of TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP must feel

They thought they owned Sweeney right up until the day before yesterday. That is to say, deep down these guys *thought they had a chance with her*. Now they’ll have to find a new queen.

I've been on this train for years!

This headline is not satire. When two men plan to do this, it’s a crime. When thousands actually do it centuries, it’s history. There’s a Stalin quote in there somewhere.

In a time when our government seems bent on destroying our relationship with Canada, “all dressed” potato chips are making inroads down here.

I go over to the other place to see what they’re saying about Epstein stuff this morning and the first thing the algo feeds me is this. Did he.. just recently become aware he’s *on* the side of the AI guys? Who does he think is funding the party he supports?