#bling!

[wakandas]

bling - trying out some other looks for ms roxy washington. leaning into the deep purple-blue from my hellfire gala redesign.

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[karenxmenfan]

Roxy Washington, Bling! (43/x)

[monsieuroverlord]

Letterless preview pages for Marvel Voices: Pride a.k.a. X-Men: The Wedding Special have been posted.

Main Wedding Story by Kieron Gillen, art by Rachael Stott

Betsy Braddock/Rachel Summers story by Tini Howard, art by Phillip Sevy

Wolverine + crew story by Tate Brombal, art by Emilio Pilliu

Rogue/Gambit story by Wyatt Kennedy, art by Jenn St. Onge

Emma Frost Pre-marriage counseling story by Yoon Ha Lee, art by Stephen Byrne

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Personal thoughts:

I gotta say, I'm still feeling incredibly ambivalent about this book.

I mean, a Mystique/Destiny wedding is great! Ya love to see it and its long overdue, but I think this would've been better served as a one-shot alongside the main pride story this rather, rather than in place of it.

Most of these stories sound really fun, like for example: a Rogue/Gambit side story involving a wedding band mishap! That sounds hilarious!

But, for a Pride-centric issue, its really lacking in the Pride department. No one outside of the x-books this year, and even the x-couples are lacking!

I mean, to name a few: Northstar and Kyle, Rictor and Shatterstar, Iceman and whoever he's dating right now (lol), Cerebella and Escapade, Akihiro and Aurora (he's still bi, straight-passing relationship or not), the list goes on!

I don't know, I'm just frustrated. The stories themselves seem fine, its just the branding/packaging that's rubbing me the wrong way, if that makes sense.

Except the Wolverine story. We literally have a confirmed/canon queer member of the snikt fam (who, at bare minimum, has had a flirtation with Mystique as well), and he's still ded :(

Like, if they wanted a Wolverine-centric story, why not have Gabby finally explore her sapphic feelings for that girl on the bus? Let her have a little heart-to-heart with Akihiro, drag Logan to a Pride parade (then, he accidently gets roped into a side quest involving a group of short trans-mascs, ending with Logan buying them a round of beers). My point is, there are ways to add your money-maker character into stories while still respecting your target audience.

I don't know. My feelings are complicated.

[kamamo1]

Roxy Washington as Bling!

"Bling? Punch them!

"Yes, ma'am.

[bad-comic-art]

99% of comic artists do not know how to draw Bling! (X-Men) which is a shame since she has such a cool design. How she's usually drawn( badly) VS

How she's supposed to be drawn (good and with actual crystals on her head!) 

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[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[newx-menfan]

If Marvel is gonna talk shit about the NXM being “mean” to Laura…can they at least get the characters right?

Bringing up Bling! just sounds like Laura’s extra salty Roxy’s dating Cessily 😜🤪

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[why-i-love-comics]

X-Men Hellfire Gala Confessionals: Infinity Comics #1 (2022)

written by Steve Foxe art by Alan Robinson & Carlos Lopez

[lillbitdramatic]

these bitches gay! good for them!

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[karenxmenfan]

Askani Sisters (zine, 2022)

[xfactor7aurora]

HAPPY NEW YEAR have an art dump

Literally half of these are unfinished sketches but 😐🙏

[spiralcass]

X-FACTOR PITCH

X-Factor disbanded shortly after The Trial of Magneto, with Fang and Aurora joining the Marauders, Askani getting together with Captain Britain, and Northstar and his husband wanting to spend more time together. 

Following the death of her father, however, Polaris is finally ready to be the leader he always wanted her to be. Lorna restarts X-Factor with a newfound dedication to making sure no other Mutant is ever truly lost again…and making sure those who try to get rid of them pay the price. 

Polaris brings Prodigy and Eye-Boy back onto the team, but otherwise is in need of new recruits. 

Wind Dancer has lost yet another job, and is eager to volunteer for this new team, figuring her massive social media following could help with finding leads, with David happy to have his old friend on the team. 

The next recruit is Bling!, who sees the team as a stepping stone to getting on the X-Men in the next vote, but does still genuinely care about the cause. The team’s lacking a tank, so they bring her in. 

The final addition to the team is who the first arc would be centered around: Jessie Drake. 

While working with Black Cat, Jessie is killed by Steel Raven. Felicia gets Peter to call up Iceman and tell him to have her resurrection prioritized, and also to let her be there when she’s brought back so she’s less scared. 

Polaris leads her new team to go and punish the ones who killed Jessie, insisting that they won’t be killing them, but making them wish they had. Jessie and Black Cat, however, insist on coming along, since this was their fight. 

As the four younger members of the team get to work and show some of the new character dynamics and circuits, Polaris asks Jessie why she never came to live on Krakoa where it’s safe, with Jessie responding that the X-Men and the rest of Mutantkind never cared about her before, and she doesn’t see why they’d suddenly start now. Polaris tries selling her the “Krakoa is for all Mutants” bit, but Jessie doesn’t buy it. 

“Any trans women living in your giant castles?” 

As the mission continues, Polaris starts shit with Black Cat. At first, Felicia just thinks they’re doing catty banter, but it quickly becomes clear that Lorna is being actively hateful, more distrustful of humans than ever since Judgement Day, for the role they played in getting her dad killed. She also ends up snapping at Jessie as if she’s a traitor. 

Upon reaching Steel Raven, Prodigy, Bling!, Wind Dancer, and Eye-Boy are all taken out, before she tries to get away. Polaris, Black Cat, and Jessie pursue her, with a fight breaking out between the two older women. Jessie’s able to stop the fight, knowing exactly what’s driving Lorna right now thanks to her being an empath. She tells her this isn’t what Magneto would want. That he told her how all oppressed groups needed to stand together, or they’d all fall. Lorna breaks down in tears and is comforted by Jessie, but Steel Raven takes advantage of the situation and catches the three by surprise, killing Polaris, and planning on killing Black Cat, and capturing Jessie alive so she can’t get away again. 

Jessie and Black Cat fight Steel Raven, with Jessie, still in touch with her emotions, shifting into Polaris to take them down. Jessie is prepared to kill her, but Black Cat stops her, though we don’t see why. 

Back on Krakoa, all of X-Factor is resurrected, with Jessie present but not Felicia. While the younger Mutants head off, more than a little embarrassed by all of them being taken down by an un-powered human, Jessie wants to talk with Lorna. 

Jessie explains how she can sense other people’s feelings, and then change into them. And in doing both of these things, she learned the truth about Lorna. 

“I asked if any trans women lived in your giant castles. You could have just said “Yes”. 

Polaris smirks. She doesn’t advertise that she’s trans, but she doesn’t mind one of her sisters knowing. Lorna apologizes for how she was treating her and her friend earlier, and says that while the two of them may prioritize different parts of their identities, that doesn’t mean they’re not the same, and she should support her choices. Jessie accepts her apology. 

Lorna says goodbye, but Jessie smirks back at her, saying she’s not going anywhere. If another trans girl is telling her that this is really a place where they can be safe and thrive, then she has to stay. She’s still leaving some of her stuff as Felicia’s, and is planning on going back and forth, but she wants in on X-Factor. She wants to earn a castle for herself. 

Polaris is happy to have her on the team, but does finally ask what they ended up doing with Steel Raven. On the last page, we see Felicia slashing her throat out. 

“Don’t worry. *I* didn’t break any of this places' laws.” 

OTHER PLOTS AND DYNAMICS: 

Lorna is targeted by Mutants who'd been victims of her father. Ultimately, she promises to make amends for his mistakes, ALL of his mistakes and takes on the mantle of Magneto. 

Jessie deciding to complete her transition via Crucible. 

Jubilee recruiting Eye-Boy and Bling! to help Nature Girl through her trauma, following her mental manipulation by Curse. 

Prodigy and Bling! bonding over being black, queer, Mutants. 

Prodigy and Speed being invited to, and visiting, the Kree-Skrull empire. Hijinks ensue. 

Eye-Boy further discovering just how powerful he really is. 

Wind Dancer and Bling! not getting along at all, but Sofia still offering to help with her relationship issues with Mercury, bringing her bf Hellion in too. 

Wind Dancer and Prodigy as snarky besties. 

Wind Dancer deciding Eye-Boy has "it" and trying to make him a celebrity against his will. 

Lorna acting as a mentor to Jessie. 

Jessie and Escapade team-up. 

Jealous of the other three young Mutants having partners, Jessie and Eye-Boy team up to find girlfriends. Eye-Boy gets together with Nature Girl, while Jessie ends up with Aero. 

[snibbits]

In this last day of Pride (tomorrow we can go back to Wrath), the rest of my prints for the Marvel Pride event I did last year. You can now find them on INPRNT

[big-gay-apocalypse]

drag her, nori

// X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #51