#escapade

[badger-with-a-boa]

Hello there Rachel & Shela omg

[never-obsolete]

Moraff's Escapade (1996)

[charliejaneanders]

I really did not expect to be looking at a comic book and crying today. This was just so beautiful. Escapade stars in the latest installment of Marvel Voices Infinity, written by the incredible Anthony Oliveira with art by Cara McGee and colors by Carlos Lopez and lettering by Travis Lanham. Hot damn. I loved this so much, it was perfect.

[undergroundrockpress]

1968

[ffverr]

Happy lesbian visibility week to our favorite lesbian mutants!

[felinedae]

Some Escabella for your troubles

[eieru]

more requests for pride month from my instagram

[awesomefringey]

Oh my ...

https://twitter.com/colbicheesin/status/1737204376140169381?t=KatL0SEeLFy65DmLEKyOuA&s=19

I definitely need to re-read Escapade. 😩

[cannontranscharacteroftheday]

Trans Character of the Day

Shela Sexton/Escapade from Marvel Comics is a trans woman who uses she/her pronouns!

[aromantic-pantyanarchy]

I’m getting dragged on reddit for talking about this fuckin character so I wanna pitch her here. In my most recent dive into the backpages of the Marvel catalogue I have discovered a cool ass chick.

This is Shela Sexton, AKA Escapade.

Escapade is a trans mutant who’s got a kind of platonic life partner, best friends for life thing going with another trans mutant named Morgan Red. Together the two decided to use their powers to become supervillains, “but a supervillain that helps people and only hurts people who deserve it”.

But the fun doesn’t stop there. Beyond being a trans Robin Hood and actually coming away with a cool name and a sick design, there’s a handful of interesting things about this character. For one, despite being a mutant she doesn’t actually like to rely on her mutant power, instead she considers herself a tech fighter, utilizing random gadgets that she’s stolen on previous heists.

And what is her mutant power you ask? Well that’s also pretty fun, she has the ability to swap “circumstances” with anyone for a limited number of time. Not only trading places with them, but also switching things like physical condition, social status, skills and abilities. If she’s getting the hell beaten out of her, she can swap places to make herself the one coming out on top, though the injuries will come back later.

And she’s good at infiltrating enemy bases, since she can switch places with a guard and no one will question her presence for as long as the swap persists.

Now, as for her story, things have not been going well for Shela. She’s recently been visited by Destiny and Emma Frost, who claim that a future visions portends that Shela will end up unintentionally killing Morgan, and this has her shook. A large part of why she’s so hesitant to use her powers is because they play a part in his foretold death. Now, both Shela and Morgan can figure that Emma wants something from her, but to what end and how much of the story is a lie is still up in the air.

If you’re interested in reading, the story begins in the 2022 edition of “Marvel Voices: Pride” and carries over into the most recent run of New Mutants issues #31-33. It’s actually a very emotional arc, hitting on a lot of themes that make both trans narratives and X-Men stories work so well, feeling powerless against malicious systems that seemingly only exist to hurt you and standing up anyways, the dread of an oncoming “bury your gays” and the enraged fight against what you’ve been told is your ultimate fate. And, don’t worry, there is a happy ending. I’d highly recommend.

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[badger-with-a-boa]

For lesbian visibility week, here are my favorite women kissers 🧡🤍🩷

[stfulara]

"I fuck old men for a living, ofcourse I golf"

[charliejaneanders]

Just a wee reminder! I have TWO things to preorder this spring:

New Mutants: Lethal Legion (more Escapade! more Cerebella!)

Promises Stronger Than Darkness (more space battles! more queer chosen family!)

I really really appreciate y'all's support.

[nataliejsposts]

Jack McQueen and Louis Tomlinson sharing a cab.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Escapade (Shela Sexton) picspam

Art by Ro Stein and Ted Brandt

Marvel's Voices: Pride v2 #1, 2022