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Games within games -- Illustration signed RoMc, from ad for Games Workshop's Games Day '83, Nov 5-6 at the Royal Horticultural Society's New Hall, London (as printed in White Dwarf 44, August 1983, also used on the event's printed program).
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Well, I said that if they kept giving X-ladies solo books, that have to get around to Illyana eventually, but I didn't dare believe in it.
A solo ongoing for our girl. This is a good day.
Generally, I'm not big on solo X-titles, teams just work best. I've always thought Illyana is one of the characters who it would work with, though. Part of that is bias, obviously, but I think that to justify a solo, you need a character with personal stories that are distinctly different from core X-Men/mutant stories. They surprised me by finding a solid take for Jean in making her go cosmic.
Illyana's magic and demons really set her up for a unique run, and it looks like we might be getting it:
The mystic mutant goes demon hunting in her own series! The X-Man Illyana Rasputina strikes out on her own with new allies and dark powers arrayed against her.
New allies? Leah Helranger when?
Having Ashley Allen return after her Blood Hunt oneshot is a big win. Illyana really felt like Illyana in that story, and played to her strengths.
Germán Peralta I've always liked, and I think his style could be a great fit for stories like these, too:
Throughout the series, Magik will also be forced to come to terms with her tragic history and learn to control her demonic Darkchylde persona. After years of suppression, Illyana’s Darkchylde form returns from the depths of her tormented soul to offer her more strength and power, but at what cost?
This is perfection--the struggle with her dark side that is fed by her trauma, while in the same breath Allen describes her as a character with a heart of gold... Trying to be good while fearing that she's bad is core Illyana.
Literally the only quibble I have with this announcement is Peralta saying he especially loves the Bachalo design, and that costume is my personal pet peeve and won't keep me from loving this book. (Is it wrong that I love it already? It's nice to have faith.)
I love the idea of the Darkchylde having stages, growing more monstrous as Illyana gets taken over by dark impulses. And those wings? Fire addition to the design.
As a bonus, here is Germán Peralta drawing Illyana years ago in Age of X-Man: Prisoner of X #2:
Now just to decide how I'm going to get this, since I don't have a pull list at my local comic shop anymore. Marvel Unlimited still runs months behind on physical releases, which is okay for most things, but...
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Outfit of the day (James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom, Conan the Barbarian, 1982)
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Trump's lack of service and overwhelming insecurities make veterans a threat to his unbelievably weak character.
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Vote Kamala for President and help save our democracy
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Cats of Ulthur vibes near the end 🌚
Annie Choi, Studio Ghibli
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When you see a corporation not pay $16 BILLION in taxes, remember those corporations are funding Republican politicians who want you to be upset with immigrants and migrants.
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Ookla by Jack Kirby, possibly inked by Alfredo Alcala.
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When Gygax put together the Monster Manual, he unwittingly created a sort of “essential assortment” of RPG monsters derived from real world legend — they appear over and over again in other games as default opponents. Gygax selected those monsters from a wider pool derived from books of folklore and mythology that were available in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but I’ve read a lot of those (and their descendants) and, well, there are a lot of folkloric monsters from all over the world that are just, continually overlooked. This is something came into sharper focus for me regarding regions outside of Europe thanks to A Thousand Thousand Islands and Other Magic 2: Monsters of the Americas, but A Folklore Bestiary (2022), from The Merry Mushmen, proves there are still plenty of interesting creatures to mine even from Europe (and the rest of the world, too).
Letty Wilson did all the art. The writing and selection was by a variety of authors, from a variety of locations and this provides GMs with a nice diversity of options. Some are already passingly familiar (dybbuk, Black Shuck, Jack-in-Irons), some are really more like NPCs (the Queen of the Fallow Field, who is a bit like Lady Midday, and Bad Paxti, a nefarious blacksmith). Many function as variants of more generic monsters (Tartaro are basically classic cyclops, with some tweaks, like the fact that they are numbered instead of named or that their eye can emit a blinding beam of light — they’re probably my favorite beastie in the book). Like the previous two books this week, this serves to reimagine and recontextualize familiar monsters, though perhaps more subtly than the other. I’ll tell you, though, I will always take another strange folkloric goblin over some of the eyeroll-worthy monster variants that have cropped up in official D&D. Winged gnolls, for Pete’s sake?
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