Ahh!-stin Gory-ton

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You know, I added that album to my playlist of Christmas music, and every time it comes up, I just skip right past it. It really is quite terrible.

Card #077: Santa Threepio

Something about the length of Threepio's Santa coat and the fact that he's, ultimately, naked, has always made me think of this as a Sexy Threepio Santa.

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"[Revelation Voice]: You will tell me the fate of Eleven Ted Sarandos!"

In which we ask the important questions, like "does Doug allow Netflix?"

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Yeah, that's what I like about it, makes my boy less of a chump! 😆

But it comes as part of the "fix Cyclops by making Maddy a villain" package in "Inferno", which I generally don't love.

The Cable thing or the Maddy thing?

282 - Uncanny X-Men #201 - 10/8/1985

1st appearance of Cable! 😏

Hot take: I don't mind the "Maddy subconsciously manipulated the outcome of this battle" retcon.

Cover by Rick Leonardi. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Leonardi.

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Card #076: Even Droids Celebrate

I love the idea of Threepio baking a birthday cake for Artoo, who has neither the need nor the means to ingest food.

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Which is funny particularly because while the comic keeps the look of the Space Slug a secret, it reveals the fact that the cave they land in is a monster's stomach, which is arguably the bigger/more impactful surprise.

281 - Marvel Age #46 - 10/7/1986

I like how the overlap of Human Torch's fire effects makes it seem like Storm is throwing a lightning bolt at Sue.

Cover by Jon Bogdanove. Interiors by various.

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Whether you're excited or over it already, one thing we can all agree on: #AgeOfRevelation exists!

I break down all the deets of the Overture kickoff issue, as well as a few lingering non-AoR X-books, in Previously on X-Men for @thecomicon.bsky.social. #XMen #Xspoilers

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Card #075: "We're Moving!"

Another great piece created for a specific purpose that has been recirculated a lot. Nowadays, I get big Skeleton Crew vibes off it.

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280 - Uncanny X-Men #375 - 10/6/1999

Wolverine dead?!? Now I've seen everything!

A pleasantly-subdued cover for the series 375th issue.

Cover by Adam Kubert. Interiors by Alan Davis, Terry Kavanagh & Kubert.

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Card #074: Heat Seems To Rise

Maybe that's meant to be the volcano we all somehow knew Anakin fell into long before Episode III/Mustafar came along.

Gorgeous piece, at any rate, from Noriyoshi Ohrai.

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279 - Death of X #1 - 10/5/2016

This turned out well...

Cover by Aaron Kuder. Interiors by Jeff Lemire, Charles Soule & Kuder.

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Card #073: When George Lucas

The Revenge of the Jedi changeup is one of those great bits of Star Wars lore. I still have the corrected "Return" version of this poster framed on my wall.

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278 - Spirits of Vengeance #1 Variant - 10/4/2017

These Legacy variants: 👍 or 👎?

Cover by Ken Lashley, Gil Kane & Dave Cockrum. Interiors by Victor Gischler & David Baldeon

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Card #072: Male Bonding

The font of the text on this is really incongruous; feels very Currie and Ives-esque.

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Or, you know, Avengers Academy #38 rather… 😵‍💫

276 - Uncanny X-Men #271 - 10/3/2012

Homaging X-Men #100.

This series feels underrated.

Cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli. Interiors by Christos N. Gage & Tom Grummet

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Card #072: Boris Vallejo

This cardfront image gets reused in a lot of places; I had no idea it originated as a Coca-Cola promotional poster.

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I can't get away from the idea that it's a repurposed Rachel Summers image, rather than a Jean-Phoenix one, but that hasn't helped me run it down yet, either.

Thanks Tom! Appreciate the response. And I had no idea that was the first card done for the set! Pretty cool.

276 - Uncanny X-Men #271 - 10/2/1990

My least favorite of the Uncanny X-Tinction Agenda covers, but I'm always here for weird head-on-a-spider-snake-robot-body Hodge.

Cover by Jim Lee. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Lee.

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@tombrevoort.bsky.social Any idea what the original source of this Phoenix art from the '94 Marvel Flair Annual set is? It seems SO familiar to me but I can't place it.

Anyone know the original source of this image?

This is a card from the 1994 Flair Marvel Annual set, where they took existing art and reused it for cards and touched it up with bad early 90s computer effects and foil highlights. The image is VERY familiar to me but I can't place the original

Card #070: The Rebels Transcend

These more impressionistic, sketchy pieces really bring out the kind of grittier war story vibes from (at least the first third of) ESB.

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X things we know about the X-Men's Age of Revelation from the Overture issue - COMICSXF What's going on X years in the future? We thought we’d offer this handy guide to give folks the lay of the land.

Curious if #AgeOfRevelation is a Days of Future Past, an Age of Apocalypse, a House of M, or something else?

Wondering where all the pseudo-biblical titles came from?

Unsure who's good and who's bad?

@comicsxf.com has you covered in our guide to Age of Revelation Overture #1!

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He says hello when you enter the fair!

(At least he did as of that one King of the Hill episode where Hank commandeered him to protest the absence of propane from the fair's grilling competition. As devotee of the Minnesota State Fair, I can only give our rival fair so much of my attention 😂).

Big Tex, the official mascot of the Texas State Fair, briefly allies with the X-Men, though in the context of the story they are fighting WITH the winged horse man against Magneto (classic bait-and-switch comic book cover!).