The Great X-Men Storytime - Vol. 3: New Mutants (Part 39)

Let's keep reading Alpha Flight, eh?

PREVIOUSLY ON X-MEN:

>tfw I lost all my Melee data and have been slowly getting all I lost back
Feels exhausting mang

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Mental stress is always more fatiguing than physical stress.
Just try to get a full night's sleep whenever possible and you'll do better.

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Hah, don't worry I got finally got Final Destination back so I'm gonna take a looong nap after this storytime.

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>This time... it's personal!

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Oh Byrne, you and your obsession with "trendy" hairdos.

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>Deadly Ernest
I can't tell if that pun is stupid or great.

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Stupidly great or greatly stupid?

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Damned Maple syrup-swilling Cannucks!
Remember that one time the entire Alpha Flight team was killed off-panel in an Avengers book?
Those were good times.

>This is your..daughter? But how?
So Raymonde's gay too, right?

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Bad puns are a classic comicbook element. So the answer is: both.

Yep, that seems to be where the subtext is going.

A wise choice.

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>My fashion touchstone is Spider-Man

This back in the days of the comic code authority still having a ban on ... The Gay?

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I don't think they were quite banned back then (Byrne did introduce the very lesbian Maggie Sawyer back in his Superman days), just... frowned upon, like back when comic book companies wouldn't introduce black superheroes because they feared it would damage their sales from the South.

>That's right, I spend all of my nights on Sup Forums!

That's some anime shit right there.

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Jay-sus, Northstar.

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Anime influence on the big two has been noticable in the last three decades.
At first it was just in the art, but if you think about some of the risks Marv' has been taking, a lot of those have been successfully done in manga and anime already.

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So! What'd you guys read today?

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New Man of Super

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Heard that was pretty good!

My monthly order is still in the mail, for now I'm making due with rereading last month's.
It's a bad system, but it's what I got.
Anything you recommend I grab out of the pile first?

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I haven't read much myself, but I did read the new Descender, that was pretty good.

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>second panel
You know she was right about to ask about his dick.

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SuperSkrull was always an under-rated villian.
Also a little pointless if he's not backed up by an alien invasion.
Did the Skrulls ever make a replacement for him after he died?

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He's dead?

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Now here's something we haven't seen in a while: letters!

One of my favourite Amalgam books was Generation Hex, where they turned Northstar and Aurora into cowboys, and Aurora's split personality was Cinnamon instead.

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That sounds pretty fun.

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A casualty of that Annihilus invasion event.

That Deadly Ernest joke wouldn't really work in French... did they drift into English Montreal?

Raymonde is clearly an ex lover

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Really? I'm pretty sure he was the Skrull Emperor now or something, right?

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Delphine is hot,tho. Would clang.

Hey, I'm the one who was asking for the update.
Last I heard he had his comic-book death.

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I think I saw him in Infinity? I dunno, it's been a while.

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Nelvana aged poorly in Canadian obscurity. She used to look like Hedy Lamarr.

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