525 – Beyond This Death

Illustration by David Wynne

In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.

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The destiny of Quentin Quire

New X-Men #131-134

An underattended funeral

How to fly? Kinda? I guess?

A kiss

A friendship

Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again

A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor

Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume