October 23, 2020: Annihilation, Nova, X-Factor, and Sandman

X-Factor Vol. 1 #65 by Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio (1991) Louise Simonson is now off the title, and though I think less favorably than most of her runs on X-Factor and New Mutants, it will be interesting to see how the title begins to shift in tone. This storyline is clearly heading toward X-Men

October 22, 2020: Annihilation, X-Factor, and Sandman

X-Factor Annual #6 by Fabian Nicieza and Terry Shoemaker (1991) Holy shit this arc sucks. Thank God it’s over. Proteus is literally destroying the entire world, but Sam, Jean, and Cable (weird) all are more worried about his feelings. Then, they just convince him to commit suicide anyway. Cable is unnecessarily angry about all of

October 21, 2020: Annihilation, Uncanny X-Men, and Magneto

Uncanny X-Men Annual #15 by Fabian Nicieza and Tom Raney (1991) I don’t like this story. Proteus should be left alone; there’s no reason to bring back a character that very clearly died long ago. The kid is being used by his mother in a really disturbing way, and it just comes across as creepy

October 20, 2020: Exiles, Annihilation, New Mutants, and X-Men

New Mutants Annual #7 by Fabian Nicieza and Guang Yap (1991) Turns out we weren’t quite done with New Mutants yet. This comes out well after New Mutants had been cancelled and turned into X-Force, which is certainly odd. I’d suggest that Marvel didn’t want to publish an annual shortly after a series began, but