#Cyttorak

[why-i-love-comics]

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #0 - "Waxing Moon" (2024)

written by Joe Kelley art by Emilio Laiso & Rachelle Rosenberg

[rei-ismyname]

Magik and Colossus reach an understanding

I'm truly sorry for the Greg Land art. Ugh

The Extinction Team had some interesting dynamics, one of which was Colossus' struggle with The Juggernaut's power and Magik supporting him. Cyttorak is a cruel master but Ilyana has extensive experience with all things demonic. She doesn't like being called snowflake, however. At all.

The siblings took time off from being Phoenix people and travelled to his realm, The Crimson Cosmos. Pete makes a good argument, but Cyttorak says nah.

BEGONE

Hilariously, he wants to keep him because he's a hero. Violence and destruction is a constant for them, without any of the hiding folks like Cain Marko have to do. In trying to oppose him, it's revealed a demon lord is all powerful when in their domain.

After AvX went to shit and the siblings tried to take each other down, they took some time for a post-game chat. Pete, especially, is not dealing well.

Then Magik drops the bomb, putting the 'snowflake' business to bed for good.

Colossus is... not happy about this revelation.

It's pretty wild to learn that she was not acting in good faith at all, but then again they never expected to become the Phoenix Five. I think there's some misplaced anger on both sides, but ultimately they're both pretty messed up.

He loses his shit and attacks her while Magik twists the knife. She insists on a change of scenery and takes them to Limbo. With her first sword strike she breaks the curse, freeing him from Cyttorak.

'Remember what Cyttorak said? That a demon lord is all powerful in their own realm?'

'So you could have cured me anytime?'

Yep, and now he knows what it's like. She drops him back in Siberia and he says next time he sees her he'll kill her. The Rasputins stay at odds for a few years, but eventually Kitty Pryde brings them back together. It's hard to tell with Piotr but I think he learned something. Magik apologises and admits it was a shitty thing to do. Growth!

[vertigoartgore]

2008's X-Men: Legacy Vol.1 #219 cover by Mike McKone and John Rauch.

[doctorofmagic]

Khonshu talking about Stephen being dead during Blood Hunt like, WHY DO YOU CARE, KHONSHU?

I know it's just a tease for the Eight Deaths of Spider-Man, but I find it funny that it happened in a Moon Knight book.

I also wanted to highlight the fact that Peter mentioned not only Stephen, but Clea and Wong as well. I love how they're part of the magic lore now, even though we're about to have a break in Doctor Strange of Asgard (which nobody asked for but here we are).

I need Marvel editorial to be serious and remember Clea and Wong have a fundamental role to Stephen's life, and that he can't function without them :')

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #0 (2024)

[age-of-moonknight]

”Waxing Moon,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (Vol. 1/2024), #0.

Writer: Joe Kelly; Penciler and Inker: Emilio Laiso; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[comicwaren]

From Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6 #061, “Inevitable Attraction”

Art by Ed McGuinness, Niko Henrichon, Mark Farmer and Marcio Menyz

Written by Joe Kelly

[dailydamnation]

See Juggernaut and the X-MEN join the fight in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #67-68 by superstar guest creative team, writer Justina Ireland and artist Andrea Broccardo. Then, Spidey is on his last life! After he takes his final fall, the X-Men are left to finish what he started—with disastrous results—in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #68.DEATHS by two industry greats, writer Christos Gage and artist Mark Buckingham!

Mystical stuff? Please make good use of Illyana's knowledge and abilities. Please make good use of Illyana's knowledge and abilities.

She and Cyttorak go way back, too.

Regardless, guess I'm reading Spider-Man. It's been a while.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

So the first mention of Cyttorak was in 1965, but this is our first book where we actually see him... and he is a real frickin dork here... other writers will jazz him up after this to make him less lame.

[namor-the-submariner-dot-net]

Thursday Two or More: Couple

From Kieron Gillen and Alessandro Vitti Immoral X-Men 3.

1000 years in the future Namor and Emma are still dancing ... sort of. It's a Sinister Clone of Namor and a Sinister Clone of Emma. Sinister Emma is Empress of the Red Diamond. Namor is the Imperator of the Drowned Worlds and Sire of the Knight Consorts. Not sure if that means sired the knights or is lord of the knights ... or both. And this looks like a 7th clone of Sinister Namor?

I don't know what is exactly going on here, as I'm very much behind on my X-Men books.

[black-but-mildly-sunny]

While I'm slowly writing my Exodus and Piotr fic, I had (possibly) inspiration to write a story based on this picture

And how, maybe for a second Illyana was actually genuinely scared of her brother and that's why she quickly took away Cyttorak's power from Piotr 🤷🏾‍♀️ (And I refer to it gas his power and not just overall Juggernaut)

Thanks to @ thevindicativevordan for the panel from their original post about this moment

Tagging y'all cause you like these characters: @radcowboyalmondtree @emma-frxst @sadstonewrites

[xmenshitposts]

original under the cut!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

your mice-feeding Charles post got me thinking about how in the original X-Men run they were always saying Charles is busy with his important experiments in his off-limits room... what WAS he experimenting with? what was bro doing?

what WAS bro cooking .......

[rei-ismyname]

Alaskan X-Men downtime

It's really nice to see Juggernaut, Magik, Temper and Kid Omega chilling out and enjoying each others' company. I suspect Cain's hands are too big to play any kind of console game effectively - maybe a Wii game? Anyway, he gets called away to kill Spider-Man. Relatable.

[wanderingmind867]

The most important thing from X-Men #12: We learn Professor X served in the Korean War.

[satoshy12]

Don't ask how it's the FENTONS, that explains all.

DC or Marvel + DP

When Danny was born, he was very weak, and they weren't sure he would survive. So Maddie, driven by a parent's instinct, resorted to unconventional means involving mythogical entities to ensure her child's well-being.

She summoned an entity, an otherworldly being, who, in turn, modified Danny's DNA. But he said he would be a hero in his name in the future. + It could be H'ronmeer, the Martian God of Fire, Rao, a demon, a god, Mamaragan, or even Black Adam. Or of Marvel comics, Odin, Hela, Mephisto, Bastet, Cyttorak, Shuma-Gorath, Skrull God, a Fear Lord, or for comedy, Gorr.

Don't ask how. It's the FENTONS; that explains it all. + Years Later As she and Jack years later see Danny's Danny Phantom form, they are like," You aren't a ghost; it's that demon, god,something we summoned as you were a baby fault. You just got powers from your 3rd parents." Danny was just shocked as he looked at his parents. They attributed Danny's extraordinary abilities to the mystical being they had summoned during his infancy, not the Ghost Portal! I mean, the ghost calls him halfa; he is half-ghost!

[artbyblastweave]

Question based on the fascinating Wild Talent's Axes post. Why do you think most adaptations of High Blue settings change them into lower Blue settings?

I think there's basically two reasons for that.

Reason one is that I think that on some level the executive-suite-level aversion to looking too silly or wacky and scaring off unfamiliar audiences was, at the time that it reigned supreme over all of these creative decisions, unfortunately just kind of correct. You're doing Spider-Man, alright, you can kind of bank on the audience's ambient knowledge of Spider-Man to buoy along the question of "How and why Spider-Man" and maybe "How and why Green Goblin." You bring in enemies outside of that paradigm, you bring in wizards, vampires, aliens, now you gotta explain those things too, you gotta spend bandwidth on that. There's a real murky middle ground here between a cynical fear of looking too silly, and a genuine scope and focus problem- how much value added is there in pulling away from the core mutant stuff to start mucking around with the Shi'ar or Cyttorak or Belasco or Dracula? I don't think it's a coincidence that I don't hear people bringing up the fact that there were aliens in Dark Phoenix.

The Suicide Squad(s) are actually a really good example of this issue. Suicide Squad, while very bad, was actually a very high blue movie, to the extent that it actually fucked with the pacing when they kept turning to the camera to introduce new origin stories, to the point of creating a tone-and-theme clash with the previous two movies where this stuff was mostly framed as much rarer and more disruptive. The Suicide Squad was equally high-blue, but also much more deliberate and naturalistic in conveying that this was a superhero setting rife with weirdos. Naturalism is a watchword with this kind of thing.

Which brings us around to issue two, right, which is that, as much as I love the high-blue bullshit of the golden and silver age, you're huffing glue if you think those settings became like that due to some deliberate creative ethos. They needed to meet monthly deadlines and they were writing for small children, it was the corporatized version of making up a bedtime story off the cuff, and over time the nonsense simply accumulated. Later writers take that precedent and run with it to do interesting and valuable things, but if you're creating a classic high-blue superhero setting from scratch these days it's almost always a form of emulation. Approached without clarity of purpose, it can make for weird or bad or messy writing!

Ultimate Spider-Man is an example of a comic adaptation that bleached the blue, and that decision- to tie all of Spidey's villains to a common origin- resulted in a really strong story. Stronger themes, stronger character dynamics, stronger worldbuilding and stronger, cohesive political messaging. Objectively the correct decision for the project they were going for. Tightening the blue can let you do things- it lets you sift through and find the strongest shared points between the disparate elements of the mythology, assemble them into something thoughtful and directed.