#Infectia

[ndscottsummers]

X-Men v2 #27

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[avengerphobic]

[bobbydidmytaxes]

Look lady, I know what you’re getting at, but all I’m seeing is Bobby chained to a wall and you saying there’s a Beast in him….

[kwxnnxn]

SHES BACK

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WHAT INFECTION LOOKS LIKE IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE: PATIENT ZERO.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a NYC policeman given the "kiss of death" by none other than supervillainess Infectia, cover art to "X-FACTOR" Vol. 1 #30. July, 1988. Marvel Comics. Artwork by Walt Simonson.

Source: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Factor_Vol_1_30.

[lovecatsys]

IMMEDIATELY obsessed

[watch-joey-collect]

#XFactor #29 #Infectia #Marvel #WaltSimonson https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpd5Ktzv61q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mattholicguilt]

list of x-men moments that were brat:

the X-Factor kids cockblocking infectia and bobby

Laura clawing out a guy's nipple rings at the club

stecky

Sam showing Charles Xavier a mouse

Lorna wearing sunglasses at all times

everything about the coconut grove

everything about tabitha smith

terry lying to val cooper

jubilee stealing Jean's old clothes

kitty ditching her wedding

karma pulling up to fake burning man with two girlfriends

[luciferinn]

Infectia from X-Factor was soooo cunt we need to bring her back

[kurt-wagner-official]

Post #123: XF issues 33-35

This issue opens with the Alliance of Evil returning, which is funny. In Layton's story I found them kinda dull cause they were just like. junky minions. But here we see they've filled the void of the Brotherhood, which is useful for the story and a nice foreshadowing of Frenzy's later stuff with the Acolytes. Unlike Mystique's Brotherhood, though, there's no crafty high level political terrorism, they're just upending cars in the streets and talking to the news cameras. These are silly villains and when you acknowledge that they can be good characters. Tensions are high in New York with the deadline for registering for the Mutant Registration Act approaching and with inanimate objects all around starting to act weird, prepping the book to enter the Inferno. Bobby and Jean are chaperoning the kids downtown clothes shopping. They feel bad for being completely unqualified teachers so they're sending the kids to boarding school for a little bit. The kids are all nervous about registration, although it's not compulsory for minors yet. Then Tower happens to be walking by and sees them in a window and throws a car at Bobby's head, which is the funniest way I've seen Simonson end a scene. It briefly cuts to Ship, where Scott and Ship are watching over Hank and talking. Between the experiments, Pestilence, and now Infectia, Hank's molecular structure is all out of wack and he seems to be dying. Scott is also trying to interpret Destiny's clues about the whereabouts of his son when the Alliance of Evil come on the news. Cutting back to that, Tabitha says what we're all thinking, if X-Factor tries to stop the Alliance from protesting the Registration Act then that seems like an endorsement of it. At the same time, the Alliance are throwing cars at mutant children, so they're not big on solidarity either. It's one of the ways the metaphor falls short, because there's so many mutant supervillains who take activism to an astonishing level of violence and really should be stopped. But since this is the situation, it's an interesting moral dilemma. Cut once again to Nanny and the Orphan-Maker, who have appeared before but are now named. They're flying around the country kidnapping mutant children and killing their parents. They're still shadowy and off panel at this point and their motives are a little unclear but they're fun when we get to know them. On Ship, Hank suddenly wakes up, having stabilized in his blue form with full intelligence and even better strength than before. Simonson sure took her sweet time undoing that stupid Bob Layton story. The Flowers for Algernon thing was fun though so it wasn't annoying waiting for this one. Anyway, now that he's fine, he and Scott can both get zapped by ship to downtown, where the kids have joined the fight and Frenzy has asked Rusty to join them. After they take down the Alliance, Freedom Force show up to arrest them. They give X-Factor one last chance to register. Hank, a public figure as an Avenger, does, while the rest of the team register only under their codenames, which isn't technically against the rules and Freedom Force knows they won't win this fight. Rusty, who's over 18, refuses to register but decides to turn himself in the the cops, which is stupid cause he's stupid. In our closing teaser, Cameron Hodge puts on some fancy armor and waits for Death!Warren to arrive on his quest for Candy.

This one is Warren focused. He's found the Right's main base, but it slowed down by a whole lotta demons, who N'astirh sent as part of his deal with Hodge. Hodge is watching Warren on the monitors. He's really fascinating because he's clearly in love with Warren, although it stops just short of being explicit. He talks about how Warren was always superior, but the reveal of his powers tainted him. N'astirh has clocked exactly what's going on and is making fun of Hodge for using demons to kill an angel despite being ostensibly Christian. In a parallel scene, we learn that Nanny and the Orphan-Maker, now on panel as a giant egg and a transformer looking guy, are tracking down mutant babies based on a list they stole from the Right. This was the same list that N'astirh was given as part of the deal because he wants babies to sacrifice, so now he's mad about this interference. Nanny, who we are quickly learning is truly insane, sees Orphan-Maker (called Peter) as a son who's helping her adopt more children. Hodge tells N'astirh that there's a stash of backup babies beneath an orphanage, so N'astirh leaves with the few minions Warren hasn't killed, telling Hodge that if the bargain is complete, he will never die. With all the self-hating mutants aligning with humans in this franchise, it's useful to also have a self-hating gay man channeling that into hatred for others. That kind of hatred burns eternal in the world, so on the literal level, he must become immortal through a deal with a demon. On Ship, Bobby and Hank are busy guest starring elsewhere, while Scott and Ship think they've figured out Destiny's clue- it's the orphanage where Scott grew up. He's too scared to ask Jean for help, but she insists on offering, and he's grateful. Again, they really care about each other but they can't communicate anymore. Warren, meanwhile, has some gorgeous action sequences. Walt Simonson makes him feel so kinetic and zoomy. He finally makes it through all the defenses to find Hodge in his protective suit. He does an evil monologue while they fight, about how he worshipped Warren until he grew wings and flew away. He claims he hates Candy for betraying the human race, but he also accuses Warren of turning from him to love her, which is as textual as the gay can get. Usually with plots like these the stated text is the villain being in love with the girl, but Hodge isn't even pretending that's the case. He's given up with the mind games in his passion for Warren. He pulls the plug on Candy, who he's tortured to death and is only keeping alive with the machines. In his rage, Warren beheads Cameron, but it's too late to save her. This is a really aggressive fridging. If Candy has to die for the story, she should have been awake and defiant, even if she couldn't do anything about it. But putting that aside, it is a great Warren moment, as he cradles her body and the Right reinforcements pour into the room.

In this issue, the city of New York has fully gone crazy, with a garbage truck growing teeth and attacking Bobby and Hank. I think maybe this one came out after Inferno officially started in Uncanny? I'm trying not to think about it because if I was using an issue by issue release order for this period of X-history I would truly go insane. Again, Limbo time fuckery! I'm gonna keep citing that well into the nineties without any justification. Scott and Jean arrive at the orphanage. Simonson starts to hint at Scott's memory of his childhood being all jumbled. There have been some conflicting stories about Scott's childhood, and Claremont's plan for Mr. Sinister, which I'll get into at the end of the event, doesn't fit with any of them, so she's just waving it all away with weird psychic amnesia, which as retcons go is fine. The orphanage is full of human children, and at least one mutant girl who's scared of something in the basement. Scott tells Jean about the bully who tormented him here, a boy named Nathan. When they discover a secret elevator shaft, they learn of a vast scientific complex below the building, filled with workers who seem in a trance. There's a whole lotta mutant babies down here in tubes. Jean, despite still not having telepathy, can feel Scott's son calling out, and they find him. Scott calls him Christopher. I think this is literally the first time he's been called by name, for no reason I can think of, and in just a couple issues this will be retconned into his middle name. As they try to figure out a way to save all these babies, Nanny and the Orphan-Maker arrive with some of Nanny's younger wards, all mutants who she's tasked with helping retrieve these babies. She is not very careful around children, and a very high stakes fight ensues. Jean is horrified to see her niece and nephew in the thrall of Nanny, a low level telepath controlling her young wards. This is the first clue of their arrival since Jean's sister's house blew up, implying Nanny killed her. Scott and Jean take the fight outside to keep the babies safe, but while they're occupied N'astirh's minions arrive and snatch all the babies. This would be a hilarious time for an X-Factor/Nanny team-up, but unfortunately both parties depart separately to save the babies before they're sacrificed and/or eaten. This was a good issue. Simonson usually jumps back and forth between plots, but almost this whole issue was Scott and Jean. They're both weird people, but as a couple they're pretty vanilla, so it was fun to pit them against these stupid weirdo villains. They both got some pathos with the kids, and the orphanage thing was a spooky concept in a kid's book. So is Nanny for that matter, when I was a kid I was freaked out at the idea of evil cyborgs coming to my house to kill my parents and brainwash me. This was also the last part of the long, long buildup to Inferno, as the next issue of Uncanny has the logo on the cover.

[recordpaul]

New Post has been published on https://paulrecord.com/a-lifetime-of-x/

A Lifetime of X

(Note: I made a similar post two years ago) When I was growing up, I stumbled upon my mom’s book of comic book covers. It was a large, soft-cover coffee table book, and I absolutely became enthralled with the images. The vibrant artwork and dynamic characters captivated my imagination in a way that nothing else had before. A few months, or maybe a couple of years later, I came across a spinner rack full of comics at Stater Brothers in Corona, California. Something about the cover caught my eye. It had a big, bold title in purple with these demons standing behind a badass-looking woman in green. Her name was Infectia, and she promised trouble! I instantly got hooked.

That summer of 1988 was magical. I spent every spare moment reading everything X-Men-related, especially the epic Inferno event. The characters, their struggles, and the intense storylines drew me in deeper than I ever expected. I found myself lost in the world of mutants, heroes, and villains, and it became more than just a pastime, it was a passion.

Flash forward 36 years later, here I am in 2024, still as enthralled as ever. I’m reading the latest issue, following a new team and a new era of X-Men. Despite all the changes over the years, that same sense of excitement and wonder fills me every time I open a new X-comic. I still feel like that same child, completely captivated by everything X-Men. Same as this kid:

[avengerphobic]

infectia did nothing wrong all she wanted was the x-factor ship. they should have given it to her

[bobbydidmytaxes]

In hindsight, the Infectia storyline was wrong on several levels…

[kwxnnxn]

Queen

[big-gay-apocalypse]

classic x-factor scheme: xfac kids team up to make sure infectia does NOT kiss iceman

ok, tabby only did this because she was jealous, but a great first start

leech, still a sweetheart

artie, doing amazing at demonstrating the plan

rictor: perfect deployment of powers and classic teen wise-assery

Sally: nailed it

a classic from rusty

and now, my personal favourite:

artie... this is flawless