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Composition Book Chronicles - R.I.P. Ed Piskor

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The whole X-Men Grand Design was so good. One of the best comics from 2018 & 2019. I'm keep telling my friends about it to this day. R.I.P. Ed Piskor

Just been reminded that Ed Piskor has two more issues of X-Men Grand Design due out sometime in 2019. I never became an X-Men fan although I really enjoyed the Claremont / Byrne issues I read way back when, but Piskor’s overview of X-Men history has been a hoot.

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In which Abs-lantis will not be denied; “slightly traumatized” is basically the default state of Xavier’s original students; we pick up the slack for Nicieza; Banshee and Moira MacTaggert probably have an active and varied love life; Xavier miscounts the X-Men; we look back over the Claremont/Simonson era of the X-Universe; and Jay makes a case for the re-resurrection of Jean Grey.

X-PLAINED:

X-Men: Red

Namor’s beard

The conclusion of the Muir Island Saga

Uncanny X-Men #280

X-Factor #70.

Cool orange spacesuits that make you immune to telepathy

Off-brand Magneto hats

Literary terrors of our childhoods

Agents DeMarco & Heacock (R.I.P.)

Casual use of nuclear weaponry

The cavalry

The end of the Shadow King

The most dysfunctional timeline

Uncanny X-Men #200-278

The case for an eclectic X-Universe

X-Campus

Resurrections, and when they do and don’t work

NEXT EPISODE: Ed Piskor’s Grand Design

The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week, by which point Jay’s lungs will hopefully be working again. Yay?

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