Name: Victor Borkowski Code Names: Anole First Appearance: New X-Men #2 (Aug â03) Powers: Lizard boy Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Iâve said it before and Iâll say it again, the best thing about the New X-Men kids is their design. They all look unique and they all have great, simple, personality traits that can be applied to a…
Name: Kate Pryde Code Names: Widget First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #141 (Jan â81) Powers: Dimension-Hopping Teams Affiliation: Excalibur About What gets weird about comics, well one of the things that gets weird about comics, is how years of alternate timelines and realities end up shaping the ârealâ comics. The ideas in The Dark Knight Returns end up shaping the…
Name:Â Molly Hayes Code Names:Â Princess Powerful, Bruiser First Appearance:Â Runaways #1 (July â03) Powers:Â Strength Teams Affiliation: The Runaways About Comics, especially comics in the mid-00s, had a tendency to go dark. This is the era of gritty realism, of The Ultimates and Identity Crisis, so a dash of hope was refreshing. Marvel tried to tap into that…
Name: Cain Marko Code Names: Juggernaut, Kuurth: Breaker of Stone First Appearance: X-Men #12 (July â65) Powers: Strength, Nothing can stop him Teams Affiliation: Exiles, X-Men, The Brotherhood, Excalibur, Thunderbolts About I was never close to my step-brothers (well, ex-step-brothers now â long story). It isnât that we openly disliked each other, or even that we couldnât find some…
Name: Ororo Munroe Code Names: Storm First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct â75) Powers: Weather Control Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Force, The Crew, The Avengers, Fantastic Four About The word unless provides a lot of insight. It is one thing to say someone will do something, it is another to understand what would make them…
Name: Evan Sabahnur Code Names: Kid Apocalypse, Genesis First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #7 (Jun â11) Powers: Apocalypse Ones Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Philosopher John Locke once said, âIf we will attentively consider new born children, we shall have little reason to think that they bring many ideas into the world with them.â His thought was that…
Name: It depends Code Names: Penance, Hollow First Appearance: Generation X #1 (Nov â94) Powers: Diamon hard, razor sharp skin Teams Affiliation: Generation X, The Loners, Avengers Academy About Iâve been doing this site for like two and a half years now. In that time, I have tried to make things like the Summerâs family tree…
Name: Marshal Evan Stone III Code Names: Random First Appearance: X-Factor #88 (Mar â93) Powers: Protoplasmic Form Teams Affiliation: X-Factor, The Acolytes, The Utopians About Back when I talked about Fantomex, I talked about the âcool characterâ. Someone who seems hand-crafted by a committee to tick every box that a twelve-year-old boy might think is neat….
Name: Wanda Maximoff Code Names: Scarlet Witch First Appearance: X-Men #4 (Mar â64) Powers: Hex magic Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood, The Avengers About With over 50 years of continuous universe building, Marvel Comics can take characters in pretty bonkers directions. As all progress eventually gets regressed to the mean, momentous events get recontextualized, retconned, or…
Name: Jean Grey Code Names: Phoenix, Marvel Girl First Appearance:Â X-Men #1 (Sept â63) Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor About Fans mock the idea of death in comics. To many, it feels irrelevant, temporary, a stopgap and not a real change. For media properties that have lasted decades and decades, there is a real…
Name: Megan Gwyenn Code Names: Pixie First Appearance: New X-Men #5 (Nov â04) Powers: Flight, hallucinogenic dust, soul dagger, teleportation spell Teams Affiliation: X-Men, The Lights About An important aspect of character design is the silhouette. You want the shape of your character to identify them before anything else. You can see how this works in practice…
Name: Forge Code Names: Maker First Appearance:Â Uncanny X-Men #184 (Aug â84) Powers: He makes stuff Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force About By trade, I am an engineer. I take a concept and turn it into stuff. In practice this involves a ton of meetings and a liberal use of the Microsoft Office Suite combined with…
Name: Roberto da Costa Code Names: Sunspot, Citizen V First Appearance:Â Marvel Graphic Novel #4:Â New Mutants (Nov â82) Powers: Superstrength, energy blasts Teams Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Force, Hellfire Club, Avengers About We all love heroes, thatâs why you are reading a blog post about a random X-Men character every Thursday. They are aspirational figures that show…
Name:Â Idie Okonkwo Code Names: Oya First Appearance:Â Uncanny X-Men #528 (Nov â10) Powers: Temperature Control Teams Affiliation: X-Men About When I was a wee lad, my parents were a bit overprotective about the intersection of religion and magic. I wasnât allowed to see Pocahontas because of the spiritual themes. My mother had a sit down with…
Name:Â Kallark Code Names: Gladiator First Appearance:Â Uncanny X-Men #107 (Octâ77) Powers: All of the ones Superman has but powered by his confidence and will Teams Affiliation: Shi’ar Imperial Guard, Annihilators About Beyond anything else, Superheroes are unified by willpower. It is the most important weapon in any heroâs arsenal. It is what gives Spider-Man to lift…