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#X-Comics Posts Masterlist
*Hyperlinks coming soon, don't have computer access RN.
X-COMICS is the Tumblr-wide tag for comics only stuff.
From The Ashes longform
X-Men reviews 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Uncanny X-Men reviews 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 x
Exceptional X-Men monthly review 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
#weekly roundup
X-Manhunt Omega review
Resurrection-Linked Degenerative Sickness sucks
Jeb: I don’t my ancestors would be very happy with me not because I’m like lazy or unworthy or anything but because I come from a long line miners who died of black lug and I’m the first of brothers who didn’t have to work in the mines but the second I got the chance I went right back underground and started making tunnels 
Therapist: when I ask you to talk about your family issues this is not what I meant
Big Guthrie energy
What if Wolverine was lord of the vampires?
He'd take over the world, apparently, obviously biting Jean. 'Logan bites the Marvel universe' basically. It sucks, no pun intended, bub.
Big surprise for who he bites lol 🙄
Cases Of Shaken Manchild Syndrome On The Rise
The years-old joke goes that centrists fight the Left harder than they fight Donald Trump. It’s no longer a joke: after “rolling over and pl
The political opponents that have the centrist Democrats newly energized and willing to fight like hell are the democratic socialists who have become a powerful organizing force within their party and some of its most popular national figures. That’s according to the New York Times, which reported yesterday that the centrist organization Third Way, in concert with unnamed “moderates,” plan to launch a “discrediting campaign” lasting from now until 2028 that takes aim at the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the group whose members include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and is a key part of the coalition behind the party’s Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. That campaign will see Third Way not just do opposition research into DSA and target its elected officials but also go after politicians like El-Sayed, who don’t identify as socialists but make common cause with the group. “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” Third Way’s president, Jonathan Cowan, told the Times about the campaign. This is a month after Cowan and Third Way’s executive vice president, Matt Bennett, warned in the Washington Post that DSA was “not a faction to be appeased,” urging the party to “fight” the group by pledging “money, organization, and spine.” It’s a well-worn joke at this point that Democratic centrists fight the Left harder than they fight the far right. But here, Third Way and whatever “moderates” are part of this effort are actually giving us an honest-to-God, real-life example of it: centrist Democrats’ big play to push back against Trump’s wrecking ball of a presidency was to literally do nothing. Third Way itself has been largely invisible, other than to make a list of words Democrats shouldn’t use, lead a public campaign against leftist streamer Hasan Piker, and tell Dems to be more hawkish. But now that the Left is winning elections, they are jumping into action, pledging to “fight” a “war” and calling on Democrats to show “spine.” You can’t make this stuff up.
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This is the crux of it: centrist Democrats are clearly willing to tear apart their own party and hand power to the forces behind Trump, as long as it means stopping the Left from having any power.
7 August 2026
Literally pulling a Weimar Republic. The Republicans have concentration camps, they've jailed political enemies for distributing pamphlets, they are openly trying to destroy democracy and rig elections, but the so-called "moderates" think the "next war to fight" is against people wanting to tax the rich and raise the minimum wage.
This is not about being moderate or centrist. This is class warfare, and rich Democrats are deciding they are on the same team as rich fascists.
Fucking Centrists
you forgot the best one
How could you not love this? 'Jokes about 9/11' has always been a thing
Kitty Pryde Experiments with Costumes
I vote for the full Vader cosplay.
Umm, I don't give a shit what anyone says - this one slaps! Maybe the roller skates are a little impractical though perhaps I'm ignoring Intangibility synergy. Kurt disagrees but Ororo zaps him on the bum. I'd be so frustrated with Chuck's big bald head appearing all the time.
Of course he's thinking gay thoughts about Magneto. So am I.
I wish I had the confidence of a 13 1/2 year old presenting this last costume. "HERE I AM!" The jewellery might be a bit impractical but I like this one too. Kid's got style, and IMO she's heavily influenced by Ororo's aesthetic/costume here which is so cute. The POV of the last panel just sells it even more - I'm not taking fashion advice from most of these dorks. Storm looks dope but no one else has room to talk.
Kitty acquired a rep as being unfashionable, even frumpish. Maybe if her creativity wasn't STRANGLED IN THE CRADLE BY UNFEELING MONSTERS that would be different. At least allowed to compromise and express herself instead of being slapped down, insha'Allah.
I stand by this now and forever. Not only did Kitty produce two banging costumes, but enough time has passed that each of them would be considered mainstream stylish at least twice. Perhaps thrice. Make no mistake, I consider them not just comparatively excellent (most superhero costumes kinda suck) but gloriously fashionable on their own. I would personally wear either of them right now to any event, though I can't roller skate.
Also, I think it's boring to come back to that well every so often, whenever some dipshit jokes about it. Get some new material! (Yes I recognise the irony.) I look forward to the day that Kitty herself realises that she was a fashion prodigy and embraces these threads from the past. Even better, the attitude that produced them.
Although Jeanne-Marie does not need glasses, I think it would be funny if Jean-Paul actually did need them.
Not for everyday use but let's say for driving or reading, or his vision starts getting worse as he gets older.
The thing is he refuses to wear them.
Jean-Paul doesn’t have the patience to put contacts in and out and he thinks glasses make him look old
And what does it matter? He can see perfectly fine! For example, that person over there is wearing a hat
[Kyle in the background] that’s a deer
I like to think he'd relent eventually when Kyle tells him he has a thing for sexy librarians. (I definitely don't have feelings about the recent discovery my eyesight is awful and that I'll be wearing glasses. No projecting here.)
Bobby and Warren with the big questions
'I wonder what it's like kissing someone who's bald?'
Ask Magneto
*Steps on soapbox with loudspeaker* AHEM!
I think Moondragon is the single most attractive entity in comics. Even the unhinged origin story where she's beefing with her pet computer and goes by MADAM MCEVIL (and making Iron Man and Namor kill each other for kicks.) Especially then, actually.
just a friendly reminder that although "read comic online dot li" has died, its weekly equivalent "read comics online dot ru" is alive and well, it just has a new captcha system.
if you're using an aggregator app like Tachiyomi to read it, it's probably not managing to get through the new captcha. A lot of adblockers in browsers also get stuck in it at first, but literally all you have to do is to refresh the page and it works.
If you read comics on your phone, do so in Firefox with ublock origin on, or Brave Browser or whatever you want. Just do it with an adblock in a browser and you should be good to go. Again, it's "read comics online dot ru". Comics plural. It updates weekly and is the main aggregator website for getcomics dot org.
I'm just getting a lot of people who used to use .li exclusively, and like, .ru has always been better for weeklies, the real loss of .li is the amazing back catalogue. For that, batcave dot biz is still good.
But real talk gang, if you really wanna do a back catalogue, you might want to start torrenting. DC and Marvel now both have digital apps that, while not up to pair with weekly comics, likely mean they will go after websites like these more often. The DC Infinite app is relatively cheap, though. Only pay for it if it's actually as convenient as piracy, however, and definitely stock on older comics that aren't available through the app, cuz that's about to not be available fucking anywhere.
I truly second this. Mostly reiterating here but it's important to me and I don't want anyone else to make my mistakes.
The OG RCO felt like home - I had saved reading lists and favourites and whatnot. One day it wasn't accessible for people who weren't logged in, but that didn't apply to me so I changed nothing. Then it was actually gone and I realised my error - there's older media I don't know how to access anymore, if it even exists.
There's always going to be sites (Batcave dot biz is what I'm using mostly) but piracy is not *just* about access. It is, and has always been, a matter of media preservation. An archive. New sites for reading the new releases will almost certainly come and go, but older comics (and media in general) get lost forever.
So yeah, I download/torrent everything now. Everything I might read, interesting cultural artifacts, whatever. We don't own anything in the predominant subscription economy and access can be revoked, so ownership isn't even ownership unless you have it on your HD/device etc.
Readcomicsonline wasn't just an archive of the big two publishers that had stuff even DC Infinite and Marvel Unlimited don't offer like the current issues, it was an archive of all sorts of smaller and indie comics and if you liked a creator you could find all sorts of other stuff they had done.
And piracy means increased demand which means increased sales! I discovered Power Fantasy through readcomicsonline and bought all the graphic novels. I bought Absolute Martian Manhunter because I was able to pirate it when I don't normally read much DC. The Nice House By The Lake/Sea are on my list of stuff to buy because I was able to read them online and want physical copies.
What they said. I also strongly recommend The Power Fantasy as it's a baannngerrrrrrr
The Phoenix/Phoenix Force sucks
If you're not familiar with Marvel/X-Men's The Phoenix catching you up on the full context is not really possible. I'll summarise the salient bits, but I definitely recommend checking out The Phoenix and Dark Phoenix sagas in Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. The big dumb Firebird has appeared earlier in the timeline for better or worse, but that's the definitive phoenix story (and very entertaining.)
An abridged Publication History of the Phoenix
- The Phoenix is introduced as a cosmic abstraction, a vital entity that is part of the universe. Jean Grey is sacrificing herself to save the rest of the X-Men and this happens.
And this.
It's wild shit, totally iconic and mostly internally coherent, though it doesn't end well. Jean as the Phoenix eats a star and destroys a planet of broccoli people. A very effective use of girl power. A lot happens and she ends up sacrificing herself again. It was established that Jean is The Phoenix, now and forever.
- Rachel Grey, Jean and Scott's daughter from an alternate timeline shows up and is a phoenix host for years without any genocides or whatnot. There's angst, but it's just a part of her. Rachel was a bit of a Jean expy at times but it still made sense and was exciting. She's Jean's daughter so it doesn't take too much handwaving to accept her as a 'host.' (She still is btw, no idea how this works but I like her.)
- Over the next few decades the Phoenix showed up an awful lot. Avengers Vs X-Men is probably the most well known instance. The bird is a lot less picky about hosts now. Hope Summers is the intended host (another Jean expy at times,) but due to Tony Stark's arrogance the phoenix ends up in five other people - Namor, Emma Frost, Scott Summers, Magik and Colossus. It makes very little sense tbh, but after much needless conflict it ends up in Hope and she uses it for some cosmic magnificence.
- Over the next few decades it's all over the place. The Stepford Cuckoos, Quentin Quire, tean Jean, this Shi'Ar dude with a big sword, a prehistoric woman called Firehair, this utter dipshit called Faithful John, and others. It's become a problem of the week, deus ex machina, and worst of all - the stories are not very good. The lore of the phoenix is nonsensical at this point but Marvel was not showing any restraint. Personally, I'd groan whenever it appeared because it meant repetitive plot points and further muddying of how the thing works.
- The Avengers got hold of it and the less said about it the better. It's the mid 2010s and this supposedly unknowable universal abstraction, a god of sorts, has become frankly silly (derogatory.) The wonder has been strangled through overuse and conflicting lore. I'm actually understating it a bit - if you don't believe me check out the wiki for The Phoenix. This cosmic abstraction, one of the most iconic X-Men concepts/moments/arcs had become cringe and boring through overuse and lack of imagination.
- In 2019 Jonathan Hickman's House of X dropped and it was a great time to be an X-Men fan - the Krakoan age. A decade plus of deeply average stories and nostalgia bait were in the past and the status quo had changed in wonderful ways. The Phoenix received a mention on a data page, but it was in a list of powerful entities to give context to a new and interesting concept. At the time it wasn't necessarily foreshadowing.
- In 2023 Marvel was (unwisely IMO) speed running an end to Krakoa and the aforementioned concept emerged as the endgame threat. The Phoenix found its way into the story in an organic fashion and the X-Men put all their hopes in The Phoenix to defeat the threat. Kieron Gillen, under difficult circumstances and with less time than promised, actually did it! He used the Phoenix in a quality story with appropriate gravitas and wonder - and he cleaned up the lore so it made sense again. That run (and era) ended in a better place than most of us imagined it could. It didn't surprise me because Gillen is the best writer in comics today IMO, but we got lucky. He left it on a high note but Kieron Gillen is not at Marvel anymore and Tom Brevoort is in charge of X Books. I'll come back to this polycule erasing bozo.
Phoenix (2024) picks up where he left Jean and The Phoenix (and some infinity comics but let's ignore those for now) - both lore and characterisation-wise. It's explicitly solicited as a cosmic run and the first issue has delivered on that. It's not hard to imagine an ending with The Phoenix seeing itself out of the story in an entertaining way with clean lore and sense of wonder intact. Hopefully without killing Jean again 😅.
Ideally, Marvel will have the good sense to leave it alone for a few years at least. The books are already milking nostalgia and historically X-Men keep returning to the Phoenix, Apocalypse, and some new hate group/the US government deciding genocide is on the menu again. Apocalypse has had character growth (and if they ever undo that I'm doing violence) and moved on & we've just had an attempted genocide plus past victims resurrected - so I'll be generous and say they're off the table. The X line has all new writers and seems to be looking to synergise with '97 and the MCU while claiming they're going for fresh and exciting.
We might get lucky again. X-Men 97 is way past the OG Phoenix stuff and so far has avoided using bottom of the barrel storylines from that time. The 2000s contains danger, but most instances don't fit the 'greatest hits' style they've used so far. An exception to that could be Avengers vs X-Men, but I think they'd save that for a summer blockbuster if anything. I suspect a lot of people would get hype about a movie called AVX, especially if they never read the comic. The MCU hasn't been shy about reconceptualizing events for movies, like Civil War, for instance. The essence of the premise was there but the film made a lot more sense. There's plenty of other reasons (better ones even, ones that don't feel OOC and forced) for the X-Men and avengers to fight, and they'd have to set it up with Disassembled (kinda already happened, not Wanda's fault,) House of M (please no) and then all the Hope Summers/Messiah events. The Fox Movies already did the Phoenix, too, bad as it was. I don't think they'll go that way.
Secret Wars has a phoenix egg in the comics, but it's not important and it's barely an X-Men story. I don't see The Phoenix menacing our screens anytime soon, thankfully. What I fear most is editorial playing it safe and/or nostalgic (which is why Tom Brevoort concerns me - check out his Spider-Man manifesto and you'll see what I mean) and a writer returning to the well when pitching story ideas. Everyone is confident at the start of a new era bc it takes a while to internalise that Marvel repackages and reskins the same 25 tropes while deliberately presenting the 'Illusion of change.' Once the initial ideas dry up and it's crunch time it's natural to look to the past for ideas and characters to reuse. Maybe sales dip a little, or the comics are in a holding pattern waiting for the MCU to do something. Whatever the cause, it will get pitched again and Brevoort will likely say yes. I don't want to be unfair to the guy, but he's been failing upwards for years.
After all, it's happened so many times already. Metatextually, The Phoenix is a symbol of rebirth. That would be a good thing. It can be easy to mistake repetition for rebirth, but it's the avatar of life and creativity. In universe one of its roles is to destroy stagnant ideas or species. Anything that's static and has stopped evolving. Ironically it's been used in some of the worst instances of creative stagnation in Marvel comics. The Phoenix, recent goodness aside, sucks.
I genuinely hope I'm an old 'man' shaking my fist at a cloud while telling Tom Brevoort to get off my lawn. I love being wrong. Nothing would make me happier than Spider-Man or Magneto hosting the Phoenix being an Impossibility. I know I'm not the target demographic but I don't just hope these things for myself. We all deserve good stories, new ideas, the joy of being vulnerable enough to get invested in escapist media. The Mouse, like all capitalists, does not give a fuck about those things though unfortunately. They care about profit. Eh, there's always Fan Fiction. If it does happen I'll commit to a million words. 💜
Don't even think about it.
Ha! What a fool I am. So bold in my speculation and specific with my concerns. What grand and intoxicating innocence!
OBVIOUSLY, Marvel had a creative and fresh idea up their sleeves. One writhing from such depths in the smouldering fires of imagination that my moronic peasant brain could never even conceive of it! Drumroll please 🥁🪇🥁🪇🥁🪇
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is pretty funny because like you and your mates plot to merk this jerkoff aristocrat and end up getting blamed for starting WW1.
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Friendly FUCKING reminder that the RIHANNSU Star Empire was going to enter the Dominion War earlier and that they could've won it ALL on their own. The Federation literally CAUSED THE WAR by invading the Gamma Quadrant by "exploring" through the wormhole into Dominion territory so ofc theyd try to keep them out of it. They literally killed Vreenak for trying to expose that the Federation wanted to keep the Rihannsu from joining the war
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Ugh, who put this fucking Warbirdie on my dash?
Warbirdies posting about how the Unificationists are Section 31 plants; how the dissidents are grossly exaggerating the crimes of the Tal'Shiar; how the mounting evidence that the Romulan sun is about to go supernova is a Federation hoax
"Reman culture was actually structurally reactionary before their planet became a protectorate of the Star Empire"
"The Starfleet Intelligence-sponsored colour revolution on Kevratas"
just a friendly reminder that although "read comic online dot li" has died, its weekly equivalent "read comics online dot ru" is alive and well, it just has a new captcha system.
if you're using an aggregator app like Tachiyomi to read it, it's probably not managing to get through the new captcha. A lot of adblockers in browsers also get stuck in it at first, but literally all you have to do is to refresh the page and it works.
If you read comics on your phone, do so in Firefox with ublock origin on, or Brave Browser or whatever you want. Just do it with an adblock in a browser and you should be good to go. Again, it's "read comics online dot ru". Comics plural. It updates weekly and is the main aggregator website for getcomics dot org.
I'm just getting a lot of people who used to use .li exclusively, and like, .ru has always been better for weeklies, the real loss of .li is the amazing back catalogue. For that, batcave dot biz is still good.
But real talk gang, if you really wanna do a back catalogue, you might want to start torrenting. DC and Marvel now both have digital apps that, while not up to pair with weekly comics, likely mean they will go after websites like these more often. The DC Infinite app is relatively cheap, though. Only pay for it if it's actually as convenient as piracy, however, and definitely stock on older comics that aren't available through the app, cuz that's about to not be available fucking anywhere.
I truly second this. Mostly reiterating here but it's important to me and I don't want anyone else to make my mistakes.
The OG RCO felt like home - I had saved reading lists and favourites and whatnot. One day it wasn't accessible for people who weren't logged in, but that didn't apply to me so I changed nothing. Then it was actually gone and I realised my error - there's older media I don't know how to access anymore, if it even exists.
There's always going to be sites (Batcave dot biz is what I'm using mostly) but piracy is not *just* about access. It is, and has always been, a matter of media preservation. An archive. New sites for reading the new releases will almost certainly come and go, but older comics (and media in general) get lost forever.
So yeah, I download/torrent everything now. Everything I might read, interesting cultural artifacts, whatever. We don't own anything in the predominant subscription economy and access can be revoked, so ownership isn't even ownership unless you have it on your HD/device etc.
Angel & Ben Grimm vs Toad?
Warren Worthington III is out for a night of dancing (cocaine and debauchery) with Candy Southern when they run into half the Fantastic Four. Ben feels utterly ridiculous doing his John Travolta impression on the D Floor, so as Candy and Johnny boogie Warren takes him for a drink and offers to listen.
Yeah unfortunately their drinks get spiked and they wake up in a castle full of death traps. The mini Magneto robots throw the pair off and their best guess is that DOOM is behind it. They battle their way to the throne room and come face to face with ... Toad AKA The Terrible Toad King. Let's just ignore the implications of the creepy ass Wanda robot, because Toad has a fucking castle in New York (maybe it IS DOOM's.)
I loved this issue from the moment I saw the splash page
I mean, Warren all tangled up in metal tentacles wasn't exactly something to complain about either if you were little icon-uk (I was pre capitals back then).
Sadly, later on Doom did indeed reclaim his castle, booting out Toad who went on to found and lead a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants over in X-Force in the 90's.
Yeah likewise! It's a wonderful sight and sign that the issue is going to be fun and full of heart. I, too enjoy Warren in various states of peril - he's a fave for Marvel to beat, tie up, crucify etc - often while shirtless.
Hmm, I hadn't quite put together that this was definitely DOOM's castle in upstate New York (which never gets old and is so DOOM.) Logically it follows that DOOM was the financier then, because why would Arcade be renovating DOOM's castle? Unless it takes place around the time of Storm's first Dinner with DOOM (I think she's up to 3 now) issue of Uncanny, where Arcade had free run of the place for his ridiculous schemes? Warren wasn't there for that, so no continuity issues. As a scheme it's a bit low rent for DOOM, though he has an astonishing history of creating and enabling supervillains so I assume he delegated to Arcade in a totally hands off manner to destabilise the US and mildly inconvenience the heroes. That sounds like DOOM.
It must have been after, or we would have noticed the amusement park lol. Arcade being the threat to Toad's life is even sadder, though the idea of Warren giving the dude a blank check on Toad's behalf is hilarious. Do you know if DOOM evicting Toad is on-page by any chance? The poor guy being treated like shit is a pretty consistent throughline for the X-Comics. Nobody respects the guy even when he's trying to get his shit together. Schism Wolverine just saying no to coming to the school in any fashion sucks, but it's worse when he relents at 'unpaid janitor.' I'd betray him to Hellfire too.
... I think I stan Toad! How exciting.
Angel & Ben Grimm vs Toad?
Warren Worthington III is out for a night of dancing (cocaine and debauchery) with Candy Southern when they run into half the Fantastic Four. Ben feels utterly ridiculous doing his John Travolta impression on the D Floor, so as Candy and Johnny boogie Warren takes him for a drink and offers to listen.
Yeah unfortunately their drinks get spiked and they wake up in a castle full of death traps. The mini Magneto robots throw the pair off and their best guess is that DOOM is behind it. They battle their way to the throne room and come face to face with ... Toad AKA The Terrible Toad King. Let's just ignore the implications of the creepy ass Wanda robot, because Toad has a fucking castle in New York (maybe it IS DOOM's.)
Headmaster Magneto and The New Mutants
So cute
Thinking about these people. Something I don't think about as much as I should is how this came to be. At this point Magneto did NOT have any experience as a teacher, like at all. His resume was basically 'Nazi Hunter,' 'Supervillain terrorist,' 'private mad scientist,' and a whole bunch of blank time. He was on trial for crimes against humanity the day he got the job, lol. Most of his heinous shit was struck from the record because he was turned into a baby (twice!) and well, he wasn't quite acquitted for his Volcano machine scheme/destroying a submarine and a city, but actually having a trial was pretty much impossible. The judges were like 'okay just get out of here please and thanks for saving us from Nazis.'
The trial came about because Mags was like 'this Supervillain shit isn't getting me very far. SOME humans are okay, I guess. Lee Forrester in particular (after he fell naked from space into her boat.)' Of course his loser husband came to the trial for support, though he was in pretty bad shape. He thought he was dying and probably would have if his bird wife didn't whisk him away to space. Xavier didn't talk to anyone about this, of course, and just before he passed out he begged Mags to continue his work. Not exactly something he could say no to. Mags thinks 'curse you Charles Xavier' or similar really often and frankly I really sympathise. He didn't really have time to be like 'woah let's slow down here. I only gave up terrorism yesterday man, I was thinking I'd ease into being a good guy.'
Xavier could have put Scott in charge (though he'd probably say no) or Ororo or literally anyone with experience or a positive relationship with the students. Nope. Magneto. I'm not sure he was considering the students all that much tbh; my read is that he did it for Mags' benefit, thinking stepping into his shoes would keep him on the straight and narrow. The Dream ™️ was almost certainly on his mind too, of course.
Magneto follows through though - stumbling without any records or documentation, no fixed syllabus except for Danger Room scenarios, and no proof that he's actually meant to be there. Dude just rocks up in a suit being like 'Good morning students, Chuck asked me to do this job' and everyone is like 'bro, you're Magneto. Get the fuck out of here.' It wouldn't surprise me if Xavier didn't give him the keys and he had to break in.
Overall he did a pretty good job with the New Mutants, lasting several years before he talked himself into being a supervillain again. He served metric tonnes of cunt the entire time, of course. But yeah, don't hang out with Xavier - he might give you a job. Not sure if he actually got paid.
Writers' right to handwave and hilariously turbulent character history* aside, I assume a lot of this happened because the people writing it were not teachers and had only a vague and distant memory of what a syllabus even was, much less anything regarding the importance thereof.
*all the love to the OP for this funny and informative summary of Erik Magnus Max Lehnsherr Eisehnhardt WTF Esq's personal and professional history up to this point for us un or semi-informed
Good points and an interesting perspective! I'm inclined to agree. A thing Marvel does a lot with the smart/genius characters is to give them a *ridiculous* amount of PHDs (and the odd Nobel Prize.) Xavier has 4 that I can think of, one of which was a dual PHD. Reed Richards had 5 five at one point; it may be much more by now. Hank McCoy has 3 and a Nobel Prize, Hank Pym 3 as well (AFAIK.) These figures are from my notoriously poor memory and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm missing something.
My point though, is that something all those characters have in common is a history of teaching without any education or qualification to do so. It's just that easy, apparently ;). Then again, Wolverine has taught multiple classes in his time, generally involving shouting and violence. The Xavier school does have some kind of certification going back to the sixties, with the 05 receiving diplomas and then (mostly) moving to college. It's had a wide variety of students of all ages throughout the years and has been subject to inspection from some kind of educational board/governing body.
So either Xavier actually did the work and got himself and his staff educated etc, ORR .... he did a psychic whammy. My money's on the latter :)
