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Magik attempts (and fails) to reconstruct her scrying glass in order to locate Lila Cheney, after it was destroyed during her battle with Forge. At this point, if I didn’t know Inferno was right around the corner, I’d be like, god damn it, is any of this Limbo shit ever going to get resolved? Trouble with the inter-dimensional hell realm has been brewing for years, and it’s been such a slow burn watching Illyana lose control of the place. Also, can anyone read what the fuck the title of this comic book is supposed to be? “IGGUSONI”? “iGGUSiON!”? “¡GUSSiON!”? I seriously can’t tell what that’s supposed to say.

UPDATE: Ok, as I’m editing this post before I move it from my drafts too my queue, I realize the title of this story is actually “Illusion”. I’m not going to make any excuses for myself, since I’m considerably less drunk now than when I first wrote this post, but seriously that’s a difficult font to read. (New Mutants #68 – Oct 1988)

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These New Mutants and their raging hormones. Here Rahne acts like she walks in on her parents having bent-over-the-sink sex in the kitchen. She doesn’t even like Sunspot, what’s the big deal! And then BLEH look at the way Sunspot is gorgefully stuffing grapes into Gosamyr’s mouth like a string of anal beads.

Gag me! (New Mutants #68 – Oct 1988)

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Trying to summarize some of these New Mutants storylines makes me feel like a mediating grade school principal sometimes. So this Gosamyr chick has the ability to intensify the emotions of the people around her, and she gets Sam and Roberto to fall in love with her, and then she steals Dani’s ability to manifest peoples’ innermost desires and uses it on Rahne who conjures up a really regrettable version of Sam in a prince charming outfit, and then everyone completely loses their shit and almost tears each other’s faces off. Good gravy kids, can we take five minutes here to pull our shit together? Everyone seems a little bit on edge. (New Mutants #68 – Oct 1988)

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This story arc is another Lila Cheney joint, where aliens are trying to kidnap her again because, as Sam’s girlfriend, chick’s got some intergalactic baggage. At this point, an alien overlord named Spyder has kidnapped Lila, and the New Mutants have joined forces with this Gosamyr lady to rescue her, but here we start to see that Gosamyr may very well have nefarious motives as well. For the most part, it’s not a very interesting tale, and I’m just turning pages here in order to get to the Inferno crossover. (New Mutants #68 – Oct 1988)

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There sure is a lot of dress-up that goes on in these New Mutants comics. Here we see Rahne go on another dress fantasy and this time she looks like an inflatable wedding corsage that’s about to pop. (New Mutants #68 – Oct 1988)

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I’ll tell you what, this is a bitchen fight between Illyana and Forge, with great artwork and writing. You know, for the most part, having to read all these issues of New Mutants and X-Factor in between Uncanny X-Men is mostly a drag, especially since Claremont stopped writing New Mutants. Like, I’m collecting all these hardcover collections so I can have the whole series on my bookshelf, and the only way to get the good stuff in Uncanny is to purchase it bound together with all this filler. And for me, because I fucking love all this stuff, that’s fine. But honestly, I can’t recommend these same collections to anyone else because a lot of what happens in X-Factor and these later issues of the New Mutants is not good enough to warrant the time spent reading them. But every once in a while, like right here, some awesome shit goes down that I would not want to miss. (New Mutants #68 – Oct 1988)