#solem

[magutts]

Ride or Die!

[rei-ismyname]

X-Men Krakoan Pride Month Highlights 🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride Month, folks!

Let's ignore the tension between rainbow capitalism and 'no Avengers at pride' to enjoy some of my favourite moments of Marvel deciding exactly how much queerness is profitable and not a tiny bit more! It's always a good sign when they remix decades-old coming out panels, except twinkified by 250%! Seriously though, I love the characters and by making a collage of pirated content I'm asserting queer fan ownership of (and participation in) trillion dollar IP. Praχis! BGDC

Age difference? What age difference? (~80 and<18.) Pseudo manga yassification can make an ancient bisexual reformed mass murderer and gay lizard boy seem like peers. It's not like that plays into harmful propaganda and stereotypes about gay men and bisexuals! Obviously I'm overthinking it 😅

The body positivity and self actualisation is sweet plus if you squint you can see Logan hugging his boyfriend Scott in the background. It's literally the closest physical contact the two have ever been depicted displaying. Lunar polycule content is pretty rare, so please - think queer thoughts with me in defiance of Tom Brevoort claiming it 'never happened.'

You know Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes? Here's him NOT being a homophobe while blackmailing Irene Adler. The couple he's dehumanising and threatening just happen to be WLW. He does this to cis and straight folks too. Diversity win!

Here's his dumb ass being murdered for it by an immortal sapphic shapeshifter, his lifeless body tossed out a train window. See ya, hater. Love wins!

How did this get here? Oops, that's my bad. Almost as awkward as the year Marvel celebrated allies for Pride, completely ignoring queer characters! Let's just assume they fuck on the last page, hey? Loves summertime/hates summertime - the two genders.

Lest we think queerphobia is exclusively an Earth thing, here's a tale of closeted self loathing on Arakko. I know I feel seen when Solem murders his former lover with a blade that canonically sends you to hell - a place that isn't loaded at all in this context!

I do enjoy the intersectionality of the story and the willingness to show that acceptance isn't a binary. It would be easy to just make Kobak-Never-Held the only voice, proclaiming that a culture of violence doesn't care who you love or fuck. It's also pretty great that noted social Darwinist Apocalypse has a daughter who married a closeted bisexual man. Mass murdering war criminals can be widows to dead queers and homophobic at the same time. It's the duality of the human condition!

Happy ending! Instead of killing each other they have an identity affirming one night stand off-panel. The red planet is woke, you heard it here, but don't worry - Solem the ravenous, insatiable bisexual will be back to stalking Logan before you know it! In a digital only comic of course Negative, or exaggerated stereotype representation is important too! 🏳️‍🌈

That Storm impression is pretty funny. Does that mean the animated X-Men series exists in universe? Comics released before 2002 do, but I'm not sure what the deal is these days. I'm not sure what Ororo's problem with Bobby's jokes is - they're better than usual and he seems pretty happy. 'Guncle' - I hadn't heard that one before but it's pretty intuitive. Yeah okay, I get what Ororo's getting at. Bobby's basically just saying 'I'm gay' repeatedly in different ways. Applies to most of his publication history tbh. Closeted young people who cope with humour rejoice - you can still do that when/if you come out and your friends will still treat you with the same mild annoyance as ever!

I don't think Bobby will ever recover from that one. Pretty bold to be so plain about Ororo as a queer icon without saying why. The comics code no longer forces innuendo and insinuation. I'm a little surprised Al Ewing didn't go beyond coding when he had the opportunity. Maybe he wasn't allowed, idk, MCU properties have different rules. At least he undid Axel Alonso's 'Hercules is straight' bullshit.

Lastly, confirmation that Destiny knew the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants would fail at everything but the commitment to 'be gay, do crime' was too powerful. Doesn't really explain working for the government as mutant catchers but I guess arresting Magneto for trial of Crimes against Humanity was a win for everyone. Hmm, it even led to Chuck bouncing to space for a few years. Thanks for your service, ancient lesbians!

[why-i-love-comics]

Deadpool #13 (2025)

written by Cody Ziglar art by Roge Antonio & Guru-eFX

[monsieuroverlord]

April 2025 Solicits are UP!

source here

Storm #7

Written by Murewa Ayodele, art by Luciano Vecchio, main cover by Mateus Manhanini

"• Fifty years ago, ORORO MUNROE – the iconic STORM – made her debut in GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 – thundering her way into our hearts!

• On this day, in her very own solo series, she will host a mix of debuts, reinventions and guest appearances of FIVE legendary thunder gods: THOR, CHAAC, SANGO, MAMARAGAN and SUSANOO!

• But first, a mission to BRAZIL goes horribly wrong. How much more can our hero endure?"

Hellverine #5

Written by Bejamin Percy, art by Raffaele Ienco, main cover by Kendrick "kunkka" Lim

Variant by Sumit Kumar, and variant by David Yardin to be revealed

"MEPHISTO VS. HELLVERINE!

MEPHISTO created the Demon BAGRA-GHUL for his entertainment – and now the demonic lord is not amused by DAKEN turning HELLVERINE against Hell! It’s time for Hellverine to pay…and this devil isn’t making any deals!"

Psylocke #6

written by Alyssa Wong, art by Vincenzo Carratù, main cover by Mahmud Asrar

"• Psylocke is one of the X-Men’s most dangerous and skillful telepaths.

• So why is her own mind the one thing she can’t seem to control?

• Kwannon has begun to accept her past, but are some things better left buried?"

Laura Kinney: Wolverine #5

written by Erica Schultz, art by Giada Belviso, main cover by Elena Casagrande

"HYDRA ATTACK!

• A deranged HYDRA scientist has unleashed his deadly robots, but LAURA KINNEY, THE WOLVERINE, and BUCKY BARNES, THE REVOLUTION, fight metal with metal as the claws, cybernetics and tentacles fly!

• Our heroes have traveled a great distance to stop this threat, but will everyone make it out of this road trip alive?"

Spirits of Violence #2 (of 5)

(turns out it's a mini series, not a oneshot like I thought!!!)

written by Sabir Pirzada, art by Paul Davidson, main cover by Kendrick "kunkka" Lim

"Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch have learned of the existence of a new and dangerous Spirit! An entity called THE SPIRIT OF VIOLENCE – but as the entity targets the Ghost Riders and those closest to them, will anyone be able to stand in its path? AND WILL THEY SURVIVE?!"

Deadpool #13

written by Cody Ziglar, art by Rogê Antônio, main cover by Taurin Clarke

"THE ROAD TO REVENGE!

• DEATH GRIP killed DEADPOOL – and now that he’s better, WADE is out to return the favor! Armed with a DEADLY NEW WEAPON, his first stop is SOLEM, the mutant who armed Mr. Grip with the MURAMASA BLADE that did him in. Karma time!

• PLUS: A short but crucial guest appearance from WOLVERINE!"

[studyofx]

"The reason I was on board the Marauder..is the same reason I lost my nose. Solem #%&@#% me! And if you're caught up in this...that means he's probably #%&@#% you too, even if you don't know how yet." - Sevyr Blackmoore - Wolverine (2020) #14 by Ben Percy.

[comicwaren]

“Maybe it's my gaping chest wound talking, but if we weren't tryna kill each other, you'd kinda be my type.” – Deadpool

Cover art for Deadpool Vol. 10 #013

Art by Taurin Clarke

[lazari-1313]

Gift ❤️

I loved drawing this beautiful girl 💘

[enteerx03]

I just want to see them together again.