Come on, don't be coy and pedantic. Maybe some of us don't know the original title, but those of us who do are glad it was changed.

If you know more than another poster, use it as an opportunity to enlighten rather than appear supercilious.

I dread the thought of even checking. It will probably turn out that she thought she was Nightcrawler's mom, but that it was actually a false memory implanted in her by Lady Mastermind who wanted her to develop a bond with Kurt who could then be replaced by a resurrected Changeling possessed by the Shadow King, so the evil mutants would have a spy among the X-Men. Mystique thinks the father is the extradimensional Azazel, but he himself is only a figment of Mephisto's imagination given form by his exposition to the reality gem during the Infinity War. (True, said war happened after Kurt's conception, but the time gem caused the effect to happen retroactively). As for Kurt's real mother, it was actually Irène, who had sex with Mystique when the latter shape-shifted into the form of a man. Except that wasn't really Mystique, it was a Skrull infiltrating the mutant community. And the baby wasn't really Kurt after all, because it was revealed to be... ta-daaa... another Mystique, who looks like the one in the movie; that new Mystique grew up in Charles Xavier's house and we just never heard of her before now. Meanwhile, Kurt is shown to be an actual demon, just as in Cockrum's original pitch, and not a mutant at all because mutants are now managed by Fox. The smell of brimstone when he teleports is just the smell of Hell. (That's how Kurt came back to life a few years ago, too; he isn't a normal mortal). 





God, I hope none of that turns out to be true. 

Seeing an ad for another X-Men comic, I find myself thinking...

I fail to comprehend the interest of Psylocke and Bishop. They became boring extremely early in their career; the first when she turned into a ninja, the second upon his third appearance. Why bring them back to the fore yet again?

I fail to see the appeal of bringing back Archangel. He was interesting for, like, a dozen issues in the '80s and that was that. Besides, he was dead. 

I fail to see the interest for Gambit. Made to be kewl in the late '90s, he is so dated it hurts. His unpalatable "origin" doesn't win him any point.

And mostly, I really, really don't get what so many writers see in Mystique. Blechhhhhh!!! As far as characters go, she's in the same league as the Vanisher or the Trapster. 


There. I said it!

Crisis on Infinite Earths #7: Supergirl dies. I think I was maybe 12 when that issue came out and I had no idea that she would really be killed off (only to come back over and over again), but at that time the story packed quite a punch. She died very heroically and from then on as I read Crisis, I was really worried for my favorite heroes. The scene of Superman carrying her body, wrapped in the cape through space, broke my heart.

So next up within Atari Force continuity is the Star Raiders graphic novel, which takes place on the same planet that the team visited in issue #3. As far as I can tell, the story has no impact upon Atari Force continuity though, so I'm going to pass on delaying these reviews in order to hunt down and buy a copy. Everyone cool with my jumping right to Atari Force volume 2 instead?