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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 1m

273 - X-Factor (vol. 3) #49 - 9/30/2009 Remember Shatterstar's teleportation powers? Well, this is the first time he used them Cover by David Yardin. Interiors by Peter David & Valentine De Landro #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactorV3 #StrongGuy #Siryn #Madrox #Rictor #Monet #Darwin #LaylaMiller

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 11m

In a week rife with interesting X-Men stuff, my pick is Uncanny X-Men #36, the end of the "Wild Ride" story as well as me and @adamreck.bsky.social's coverage of the book (review forthcoming)!

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 2h

Thoughts on Marvel's December 2026 solicitations! Not sure how I feel about all the Midnight covers apparently always having the "mostly back, one column of comic art" design. It's striking, but also limiting?

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 3h

The view outside my window (it's very muggy right now, but also, not warm enough to have the AC on. Feel like that log is gonna have a child any moment now).

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 17h

Believe it or not, but I only saw It’s A Wonderful Life for the first time two years ago - and I loved it. So while I’ll buy just about anything @emilystjams.bsky.social writes anyway, this was a must have.

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23h

Out of the Patreon Vault: X-amining X-Men 2099 #7, In which the X-Men of the future get chummy with the group who just permanently disfigured their teammate by partially melting him. www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2019/02/x-am...

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X-amining X-Men 2099 #7

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23h

Did you know: that thing in comics where the same figure is drawn repeatedly with slight changes to create the impression of movement across a page is called the De Luca Effect. What are some of your favorite examples of it? comicsgrinder.com/2025/01/26/t...

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23h

272 - X-Men (vol. 2) #162 - 9/29/2004 Did this issue featuring Exodus' weird Brotherhood feature in my upcoming Back Issue Juggernaut article? You bet it did! Cover by Salvador Larroca. Interiors by Chuck Austen & Larroca #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenV2 #Sabretooth

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stan Lee with some thoughts on Cable's guns. www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2026/09/x-am...

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dinner tonight: Penne, peas & pancetta. The cherry tomato harvest will continue until morale improves. #DinnerTonight

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TP3 - Beast & Jubilee That sure is a way to depict Jubilee's power! Also..."teenage tornado"? Scans via Trading Card DB #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #XMenTeamPortrait

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is the FOC deadline for Back Issue #172 from the good people at TwoMorrows - if you want to *guarantee* a copy, featuring an article on Juggernaut by yours truly, do it now!

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Runners-up from last week's pool of X-Factor 40 covers! Featuring art from Steve Rude, David Yardin, Art Adams & Kaare Andrews. Which one is your favorite? #XMenADay #XFactor40 #XMen #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Madrox #Wolfsbane #Warlock #DougRamsey #Longshot

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah, it's that special time of year, a few days before October, when all your favorite freelancers and content creators are scrambling to finish up their Halloween content plans.

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Strange New Worlds S4 Catchup: Orders of Magnitude Top notch stuff in the A-plot & good Uhura showcase in the B-plot. I didn't love the final revelation (as well setup as it was); wish Kirk had more purely "Did you order the code red?"-ed Reeger. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

271 - X-Factor #116 - 9/28/1995 In which some off-panel Alpha Flight happenings are revealed & Shard (the holographic manifestation of Bishop's dead sister) begins her run in the book Cover by Steve Epting. Interiors by Howard Mackie & Epting #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Aurora #WildChild

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My premium variant Hogh Voltage reward. Meh. #MarvelSnap

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TP2 - Psylocke & Cyclops My Christmas gift wax box only netted me three of this insert set; this is one of them channeling a bit of that early 90s Psylocke/Cyclops flirtation subplot. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #XMenTeamPortrait

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My High Voltage non-premium reward. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen it before, which is something. #MarvelSnap

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

270 - X-Factor #35 - 9/27/1988 Walt Simonson is a first ballot "depictions of energy effects" Hall of Famer. Cover by Walt Simonson. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Simonson. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TP1 - Storm The second insert subset is a 9 card "team portrait" in which one large image is split into ninths. They are all painted by the Hildebrandt Brothers, and like the Fatal Attractions cards, they are holofoil enhanced. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #XMenTeamPortrait

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My top 12 (cuz that’s the visual cutoff 🤷) new-to-me films of the first half of the year (defined as “through the end of August; I’ve already seen a couple more that shake up this top 12).

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

269 - X-Factor #48 - 9/26/1989 I carry a lot of water for "Judgement War," but the way it sidelines Jean for most of the story is one of its big problems. Cover by Paul Smith. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Smith #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #JeanGrey

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Strange New Worlds S4 Catchup: Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass I like a lot of these gimmick episodes plenty ("Space madness" 🤣), but I really hate the "one serious, one goofy" alternating pattern. That ending killed me though. Mount ftw. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FA6- Exit: Wolverine! I appreciate this subset's dedication to punctuation in its titles. I never pull FA3, but did end up with three copies of this. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Continuing my (slow) catchup on the X-Books, it's the tale of two Gambits, one of which is fine and one of which is very, very bad. comicon.com?p=649035

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Strange New Worlds S4 Catchup: After Hours Gets a little excessively techno-babbly at the end (& M'Benga's injury is perhaps TOO extreme), but nevertheless a solid classic "smart people working together to solve problems" episode. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Havok is another one of those characters who hung onto their inverted state long after "AXIS" ending. Learn more about Entropic Havok and the story behind the season in the latest Snap into Marvel! #MarvelSnap marvelsnap.com/new-season-a...

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

268 - X-Factor #60 - 9/25/1990 X-Tinction Agenda comes to X-Factor! As a kid, I really disliked Bogdanove's art, but it's grown on me as I've gotten older. Cover by Jon Bogdanove. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Bogdanove #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops #Havok

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

FA5- Magneto Defeated! AKA Onslaught's conception. All else aside, this is definitely one of the iconic images to come out of this story. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That feeling when your lunchtime microwave burrito falls apart coming out of the “crispier sleeve” 😢 #LunchFail

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

267 - Quicksilver #1 - 9/24/1997 "Hey, we've got a couple months before the rest of the Avengers come back from Image, let's give Quicksilver a series!" Cover by Casey Jones. Interiors by Tom Peyer, Rob Haynes & Jones #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #Quicksilver

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My four favorite "X-Factor 40" covers from August! Which one is your favorite? Art by John Romita Jr., Art Adams, Larry Stroman and Steve Lightle. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXmen #XMenBlue #XFactor #ClassicXMen

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My staff pick this week is Wolverine Epic Collection vol. 5: Valley of Death, which collects the end of the Silvestri run, all of the too-short Texeira run AND Hearts of Darkness!

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FA4 - Wolverine Crippled! Despite having assembled a complete set (& some change) via the wax box of these cards I received for Christmas ages ago, this is the one Fatal Attractions insert I didn't pull. Scans via Trading Card DB #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

266 - Daredevil #238 - 9/23/1986 Mutant Massacre comes to Daredevil, as Claremont taps his X-Men editor to join in on the crossover fun. Cover by Art Adams. Interiors by Ann Nocenti & Sal Buscema. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #Daredevil #Sabretooth

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Couple recent variant pulls, from the Team Clash shop. #MarvelSnap

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FA3 - An X-Man No More! The way Magneto is positioned seems to imply this is after he had his mind wiped (at which point Colossus began to care for him), but that comes on a later card. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dinner tonight: Sheet pan gnocchi, broccoli and Italian sausage (plus cherry tomatoes cuz the garden continues to churn them out so they go in everything now).

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

265 - X-Factor #24 - 9/22/1987 The debut of Archangel! Assembling my X-Factor run in the early 90s, I paid the most for this issue. Cover by Walt Simonson. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Simonson. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Angel #Beast #Iceman

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FA2 - Cable Destroyed! Hilariously, two of the seven installments of "Fatal Attractions" aren't referenced in this subset, in part because X-Men #25 gets two moments (sorry, X-Factor #92 and Excalibur #71!). #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

264 - X-Men (vol. 2) #25 - 9/21/1993 Granted, not the most X-Factor-y of issues, but it does features two members on the cover, one of whom gets the hologram. Cover by Andy Kubert. Interiors by Fabian Nicieza & Kubert. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenV2 #Quicksilver #Gambit

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am very excited to make my debut in Back Issue magazine - a magazine I've read and referenced for years - with an article in Back Issue #172 on the Juggernaut! On sale January 13 2027 & available to preorder now wherever you get your comics! twomorrows.com/index.php?ma...

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

263 - Uncanny X-Men #240 - 9/20/1988 I wish Polaris and Sabretooth's tenure in the Marauders together came up more when they were on X-Factor together. Cover by Marc Silvestri. Interiors by Chris Claremont & Silvestri. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #UncannyXmen #Polaris #Sabretooth

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FA1 - Behold Avalon! This set goes all-in on inserts, with 4 different chase subsets of original cards, most with some kind of holographic foil embellishments. First up, a set commemorating the '93 crossover, Fatal Attractions. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #FatalAttractions

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Austin Gorton @austingorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is insane. Especially just weeks before NYCC which is, you know, a ReedPop production. Just another unneeded reminder of how VC just chews up and spits out everything it consumes, and another hit to the media landscape.

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