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236) Avengers Undercover vol.2 (END) by Hopeless/Walker/Walker/Green II and more A perfectly fine end, but it feels like this was supposed to go way longer. Time skip a good tool to crib from manga, at the least. Overall, good run, wish it was followed up on properly.

The cover to Avengers Undercover, as digitally rendered by Francesco Mattina. Death Locket, maybe gonna shoot Captain America?

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

235) Uncanny X-Men vol.3 by Simone/Vecchio/Marquez/Rosenberg/Wilson/Cowles For a very scattershot volume this felt amazing. Bunch of smaller stories that make everything and everyone in them feel richer. The best Uncanny has felt in a long time, you love to see it.

The cover to Uncanny X-Men: Murder Me, Mutina. Mutina versus X-Men.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

234) Avengers Undercover vol.1 by Hopeless/Walker/Green II and more A surprisingly effective follow-up to Arena, developing the cast further and giving them a new way to descend. I wish Zemo didn’t have the armband. But such is post-Thunderbolts Zemo, I guess.

The cover to Avengers Undercover: Descent as drawn by Francesco Mattina. Zemo, surrounded by Anachronism, Death Locket, little boy Bloodstone, and Hazmat.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

233) Uncanny X-Men vol.2 by Simone/Marquez/Bressan/Wilson/Cowles and more This feels like the book and concept in full swing. Everyone has a story going on, the outliers feel like a genuine new mutants-level team, and the actual setting itself has come alive (ha) with the concept of the dark artery

The cover to Uncanny X-Men: The Dark Artery. Wolverine and the outliers fight sentinel dogs.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

232) X-Men Legacy: Avengers vs X-Men by Gage/Sandoval/Baldeon and more A chunky end to Legacy, as Rogue has some tie-in shenanigans that go from kinda attached to wildly unrelated. This whole run suffers for following Carey, but I still like it. Rogue leading books is always good.

The cover to X-Men Legacy as drawn by Mark Brooks. Rogue and a lot of X-Men, a group cover to mark the series ending

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

231) Avengers Arena by Hopeless/Walker/Martin/Vitti/Gage and more I remember disliking the idea of this when it came out, but revisiting it all these years later was a thrill. Teen drama and violent trauma all rolled up into one. Arcade is apparently 29 and not 40+, which is mad shit.

The cover to Avengers Arena. A Battle Royale homage by Dave Johnson

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

230) X-Men: Raid on Graymalkin by MacKay/Simone/Stegman/Marquez and MANY others The crossover itself is just kind of okay, but the whole collection is worth it for Cyclops vs the O*N*E guy at the end. Nail-biting mutually assured destruction stuff.

The cover to Raid on Graymalkin. Rogue punching Cyclops.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

229) Uncanny X-Men by Simone/Marquez/Garrón/Wilson/Cowles I'm an easy mark for any book with Rogue and Gambit leading the way, and this has charm and looks for days, so big thumbs up overall. Sometimes feels like it's making little leaps in logic that I'm not privy to, but it's early days.

The cover to Uncanny X-Men: Red Wave. Jubilee, Rogue, Wolverine, Nightcrawlerc and Gambit do the Pearl Jam hands thing, but downwards

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

228) Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro God damn but this is one of the best comics I've ever read. Beautiful work, very queer, and VERY well told. I am overflowing with emotion. HIGHLY recommended to one and all.

The cover to Motherlover. Imogen and Alex laying in the grass.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The creator of the nuzlocke comics also did the most over the top rescript of Avengers vs X-Men in Muh Phoenix. Mostly awkward nowadays, but it has some moments.

Captain American calls Wolverine a mugga, to Wolverine's weak-willed displeasure

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

227) X-Men vol.1 by MacKay/Stegman/Diaz and many more A decent start to an era that couldn't have more of an uphill battle if it tried. I like the team idea of all being volatile people, feels like the extinction team dialled up to 11. Still, cautious optimism.

The cover to X-Men: Homecoming. Buncha X-Men and a person they are presumably rescuing.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

226) Generation X epic 2 by Lobdell/Grummett/Bachalo and MANY more A great period for my favourite x-teens. You get melodrama, beautiful art from Bachalo and Grummett, and more than a little big of 'changing our minds as we go' plotting typical of the time. Good shit.

The cover to Generation X: Emplate's Revenge. Synch all Emplate'd up

Credits. Uhhhh let's see how it copies across for once:

- GENERATION X
WRITERS:
SCOTT LOBDELL, TODD DEZAGO & MICHAEL GOLDEN WITH JEPH LOEB, STAN LEE, MICHAEL WRIGHT & BILL ROSEMANN
PENCILERS:
TOM GRUMMETT, VAL SEMEIKS, CHRIS BACHALO, PASQUAL FERRY, MITCH BYRD & JEFF JOHNSON WITH ASHLEY WOOD, SHAWN MCMANUS, JEFF MATSUDA, RURIK TYLER & KEVIN LAU
INKERS:

DAN PANOSIAN,

MARK BUCKINGHAM,

AL MILGROM &

JOE PIMENTEL wITH

STEVE LIGHTLE,

SHAWN MCMANUS,

BILL SIENKIEWICZ,

VINCE RUSSELL,

GARY CHALONER,

RURIK TYLER,

MARK PENNINGTON,
JIM FERN,

ANDY LANNING,

MIKE SELLERS,

MARK MORALES,

JOSEF RUBINSTEIN,

AL VEY, SCOTT HANNA,

JASON MARTIN,

KARL STORY s

ANDREW PEPOY
COLORISTS:
DANA MORESHEAD, STEVE BUCCELLATO, ELECTRIC CRAYON, TEAM BUCCE, CHRISTIE SCHEELE, RALPH CABRERA, ED LAZELLARI, MALIBU &
GRAPHIC COLORWORKS
WITH JOHN KALISZ,
GLYNIS OLIVER & CO.
LETTERERS:
RICHARD STARKINGS & COMICRAFT'S
DAVE LANPHEAR & CO.
WITH JON BABCOCK & CHRIS ELIOPOULOS
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
BEN RAAB &
JASON LIEBIG WITH
POLLY WATSON
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
MARK POWERS
EDITORS:
MARK POWERS, BOB HARRAS &
MARK BERNARDO wITH
BOBBIE CHASE
FRONT COVER ARTIST:
JOE MADUREIRA
BACK COVER ARTIST:
CHRIS BACHALO

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

225) Son of Hulk: Dark Son Rising by Jenkins/Guinaldo/Beaulieu/Sharpe An inexplicable coda where side character & bonus son Hiro-Kala has been transformed by trauma into God, doing horrific things to poison Galactus for revenge. It's good enough but feels even further removed from the series' start

The cover to Dark Son Rising. Hiro-Kala on a rock in space.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

224) The Amazing Spider-Man vol.3 by Kelly/JRJR/Nauck/McGuinness and many more This just straight ruled. Norman Osborn as he is now is a deeply interesting character, and his new role gives us lots to chew on. Ben Reilly is also here. JRJR’s art is a delight as always too. Just a big win all around

The cover to The Amazing Spider-Man: Resolute. It’s the new (temporary) Spider-Man!

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

223) Skaar: Son of Hulk vol.2 by Pak/Guice/Lim/Panosian and many others I don’t know if this ran out of time or readers, but it feels like we skipped what could have been years of stories to destroy everything, move to Earth, and get to the big Hulk on Hulk of it all. Odd stuff, kind of a bummer.

The cover to Hulk: Planet Skaar as drawn by Ed McGuinness. A fight between hulks.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

222) The Amazing Spider-Man vol.2 by Kelly/JRJR/Dowling/Nauck and more A good brawl over most of the comic followed by a bit of intrigue that I’ve already had spoiled for me. Things are in a good swing here, I’m excited to see where it goes next.

The cover to Spider-Man vol.2. Hellgate vs Spidey as drawn by JRJR

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

221) Skaar: Son of Hulk by Pak/Garney/Guice/Mounts/Caramagna and SO many others Somehow an even purer pulp fantasy than Planet Hulk was, Skaar is an elemental force destroying so much in his journey, while Hiro-kala's tale is more subtle. These sons of Hulk both captivate here.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

220) The Amazing Spider-Man vol.1 by Kelly/Larraz/Gracia and more Kelly's solo Spidey era starts proper with a decent story about the past and hallucinogens. I hear the run directly before this was cheeks, but this at the least feels true to the character and engaging throughout.

The cover to The Amazing Spider-Man: Get Back Up. Spidey pose on some just-okay trade dress.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

219) Superman vol.7 (END) by Gleason/Tomasi/Mahnke/Godlewski and more Bizarro stories don't do much for me but this was pretty decent. Good end to the run, even if it felt like it ended, went "whoops, one issue left" and ended again. Decent run, leaned a little hard on the American spirit.

Cover to Superman: Bizarroverse. Superman and Superboy lead good Bizarros, Bizarro leads bad Bizarros. Or uh. Seap good and bad. God I hate Bizarro.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

218) Superman vol.6 by Tomasi/Gleason/Mahnke/Robinson/Benes and more A decent Apokolips story that largely exists to push Luthor towards villainy again, something achieved by Superman being a bit of a jerk. Great art throughout though, and a nice Robinson fill-in arc to end it.

The cover to Superman: Imperius Lex. Superman, Lois, Superboy, and Lex in front of Apokolips, countless parademons below.

Art by Ryan Sook

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

217) Superman vol.5 by Bonny/Champagne/Gleason/Tomasi/Kirkham/Godlewski/Mahnke and many more A kind of transitional volume, with lots of fill-in creators. The fill-ins are grand, with some neat Deathstroke and Parallax stuff, but the main story is a little too close to nationalism for my tastes.

The cover to Superman vol.5. Superman, Superboy, house. Lee Weeks and Brad Anderson

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

216) Superman vol.4 by Tomasi/Gleason/Mahnke and many more Decent rebirth-era Supes with some of the best art you could see. Story felt like a mess, but maybe I'm not up on Manchester Black enough.

The cover to Superman: Black Dawn. Slimy slime man attacking Superman and grabbing Superboy.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

215) Avengers Academy complete collection 3 (END) by Gage/Grummett and others The series sort of falters here. The story is fine enough, but the art… Like I think Grummett is a legend, no doubt at all, but maybe not the best fit for this specific story. As such, uneven.

Cover to Avengers cademy as drawn by Giuseppe Camuncoli. Hazmat blowing up.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

214) X-Men: Age of Apocalypse omnibus by oh shit uh oh god that’s. That’s a lot of people. Overall it’s pretty great. Hama, Nicieza, & Lobdell do the best writing, the Kuberts & Joe Mad are undoubtedly the artistic core. That it maintains continuity across titles at all feels like a miracle.

The cover to The Age of Apocalypse as drawn by Billy Tan. Most of anyone of note.

Credits for the whole fucking omnibus. Sorry alt text readers.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Inside you there are two wolves

Seth Macfarlane Sings The Muppeta by Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane Fucks The Muppets by Muppet Fuckers

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Listening to the sort of good stuff one would hear in a psx racing game of some description in this new album day youtu.be/P_hmXTTcaTM

Rolling Face by Adult DVD, off of their new album also called Adult DVD

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Late in the Age of Apocalypse now. Here's Larry Hama's Wolverine showing Gateway that you can't intellectualise your way past genocide. Seems. Useful.

Carol Dancers and Wolverine show Gateway the violence and horrors of Apocalypse's genocide, which Gateway tries to dismiss as being the human condition.

Wolverine disagrees with this approach, showing the very real human cost beyond mere fucking anthropology, as an innocent teen girl (blonde, white, gotta sell it to the general audience) being killed by one of Apocalypse's infinites.

You simply cannot see this on the real, individual level and not be horrified by the full scope of what is inflicted during genocide.

Wolverine has a digital copy of the girl's diary, proof of the fully-formed actual person that she was, one of untold millions, as all people are that die pointlessly in these cruelest of moments. He shoves it in Gateway's face. Point made.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Adam Kubert on Weapon X is definitely up there for Age of Apocalypse highlights.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's funny, I don't think of myself as an anime person, but 9 entries definitely wasn't enough to encompass 'me', you know? Could do with like 18 more.

Digimon Tamers
Dragon Ball Z
Shinzo
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Shaman King
BECK
Wandering Son
March Comes in Like a Lion
Gag Manga Biyori

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

213) X-Force epic 4 by Nicieza/Daniel and MANY more This took a while! Mostly a mess, as continuity teases get lost and confused and dropped again, and the art often misses, but by the end things are in a nice groove, Tony Daniel levels up a bunch, and we even get a great annual with Ringo on art!

The cover to X-Force: Toy Soldiers. Cable, Shatterstar, and Siryn in conflict with Nimrod

The credits! Holy shit this book had a lot of inkers.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuine surprise and delight getting to X-Force annual 3 in this epic collection and seeing it’s drawn by Mike Wieringo! Never less than a treat.

A great cover to X-Force annual 3, as drawn by Ringo. Feral, Dani Moonstar, Forearm, and Reignfire all posing it up. Ringo’s Feral in particular is amazing here.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

212) Poison Ivy vol.6 by Wilson/Takara/Level/Ilhan/Prianto/Otsmane-Elhaou/Fong Not a great time to run out of volumes! Amazing volume, artistically brilliant and clever as always, but damn that cliffhanger is gonna drive me to madness.

The cover to Poison Ivy: A Death in Marshview

This volume in particular feels like one where we’re very aware of Ivy’s specific sort of madness, prone to mania and anger, with trouble seeing past herself at all, and it costs her a betrayal and may well cost her a Janet-from-HR.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

211) Avengers Academy complete collection vol.2 by Gage/McCann/Chen/Raney/Brown/Mayhew and many more More solid teen action, as the kids continue to get fucked up despite the best intentions. The real highlight is an extended Speedball story running through Fear Itself, career-best art from Mayhew!

The cover to Avengers Academy book two. The kids looking all fucked up

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

210) Poison Ivy vol.5 by Wilson/Takara/Prianto and many more Still among DC's greatest titles. Cult shenanigans and great big spiritual beasties abound, but still wrapped up in the very human and introspective world of Ivy. Janet from HR goes through some shit. Again.

Jessica Fong's cover to Poison Ivy: Human Botany. Ivy enjoying some delectable flesh.

Writers:
G. Willow Wilson
Joanne Starer
Grace Ellis
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Dan Watters

Artists:
Marcio Takara
Haining
Brian Level
Atagun Ilhan
Dani

Colourists:
Arif Prianto
Ivan Plascencia
Déborah Villahoz
Brad Simpson

Letterers:
Hassan
Otsmane-Elhaou

Jessica Fong collection cover artist

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

209) New Gods by Kirby/Royer/Colletta/Bruce Berry/Heck/Theakston A little messy, but Orion and Lightray’s yaoi power and the timelessness of The Hunger Dogs’ depiction of sinister warfare upon one’s own people as they rise against make this some of Kirby’s most essential storytelling. Comics rule!

The cover to New Gods. Forager and Orion fight against Mantis and the bugs

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Into The Hunger Dogs we go! Last bit of the Fourth World, which has taken me uh some years to get to.

FINAL BATTLES ARE FOUGHT IN THE STREETS!
FINAL BATTLES ARE FOUGHT BY THR POWERLESS!
FINAL BATTLES ARE DECIDED BY THE… “HUNGER DOGS!!”

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

208) Eight Billion Genies by Soule/Browne/Knipstein/Crank/Schnatz Incredible comic, had reservations early on that were blown away by the sheer beauty and empathy at the core of the work. You can believe most of the world is dangerously foolish, but love prevails. Anyway, a good lark.

The cover to eight billion genies. Don’t the genies look weirdly like Anthony Clark of Nedroid fame?

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Bit of vinyl time today with my wife's latest pickup

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Comics rule. New Gods by Kirby, baybee!

A page of Lightray flying past the Black Racer. He says:

“OBLIVION! I face oblivion! I am the quarry of a power that challenges ALL power!” Which is a fucking line and a half.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

207) X-Men Legacy: Back to School by Gage/Baldeon/Sandoval and more An interesting bit of comics, attempting to follow Carey’s impossibly good run on the title. Exodus and Weapon Omega are interesting problems to deal with, especially as neither are really villains, just… challenges.

The cover to X-Men Legacy: Back to School as drawn by Mark Brooks. Rogue, Rachel, Gambit, and Frenzy, the main cast of the era.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

206) The Amazing Digital Circus vol.1 by SAKURA (translated by Nova Skipper, touch-up and lettering by Ayoub Bensidi) Excellent adaptation of the show, fairly additive to the experience without changing the game. Voices are well-captured and lettering fits the style of the property, great stuff!

The cover to The Amazing Digital Circus vol.1 by SAKURA. Pomni has a bad time.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

205) X-Force epic 3 by Nicieza/Capullo/Thibert/Madureira/Broome/Daniel/Mays and SO MANY MORE. Narratively fucky, but the character work on display in this mostly Garrison Kane, Cable, and Deadpool-themed collection of X-Force & X-Force related stories is top notch. Very pretty, too.

The cover to X-Force, Assault on Graymalkin. Capullo cover of X-Force kids with guns, from their only real story in this collection that it like 50% not X-Force.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rick Mays on Nomad is wild in this X-Force collection. feels infinitely more modern than anything else in there, gorgeous stuff.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A huge amount of this X-Force epic is just Cable and Deadpool comics, and I’m happy with that because look at all this Joe Mad art!!

Joe Mad drawing the FUCK out of Deadpool fighting random troops

Joe Madureira drawing the SHIT out of Garrison Kane

Joe Mad drawing the CUM out of Black Tom

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

204) Sawa the Gal Wants to Fish and Eat vol.2 by Kazuki Funatsu It says a lot about how well-balanced the priorities of this series are that I mostly want to get back into fishing now, but also hey I could rock a gal look if I shed a few pounds 🤔

The cover to Sawa the long manga title. She done caught a fish.

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A crucial moment in Sawa the Gal Wants to Fish and Eat by Funatsu Kazuki. Tsuruya explaining the many different philosophies as how to properly handle fish after bleeding them in detail, and then making sure to remind you to just do what feels best to you, because it's a hobby. You do it for you!

Tsuruya looking at the reader and saying "it's just a hobby, after all!"

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really neat having the first few issues of Cable in the X-Force epics, less for the content (so-so) than the specific fun of seeing Art Thibert, inker of everything, doing full art for once.

Cable popping a squat with his poppin' squad

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Time for a show about death

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I feel like the reputation of unfettered excess in 90s comics distracts from how great some of them are, look at the flow of this page! Sickeningly good.

A sick Capullo page where we follow Feral into Nick Fury’s gun, and then follow her away from Fury’s gun, in an exceptionally well-laid out comics page

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Bee @letmebebee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Enjoying some busy and explosively cool Nicieza/Capullo goodness right now

Double page spread from X-Force 21, showing Rictor, Feral, Shatterstar, Cannonball, Sunspot, and Lila Cheney going every dang direction at once to avoid War Machine. A busy image, but everyone looks cool, you know?

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