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New Mutants: Lethal Legion
New Mutants: Lethal Legion #2
THE NEW MUTANTS JOIN THE LETHAL LEGION?! That’s right, Count Nefaria is recruiting — and the New Mutants are lining up for the job! When Escapade, Scout and Cerebella set out to rob from the rich, they’ll find themselves in way over their heads. But surely the OG team will come rescue them, right? Only, Wolfsbane’s trapped in a sewer with a very angry beastie, Magik’s got X-Men business and Dani and Karma have no idea their young charges are in trouble. And make no mistake — between a room full of hardened criminals and a bottle of very expensive grappa, the kids are NOT all right.
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 19, 2023
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Charlie Jane Anders
165 books4,066 followersMy latest book is Victories Greater Than Death. Coming in August: Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories.
Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.
Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.
I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies.
I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz.
Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.
I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.
Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others.
Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes.
I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there.
I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies.
I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz.
Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut.
I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.
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July 15, 2023
I can‘t join the „it has always been like this or that“ choir, cause I am new to this comic. Which makes the reading feel like catching a rolling train.
As such I like the first two issues, the heist already going wonky, the drama slowly emerging and the fun chaotic story telling. Looking forward to what happens next.
As such I like the first two issues, the heist already going wonky, the drama slowly emerging and the fun chaotic story telling. Looking forward to what happens next.
April 21, 2023
The cover has nothing to do with the story. Escapade does not swap places with Grim Reaper. Grim Reaper isn't even in this issue.
Continues the cringe storyline from last issue, continuing the cringe New Mutants storyline from before that. We are following what is basically a Caucasian gender-queer support group, because these writers have concluded that queer people never have any cishet friends.
Characters keep going on missions on a whim, without properly planning in advance. Escapade and Scout are auditioning to be Count Nefaria's new henchmen, which was thrown together on a whim. We're supposed to think it's cool that they styled themselves vaguely after 90s villains, I guess.
Actual New Mutants cast members Dani and Karma call Wolfsbane, off in the sewers in an ill-thought-out mission looking for Spider-man villain tech. Dani, Karma, and Wolfsbane should be the adults and voices of reason. But, they are barely given any time or opportunity to do so. Wolfsbane is busy acting as Morgan's new favorite person (vocalizing his/their completely unearned adoration, explicitly). Karma and Dani are still on Krakoa. The younger mutants, all of whom are queer and apparently white, are busy getting into shenanigans with no supervision whatsoever.
Dani and Karma are also confusing/frustrating given the recent trend of trying to make ALL characters queer without explanation. Karma really did have a coming out story, and she has had girlfriends in the past. Karma is well-and-truly gay. However, Dani and Wolfsbane have been completely heterosexual for the past 40-odd years. But the New Mutants film portrayed Dani and Wolfsbane as lesbian lovers. This translated to at least a couple panels of Dani and Wolfsbane hugging, and making some comments suggesting that now in the comics they might be more than friends.
If I were X'ian, I would be pissed as fuck. She was brave enough to come out, and for a while there was one of the few openly gay mutants, and then years later her teammates are just going to casually act queer, without any sort of coming out? Without expressing a moment of solidarity with the brave lesbian teammate they have known for years? What the fuck kinds of friends are these?
But, I digress. I don't want Wolfsbane and Dani to be gay. I say that as a gay person myself. It doesn't fit with any of their previous appearances, it paints their friendship with X'ian in a very unflattering light, and I find it exploitative and poor writing. Just, no. Don't do it, Marvel.
Continues the cringe storyline from last issue, continuing the cringe New Mutants storyline from before that. We are following what is basically a Caucasian gender-queer support group, because these writers have concluded that queer people never have any cishet friends.
Characters keep going on missions on a whim, without properly planning in advance. Escapade and Scout are auditioning to be Count Nefaria's new henchmen, which was thrown together on a whim. We're supposed to think it's cool that they styled themselves vaguely after 90s villains, I guess.
Actual New Mutants cast members Dani and Karma call Wolfsbane, off in the sewers in an ill-thought-out mission looking for Spider-man villain tech. Dani, Karma, and Wolfsbane should be the adults and voices of reason. But, they are barely given any time or opportunity to do so. Wolfsbane is busy acting as Morgan's new favorite person (vocalizing his/their completely unearned adoration, explicitly). Karma and Dani are still on Krakoa. The younger mutants, all of whom are queer and apparently white, are busy getting into shenanigans with no supervision whatsoever.
Dani and Karma are also confusing/frustrating given the recent trend of trying to make ALL characters queer without explanation. Karma really did have a coming out story, and she has had girlfriends in the past. Karma is well-and-truly gay. However, Dani and Wolfsbane have been completely heterosexual for the past 40-odd years. But the New Mutants film portrayed Dani and Wolfsbane as lesbian lovers. This translated to at least a couple panels of Dani and Wolfsbane hugging, and making some comments suggesting that now in the comics they might be more than friends.
If I were X'ian, I would be pissed as fuck. She was brave enough to come out, and for a while there was one of the few openly gay mutants, and then years later her teammates are just going to casually act queer, without any sort of coming out? Without expressing a moment of solidarity with the brave lesbian teammate they have known for years? What the fuck kinds of friends are these?
But, I digress. I don't want Wolfsbane and Dani to be gay. I say that as a gay person myself. It doesn't fit with any of their previous appearances, it paints their friendship with X'ian in a very unflattering light, and I find it exploitative and poor writing. Just, no. Don't do it, Marvel.
February 24, 2024
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun (en la party de reclutación malvada del Conde Nefarian)".
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