The X-Axis – w/c 17 March 2025
ASTONISHING X-MEN INFINITY COMIC #14. By Alex Paknadel, Phillip Sevy, Michael Bartolo & Clayton Cowles. Well, this is pretty much a second chapter hitting much the same beats as the first. Paige is staying with Sean in Ireland but she can’t get away from anti-mutant sentiment; Angelo is working on a construction site and outclassed human workers are annoyed. It moves things on a little bit, by trying to make Sean simultaneously a protective father to Paige and a badass to the villagers, and by having Paige try to use her powers to live as a different person at the end, but to be honest most of the issue feels like it’s covering quite familiar ground.
X-FORCE #9. (Annotations here.) So the June solicitations are out and X-Factor is indeed finished. Which means that this seven-part crossover runs through the penultimate issues of three cancelled books. It’s hard to believe that this was the best way of doing things, though admittedly X-Factor and NYX more or less made it work. X-Force, though, finds itself having to interrupt a fight scene in progress so that a character who isn’t technically on the team can help Professor X borrow a spaceship. As an issue of X-Force it’s a distraction, which could have been used to resolve the book’s actual story.
As a chapter of “X-Manhunt”… well, the crossover is getting more coherent as it goes on, though it would have been nice if the art in X-Factor had clearly established that the last Krakoan egg had been taken, instead of leaving it to be spelled out here. It turns out that the purpose of this last egg is to bring back Lilandra Neramani, a character who’s always been more notable for her plot function than her personality – if you want an excuse to write Professor X out for a bit then she’s fantastic, but there’s not much too her beyond that. Come to think of it, if Xavier had the ability to bring her back during Krakoa – and he must have done, in order to have this egg created – why did he hold off? And how any of this detour assists him in helping Xandra isn’t really explained either, although I guess I can imagine some sort of story where he believes that Lilandra is best placed to unite the Shi’ar Empire and quiet the rebellion or something.
The concluding one-shot is going to have to do something pretty impressive if “X-Manhunt” is going to go down as a success, though. The whole approach of the current X-books is to go for the diaspora angle and have a range of quite different titles. That’s perfectly sensible but it means that they don’t want to be yoked into a single crossover like this, and it doesn’t really work even aside from the clunkiness about Xavier’s telepathic bleed.
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #7. (Annotations here.) Not a core part of “X-Manhunt”, but it gets the banner anyway on the strength of a two-page scene in which the regular cast note that the crossover is happening elsewhere, and have a quick chat about it. That scene has precisely zero connection to the rest of the plot. If I’d bought this issue on the basis that it had been promoted as a tie-in I’d be pretty annoyed.
Of course, I’d have bought the issue anyway, and from that point of view I’m very happy to see it stick to Axo’s storyline. Exceptional X-Men‘s languid pace – we’re seven issues in and a proper villain has finally shown up in the cliffhanger – is a bold choice but I’m glad to see the book stick with it, and Carmen Carnero’s art has the subtlety to sell the personalities. This is a good place to use Mr Sinister, even if the reveal is shamelessly blown on the cover. In a book like Jed MacKay’s X-Men he might seem a bit obvious, but here there’s a real sense of the regulars being a bunch of amateurs who are comprehensively out of their depth against an A-list villain.
PSYLOCKE #5. (Annotations here.) It’s not ideal that Psylocke and Magik both find their lead characters doing a version of the “your traumatic back story does not excuse your villainy” speech in the same week, but so it goes. This issue is basically a showdown between Psylocke and the Taxonomist – I’m still not sure why he’s called that – and it actually seems an odd speech for this story, since the Taxonomist comes across more as delusionally well-meaning than as someone who actually blames anything on his past. Then again, maybe Psylocke is just projecting onto him? It’s certainly a good looking issue, and I don’t have a problem with playing up the links between Kwannon and Betsy again – I don’t think we’ve had a decent explanation for why Kwannon’s taken the Psylocke identity beyond trade mark renewal, after all. The book has certainly managed to sell me on the idea of Kwannon as a viable solo lead, and while this isn’t the strongest issue of the series, it’s still solid.
MAGIK #3. (Annotations here.) Liminal didn’t particularly interest me in the first two issues, which basically treated him as a generic imprisoned demon. But this issue makes him much more intriguing, by essentially making him an alternate Magik – another child banished to a demonic dimension, but one who wound up fully embracing the results. Now we’ve got a clear reason why this is a Magik story as opposed to something you could do just as well with Ghost Rider or Dr Strange. I can’t help thinking the book would benefit from Liminal’s realm being a bit more, well, liminal – it looks more like a twilight war zone – and Magik’s costume doesn’t really fit with the more humanised take on the character we’re doing here, but the design of Liminal himself as a blandly normal shell containing a weird demon thing is a nice touch, and it’s good to see Illyana showing a bit more emotion as the lead.
DEADPOOL / WOLVERINE #3. By Benjamin Percy, Joshua Cassara, Guru-eFX & Joe Sabino. Um, yeah, I completely forgot about this book when I wrote the first version of this post, despite the fact I’d read it. I’m not going to keep up annotations on this title – aside from the fact that it doesn’t particularly interest me, it’s not really that sort of book anyway, and there are far too many other X-books to keep track of already. But the fact that I had barely any memory of actually reading the thing kind of tells you all there is to know about it. It’s not terrible, but it has a definite vibe of “apparently this needs to exist, and I guess we work back from there”.
CABLE: LOVE & CHROME #3. By David Pepose, Mike Henderson, Arif Prianto & Joe Sabino. The story here is nothing out of the ordinary – Cable’s virus is out of control, he hallucinates while other characters try to save his life. And it’s a tough sell to make the character we met two issues ago into the greatest love of Cable’s life, though admittedly it’s not as if he has many other defining life-changing relationships in his back story. But it’s the art that justifies this book on its own, with a real solidity and weight to it, alongside a refreshing brightness, that seems perfectly suited for Cable. It really does look fabulous.
@Paul- What about Deadpool/ Wolverine 3? Is there a reason it’s not discussed?
I completely forgot that it had come out or that I’d read it, to be honest.
Re: Cable: Love & Chrome 3- Note that Cicada says that if Avery chooses Cable, it’s going to cost US everything. That’s more evidence that Cicada is a future version of Avery.
There really wasn’t any time during Krakoa for Xavier to resurrect Lilandra. For most of Krakoa’s existence, it was only mutants who were allowed the resurrection protocols. After some humans were being allowed resurrection, Xavier was dealing with the fact that he might be possessed by Sinister (probably not the best time to randomly say he’s going to resurrect his dead lover), and then afterward he was dealing with remorse over his actions on Krakoa (which isn’t the time to make a selfish decision like ordering his dead lover brought back), plus “Fall of X” occurred not very long after the revelations about the Quiet Council being Sinisterized.
I don’t see an opening where it would have made sense for Xavier to worry about bringing back Lilandra. He was probably waiting for some quiet moments after Orchis was defeated, little realizing another reboot was looming.
I think the idea of implanting an egg with Lilandra’s DNA may have occurred to Xavier after he resurrected Xandra. Which would also be just before the ban due to the discovery of Sinister’s influence. Which might explain why he decided to hide the egg and not bring it to maturity, pending the settlement of the Sinister issue (after which, precisely, there would never be an opportunity to resume given all the events that followed until the fall of Krakoa).
In other X-news. One World Under Doom 2 is out this week and Madelyne Pryor shows up this week as one of the Masters of Evil who are helping the Avengers against Doom. The other members are Baron Mordo, MODOK, Doctor Octopus, Mysterio and Arcade. Aside from the PR optics of the Avengers working with villains against Doom, several people had issues with this lineup. MODOK has a grudge against Doom going back to World War Hulk, Arcade resents Doom for kidnapping him in Uncanny X-Men 145-147, Doctor Octopus felt Doom had betrayed him at the end of the original Secret Wars and Mordo wants to be Sorcerer Supreme himself. Maddie might have several reasons to want to oppose Doom- she could be doing it as a favor to Illyana, she might think that if Doom stays in power Alex might do something stupid trying to overthrow Doom, etc. But why would Mysterio oppose Doom?
Aside from that, what use are Mysterio and Arcade? Mysterio is a master of illusion- but they already have a sorcerer skilled in illusions (Mordo), a telepath (Maddie) and a scientist who has used holograms before (Tony). Arcade makes even less sense. What’s he going to do- lure Doom into a death trap? Besides, the entire point of his compulsion is that all of his traps have a small chance of escape- he’s the last villain a hero would go to if they were trying to trap another villain.
Also. shouldn’t there be more resentment against some of these villains? MODOK was part of Orchis’s inner circle- you’ d think Tony and Maddie would hold a grudge. And Carol should be furious at Arcade, considering she’s currently in charge of Avengers Academy.
One thing to note- according to MacKay the Masters is basically the name for all of the villains resisting Doom. But some of the villains have their own ideas about opposing Doom. That’s why this group of Masters is helping the Avengers and the group of Masters that includes the Mad Thinker, Dreadknight, Madcap, Exterminatrix and Mr. Hyde are taking over the Avengers’ headquarters.
Alex Paknadel has a very strange approach in the Unlimited stories. He keeps making these humans relatable, only for the X-character to brutalise them. Banshee destroys every bit of glass in the pub because nobody would tell him who burned down his gate. What if the owner actually didn’t know? Too bad, they have a massive repair bill and Cassidy is going to be a more brutal master. Three humans decide to work through their frustration by yelling at Skin, and when one of them goes too far and hits him, the others are shocked and try to reel things back. But Skin doesn’t care, he just gives all three the beating of a lifetime. They may well be dead.
There’s also the ealier story where Banshee tortures a confession out of a mortally ill man. And I think there was something similar in his Lifeguard story. Is it deliberate? A sly comment on how a lot of mutantkind’s woes can be blamed on the X-Men being a paramilitary that escalates everything with violence? Or are we supposed to think the mutants are superior to the dumb humans? The latter seems more likely, but less palatable.
Well, Paul, Deadpool/ Wolverine 3 DID reveal that Maverick is only working for ONE to stay out of jail. But aside from that, no, I didn’t find much in the issue memorable either.
Perhaps he’s highly influenced by the Marc Guggenheim “mutants are all entitled” style of characterization. I have never figured out if Guggenheim was trying to make a sly point about the X-Men being mainly white people living in a mansion complaining about being persecuted, or if he really didn’t realize how poorly he was writing the characters. Man, that was a really bad time for X-Men comics. It almost makes me appreciate the subpar current line.
The solicits for June’s X-books are out:
Hellion will be appearing as Laura’s love interest in Laura Kinney: Wolverine.
Uncanny X-Men 16 will feature the X-Men being corrupted. Are we sure Chris Claremont isn’t ghost-writing this title?
Magik 6 will feature Maddie getting Illyana’s help in stopping a threat. Maybe this is why Maddie helped the Avengers- Maddie helps the Avengers against Doom and in return Illyana helps Maddie against whoever the villain in Magik 6 is?
More news on how Weapon X-Men plans to revamp Baron Strucker. The dying Baron Strucker uploads his mind into the LMDs based on Wolverine known as Wolverines of Mass Destruction. Strucker winds up in a single WMD called Weapon Exile.
This sounds like the dumbest possible way to revamp Strucker. I get that Strucker is often overshadowed by the Red Skull and Baron Zemo. And I realize that Kelly probably proposed this before he heard of Orchis’s Wolverine Sentinels. But this is a horrible idea. Why not just have him rebuild Hydra now that Zemo is seemingly dead or something?
Ah, also in the solecits for June I noticed (at least, from the way they were reported on AIPT) that Weapon X-Men is listed as a miniseries that ends with the fifth issue.
Bleeding Cool’s weekly bestseller list is out:
Magik came in at number 3, the best Marvel book of the week after Emperor Doom.
Psylocke came in at number 5- surprisingly good.
Exceptional X-Men came in at number 10. It’s not a good sign that it was easily beaten by Psylocke.
X-Force and Deadpool/ Wolverine didn’t make the list at all. It looks like Paul isn’t the only one who forgot about Deadpool/ Wolverine.
Why Arcade isn’t “incinerate upon sight” after Avengers Arena, I don’t know. There’s gotta be a few people out there willing to look the other day.
Modok looked really weird in the group shot. Much more MCU than his usual face, and it’s creepy.
I don’t care how desperate the heroes are, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend when it’s this lot.
And Strucker as “Weapon Exile” is so stupid, it circles back into ridiculous, and this is concerning a character known for wielding the Satan Claw.
@Michael : something appears to have gone very wrong with this week’s sales figures, as Absolute Batman somehow failed to chart at all. Until they’re fixed, I wouldn’t read too much into some series’ absence.
(It looks like Brevoort has confirmed EXCEPTIONAL will run past issue #10, which is welcome news.)
Hopefully, there’s a callback to Arcade infamously lighting a match off a Doom Bot, an action that so affronted Doom (Byrne) it had auto be addressed years later in FF.
No-Prize: the heroes let Arcade live because everybody who died during Avengers Arena has already come back to life LOL : Mettle was resurrected and healed so he is now Colossus but either African-American or Native American (Hawaiian) , Juston and his Sentinel are both back (reminds me of how they resurrected both Doug Ramsey and Warlock as the composite Douglock in 1994 until it was retconned in 1999 that it was just Warlock all along) , the Annex twins , or at least Tim , could have been resurrected on Krakoa for all we know (it was never confirmed that they were indeed X-gene mutants but neither was it confirmed that they weren’t and Katy was a genuinely evil bitch anyway so nobody would mind if she stayed dead) , nobody liked teenage apparent-mutant AU Brian Braddock aka “Kid Briton” and his Atlantean prima donna gf Nara (seriously, they were stereotypical High School romcom campus villains) , and half-Inhuman Red Raven-ette could have already possibly/plausibly been resurrected by Lineage since all 616-Earth Inhumans are supposed to be distantly blood-related to each other anyway .
Also , 616-Mysterio has become arguably A-list ever since Mark Millar revealed that he arguably singlehandedly created the AU of Old Man Logan by somehow successfully brainwashing Wolverine into massacring the entire post-Planet X pre-Decimation X-Men roster (minus Emma Frost) LOL
Speaking of keeping track of continuity…
Does anybody else find themselves unable to keep up with this stuff like they used to? 23 year old me could be a continuity encyclopedia but 45 year old me has forgotten half the comics I’ve ever read.
I’m at the point that sixty years of continuity will never line up under scrutiny and I’m willing to just go along with whatever is in front of me if it seems like it’s entertaining and more or less seems like there’s some thought put into it.
I’m better at remembering comics I read when I was younger. I can remember the Chris Claremont Uncanny X-Men run relatively well. Stuff after the Claremont run can be more spotty. It could also be that I read most of the Claremont issues more than once, while I haven’t really read any later issues more than once (outside of House and Powers of X, which actually influenced me to reread the series in their entirety again after all the issues were published). It also depends on how much I enjoyed the comics, it seems. I can remember the Grant Morrison issues of New X-Men, but I have only a vague recollection of what occurred with the X-titles between Morrison and Krakoa, as I couldn’t be bothered to retain most of that information (I wasn’t enjoying 95% of what was published).
I was just using the mutant titles as an example. It applies to most other comics.
Another reason I have a better memory of comics published when I was young could be that I was reading very few comics back then, and as I got older and could afford more comics, I began reading more and more comics each week.
Still though, I can remember back-issue comics I collected, like Gerber’s Man-Thing or Howard the Duck, which I read in 2005, whereas I couldn’t tell you much about most of the comics I read that were published in 2005.
@The new kid: Why on earth would anyone (besides Paul) keep track of the full sixty years of continuity? Marvel’s writers and editors certainly don’t; there’s no reason we as readers shouldn’t exercise the same right to pick and choose. Keep what you want and leave the rest behind, I say.
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Im just asking how well you guys retain that knowledge compared to when you first started reading. That’s all.
As time goes by, it’s also become harder to maintain the illusion that all the stories ‘matter’ in the same way. In the ‘60s it was possible to believe that the Marvel characters were really aging (as Spider-Man graduates high school, Reed and Sue got married, etc), and although that eventually fell away, it was still possible in for many decades to pretend that stories might affect the essence of a character or their world. By now there have been SO MANY stories by so many people over so many years, with frequent contradictions in tone, characterisation and plot details, as well as an inconsistent level of quality. It’s just not possible to keep all of this congruent.
At the same time, I think the ‘illusion of time passing’ from the early/mid ‘60s is built into the Marvel DNA – we want to see these characters grow and change, even if the weight of the universe makes that untenable.
@the new kid: There’s probably continuity stuff I’ve forgotten, but I think these days it’s more there are so many comics I’m not reading, especially Big Event stuff, that I just miss a lot changes in status quo or additions to the backstory.
Black Widow getting a symbiote, a new Iron Fist, stuff like that pops up in some comic I’m reading and I’m like, “when the heck did that happen?”
Honestly, there’s a lot of continuity stuff I’d prefer my mind forget, but it hasn’t done me that solid yet.
I think it’s natural for teens to become far more involved in whatever subject than adults, especially older adults. Different perspective, different priorities, different brain functions. Nothing better or worse, of course, just different.
@Aro – “As time goes by, it’s also become harder to maintain the illusion that all the stories ‘matter’ in the same way.”
Agreed, and I think that’s made me a lot more chill as a reader. Younger me was obsessed with the continuity of just about every member of the X-Men who showed up on a semi-regular basis. These days, so long as the writers are getting the broad strokes and characterization right on my favorites, I’m pretty alright with it because it’s just superhero stories at the end of the day. Part of it’s getting older and having real problems to worry about as an adult, part of it is drifting away from the X-Men now that I’m reading fewer books in single-issue format, and so on.
I think that is a manifestation of a wider cultural tendency. As the mass entertainment choices became so much wider and somewhat less directed (we are no longer as limited to two to five major comics publishers, three or four significant TV broadcasters, and whichever half dozen movies were being widely shown in any given month) it is no longer possible nor expected that the fans will keep up in any significant way. Smaller, more specific niches became more visible and more prone to tend to their own.
Marvel and DC come from a decades-long tradition of shared continuity, but they are not spared from that tendency either.
Regarding continuity, I think there’s also a distinction to be made between the kind of George Olshevsky/Murray Ward Official Index level of tracking as opposed tot he more general sense of a character’s current situation and general history.
That always had its problems; even Olshevsky sometimes had to fudge to create an order for a star character’s appearances in their own multiple titles and all those guest appearances. (It’s how the second story in Amazing Spider-Man v.1 #8 got placed closer to the story from issue #21 in “chronological” terms.)
I’d say that second more general sense has been frayed over the years for a few reasons. First, the increase in scale in Big Two stories generates many more “big moments” for characters, but this has been coupled with constant title relaunches, leading to some big messes.
Consider giving a general history of Spider-Man from, say, 1962 up to 1982. There’d be a few major events: getting powers, graduating high school, dating Gwen Stacy, the death of Gwen Stacy, dating Mary Jane, MJ rejecting his proposal, and getting into grad school.
Now consider summing up Spider-Man’s history from, say, 2005 to 2025. You could easily find yourself covering Civil War and his public unmasking, the massive “One More Day” cosmic retcon, the “one Moment in Time” retcon that re-masked him (which has a totally different explanation than the undoing of the marriage), his brief membership in the Fantastic Four as a result of the Human Torch dying, about six love interests, Doc Ock stealing his body for a while, the rise and fall of Parker Industries, the convoluted shenanigans around his getting and losing a doctorate, the insanity around Mary Jane’s relationship with him, the convoluted Spider-Man Beyond situation, and his current connection to Osborn Industries (which might require some explanation of Norman Osborn’s big status quo changes, to), and probably his constantly shifting Avengers membership.
The changes that happen to starring characters in recent years are not merely “bigger,” but also subject to constant, never-quite-total soft reboots and changes. Even a highlight reel gets pretty tangled.
For minor characters, it’s perhaps worse. Try explaining Harry Osborn’s backstory these days, which now has to include stuff like his being born soulless and presumed dead for a while, and then fake-resurrected, and finally being some kind of demon-thing. There are a lot of accretions due to “big ideas.”
And C-listers are often just crowd-fillers, such that their characterization — never mind their status quo — can swing wildly and inexplicably depending on what the writer wants.
Finally, of course, the issue-to-issue recall gets harder due to endless relaunches and big events happening over in a crossover miniseries and so on. Like, which Amazing Spider-Man #1 do you want me to remember?Some titles even manage to get two #1s in the same year, like a few of the newer books that had the misfortune of coming out right around the 2015 Secret Wars and its associated “Last Days” event. It doesn’t help when even the crossovers recycle the titles of previous storylines.
It’s not just the sheer weight of decades, but also the way each decade tends to move further into the trends that make continuity harder to follow, even in a more casual sense.
I was talking to someone recently about the Starman zine/reference guide I did in the 90s. All the work and research I had to do is now just one or two clicks away on the internet.
Just like with sports and TV, I still remember things better from 40 years ago than I do the last 10.
I know that’s not the point, but Harry Osborn was born soulless?
@ Krzysiek: I believe Nick Spencer’s run on Spider-Man reveals that Norman sold his firstborn child’s soul (so, Harry) to Mephisto for wealth and power.
Mind, I say “I believe” because that run involves many, many reveals about Harry teased out over years that are ultimately revealed to be deceptions and mind games and it’s hard to a) remember or b) give a damn where things actually stood at the end of things. It’s really hard to convey just how convoluted the Kindred storyline is without a full summary.
@Joe I, Krysziek, Omar- What happened was that Norman sold Harry to Mephisto when Harry was a small child.
And yes, the Kindred story turned into a complete mess by the end. I’m still not sure where clone Harry came from. There were rumors of it being rewritten but various sources at Marvel have denied it and Spencer has to refused to say anything on the matter since he left Amazing.
Wow, selling his firstborn for power suits Norman Osborn perfectly, but Harry not so much.
I’m sure glad the death of Harry Osborn was undone so we’d get such classic stories like the one where he gets Mysterio to trick his father into thinking he had sex with Gwen Stacy.
Oh god. From now on my headcanon is Harry Osborn appeared from the late 60s to the mid 80s as supporting cast for Peter Parker, and was never seen again. He is most notable for his haircut and his penchant for calling men his own age Dad, AND NOTHING ELSE.
Wait. We need Harry now. Otherwise, it means that Norman actually did sleep with Gwen.
I’m sure glad the death of Norman was undone so we’d get such classic stories like the one where Norman impregnated Gwen, thus necessitating the bizarre ret-con about Harry tricking his father into thinking he had sex with Gwen.
Seriously, I’m perfectly fine with the DeMatteis written Spectacular Spider-Man #200, featuring the death of Harry Osborn. That was a good end point for Harry.
I remember when Carrion showed up in Maximum Carnage I thought he was supposed to be the ghost of Harry Osborn.
We had just been to Harry’s funeral.
@Chris V, Si- The problem is that the Spectacular Spider-Man arc leading to Harry’s death made it very difficult for the readers to accept Harry back as a heroic supporting character and Peter and Flash should have had a hard time forgiiving him too. His behavior towards Liz was abusive by any definition- he drugged her and kidnapped her and threatened to kill her stepbrother in front of her. He endangered Normie on multiple occasions. His fake parents hoax contributed to Aunt May suffering a heart attack. And he created an AI that tried to brainwash Liz into exposing Normie to the Goblin Formula.
This was deliberate- the reader and the characters were no left with no simple answers as to whether Harry was a tragic man with mental health problems or a monster. But it made it very difficult to resurrect him.
According to Slott, JMS’s idea to resurrect Harry was to say that Mephisto changed history so that Norman never killed Gwen and Harry never became the Goblin.But a change that big would have caused major continuity issues, so the other writers objected. They had already handed in the plots for the BND chapters that took place after Harry’s return. So what eventually happened was that the final OMD issue showed Harry returned and friends with Peter and Flash but no Gwen.
So Slott came up with an explanation for how Harry survived and JM deMatteis showed us Peter’s reaction to learning Harry was alive. But it still felt like the writers were dodging the question of Harry’s bad behavior by having Harry not remember any of it.
I’m another longtime comic book reader who used to be able to follow the ongoing plots of several series at once on a monthly basis. Nowadays, I’m asking “who’s this again?” or saying, “wait, what happened last month?” more often than not. It’s a combination of factors, mostly 1) as noted above, adulthood means you pay less close attention to media even if you consume more; 2) getting old; 3) gaps between issues/ seasons/ sequels; and 3) the lack of centralization.
I used to have some idea what was going on in most Big 2 books I didn’t read. You could infer things from covers, conversation, Wizard articles, and previews, etc. Now, Spider-Man and Venom support 2 entire lines. The X-books have a bunch of solo spin-offs. Titles come and go with great frequency. There aren’t any flagship titles with greater importance to the direction of the line than any others. It’s harder to keep up, and my aging brain forgets more continuity every day.
I appreciate that Harry, like Norman before him, was established to be “recovering in Europe” after his supposed death. Europe is my favorite country.
I can remember everything which happened in the Claremont era of the X-Men.
I’ve forgotten so much of the years since.
BTW Isnt Brussels supposed to be the capital of Europe ?