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Our issue opens on the coast of Southern California as a man derisively referred to as junkie by the Alliance escapes from their grasps & into the night.
Friends of this project are all pretty familiar with my own identity as someone as an addict in recovery, so it won't come...
Me: I really hate X-Factor
Also me: I really love looking at the men of X-Factor
...itself a queer relationship framed around the experienced (mother) showing the newly unrestrained (child) the path of the identity they've just embraced.
Ororo leaves, called back to the Savage Land by her responsibility, but M'Rinn, in many ways, stays with her forever.
...significant dynamic of the relationship between the two women–and one that only adds to its queerness–is Ororo's first answer of the call to indulge her wilder, less restricted side.
Ororo's entertainment of this aspect of her identity is commonly associated with Yukio...
Most encounters with Ororo are met with awe, but Claremont's willingness to allow this awe to exist beyond the confines of heterosexual attraction is part of what shades the connection between M'Rinn and Ororo even when it's contextualized by maternal connection.
The second...
The nature of their relationships *is* shaded by M'Rinn's yearning for a daughter and Ororo's for her mother–but it is yearning nonetheless, and yearning further established by the male-coded C'Jime (her awesome sky-fox warship) speaking what his lady is unable to say.
...understated part of the character's history.
Ororo awakens in the care of the woman she rescued, an extradimensional warrior queen named M'Rinn, who from the moment she asks the meaning of Ororo's name (@uncannyxcerpts: beauty), seems an object of queer affection for Ororo.
Hey there friends, let's talk about a backup story!
Tonight, we're reading the backup to Classic X-Men #22, 'Solace', starring the Wind-Rider herself, Ororo.
As we quickly approach the last of Claremont's consistent entries to these reprints, a form of his storytelling that...
...of her master's identity.
A few pages earlier and back at XF HQ, Rusty apologizes for running off but advocates for himself in the face of Scott's insistence that he understands the boy's plight.
In an almost saccharine moment, Jean admits that she's forgotten the most...
...back to X-Factor headquarters for an attempted escape-by-Artie in progress.
The most moppet of children, Artie is arrestingly adorable in Hank's oversized clothing, but it's sad to think about how a child so young knows he has to cover up and hide to head out into the world.