Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

It only takes a few panels for Scott's concerns to center how Maddie-has-now-abandoned-him (men would literally rather join a new super-team than get therapy), but his investigations of her whereabouts lead to a shocking discovery.

It's as if Maddie never existed at all.

...haunting its bearer's, possessing them to commit deeds they've far outgrown, if only because at least the way-things-used-to-be is easier to face than what-they-might-become.

The true ghost of X-Factor #13, is Maddie, well on her way to becoming a nothing girl in a nowhere...

...the literal genocide the team just barely survived.

Even Scott's send-off, shaded by Scott's lingering jealousy and Jean's guilt, feels tainted by the drama between these should-be adults.

But that's what X-Factor has been, at least by my measure, about: toxic nostalgia...

...and perhaps, for better or worse, the parts of him that make him as relatable as he is to so many (myself *very* included).

Weezie stops just short of allowing Scott to admit his relief that Maddie (who has fully ceased all contact) wants him gone, Jean slips...

...semi-ironically, given what a Master Mold means *now*, brighter and simpler days for Scott Summers really helps to contrast the dutiful leader and devout Xavierist with the man he's become since X-Factor #1.

Scott's self-flagellation over his decision to leave Maddie aside...

...the mark in that department.

Keeping its title in mind, the issue is framed around the presence of two ghosts in Scott's life–the soon-approaching Master Mold and the recently disappeared Madelyne.

While I'm no Silver Age expert, the choice to feature a villain from those...

@dallas_comics

There is, in general, something messy about sublimating your attraction to one of your teenage students into an all-powerful, cruel, and amoral psychic entity made of yours and your-ex-boyfriend-whose-brain-you-have-just-psychically-melted psyches

So probably Charles, then https://t.co/v3iH0p2lhl

I randomly started re-reading X-Treme and OOOOO BOY is CC’s copaganda era a weird one

Well, it’s official. I have a start date and a salary offer. 😭 Grateful doesn’t even begin to cover it. https://t.co/ld2uScUyvi