Illyana Rasputin: Magik Appreciation 2019

[Magik]

This is the new thread of discussion about our Queen of Limbo. This is the old one: https://community.cbr.com/showthread...k-Appreciation

Magik
"See ya, villains! Don't do anything in Limbo, I wouldn't do! And watch out for demons!"

ESSENTIAL READING
- Giant Size X-men #01 (1975, first appearance)
- Uncanny X-Men #160
- Magik: Illyana & Storm #1-4
- New Mutants Vol. 1
- Mystic Arkana: Magik
- New Mutants: Death or Truth
- New X-men: The Quest for Magik
- X-Infernus
- X-Men: Hellbound
- New Mutants Vol. 3
- Uncanny X-men Vol. 2
- Avengers vs X-men
- Uncanny X-men Vol. 3
- All New X-men
- Extraordinary X-men
- New Mutants: Dead Souls
- What If - Magik #1

[Bl00dwerK]

Subbed. I do miss Illyana's pre-manga appearance, though.

[AbnormallyNormal]

I love Magik one of my favorite X-characters

She is mysterious sort of brooding but also sweet

You can never truly tell where she's "at" up in that head and heart of hers

The Sapna arc in EXM sort of showed her role as "absorbing the darkness" so that others don't have to

[Bl00dwerK]

I think my single favorite issue Illyana is in is the New Mutants Special Edition #1. We get to see her fun, playful side and also her demonic inner nature. She is both villian and hero in the same book. Plus that Adams art...

[LordUltimus]

So has Magik ever actually been in a relationship with anyone?

[PsychoEFrost]

Question:

Is she still Phalanx possessed? I never saw how that storyline finished.

[Maestroneto]

Subbed. I do miss Illyana's pre-manga appearance, though.

They already reverted her to her pre-Bachalo look.

[Bl00dwerK]

They already reverted her to her pre-Bachalo look.

Good. Does she have her proper Soulsword or is it still that Final Fantasy sword?

[Andru]

Good. Does she have her proper Soulsword or is it still that Final Fantasy sword?

Back to normal. But I have to admit, I grew to love the final fantasy version

[comicbookfan5878]

I think I figured out who that corpse was in Limbo that was shown in New Mutants volume 3. Was it Beatrice? Image attached for reference.

Anyhow...looking forward to amazing stories for Illyana in 2019!

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[Thirteen]

They already reverted her to her pre-Bachalo look.

[xhx23x]

I do like Yanna with a cloak of some kind. I just wish this costume was less New Mutant-y than it is. I do so hate it when any of them are force to regress. At least these were more individual.

[kevinism]

I do like Yanna with a cloak of some kind. I just wish this costume was less New Mutant-y than it is. I do so hate it when any of them are force to regress. At least these were more individual.

But where are the hair picks??

[sungila]

This isn't a reversion, not really. It's more like transformation and salvage from the wreck.
I loved the contrast of the internal brokenness and externalized exaggerated flawless exterior of Bachalo's Illyana. Especially in the society of Emma and Scott and Magneto. To be safe in such a situation. Without a home, without her limbo, without a plan, without a real advisory or adversary..to be so exposed and yet...not at all.
So imagine gazing through a crystal glass vase at what looks at angles like a finely preserved dried rose, a silk ribbon...a memory of fire that needs no fuel, gives no warmth and yet...flickers motionless as you move.
The vase breaks. Nobody hears it, nobody sees it, nobody remembers the vase as a vase or recalls that red presence held prisoner and motherly within.

That vase, that sleeper's vitrine, installation, that Wunderkammer, that exhibition...that distraction...gone.

All the contents spilled torn and frayed and signed. Alone with the memories, the language, the narratives, the grammars and grimoires - bruised filth bright black green copper but with some fabric still strong and thread and needle too.

Say this and the alliteration:shattering glass shatters the shattering of the glass.

She must have been very silent in her solitudes.

It's dangerous to be naked, to have ever been naked and dangerous to dress in shards...unless you're not trying to be safe...and you yourself are shards...and with a steady fire the edges are softened...that's Gorham's grunge/goth second hand pre-loved pre-worn Illyana.

It's like she's arrived from someplace other in a shipwreck and has emerged after the ringing of bells and alarms and trauma a little past recollection...facing back to the new shore and turning forever toward...wearing the remains of was given and what was taken from what was left.

Thank you Andru, Gorm and others for beginning this thread anew and for your considerate assembling of the essentials.

It's Magik, nothing's lost...it's just not that easy

Creation. Might as well do something with all that everything...hmmm, how do you paint with a sword?
And how do you tie pretty bows or fasten shiny buckles with fists and trembling fingers?

Also, has anyone here ever read Michael Moorcock's Elric saga?

Look at this guy : he's the bringer of the end of times, the turning of the page, the dregs before new birth...but he knows it and he's not exactly willing, and he carries a parasitic sword that gives him strength but only as the 'strombringer', he uses magics and spells, he's a sorcerer, he's albino, some call him the white wolf, his story is told through and in multiverses that are told from the edge and depths of chaos...he's merciless, a mercenary, deeply compassionate and utterly alone...but only at the end and in the ever afters of the fairy tale...in the vein of things...he's mostly just human - all melodrama on a pending tragedy that sometimes makes you laugh and seems to somehow never come or came already...if it ever really was then surely it will be, that bad...again, but now, or is it?

crystal glass vase...something red interior.

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[Jumpyshark]

Sungila, your posts are always a wonder to behold! So much food for thought...