Danielle Moonstar/Mirage Appreciation 2024

[Arachne]

You'll want to check out X-men Unlimited #121, if you can.

[Factor]

You'll want to check out X-men Unlimited #121, if you can.

The art didn’t do her any favors, but I like how she is seemingly handling spoilers:

new mutant activations and seems part of something bigger

end of spoilers
Curious about where it goes.

[Arachne]

The art didn’t do her any favors, but I like how she is seemingly handling spoilers:

new mutant activations and seems part of something bigger

end of spoilers
Curious about where it goes.

I thought some of the art was pretty good, at least on my phone, but yeah, Dani could have looked better.

spoilers:

I'm hoping this has something to do with Sunspot's new plan.

end of spoilers

The story's good so far. Glad we only need to wait a week for the next part.

[rf2044]

Nope!

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1830151...New-Generation

My god -- how were you able to write so much? I'm on chapter 12, and I can't believe how many words are on "paper." Did you do that yourself or collaboratively?

Also, a quick question for you -- is Arsenal a character of your own invention?

[The Cool Thatguy]

My god -- how were you able to write so much? I'm on chapter 12, and I can't believe how many words are on "paper." Did you do that yourself or collaboratively?

Also, a quick question for you -- is Arsenal a character of your own invention?

Love of characters, many ideas and a collaborative shared canon site are all very motivating

Arsenal is basically Mimic from Exiles without me grabbing the actual character. I wasn't a big fan of OCs at the time.

Feel free to leave a review :P

[rf2044]

Came across this cool computer generated image of Dani.

Interesting take on the costume, not sure what's up with that eye "mask" or whatever the heck it is:

https://www.craiyon.com/image/G2W2e9nSQjuWElPV3DQzfA

[Arachne]

What's up is that it's ai, and ai makes pretty lousy images when you look close.

[wlfking]

You'll want to check out X-men Unlimited #121, if you can.

spoilers:

It's not a lot but what we got is great.

end of spoilers

On a unrelated note, if there are any Hela fans amongst this Dani celebratory bunch, she has a pretty cool What If episode that came out last month. # 7. What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings? It's kinda crazy watching this show and feeling like despite Disney owning Fox and the show being about "infinite possibilities" that X-Men characters still aren't going to show up. But that would probably undermine their big introduction to the MCU, I guess?

[rf2044]

Dani's obvious lowlight for me this year was the unfortunate RoX miniseries that I had been looking forward to.

It could have been me. I did a redesign a long time ago (before the 2014 forum reboot), but I'm not sure if I ever posted it here. It's not in my attachments.

I agree Realm of X was a major disappointment. I have the feeling a lot of it got changed at the last minute.

So, as coincidence would have it, I had some free time this weekend, so I went back and re-read Realm of X. It wasn't as bad as I thought the first time around.

It was actually kind of a sweet story, with a semi-happy ending [especially for Curse, who arguably doesn't really "deserve" one]. The one thing I WILL critique is that it seemed kind of pointless -- as in, the main point seemed to be just getting this group outta there when Orchis struck.

No spoilers, won't say anything else about it, but it was better than I initially thought upon first read.

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My only question is, where did the group end up after the RoX ending? Did they materialize in X-Men Unlimited #121?

[rf2044]

Glad to hear that!

You don't need a login at the site to leave reviews, btw

Working my way through -- have a lot more to cover, but I'm just amazed at the volume.

I also think that you kind of nailed Dani's personality -- which I don't think was fully fleshed out circa 2004 when you wrote this [which would have been right around the time of NM volume 2].

[rf2044]

Dani makes this list of top 10 indigenous characters the author wants to see in the MCU.

Too low on the list, IMO -- especially given some of the candidates ahead of he

https://screenrant.com/indigenous-ma...rfect-for-mcu/

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[rf2044]

On a unrelated note, if there are any Hela fans amongst this Dani celebratory bunch, she has a pretty cool What If episode that came out last month. # 7. What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings? It's kinda crazy watching this show and feeling like despite Disney owning Fox and the show being about "infinite possibilities" that X-Men characters still aren't going to show up. But that would probably undermine their big introduction to the MCU, I guess?

I really enjoyed that episode. First of all, Cate Blanchett is outstanding. Second, we didn't get much character development for Hela in Thor Ragnarok -- she was basically just a boss villain who was generally difficult to feel sympathetic toward.

But in those pair of What If episodes she appeared in, she became more interesting.

Re: X-Men, I read that since the What If? series is MCU-centric [versus comics], they have explicitly avoided anything from the X-Men, because they still aren't certain how they'll be incorporated, what direction it will go, how they'll be utilized given multiverse implications, etc. Hence, why they are absent.

[wlfking]

So, as coincidence would have it, I had some free time this weekend, so I went back and re-read Realm of X. It wasn't as bad as I thought the first time around.

It was actually kind of a sweet story, with a semi-happy ending [especially for Curse, who arguably doesn't really "deserve" one]. The one thing I WILL critique is that it seemed kind of pointless -- as in, the main point seemed to be just getting this group outta there when Orchis struck.

No spoilers, won't say anything else about it, but it was better than I initially thought upon first read.

face78.jpg

My only question is, where did the group end up after the RoX ending? Did they materialize in X-Men Unlimited #121?

I thought it was funny that I found myself saying spoilers:

"Nothing really happened" and "Illyana saved an entire realm" in almost the same sentence and had to laugh.

end of spoilers

[wlfking]

Dani makes this list of top 10 indigenous characters the author wants to see in the MCU.

Too low on the list, IMO -- especially given some of the candidates ahead of he

https://screenrant.com/indigenous-ma...rfect-for-mcu/

a13.jpg

Cant say too much as i only know about two of those characters besides Dani. This Puma fellow is only sometimes a hero? That seems a little messed up. I know a lot of anti-heroes get popular but usually they are well known first. Then again. Just cause I know him doesn't mean he's not well known.

[rf2044]

Cant say too much as i only know about two of those characters besides Dani. This Puma fellow is only sometimes a hero? That seems a little messed up. I know a lot of anti-heroes get popular but usually they are well known first. Then again. Just cause I know him doesn't mean he's not well known.

I think Puma is [or at least, was] a mercenary. First appearance, Kingpin hired him to kill Spider Man -- but during the battle, Puma realized that Spidey wasn't "bad" and was a worthy opponent, so he didn't carry out the assignment.

So I think he's morally in that gray area, but not a "bad guy," per se.