X-men Supreme Issue 55: Media Matters is LIVE!

The politics of the X-men Supreme fanfiction series are heating up just in time for the Presidential Election in real life. Politics may not be the most interesting subject in the world, but throw the X-men and mutant powers into the mix and you've got something thrilling. It has already manifested in a number of ways with X-men Supreme Volume 3: Ashes of Hope. Senator Robert Kelly has made plenty of waves with his campaign, looking unstoppable at times in a way that may threaten the whole human/mutant conflict. That momentum has long since hit a major bump. The events of District X have inundated Senator Kelly's campaign with a wave of bad press while bolstering Professor Xavier and the X-men's public image. Now as the election heats up, the X-men must further their struggle in another way. That's what the latest issue will address and even for you non-political types, I hope you find it entertaining.

Issue 55: Media Matters

The X-men Supreme fanfiction series has created a complex Marvel universe over the course of its development. I've tried my best to keep it from getting too convoluted. It has given me more of an appreciation for what the real writers at Marvel must deal with in telling their stories. I like to think I've done a good job of developing it, but I want to know what you wonderful readers think. So please take some time to post a review on the new issue or send me your comments directly. I'm always happy to answer any questions about X-men, Marvel comics, or fanfiction. The more feedback I get, the better I'll be able to make the X-men Supreme fanfiction series as awesome as it deserves to be! Enjoy the issue and until next time, take care and best wishes. Excelsior!

Jack

Avengers vs. X-men #5 - Risen Ashes of Awesome

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X-men #29 - Alien Clusterfuck (of Awesome)

In a world where Lou Dobbs is still given credibility, stories involving alien agenda still sends shivers up our spines. That or some people just have a shitty coke dealer. There has always been a place for these stories in comics, especially in the X-books. They aren't always as well done as they are with the Avengers, but we can always count on an equal amount of human/alien sex (see Miss Marvel or Xavier shacking up with Lilandra). But not every alien story involves writers finding ways to have humans fuck exotic aliens sadly. Some involve deception, trechery, and teenage girls whose frontal lobes are clearly not fully wired yet. This is the story that Victor Gischler has decided to tell for his final arc in adjectiveless X-men. It doesn't involve any alien nookie, but I suppose we'll have to stick with late not softcore porn on Cinemax for our xenophillic fix.

A story involving aliens and teenage girls with poor judgment is a somewhat fitting way for such a run to end. Gischler began his adjectiveless series with a teenage girl turning into a vampire and proceeding fuck it up every step of the way. Now he's ending it with another teenage girl fucking up an alien plot involving the Skrulls to a level that involves both poor judgment and killer robots. You can't get more basic in an X-book without doing an entire arc on the merits of spandex uniforms. Now I know I've had mixed reviews of Gischler's work, sometimes depending on how much I've had to drink before reading it. It hasn't been as top notch or influential as the work done by Kieron Gillen or Jason Aaron, but it has established an important theme of this series. It ties the X-men to conflicts involving the rest of the Marvel universe without having to do a shitty crossover mini. It's both simple and pragmatic, not unlike Paris Hilton minus the lousy sex tape. If this is truly the end of Gischler's run, then I think we can say that he's ending it with some of his best material because X-men Regenesis has provided a massive enema of awesome to this series. Here's hoping that he doesn't pull a Brett Favre and start flip-flopping on his return.

X-men #27 put Pixie in the middle of a Skrull conspiracy to steal a piece of tech from the FF. At first it seemed as though they were thwarted, but in true Skrull fashion they pulled a fast one that kept Pixie in the middle of the conflict and put her in a position to fuck it up even more. There may be few constents in this universe, but like the law of conservation you can usually rely on the law of bone-headed teenagers. When she found out the Skrulls were AWOL soldiers from Secret Invasion, she showed a bit of sympathy and tried to help them. This only ended up leading to a killer alien robot being awakened. The sad part is that's not even the worst damage that a teenager with poor judgment can incur. In X-men #28, the Skrull that screwed over both Pixie and his Skrull fellow cowards, Nazum, isn't content with being a cosmic level douche-bag. He has to take it a step further by taking a little boy hostage while he sicks the risen alien killer robots on his fellow Skrull, boasting how he'll be hailed as a hero and given all the sweet Skrull pussy he could want for returning home after having killed deserters. Even if it is a dick move, it is a pretty slick plan.

Pixie, who to this point has done nothing more than a glorified enabler for the Skrulls, claims to have a plan and needs Spider-Man's help to do it. Because who better to help than a guy who solves big problems by making deals with the devil? She teleports herself and Spider-Man into the risen ship while the X-men and the FF are left to take on the killer robots rampaging through downtown New York. It may seem like a lopsided plan, but given how Pixie has screwed up at this point it's probably best that the killer robot part of the plan be handled by adults not prone to the poor wiring of a teenager's brain. The only victims here are the innocent motorists of New York City traffic. But given that New Yorkers should be used to this shit by now, they should probably just treat it as an impromtu parade.

Inside the ship, Pixie and the AWOL Skrulls attempt to regain control. At one point the ship is on a crash course with the Statue of Liberty, but narrowly misses it before Glenn Beck can die from uncontrolled sobbing. The Skrulls discover that the main controls of the ship are locked and being guided from another area of the ship. Care to guess which part? In comics, it's usually safe to assume it's the same part of the ship that controls all the gizmos that go boom.Again, Nazum shows that despite being a complete douche-bag, he does have a pretty slick plan. He hopes to use the remaining missiles of the ship to deliver a royal fuck you to the planet Earth before returning home. This way he can improve his status as a deserter and possibly earn a trip to whatever the Skrull equivalent of Hawaii may be.

Nazum is in many ways the perfect example of the kind of villains that Gischler has employed in this series. Rather than use more famous baddies like Apocalypse or Sinister, he favors the kind of villains that are not established and more pragmatic. Going back to the vampire arc, Xarus wasn't just trying to crush the X-men because he was bored on a Saturday night with no weed. He thought he could unite mutants and vampires in a powerful partnership. Nazum is similar in that he's not just trying to get home. He wants to get home with some street cred rather than being identified as the deserter he truly is. It's still a dick move, but it's an overly pragmatic dick move given how Secret Invasion panned out.

Nazum has plenty going for him as well. With an alien weapons system at his fingertips, he also makes sure that the X-men and FF stay occupied. He's smart enough to know that killer robots are just a synonym for scrap in the Marvel universe. So it's no surprise when they successfully take down said robots and do it without breaking too much sweat to stain their ridiculously tight-fitting uniforms. So to keep them occupied, Nazum has them release an army of robot ants to swarm both teams. They're not as flashy as giant robot humanoids, but for anyone who has ever been bitten by an army of fire ants that your drunken buddies poured on you when you were passed out it's has the potential to sting like a bitch.

However, Nazum did make a critical mistake in this carefully thought out dick move of his. Aside from forgetting that the girl he tricked could teleport, he also took a hostage in the form of a little boy who probably spends his time either playing Angry Birds on his iphone or corrupting his innocence with Call of Duty co-op missions. So when Spider-Man shows up to rough him up, the boy ends up getting a hold of the fancy gizmo that the Skrulls went to such lengths to steal in the previous issue. Like any boy that sees a fancy gizmo with lots of buttons, he starts pressing them. He could be setting the ship to self destruct or he could be flushing the toilets. The point is that kids can fuck up your plans and any woman who has experienced a broken condom knows this all too well.

Pixie, still in need of making up for her faux pas thus far, steps in and tears the gizmo from the kid like any teenage girl would tear her vibrator out of the hands of a kid that found it while rummaging through her purse. Once Spider-Man webs up Nazum, she teleports both him and the kid back to the bridge where she hands the gizmo over to the Skrulls who didn't plan this elaborate dick move. She tells them to guide the main ship to the river while using the escape pods to get home. Unlike Nazum, they're not assholes so they do as their told and crash the ship into the river. Let's face it, it's probably not the weirdest thing to be dumped into a New York City river. If anything, it'll help cover up the dead bodies, used condoms, and crack pipes that are probably floating around.

The Skrull deserters successfully leave with Nazum tied up and ready to be fed to the Skrull equivalent of Guantanamo Bay, minus the free health care. It leaves at least some hope for alien/human relations in that some aliens are not total douche-bags that will screw humanity over the first chance they get. More importantly, Pixie's attempt to help the Skrulls actually paid off. That's right, in the end her bone-headed teenage judgment served her well and she was able to mitigate a fucked up situation that she herself fucked. It could definitely have gone a lot smoother and it's incurred a healthy bit of damage that New York City taxpayers will have to handle, but fuck the taxpayers. She beat a Skrull! That's all Storm needs to offer her a job with the X-men's security team. Since Jubilee left to shack up with her vampire buddies, they need a new teenage member with poor judgment to lead the team into new adventures. Because when you don't have someone who will fuck up several times before they succeed, shit just gets too boring.

So we've reached the end of another era of X-men. It may not be the most flashy or the most historic, but Victor Gischler definitely accomplished some quality shit with this series. He helped establish an X-books that really made it feel like the X-men were a part of the larger Marvel universe. It wasn't always the most epic and it didn't always play out as well as it could have. In some ways this book is a victim of the overall growth of the X-books. As the quality has improved, the bar has been raised and while this series did reach it a few times it didn't do so on a consistent basis. This book just had too many mediocre moments early on, but Gischler definitely pulled things together towards the end and arcs like this show just how great this series can be.

What makes this issue and this arc good is they Gischler keeps the story focused. It doesn't try to juggle too many different plot threads. This is a story about Pixie getting caught up in a Skrull affair and trying to right some of the bone-headed mistakes she made. For the most part she succeeded, more than any other teenager that I've seen in real life. Moreover, she does it while the X-men, Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four all play a part as well. Granted, that part is not extremely deep. They're largely extras in this struggle, but given the nature of this book it works out nicely. Gischler's dialog is very easy to follow and the resolution feels satisfying. What it lacked was the major twist that the previous issue had, which I guess is hard to match in an issue dominated by killer robots and hostage situations. But in the end there is still a sense of progression. Now that Jubilee has left and Generation Hope has been canned, Pixie is in need of a new gig and why not the X-men's security team? She proved herself here and she deserves it. And unlike other cute teenage girls, she didn't have to suck any dicks to get it.

The end of this arc and the end of Gischler's run keeps me optimistic about the future of this series. That or maybe I had a few extra shots of tequila, but the logic is still valid. The adjectiveless X-men may not be the most hyped X-book, but it offers something unique and this issue as well as this arc epitomize what it can do. It wasn't the best arc Gischler's done, but it's definitely up to the standards that he managed to rise during the latter part of his run. For his last issue, I give X-men #29 a 4 out of 5. Thank you, Mr. Gischler! You gave us vampires, mutants, aliens, and killer robots. I think that counts as a success for any comic writer. Nuff said!

X-men Legacy #267 - Hulked Out Awesome

There are some women out there that look hot no matter what they do. You could have a picture of Natalie Portman and Pamela Anderson taking a shit in a gas station restroom and chances are it'll still give most men a boner. The women of Marvel comics and pretty much all comics for that matter are usually more stacked than Jenna Jameson and more ripped than Janet Jackson on steroids. And it's not just the women either, if only to appease the angry feminists among fanboys and fangirls. As men like Namor have shown, comic characters are designed with the intent to tighten pants or soak panties or both if you're a hermaphrodite. So the range with which they can flaunt their hotness is pretty broad and Rogue is among those characters that finds many novels ways with which to enduce boners and bad fanfiction.

X-men Legacy has showcased Rogue's hotness on more than one occasion and in more than one way. That hotness has taken a few serious blows lately after she developed a wrinkly scrotum fetish and shacked up with Magneto. However, she's been earning her way back into the perverted fantasies of fanboys everywhere under Christos Gage as he has taken her role to the Jean Grey Institute. She continues to flaunt her power and press plenty of buttons along the way, so much so that she's earned a place on Wolverine's shit-list right below Cyclops and just above watered down whiskey. During the events of Avengers vs. X-men, she seems to be making an effort to pull back to some extent. She was among Jean Grey Institute staff who chose to stay out of the shit storm that is Avengers vs. X-men, opting to protect their students and teach them new coping methods for dealing with the world coming to an end every other week. Weed and Angry Birds works for me, but then again I'm not a teacher.

This pacifist approach lasted all but a few pages because the Avengers decided it was a good idea to fly She-Hulk, Moon Knight, and Falcon to the Jean Grey Institute and essentially watch over them like that guy in a bar you know is somehow related to the girl you're trying to bang and is just waiting for the right opportunity to cut off your balls with a broken beer bottle. For any number of reasons, the X-men had a problem with this. So Frenzy came out and started trash-talking with Moon Night like Rex Ryan does before every game against the Patroits. The Avengers end up throwing the first punch. Rogue tries to break it up, but then some of the students get caught in the crossfire and that's the point where they give the finger to pacifism and start the arduous process of expelling the Avengers from the Jean Grey Institute. And they didn't even need to hide blow in their locker.

X-men Legacy #267 ditches the trash talk and gets right to the fighting. There's no aside. There's no recap and no inner musing over how they got to this point. It's just Rogue, Mimic, and Gambit taking on She-Hulk, Falcon, and Moon Knight in a fight that I'm sure beats the shit out of any class minus a sex ed class by Emma Frost. It's pretty standard, yet well drawn. But what really throws you off is the sudden appearance of Iron Man. In Avengers vs. X-men #4, he was busy at Stark Tower trying to come up with a technological solution for their little cosmic problem. Now he just ditches this very important project to join a fight at a school? I mean I know the man thinks with his dick and liver more often than he should, but fuck. Even I'm not drunk enough to overlook that and I've put a few transexual hookers through college.

The fight is pretty basic and pretty standard at first. Mimic, who only recently joined the Legacy cast, carries himself like the first guy who ever fought Mike Tysons. He gets his ass kicked by Falcon, which forces Rogue from the hot girl-on-girl action she has going on with She-Hulk to help him out. On behalf of all heterosexual men with functioning dicks, I protest. But she does get another power out of it, namely Falcon's. She uses it to sick some birds on to disorient him before she introduces his hedonistic ass to her knee. Then she goes back to fighting She-Hulk, which is really the only fight with substance to it. And by substance I mean just two super-strong women beating the shit out of each other. Is it shallow? Will it piss off feminists everywhere? Fuck yes on both counts, but it's still entertaining.

With the way this battle is unfolding, it's easy to forget that it's unfolding right on the front lawn of the Jean Grey Institute so naturally others are going to take notice. Most of the students are probably watching and filming it with their camera phones to upload to youtube in hopes of making Epic Mealtime money. Others like Kitty Pryde see a fight that the X-men are losing and as co-headmaster, it's her job to at least try and tip the balance. It's actually quite a shift since Kitty Pryde hasn't done much since swapping spit with Iceman and shitting an alien Brood army out of her twat in Wolverine and the X-men. But it's nice to get additional X-men involved, especially those who seem to have been ignored in other books.

Kitty doesn't enter the battle fast enough to prevent Rogue from making a very costly and very stupid mistake. You would think that someone with absorption powers would know not to try and absorb the powers and mind of someone with a history of mental illness and piss poor coping skills. But that's exactly what Rogue does with Moon Knight. This is the same guy who in the last issue was taunted into making an ass of himself by Frenzy's trash talk. So when Rogue absorbs him, she starts hearing the kind of conflicting thoughts that would make Deadpool squeal with joy and maybe give him a boner or two. It has the makings of a great inner struggle, but the details are extremely light and not very compelling if you've seen a woman get extremely pissed off and frustrated before. If you haven't, then grab your wooden stick and go back to your cave in the mountain because you've evolved beyond the need for comics and women.

The whole absorbing a deranged mind doesn't cause much conflict aside from reminding Gambit that he badly wants to bone Rogue. It only further pisses her off and gives her another excuse to bunch Iron Man in the chest. Wait...didn't she already do that earlier? Actually, she just kicked him. But the impact is pretty much the same. Rogue is in Hulk form so that means that she's going to get angry, strong, and relentless. In that sense she's a lot like January Jones with PMS.

While it's always fun seeing Rogue kick ass, it's starting to become apparent at this point that there's really not much to it. At least in the previous issue, the X-men were given a reason to fight when the Avengers roughed up some of the Jean Grey Institute students. Those students were barely touched on here aside from showing them returning to the school. There's no talk aside from the standard "I shall beat you in ways that will make you feel like 15-year-old's dick after he discovers internet porn!" It's the kind of battle that fits in nicely with the Avengers vs. X-men VS series, but this X-men Legacy damn it! A little purpose behind the brawling would definitely go a long ways.

The battle doesn't really change that much once Kitty Pryde gets involved. She tries to run in and phase through Iron Man's armor to short it out. She didn't contemplate for a second that a guy smart enough to build a suit of armor and fuck every Maxim cover model since 2002 wouldn't be smart enough to have effective counter-measures. And yet she's the one teaching at a fucking school. What kind of message is this sending to her students? That thinking an attack through is for pussies? That guys with too much money and free time will find ways of countering your every attack? I've given many mixed messages to kids regarding substance abuse, dating, and sex. Even I try to teach more common sense than that. Again, all it does is piss Rogue off even more. Seeing a pattern yet?

That pattern finally culminates with Rogue going full hulk on the Avengers. It's like Hulk's strength having dirty sex with Wolverine's berskerer rage and shitting out a super hot girl with green skin and a horrendous hormonal imbalance. The Avengers really don't stand a chance here. Again, if you like seeing Rogue this scene will put a smile on your face. If you're looking for a more profound story, stick to jerking off to 50 Shades of Gray. It's good eye-candy, but lousy story-telling. When it's over Rogue has successfully vented and manages to calm down just enough to realize that there's nothing left to smash. It's an overly simplistic way to end a battle and even if it works, it's still pretty bland.

Rather than shave the eyebrows off the Avengers and draw dicks on their faces, the X-men kindly put them back in their jet and program it to fly them home. Right, because keeping them around and tracking them for intel would just make too much sense. Not much else is said here. Gambit tries to get a little closer to Rogue to remind her that he still wants to fuck her, but there's little time for swapping body fluids. Rogue comes to the stirring conclusion that the X-men can't stay out of this battle with the Avengers. They have to play a part in this struggle. It makes sense, but should it really take an entire fucking issue to figure that out? I would argue there are more efficient ways to have such an epiphany, but they involve magic mushrooms and I suppose Rogue's method involves killing fewer brain cells.

When a woman gets angry it has the potential to be either a great porno or the first shot of World War IV. Giving Rogue hulk powers and pitting her against the Avengers is effective in creating an eventful brawl that you can still masturbate to, albeit with the aid of a turkey baster (if you don't know how then you obviously don't watch enough internet porn). It's also effective in continuing the struggle that began in the last issue. It's not unlike how the brawls in other tie-ins like Uncanny X-men and Wolverine and the X-men have unfolded. Unfortunately, this issue lacks something many of the other tie-ins have at least attempted. It lacks adding some actual plot to the battle. I'm not saying the battles have to be a fucking metaphor in a Chinese proverb. But it would be nice if the struggle in this issue did more than just turn Rogue green and help her realize that they need to fuck with the Avengers if they don't stop fucking with the X-men.

It certainly didn't help that some of the details of the battle were pretty inconsistent. Like where the fuck did Iron Man come from? Even if that's addressed in another tie-in, this is one instance where at least a reference would be helpful. And while Christos Gage was able to mix things up a bit by showing Rogue learning first hand why you shouldn't absorb the mind of a mentally unstable basket case like Moon Knight. Aside from pissing her off more and giving Gambit an opportunity to weave his way back into her panties, it really didn't amount to much. It was too predictable if not downright bland.

I didn't hate this issue, but I wasn't all that entertained by it either. Compared to Wolverine and the X-men #11, which actually did help fill in a sizable plot hole in the Avengers vs. X-men story, this didn't do anything aside from give the Jean Grey Institute staff more reasons to side with their fellow X-men. Then again, it wasn't like that shit was ever in doubt. Hell, it would have been more interesting if at least some on the team entertained the notion that helping Hope take on the Phoenix Force was a shitty idea. For some reason, that didn't happen. While the spectacle was nice and all, in an event full of spectacles it might as well be wet fart in a forest of assholes. I give X-men Legacy #267 a 2.5 out of 5. If you have a fetish for hot women with green skin, then this comic will give you something to jerk off to. If not, it's just something to read while taking a shit and not much else. Nuff said!

X-men Supreme Issue 55: Media Matters PREVIEW and Bios Updates

The X-men Supreme fanfiction series has grown a great deal since its inception. Every time a major arc ends, I get a chance to step bck and admire that growth. The world of X-men Supreme took a significant turn with the events of District X. The politics of the human/mutant struggle took a major shift. All too often I see Marvel and various writers write as though the only way for stories to be interesting is for the world to get worse. I saw that happen a lot with Ultimate X-men and with Uncanny X-men lately. Well I have a problem with that. If things keep getting worse, that just gets old and doesn't lead to much progress with the characters. District X had some personal failures, but for the world as a whole it was a success. Those types of success are rarely depicted in the pages of any Marvel comic, let alone X-men. Now as the X-men Supreme fanfiction series moves forward, I plan on following the success for mutants in District X with a new series of developments. One in particular will emerge with the next issue. I've prepared a brief preview to show just what some of these developments will entail.

“Welcome to the show Professor Xavier,” said the host as she sat down next to him on the stage, “It’s an honor to have you here.”

“Thank you. It’s an honor to be here,” said Xavier respectfully, “I’m glad I have to chance to be on a show like this.”

“So am I. And I have to say it’s a surprise to many that we’re doing a show like this. I think if we tried this a mere two months ago, we would have a riot worse than the one in District X.”

“I’m unfortunately inclined to agree. There has been quite a shift in sentiment, but for the sake of your studio, your audience, and our lawyers I maintain say it is a pleasant shift.”

That earned him a few laughs. Lilandra told him that it was important to throw a few jokes in here and there. The public would be more receptive if he showed a little humor. Humor was the mark of humanity and humanity was their best weapon against bigotry.

“I would have to agree. But staying on topic here, let’s discuss that shift. Because it wasn’t long ago that the mere mention of mutants was striking fear in everybody. We heard men like Senator Kelly speaking passionately about the dangers of allowing mutation to go unregulated. District X made it painfully apparent that these dangers are more complex, wouldn’t you say so?”

“I wouldn’t necessarily call them dangers,” Xavier explained, “Mutants are human beings, just like anyone else. The only thing that sets them apart is the X-gene in their DNA, which gives them their abilities.”

“I understand that. But skipping the science for a moment, even you have to agree with Senator Kelly on some points. Mutants do have the potential to do grave harm. I see some mutants with abilities that I wouldn’t want to be around.”

“There is some truth to this concern, but the same concern could be held for any group of people that feels pressured. With or without mutant powers, they can create just as much danger. Just look at what the Friends of Humanity were capable of through sheer bigotry. These people, who pride themselves on their hatred of mutants, were able to create the kind of destruction that New York City is still cleaning up. All in the name of opposing what they see as a threat. I’m here to say on behalf of all mutants that this kind of hatred is more dangerous than any mutant.”

“That’s a bold statement, Professor,” said the host critically.

“I know it is. And I know many will disagree with it. But I’m willing to go beyond the hatred and bigotry so we can work through these disagreements. If we don’t, they’ll end up destroying us both.”

“Then what do you say to those who single out mutants powers we can all agree have dangerous powers? We pulled some clip from past mutant incidents. The danger posed by mutants is as unavoidable as it is unique.”

She was getting to the harder hitting questions. Up on a monitor that was visible to the whole audience, a few clips played of mutants displaying vast but uncontrolled power. Some of those images included his own X-men. There were images of Cyclops without his visor unleashing a dazzling burst of destructive blasts. There were images of Iceman during their vigilante days where he ended up freezing half a city block. There were other images depicting mutants who weren’t involved in X-men level activities. One was a young girl, who he remembered as a Morlock, stumbling around randomly knocking people unconscious whenever she touched them. There was another clip of a seemingly normal-looking school boy with purple hair laughing as he used psychic abilities to control his teacher and classmates, causing them great discomfort in the process. It painted a pretty grim scenario for mutants, but Charles Xavier remained calm and ready to respond.

“It’s true. There are mutants out there that struggle with control. But I would argue that these are the people who need the most help. Nobody in those clips chose to be a mutant. They didn’t choose their powers either. It is something they were born with. It can be a burden if not treated properly. But it can also be a gift once they learn to control it and I believe these gifts can serve humanity in many positive ways.”

“And you feel you and your X-men are equipped to handle it?”

“We do our best with the resources we have,” smiled Xavier.

“And you have quite a few,” said the host as more images of the X-men came up, “Your own mansion, your own private jet, and some very interesting uniforms to say the least. Yet you say this is a school?”

“It’s true. The Xavier Institute is indeed a legitimate school. We are certified by the New York Department of Education. My X-men attend classes and take tests like any other students,” said Charles, “I’ve always felt that education is the key towards a greater understanding for anyone, mutant or otherwise.”

“So where do the heroics come in?”

“The heroics are a secondary aspect that emerged out of necessity. While I am a staunch believer in education, I understand the sensitive nature of human/mutant conflict. Normal authorities are not always equipped to handle it and I believe that part of gaining acceptance from humanity involves demonstrating that we can police ourselves. That is where my X-men come in. It is through these acts that we hope to show the world that mutants can not only co-exist in a society, but they can do a great deal of good for the world as a whole.”

Also, I know it's been a while since I updated the bios section. Now that District X is complete, I can finally add in some bios pages that I've been meaning to add for quite some time. I could have added some sooner, but I wanted to make sure there would be no spoilers within the revelations of each bio. I also thought it would be more efficient to update them all at once. The new bios are as follows:

Alex Summers - Havok

Lucas Bishop

Jubilation Lee - Jubilee

Reverend William Stryker

Graydon Creed

Jamie Madrox - Multiple

I hope to continue updating the bios page as necessary. There are some characters that I still haven't gotten to. I hope to add them in as a few upcoming events are revealed. As always, I strongly encourage everyone to provide feedback on the bios and every new issue of the X-men Supreme fanfiction series. Please contact me at any time and I would be happy to chat! Until next time, take care and best wishes. Excelsior!

Jack