Illyana Rasputin steps through a portal as a little girl and comes back a teenage sorceress. This week we're reading Magik: Storm and Illyana, Chris Claremont's 1983 limited series about the seven years Colossus's little sister spent trapped in Limbo — while barely a moment passed on Earth.
We get into Belasco, the Soulsword, the bargains Illyana makes to survive, and how startlingly dark this book is for a mainstream Marvel comic in 1983. We also talk about where Magik goes after this, and why she's found a much larger audience in the last few years than she ever had at the time.
Plus we put ourselves on the spot with a Jeopardy-style X-Men quiz — five categories, escalating difficulty, and at least one answer none of us had any excuse for missing.
NEXT ON THE READING LIST: "Nocturnos" by Lauren Perez
Host: Andy Larson
Co Hosts: Chad Smith & JA Scott
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