These issues come after Inferno, when the New Mutants and the X-Terminators met, and tell of how the two teams combined -- although Skids and Rusty are separated by the end of these, really, so it's more like the Muties assimilated Boom-Boom and Rictor. One of the things I liked, reading these, is that I know exactly where it fits in with the rest of the X-books, timeline-wise. Marvel really sucks at that these days.

( #76 was a really fun adventure story: Namor and the kiddies fight a giant tentacled thing! )
Issues #77 and 78 are the beginning of another Asgard arc. After the kiddies take Illyana home to her family, Dani collapses. Ship analyzes her illness and concludes it to be magical in nature, so sends them to see Doctor Strange. Alas, the good Sorcerer is pretending to be dead at this time -- and has an eyepatch! -- but he watches them invisibly. It seems Dani is possessed by an evil entity, whose toxic aura is affecting the others. He observes that Boom-Boom and Rictor (or rather, "the little blonde and the dark-haired boy") are the most sensitive to it, which is kind of a no-brainer, what with the way they get into a shouting match on his doorstep and have to be physically restrained from attacking each other.

This is the bit that really caught my attention, actually. Why those two? Other than Rahne, they're the youngest -- and Rahne, being psychically connected to Dani, should have been more easily affected, right? Dani's almost a stranger to them, so what's the deal? Are they just naturally mystically sensitive? I'd really like someone to run with that for a fic, maybe an AU. There's a canonical other reality where Rahne is a queen and Boom-Boom is her loyal maidservant. There's no Rictor ever seen there -- maybe he's off being a wizard's apprentice! *plots*

I love them. They're so teeny. X3

I only bought one DC figure today -- the rest were Marvel. Yes, my ratio is no longer DC/25:Marvel/2. Shocking!

From DC, I picked up Wildcat, one of the Cool Old Dude Brigade members. :3 I wuvs him.

For Marvel, I already had Wild Child, so I got him Diamond Lil and Aurora to keep him company (they also had a Snowbird, but she was a very expensive limited edition, and Shaman, but it was whoa, f'ugly, so I didn't get them). My Alpha Flight pack thus increased, I moved onto New Mutants, picking up Cannonball (in the purple-and-goggles costume), and Magma. But the one that caught my attention in the first place and started this most recent mini-binge was Gargoyle. Oh, Isaac. You and Koriand'r have, like, the same taste in clothes. You are my New Defenders secret crush (as opposed to my obvious New Defenders crushes: Beast, Iceman, Angel, Candy Southern and Cloud).

<3

Now, I am going to reapply sunscreen and go to sinfonica's house to watch SGA and eat ice cream. :D

Au revoir! *waves*