Real Mutants of New Jersey

[petronia]

Went to Comic Con for a few hours on Saturday, despite rocky recovery from terrible cold. I'm not actually all that interested in getting shiz signed, or toys or... idk, fanart commissions and kitty-ear hats... so that leaves gawking at cosplay, which was not quite as good as Otakuthon, and browsing for books. XD; I don't have a comics collection to maintain, so obviously if you turn me loose on a convention I buy at random, with a focus on crack. Eg. the one where Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America are turned into frogs by SPACE DRAGONS, which allows them to communicate with the superhero team formed by the superpowered pets of the Marvelverse. (And non-superpowered: at least, I think Aunt May's dog may simply be a regular talking dog.)

Two of these trades mostly involve Magneto and his family. The 2002 one is like, UN Security Council! Failed nation-state! Destruction of Earth's atmosphere! The 1986 one is like, for the love of pete Wanda why did you put off telling your dad you were pregnant until it was Thanksgiving and you had to invite him to the Avengers party, now it's going to be really awkward.

(At first I was merely baffled that she had a working landline number for Magneto, but then I realized this was the period that dude was at the Xavier mansion because Charles was dead or something conveniently in time to avoid holiday family drama.)