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1. Have you ever watched illusion magic? Close-up, or in a stage show, or on television? Did it work for you?

2. Have you ever wished on a star, or a lucky cat, or a coin in a wishing well? Did it work in some way?

3. Have you ever cast a spell, made a love charm, or tried a curse? Did it work in some way?

4. Are there any other traditional superstitions you pay attention to? Do they work in some way?

5. Would you want major magical powers like in a fantasy story? Which powers, and how would you use them?

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X-Men United, originally solicited as X-Men Arsenal*, is the follow-up to Exceptional X-Men. Same creative team, same core cast, but an altered premise. It's the training book, but with more characters, and now they have a mental plane headquarters named Graymatter Lane.

*Go on, get the football jokes out of your system. It'll feel good.

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Warning for some uncomfortable sexual symbolism. Keith Riffen, Ger-words Jones, bArt Sears.

Giffen’s Justice League plots are never boring, but this story feels extra unhinged, its elements strung together more by Freudian associations than his usual grounded, working-class perspective. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn the production process involved a six-pack of story dice and some of the more stimulating drugs.

( Amphetamines yes, marijuana no. )

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There was a video game for Maximum Carnage way back in the day, and I was a Production Assistant on the commercial for it. My job was to drive the truck full of camera equipment from Long Island to Manhattan, pick up my producer, get breakfast and bring it all to set… but I didn’t realize that I left the key to the lock on the truck at home until we got the breakfast. My producer sat on giant coffee urns and held bagels in his lap as I drove to set – but I was so frazzled that I drove the wrong way down the West Side Highway and was pulled over by a cop!!! -- Joe Kelly

Maximum Carnage! I have to say, it’s been a minute, and I was a Clone Saga do-or-die back around when it landed – but I remember a whole pile of villains infighting and yelling at each other and hating each other as much as (or more than) they hated the comics. Can’t beat that! -- Charles Soule

During the 90s, I was off reading Proper Comics like Hate, Eightball, and Love & Rockets, so Maximum Carnage passed me by a little bit – I hear Carnage is pretty Maximum in it, but that’s about all I know. -- Al Ewing

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Okay, so my last few posts have featured images that not everyone could view. So, let's try ImgBB, and see if that works better.

That better? Or worse? Anyway, stuff happens in this issue that you may not want to see. And I'm not talking about the mutant nudity.

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"I've always loved the inner child that Jar Jar brought out in all of us, especially me. But there comes a time where everyone must let go of the child and take responsibility for their actions, and we see Jar Jar come to that realisation in this one-shot." -- Ahmed Best

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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

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In light of the advice in the last paragraph, and due to work requirements, I think I will leave things short and sweet, and simply wish a Happy Mar10 Day, to those who celebrate the achievements of video games most prominent plumber.

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Giffen, Jones, Rogers. Warning for some cruelty-to-animals comedy on a couple of covers.

Justice League Europe was in no hurry to get back to high-octane excitement after the Extremists arc. The last two issues had seen the team playing around on the beach and shopping in London. Issue #22 involves an actual crime and a JLE-adjacent character in some jeopardy, but within those bounds, it’s still as low-stakes as you can imagine.

( Like, ‘‘Scarlet Skier vs. Snapper Carr’’ low-stakes. )

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Welcome to another TTT! Thanks so much for all of your well wishes last week when I was sick. I’m feeling much better now! This week’s topic was submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog and is: Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers. Ordinal numbers are numbers that define an item’s place in a series. For example: first, second, third, fourth, tenth, fourteenth, thirty-third, one hundredth, etc. I’m picking a mix of books I’ve read (I put asterisks by those) and books from my TBR, and I’m going in numerical order!

First to Fall by Jenny B. Jones*
First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
A Season for Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss
Third to Die by Allison Brennan
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros*
Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan*
The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison
The Tenth Trail Mark by Joe Looby (my grandpa was in the 10th mountain division in WW2)
Married by Twelfth Night by Anneka R. Walker
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris

What’s your favorite number?
Read any of these?
Was this a tricky topic for you?

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Today, the Greatest Generation is all but gone. The fingerprints it left on superhero comic books still linger, but we’re always interrogating what its legacy means to us. But one thing was clear enough as Germany reunified: the “unreconstructed German Nazi” trope, common in comics of the 1960s, was aging out of relevance. Giffen and DeMatteis (and Medley) wanted to be the ones to lay it to rest. It would be defeated by…age itself.

Edit to add: next entry will come late on Monday--I'm traveling and might not get enough unbroken time to finish it for a little while.

( If only being a Nazi today MADE you old, like M. Night Shyamalan’s beach. )

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1. Do you know of any other words for snow? What's your favourite and why?

2. What's your ideal temperature range for winter?

3. Favourite winter activity? What about it makes it your favourite?

4. What are three things you can't do without when winter arrives?

5. Do you have favourite winter holiday activities?

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The Friday Five for 13 March 2026: Magical Questions

X-Men United #1

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1776 #5

Venom #254-255 - "Death Spiral, Part 3"

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They Won't Even Have to Update the Team Roster on the Recap Page!

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The Nice House on the Lake #1-2

Caged Strays: JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #22-23 (JLI 67)

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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Part Two

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