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The 18 Uncanniest Comics to Read After Watching X-Men ’97
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I was one with all creation!” she complains to Forge, who cooly responds, “And now you’ve got to walk, like everybody else.” It’s part of a realization that she became defined by her powers — she was living half a life because she suppressed her emotions, a track that runs parallel to the way Cyclops becomes consumed by his duty as an X-Man, which curbs his potential happiness with Madelyne Pryor (more on that later). The chaotic sprawl of the “Inferno” crossover is strikingly different from the compressed haunted-house episode of X-Men ’97, “Fire Made Flesh.” Written by Claremont and the great Louise Simonson, it also centers on the vengeful rampage of Madelyne, Cyclops’s wife and the mother of his child, but has a number of other (X) factors at play, such as the involvement of Illyana Rasputin (a.k.a. It’s the season’s best episode — if its most disturbing — and it was adapted from the beginning of Grant Morrison’s storied New X-Men, the arc titled “E Is for Extinction.” The show sets up the plot as the doing of Bastion by way of Mr. Sinister, but in the comic, it’s even more outlandish with the blame belonging to Charles Xavier’s evil twin, Cassandra Nova — actually a psychic remnant of her because he killed her in utero.
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