Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/29/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which we meet Miles’s favorite X-Man; Longshot is Secret Wars II done right; we are fairly committed to the idea of Ann Nocenti as a post-apocalyptic daredevil superhero; Longshot is patient zero of the ‘90s; Ricochet Rita is the best; luck is a zero-sum commodity; Mojo is legitimately terrifying; and nuance is Longshot’s secret weakness.

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Spiral

The Body Shop

Several ill-advised body swaps

Longshot

Longshot

Rachel Summers Syndrome

The evolution of Art Adams

The metaphysics of luck

The secret origin of pouches

A large number of pop culture allusions

Glam survivalists

Psychometry

Moral complexity

Gog’n’Magog

Ricochet Rita

The social economics of jetpacks

A whole lot of social satire and commentary

Star Slammers

Mojo

The Mojoverse

Luck as a zero-sum commodity

Arize

Quark

Longshot and Dazzler’s star sigils

Finding (or creating) your comics community

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