X-Men

• Title: Magik #2
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• Writer: Ashley Allen
• Artist: Germán Peralta

The second issue of the new Magik series sends Illyana Rasputina and Callen Isaacs into the Tokyo underground to protect another of the seals preventing the rise of the demon Liminal from being open. Magik will get a face-to-face with the demon at the end of the issue, but before that comes to pass we’ll get the mutant fighting off the possessed Ren and demon apparitions out of her electric guitar from breaching another seal.

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• Title: Psylocke #1
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• Writer: Alyssa Wong
• Artist: Vincenzo Carratù

The character of Psylocke has had a complicated comic history. The new series centers not around the original Psyclocke Betsy Braddock but on Kwannon (think Elektra but a mutant and a bizarre body-swapping past). After a bit of off-the-books action to open up the comic’s first issue, the former Hand assassin finds herself benched by Cyclops telling her she needs a vacation. Who wants to bet we aren’t getting a bunch of issues of her lounging on the beach?

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• Title: Uncanny X-Men #2
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• Writer: Gail Simone
• Artist: David Marquez

Bouncing around a bit more than is probably necessary, Uncanny X-Men #2 offers the core characters of this title reacting quite poorly to the mutants who responded to the call for help they left. We get the obligatory fight between Rogue, Gambit, and Wolverine versus Calico, Ember, Jitter, Ransom, and Deathdream before calmer heads eventually prevail with Rogue stating the obvious about who she and her friends are and will forever be. 

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