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I finally decided to make my own masterpost for my favorite Marvel character! This is a complete reading guide for everything relevant in her story, from her very first appearance up until current stuff, along with brief summaries and explanations and download links for everything. Enjoy! :)
Warning: Please do not repost this. Anywhere. Ever. Reblog the post or share links to it, but do not repost it or re-utilize my download links in different masterposts. I organized and uploaded all the comics by myself (credits to original scanners are listed as extra torrent links in the end, or the back of each issue). Have some respect for the time I took to make this, thank you very much.
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REFERENCE LINKS: ↳ Illyana Rasputin on the Marvel Comics Database (+ Limbo and Soulsword) ↳ Magik on Wikipedia ↳ full chronological list of appearances ↳ complete detailed summaries of single issues on uncannyxmen.net ↳ masterlist of comic resources (including .cbr/.cbz readers)
“I was born in a small house, in a land so vast you could walk for days and never see another living soul. When I was very young, Charles Xavier brought my brother here, to America, to his school for gifted youngsters. Piotr Nikolievitch was a mutant, he said. His wondrous powers should be used to benefit not merely mother Russia, but the entire world. He became an X-Man and, in time, fate sent me following in his footsteps. Had I remained in Siberia, today would by my eighth birthday. Instead, it is my fourteenth. Half my lifetime spent on earth and half in hell, where I was consort to a devil. I am Illyana Rasputin, humanity’s savior or the means of it’s eternal damnation.”
FIRST APPEARANCES
- Giant-Size X-Men #01 (1975): Illyana’s first appearance when she’s a child living in the Rasputin family’s farm in Russia and Piotr saves her from a runaway tractor when his superhuman powers manifest for the first time.
- Uncanny X-Men v1 #148, #153 (other short appearances)
- Uncanny X-Men v1 #160: Illyana is abducted into Limbo by Belasco. The X-Men rescue her, but time passes differently in Limbo and she comes back 7 years older.
- Magik (Illyana and Storm): four-issue mini-series that details Illyana’s time in Limbo. She suffers in the hands of demons, resists the dark influence on her soul, is trained by the alternate versions of Storm and Kitty and discovers her mutant power. Ultimately, she creates her Soulsword and becomes the ruler of Limbo, banishing Belasco from it before being pulled back to Earth.
- Uncanny X-Men v1 #168, #171 (more short appearances)
- Uncanny X-Men v1 #183, #188, #191, #203, #210, #231 (various appearances set after she joined the New Mutants, as seen in the next section)
PS.: Out of the comics listed above, the only ones I’d personally consider essential reading to get to know Illyana are UXM #160 and the Magik mini-series.
➨ DOWNLOAD (contains all the issues above; you can download all of them as a folder or only those of your choice separately.)
EXTRA: X-Men Origins - Colossus: shows Illyana being born and growing up as a child in Russia, then later being saved by Piotr before he joins the X-Men and moves to the US. (DOWNLOAD)
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a love so nice its echoed in dreams!!
Cate Blanchett as Lou Miller —Ocean’s 8 dir. Gary Ross
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TOM STURRIDGE as Dream of the Endless The Sandman 1.01: “Sleep of the Just”
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do u have any favorite video essays?
- Everybody Wants to Be Wong Kar-wai
- Battle Royale: The Best Teen Movie
- Yi Yi: The Art of The Static Frame
- All About Shunji Iwai
- Wong Kar-wai: Philosopher of Loneliness
- The world according to Koreeda, by Kogonada
- Edward Yang's Taipei Story - Building a City
- Yi Yi: Portraying Conflicts of Reality
- The City Reflects: A Video essay of Edward Yang's Yi Yi
- How Maborosi Overcomes Grief
- Scott Pilgrim: Make Your Transitions Count
- Children of Men: Don't Ignore The Background
- The World of Wong Kar Wai
- In The Mood For Love: Frames Within Frames
- AKIRA: How To Animate Light
I recommend any video from Nerdwriter that was made between 2015 and 2017 (quality/ideas drop off due to this not being the creators hobby anymore) and Mina Le! Mina’s videos are great and she talks a lot about fashion, tv, film, also lots of sources in her composed talks!
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