X-Lapsed, Episode 159 – Hellions #9 (2021)
X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Fifty-Nine
Hellions #9 (April, 2021)
“Funny Games: Level 1”
Writer – Zeb Wells
Art – Stephen Segovia
Colors – David Curiel
Letters – VC’s Ariana Maher
Design – Tom Muller
Head of X – Hickman
Edits – Amaro, Basso, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: February 3, 2021
Who swiped Sassy Sinister and his Stinky Cape? What’s more — is anything we see here REAL?
Today we’re havin’ a cuppa with our dear old friend, Mastermind… who we might wanna let take a sip first. It’s all Funny Games til someone poisons the tea!
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I had a weird response to this issue. It's Hellions so it's one of my favourite books and I didn't love it. I suppose it's the Mastermindiness of it all but I felt like I was really held at arms length by the story. I'm used to feeling really involved. I also felt like Stephen Segovia's art was a little flat and artificial. It may be a deliberate choice to mirror the artificiality of the team's experiences but it didn't sing with me.
As you know Hellions is one of the books I buy so I'm not waiting for Marvel Unlimited but I just realised that, though I have bought it, I haven't yet read issue 10 of Hellions. This has never happened before now. I think I might be falling out of love with this book.
Anyway, until it turns out that we were never really listening to X-Lapsed at all, Make Mine X-Lapsed!