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ravingliberal:pagannerd52:ravingliberal:pagannerd52:ravingliberal:pagannerd52:ravingliberal:The Great Mutant Search for DragonCon 2019 begins. Yes, we’re getting started early, because I cannot have another frantic August and I’d like to have time to draft my own patterns and space out supply-buying. So, Rosie *loves* (loves loves loves) participating in the SCF’s Giant Marvel Shoot at DragonCon, but she particularly loves being part of the mutants subgroup (that’s the photographer who has pulled her up to the front both years and remembered her by name this year!), Rosie also has created something of a dilemma for herself (and thus for me) because a) she says she MUST do a mutant [she has acknowledged that certain Inhumans would be acceptable, however] b) she doesn’t want to repeat costumes and c) we have already set a pretty high bar for ourselves with her LED mask this year.The two current front-runners for 2019 are Magik (younger incarnation, not a boobtastic one) and Luna Maximoff (daughter of Peter Maximoff and Crystal, Medusa’s sister). We are, however, taking suggestions!Mutants should be:1. Age appropriate. She’ll be 10, so nothing sexual or super revealing (she’s fine with bodysuit, however)2. A canonical appearance (not a genderbend, mashup, steampunk, etc.) because she is a comics purist in that way that children often are.@ravingliberal You still taking suggestions or did you settle yet? Because if not, “mutants” is a category dripping with choice. You’ve got original-recipe pre-teen Layla Miller, from when she first showed up in House of M…Laurie Collins, AKA Wallflower of the Xavier Institute (she was too good for this world, we don’t talk about her fate, but we do talk about her great taste in baggy jackets with built up shoulders)…Or there’s Klara Prast, to add another Runaway to the list of costumes you’ve put together. Bonus: She come in two flavours, historically-accurate-period-fashion, and attempting-to-recreate-period-fashion-styles-using-modern-clothes.I suggested Klara, since Ro knows her from Runaways, but she wanted someone a little more costumey for next year after all the Molly outfits this year. I’ll show her the other ones. It’s a shame about Wallflower’s terrible rickets (srsly what is going on with her legs?) but her costume is pretty awesome! I think we’re looking at some inevitable X-Men Yellow costuming in our future. What’s Rosie’s jam, vis-a-vis X-men and other mutants? If she likes any of the younger, more recent members of the X-roster, a lot of them got their start in a series called New X-Men: Academy X, where all the different training squads wore different uniform styles with a lot more variety than the traditional X-men navy-bodysuit-and-yellow-vest. Pixie in particular had just the cutest goddamn costume when she debuted as a supporting character in Academy X, as a member of the Paragons Training Squad. She had a bike helmet, because her flying was so clumsy she kept smacking into walls.Also, I can’t comment on Wallflower’s rickets: I haven’t tried my hand at comics illustration in a long time, but I’m pretty sure that’s how legs inevitably looked under my inexpert hand.Rosie’s actual comics-reading experience is mostly limited to Runaways and Squirrel Girl, though we’re taking recommendations of other series she might enjoy! Pixie is freaking adorable!!!*cracks knuckles*Okay, so if she liked Runaways (and why would she not, clearly she has refined taste) there are two other “super-kids dealing with horrible nonsense” comics from around the same era, the aforementioned New X-Men: Academy X by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, and Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg. Neither of them deal with any topics particularly heavier than anything that came up in Runaways, to my recollection. Academy X has a sequel series by the same writers called New X-Men: Childhood’s End, which is… Very good, in my opinion, but probably not age-appropriate, it got kinda gut-wrenching. Young Avengers, while they were helmed by Allan Heinberg, had a main series, two cross-over mini-series with the Runaways for Civil War and Secret Invasion, and finished with a mini-series called The Children’s Crusade. It had a sequel series by a different writer, Kieron Gillen, which I personally dislike, but seems popular with a lot of other people, so your and Rosie’s mileage may vary.They began after my budget meant I was stepping back from comics, so these aren’t personal judgements, but I’ve heard frankly incredible things about Ms Marvel by G Willow Wilson, and Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur (which has a trio of co-authors, I think?)When it came to the big two, I was always more of a Marvelite, so I can’t help with DC very much, and my recommendations from other companies aren’t really age appropriate.I’m going to stop text-dumping in your notes like a terrible little comics-goblin now.You’re being a helpful little comics-goblin, though! I’ve read (and love) Ms Marvel and have Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur on my to-read list, especially after one of the girls in my Girl Scout troop dressed as her for DragonCon!I will see if the library has the other titles you recommended. Now that Marvel Rising is coming out, Rosie is interested in a wider array of characters than before, so this is a really great time for me to get her some new reading material.We are all Marvel readers here. I read a decent span of the early/mid 90s X-men run back when I was young!@pagannerd52 Rosie is completely in love with Pixie now. I guess we will a) be acquiring some reading materials and b) be looking into the best way to make great big wings. -- source link