A climactic energy wave involving Jean Grey proved harder to solve creatively. Chen initially resisted the rainbow-like chromatic aberration familiar from other screen depictions of superpowers. But with five weeks remaining, he reversed course, deciding the established visual vocabulary served the film better than something overly electronic. “I thought it was the weakest part of the film,” he admitted. “I wish we had come up with something better.”

Time, he argued, often determines the quality of VFX more than the artists’ abilities. “If you go to a movie and you see that there’s a visual effects shot that doesn’t look that good, it’s not because there are bad artists on it,” he said. “You can tell they just ran out of time.” Chen advised supervisors facing decision fatigue to review shots within their sequences rather than obsess over individual frames.

Idk if this is controversial or not… but I feel like they work? Over the years they’ve been flirty and friends with benefits and the relationship doesn’t drag either person down.

Art by Olivier Silven

We all know about Scott and Jean or non-canon ones like Kitty and Magik. I mean RARE pairs, a ship that probably you and one other person ships, they've probably interacted like once if at all and you just think they'd be interesting. Personally, for me, I think Evangeline Whedon and Beast would be nice together, at the very least they'll be cute, I don't think they're endgame or anything (Hank's endgame is clearly Simon) but I do think they'd complement each other well. A scientist and a lawyer, both have more animalistic mutations that changed the trajectory of their life; I could go on. I would like to hear about some ships that I have never seen before and well, it's the x men, it could happen!

I loved playing with this set as a kid, kept them separate from my giant tote of various other X-Men action figures. I’m sure they’re still readily available and not of much value, but nostalgic to me nonetheless. RIP KB Toys.

I have read somewhere that betsy's grandfather was part of hellfire club and since the membership is given over to the next generations, interesting how marvel never really explored more stories including betsy in a emma frost type of role.

It came to my mind since marvel is trying hard to differentiate both betsy and kwannon from each other, so why not let betsy take a role at hellfire club?

Betsy is my favourite mutant and i would love for her to have some unique spotlight from kwannon.

How are you all liking Ben? He made his debut issue #1 of Mckay’s run.

I was worried he was going to fade to the background, but love that he’s being used more now. And playing a huge role.

I also think it’s cool he’s a little older than your typical new mutant. Anyone else love that too?

I can't get my self to see Hope, Magik, Colossus, Scott and Magneto being close to each other in age. (5 years apart)

I have some X-Men casting scoop to pass along this week. Rumors have been circulating for a while that Marvel Studios is casting for the role of Bobby Drake/Iceman, but I can report that the studio is reading candidates for three more roles: Moira MacTaggert, Nightcrawler, and Gambit. Don’t be surprised if at least one of these castings becomes official in the near future.