Alex Spencer

I’m a real sucker for superheroes using their abilities in mundane ways, and that goes double for mutants, where powers are just a fact of life.pic.twitter.com/nRgvO0bu9X

I love that it’s an issue without any traditional baddie, and the X-Men are just rescuing people – and animals – from natural disasters. Always nice to see some superheroics that don’t involve punches to faces.pic.twitter.com/Ziz12qzs3b

The really smart bit, though, is that the big rescue takes place inside one of X-Man’s Cerebro centres, so we get a chance to see the inner workings of this society. It’s not treated as a big reveal, just background detail, because our heroes already know all about this stuff.pic.twitter.com/SslCWOylef

The lettering in these panels is genuinely, I think intentionally, overwhelming. The three different balloon and font styles, but three discrete speakers in a single panel, two of them unattributed. It all works to put us in the same position as Jean.pic.twitter.com/7WoLgjhetI

Similarly, I really like the final balloon here. It’s a simple trick, but having to squint (or, in my case, zoom in) to see what it says makes you a more active participant.pic.twitter.com/A8yJRi7RTB

This is more or less my first experience of Nature Girl, but … based on this one issue, she seems great?pic.twitter.com/Sux6E8iZmR