Guess Who’s Back.

After reading the jaw-dropping conclusion of Joss Whedon’s run on the Astonishing X-Men, I developed a newfound love for Kitty Pryde. She was always absent from my radar until then. When I thought X-Men, I would think Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Beast and everyone else was secondary. Come to think of it, I never really liked any of the female X-Men, except for Emma Frost.

When I was heavily collecting Marvel Legends, I was reluctant to collect the Astonishing X-men cast because I knew I had to buy a Kitty Pryde, and since those are extremely hard to come by, I figured it wasn’t worth it. That was, until, I read how she developed this whole new level of badassery in Astonishing X-Men under Whedon and Cassaday’s pen.

If you don’t know by now, Kitty Pryde saved the world by phasing a planet-destroying bullet through Earth. She phased an Earth-killing bullet straight through and past Earth. Wrap your puny minion mind around it.

Oh, and she’s coming back.