Should I go on??? 😕
pg 12:
MJ: You look great.
Mariko: I look like hell.
MJ: No-- you look great.
Mariko: I was almos transformed into a vampire and I have two days worth of bed-head.
MJ: Seems to suit you.
Dr. Pym: Okay... we're gonna go.
Nocturne: Hey, Doc. you and I coulsd sit here and fire off semiautomatic weapons and I don't think these two would notice.
Dr. Pym: Well, we have a gun range for that.
Nocturne: You're not big on the jokes, huh?
Dr. Pym: Not especially, no.
MJ: I really thought I'd never see you again
Mariko: You already said that.
MJ: It doesn't make it any less true.
MJ: You do look so great.
Mariko: Not as great as you.
😍 😄
😉
pg 13:
MJ: Oh, well ... it all hit me a few hours after I discovered that I had super powers. I told you this before.
Mariko: No, not that.
Mariko: When did you know... y'know, that you were gay?
MJ: Oh... always. Always. I can't remember a time when I wasn't.
I had this massive crush on my first-grade teacher. I kept telling people that I was going to marry her.
I was still young enough that it was considered cute.
MJ: But it set off a few warning flares to my folks. How about you?
Mariko: When I was thirteen I fell in love with my best friend
MJ: That's sweet.
Mariko: It wasn't.
Mariko: I told her. I thought she felt the same way. But it's okay... I'm over it.
MJ: Are you?
Mariko: No but it helps to say I am.
between pg 13 & 17 Nocturne argues with Mariko because of her relationship with MJ.... and MJ hears everything ❌
pg 17 😛
4 Days Later...
Mariko: Why here, Mary? This is your favorite spot in all the world?
MJ: I didn't say all the world, Mariko. I said in the city.
Mariko: But you guys have access to all kinds of videos, DVDs and such. You can watch movies anytime you want!
MJ: But where's the fun in that? This is a movie theater. You come in, you sit in seats...
Mariko: You get that ungodly muck on your shoes..
MJ: Trying to have a moment here.
Mariko: Sorry.
MJ: The lights go down, the music starts..
Mariko: And you watch 20 minutes of trailers and commercials...
MJ: You're really ruining this.
Mariko: Okay. I'll shut up.
MJ: No... I know it's corny... but I like going to the movies. My dad used to take me
It's just comforting.
I missed it
So, I had Doc Ock fix this place up.
MJ: Even the popcorn machine.
I know I'm a dork.
Mariko: No... you're beautiful.
pg 18 😱
Mariko: What? What's wrong?
MJ: I heard what you and TJ were talking about last week. About us getting too... involved
Mariko: And?
MJ: I'm not sure that she's wrong
Mariko: She is.
MJ: Mariko we should try and be realistic
Mariko: Why?
MJ: We shouldn't make this any harder than it's going to be.
Mariko: And how are we going to do that? Take separate rooms?
MJ: Mariko...
Mariko: Kave Pym put us on different squads? Stop talking to each other?
Mariko: I'm not giving this up. Do you understand me? I'm not.
MJ: Please, just--
Mariko: NO! Mary. NO! I'm not going to do it! You can't make me! I won't!
pg 19
Mariko: Mary, in all that I've told you about me...
...my past... my parents... my life...
Mariko: ... has any of it... any small bit of it... seemed happy?
It hasn't been. None of it. And it wasn't just one thing.
It wasn't about being gay, or a mutant, or being disowned or never finding... never finding a place in the world.
Mariko: It was all of it
Mariko: The happiest I have ever been... in my whole life... is right now... here with you.
And if you love me at all... you won't try and take that away from me.
If it lasts 50 years or ten more minutes.... I'm not giving any of it up.
Mariko: Please don't... Mary... please...
MJ: I won't.
Mariko: Good, 'cause I'm a lot stronger than you and it would have been messy.
MJ: Shut up.
Mariko: I will not shut up. You're the one who tried to break up.
MJ: Shut up.
Mariko: Okay...
last one 😛
pg 20..........
13 days, 4 hours and 33 minutes later...
MJ: He just doesn't have to act like such a jackass! Just give the order, I don't need the topspin!
Mariko: He's not himself yet. At leas I assume he's not. Where I'm from, Captain America is a heck of a lot more patient.
I'm guessing this one may still be getting his sea legs back after being a Vi-Lock for over a year.
MJ: If he isn't in top form then he shouldn't be in the field! And he definitely shouldn't be leading a squad!
Mariko: Yeah, but even a Mr. Cranky Pants Cap is better than just about anyone else.
MJ: I know but he's a jerk.
Mariko: A star-spangled jerk.
MJ: Stop trying to cheer me up
Mariko: I'm not. You're cute when you're angry.
MJ: I'm going to blow off the debriefling and take a bath
Mariko: Cap will be so annoyed.
MJ: God I hope so.
Should I use the jasmine or the lavender?
Mariko: I used up all the lavender...
MJ: That's the last of the lavender I had, missy! I'm going to have to raid the Bellaggio Hotel again to get more.
*that's it with the pics 😄
Issue ends with Mariko vanishing to another dimension and Beast asking MJ if she's okay and MJ answers something like "I'm not... but it helps to say I am"................*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawww* 😄