Marvel Inserts Wordle-Like Puzzle Into The Middle of New X-Men Comic
WARNING: Spoilers for Secret X-Men #1 ahead!
In Marvel Comics' recently released SecretX-Men #1, which follows a team of mutants made up of those who lost in the first ever «X-Men Election» on a secretive (and honestly, quite confusing) mission includes a fun 4th wall-breaking word puzzle in the middle of the issue, reminiscent of the massively popular Wordle that has taken over the internet. Led by the gregarious and impulsive Sunspot, the Secret X-Men must battle their way through evil aliens and the vacuum of space in an attempt to save the Shi'ar Queen Xandra, and the team can't succeed without the readers help.
The Secret X-Men were (seemingly) formed by a lie told by Roberto Da Costa, the mutant Sunspot who has been living on the Shi'ar home world Chandilar since an early arc in the relaunched New Mutants title. Sunspot has been telling the women of Chandilar that he is the leader of the X-Men which… could not be further from the truth. When his on-again off-again lover, the terrifying former villain Deathbird, hears about this rumor she recruits him to form a secretive X-Men team to go on an intergalactic peacekeeping mission to save the endangered Queen Xandra (who happens to be Professor Xavier's daughter!).
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Secret X-Men #1—written by Tini Howard with art by Francesco Mobili—is a fun romp of a one-shot, giving some lesser seen mutants the spotlight and allowing them to show off their unique and creatively collaborative abilities. Gathering together an eclectic group of lovable «losers,» Sunspot and his best friend Cannonball lead the election rejects Tempo, Banshee, Marrow, Strong Guy, Forge, Boom Boom, and Armor as they battle
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