By Allison Senecal — Welcome back to Thirsty Thursdays. Now, you may be wondering...is this still a MUTANTS ONLY affair? Let me just stop you right there — the answer is yes, but now it also involves a sex and resurrection cult. Now that everyone’s property excited, let’s get to this month’s thirstiest panels. 

Powers of X #4
Artist: R.B. Silva
Inkers: R.B. Silva and Adriano Di Benedetto
Colorist: Marte Gracia 

Powers of X #4 - Daddy Magneto sighting #47. 

Cypher continuing his 2019 glow-up. I’m not sure if it was on purpose but he does get progressively more pink around the cheeks as the issue moves along. Yeah, ya nerd, you shoulda brought sunscreen. 

I just need to see the full character designs for these Four. A bum shot will do for now, but please, show me my eldritch mummy-horror queen. Famine, is that you??? You look amazing. 

House of X #5
Artist: Pepe Larraz
Colorist: Marte Gracia

House of X #5 – LOOK, there are things to cover in this issue before all the nudity. If this is the last time Larraz gets to draw Polaris, I will curl into a ball and scream. 

Krakoa’s hottest club is The Five. This group has everything. Matching black and gold outfits (unless you’re a formless entity like Proteus), found family, Christ complexes, and what I’m sure is some massive drama because Elixir exists. Goldballs is DADDY? Yeah, it just kinda happened. (To pop out of Stefon mode, oh my goddddddddddddddddd EVA AND HOPE ARE GONNA BOND.) 

Ok yes, here are the nude Heroes of Krakoa, showing off their Krakoas. 

Can Larraz just do a Lorna and Monet team-up book after this? Look at HER. 

I admit to being a little worried that we’re gonna get to artists who can’t convey Emma’s fashion choices as well as the HOXPOX teams have, but let’s enjoy it while it lasts. Crying. 

Selene is just holding a #$%@ing SKULL. I want an entire miniseries about this and her Morrigan-meets-leather-bondage-lesbian look. Yeah, Apocalypse is thick but Selene is just JUST HOLDING THAT SKULL. 

Powers of X #5
Artist: R.B. Silva
Inkers: R.B. Silva and Adriano Di Benedetto
Colorist: Marte Gracia
Design: Tom Muller

Nothing but a scream from the abyss. The eyebrow action. 

Namor showed up just to flex on Charles and drag him for not being committed to thinking humans are the worst. 

I dunno, don’t these words just look sexy?

Allison buys books professionally and comics unprofessionally. You can find her chaotic neutral Twitter feed at @maliciousglee.