Time to talk comics. Specifically, I need to point everyone to one of my favorite runs in comic history. It’s A stint I don’t think gets as much love or respect from others as I give it, and thus it obviously deserves more. Read Judd Winick’s “Exiles.” It’s a grand time.

The name Judd Winick might be familiar to you even if you don’t read funny books. He was on “Real World: San Francisco.” You know, back when reality shows were just starting out, and the people on them weren’t using the show as a springboard to start their media careers¹, “The Real World” was a cultural phenomenon and certainly a cultural touchpoint for me. Especially the San Francisco season.

Still, it was years after I first read “Exiles” that I realized it was “the dude from The Real World.”

If you haven’t read them, the “Exiles” features a group of dimension-hopping X-Men from across the multiverse. Each has been plucked from their own reality. They’re thrown together in a series of adventures laid out by an inter-dimensional figure who says he needs their help to fix the problems in time and space the plague the multiverse.

Winick’s “Exiles” runs from issues 1-25 (there’s a couple he writes after that), and it features a wide array of characters, inter-personal relationships, emotional turmoil, and Incredible Hulks. Yeah, I’m just trying to make the connection between Judd’s time on “The Real World” and the group of characters he writes here, but c’mon. It’s brilliant. Then issue #25 comes around.

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