title: X-men: Misfits 1
author:  Raina Telgemeier 
description: <i>X-Men</i> is renowned for being one of the most girl-friendly super hero comics franchises, so a shojo (girl's) manga re-boot of the series is not that far-fetched. The conceit of seeing the X-Men redrawn as supercute boys, or in the case of Beast, redrawn as an adorable human-size badgerlike thing, works without a hitch. 15-year-old Kitty Pryde, who has the mutant ability to slip through walls, enrolls in Xaviar Academy, where she meets classic X-men characters, most still in their teen years. By some unexplained twist of fate that could only happen in shojo, Pryde is the only female student (Storm is a teacher). This makes the formerly insecure girl very popular with her peers, so much so that she is asked to join the Hellfire Club, which is hilariously reimagined as a parody of <i>Ouran High School Host Club</i> rather than a sinister organization of wealthy elites. Telgemeier and Roman deliver a delightful script that will appeal to old fans while being friendly toward new readers or fans of the <i>X-Men</i> films. The art by Anzu (<i>The</i><i>Reformed</i>) is over-the-top shojo parody, with lots of screentone and flowers. <i>(Aug.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ## Djibouti
  
  
  ## Elmore Leonard
  
  
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  For Mike Lupica
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](005-chapter01.html#chapter01)
  
  
  XAVIER WATCHED TWO LEGIONNAIRES stroll out from the terminal to…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](006-chapter02.html#chapter02)
  
  
  XAVIER POINTED TO THE commercial port off to the west,…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](007-chapter03.html#chapter03)
  
  
  YOU WENT TO A fashion show in Paris to look…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](008-chapter04.html#chapter04)
  
  
  THE FIRST DOCUMENTARY FILM Dara Barr shot on her own…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Five](009-chapter05.html#chapter05)
  
  
  DARA WAS OUT ON the Buster twenty-seven days.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Six](010-chapter06.html#chapter06)
  
  
  THEY WERE CLOSER NOW to the cargo ships and tankers…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](011-chapter07.html#chapter07)
  
  
  NOW THEY WERE WATCHING on the screen a ship stacked…
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](012-chapter08.html#chapter08)
  
  
  DARA, THE NEXT MORNING, came out of the wheelhouse 