Rouge came to the 2022 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo looking for a good time, not a fight. But she’s an X-Men member. Being prepared for anything is part of the southern bell’s heroic lifestyle. Born a mutant, she’s aware that she lives in a world of people who hate and fear her. As a patron of C2E2, she also understands adversaries could potentially come from anywhere, even a galaxy far, far away. Smiling with her fist clinched, Rouge was ready for one heck of a brawl with the group of Jedi who approached from the escalator behind her. | THIS ENT

[By Mr. Joe Walker | Photo by Gerald “G-Ride” King]