Uncanny X-Men #13 dips into a deep vein of gothic horror through the Outlier plot and the flashback plot, which introduces Henrietta Benjamin, a black school teacher in the early 1900s.

The “uncanny valley” is that creepy Final Fantasy feeling when a robot or CGI character is too dead-eyed to be believable, but too realistic to be cute. Roboticists and animators have long ...