Husk (comics)
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Husk is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. She has been a member of Generation X and the X-Men. She first appeared in X-Force #32 (1993), and was first called Husk in X-Men (volume 2) #37 (1994).
The sister of the X-Man Cannonball, Paige Guthrie was born to a large Kentucky coal miner's family. As a teenager, she discovered her inborn mutant ability to shed her skin, metamorphosing into a different composition beneath. She has used this power to turn her body into stone, glass, and an acid-like substance, among other materials. She can also use her power to heal herself by shedding a damaged form in favor of an intact one. She normally cannot change the shape of her form, only its composition, although an issue of X-Force, written before her powers had been fully defined, depicted her transforming into a bird.
From the series' beginning in 1994 until its cancellation at issue #75 in 2001, Husk was a member of the junior X-Men team Generation X, where she earned a reputation as a workaholic, constantly trying to prove herself fit for the main team. She also developed a troubled relationship with her antisocial teammate Chamber. Towards the end of the team's existence, Paige became the group's computer expert and developed an interest in environmental issues.
After the break-up of Generation X, Husk joined Banshee's militant X-Corps to keep an eye on him. She later joined the X-Men in Chuck Austen's 2001 revamp of Uncanny X-Men and was placed in a controversial relationship with the long-time X-Man Archangel (Husk being an 18 year-old roughly 10 years Archangel's junior).
The two took an extended leave of absence. Archangel launched a charity called "Mutantes Sans Frontières" in Zanzibar (an oblique reference to Doctors Without Borders), where the two proceeded to help stop a coup with the aid of Professor X's newest charges from nearby Genosha.
Her younger brother Josh later joined the new New Mutants team under the codename Icarus.