diff --git a/src/components/NewsletterIssueView.tsx b/src/components/NewsletterIssueView.tsx
index a1556bf..7c6e071 100644
--- a/src/components/NewsletterIssueView.tsx
+++ b/src/components/NewsletterIssueView.tsx
@@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ function renderMarkdown(md: string) {
 
   const renderInline = (text: string): React.ReactNode[] => {
     const nodes: React.ReactNode[] = [];
-    // Tokenise **bold**, *italic*, and [label](url) / bare http(s) links.
-    const regex = /(\*\*([^*]+)\*\*)|(\*([^*]+)\*)|(\[([^\]]+)\]\((https?:\/\/[^\s)]+)\))|(https?:\/\/[^\s]+)/g;
+    // Tokenise **bold**, *italic*, _italic_ (underscore form — issueToMarkdown
+    // wraps the vibe in underscores, which used to render as LITERAL underscores
+    // in this reader), [label](url) and bare http(s) links.
+    const regex =
+      /(\*\*([^*]+)\*\*)|(\*([^*]+)\*)|(_([^_]+)_)|(\[([^\]]+)\]\((https?:\/\/[^\s)]+)\))|(https?:\/\/[^\s]+)/g;
     let last = 0;
     let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
     let i = 0;
@@ -41,15 +44,17 @@ function renderMarkdown(md: string) {
       } else if (m[3]) {
         nodes.push(<em key={i++} className="italic">{m[4]}</em>);
       } else if (m[5]) {
+        nodes.push(<em key={i++} className="italic">{m[6]}</em>);
+      } else if (m[7]) {
         nodes.push(
-          <a key={i++} href={m[7]} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className="text-[#ccff00] underline underline-offset-2 hover:opacity-80">
-            {m[6]}
+          <a key={i++} href={m[9]} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className="text-[#ccff00] underline underline-offset-2 hover:opacity-80">
+            {m[8]}
           </a>,
         );
-      } else if (m[8]) {
+      } else if (m[10]) {
         nodes.push(
-          <a key={i++} href={m[8]} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className="text-[#ccff00] underline underline-offset-2 hover:opacity-80 break-all">
-            {m[8]}
+          <a key={i++} href={m[10]} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" className="text-[#ccff00] underline underline-offset-2 hover:opacity-80 break-all">
+            {m[10]}
           </a>,
         );
       }