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I just can't get over how happy I am that Gabby's hero name is Honey Badger.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 00:15 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 01:48 |
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Zombie Dachshund posted:Is anybody else bothered by Magneto just passing out after dinner, without even getting his robot butler or whoever to clean up his mess? I mean, he might be a genocidal maniac, but I never thought the dude was a slob. Cleaning up after yourself, like fuel, is for lesser men.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 00:40 |
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I am just getting tired of multiple versions of the same character running around. We have: 2 Storms 3 Beasts 2 iceman 2 Angel 2 Jean Grey 2 Captain Americas This is not really counting Legacy characters (Jane Thor etc) or clones (Goblin Queen showed up in the same arc as Bloodstorm). I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting too.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 00:47 |
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Captains America.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 00:49 |
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I will say, I'm not a big fan of how Asrar draws Jean's new costume. Not armory enough.Endless Mike posted:I really enjoyed it, too. Having Jean basically rebuke Xavier's dream as too centrist was an interesting way to go, but it made sense. hope and vaseline posted:Loved X-Men Red. What do you guys think of the villain reveal at the end? I wonder if there's some kind of tie-in to Astonishing X-Men with Xavier being brought back there as well. I wanna see how this team is gonna be able to handle this threat without the...tools?...that they had before, and Xavier showing up here to do his thing would probably overshadow that a bit.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 01:03 |
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Didn’t the AoA Beast finally die? And weren’t there three Angels at one point recently (O5 teen, mindless Archangel, and the weird zero personality/hippy version)? There’s also the Ice Hulk thing running around with Bendis’ lame future Brotherhood. X-Red was a nice start marred somewhat by medicore art. Love that she just went straight to the UN, no messing around, backed up by Namor and T’challa because why the hell not.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 01:07 |
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BrianWilly posted:I wanna see how this team is gonna be able to handle this threat without the...tools?...that they had before, and Xavier showing up here to do his thing would probably overshadow that a bit. I meant more as in how she's actually back alive now. With the way Xavier was brought back from the astral plane, thematically it's not implausible for her to have hitched a ride with him. (I guess we're still going with the canon that Ernst isn't actually Nova since she still appears as a background character every once in a while) BrianWilly posted:That was always the core of her best moments in -- sorry I keep bringing this up -- Morrison's run. Jean was very much the figurehead of Morrison's more progressive, forward-thinking stances on mutant issues. Her speaking with T'Challa's group and with the UN in this issue absolutely reminded me of the speeches she gave to the reporters in the front the X-Mansion about all the great things mutantkind could do for the world. Yeah I love how she's straight up a continuation of her Morrison era character. hope and vaseline fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Sentinel Red posted:X-Red was a nice start marred somewhat by medicore art. That first panel of the baby is terrifying. Like a potato goblin. Excellent first issue story-wise, though. I mean, I'm biased, because I'm head of the Gabby Kinney Fan Club, but I'm glad to see the positive reception here. Plus, Namor. Always a great addition to any team.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 01:26 |
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The unreasonable hate and fear mutants deal with always seems way less unreasonable when something like a baby that can melt flesh by crying shows up. Why do writers keep doing things like that?
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 03:11 |
Galvanik posted:The unreasonable hate and fear mutants deal with always seems way less unreasonable when something like a baby that can melt flesh by crying shows up. Why do writers keep doing things like that? What would be more interesting would be to look at other twists on this stuff. Mutant superfans. People trying to adopt a mutant identity ("I got an eleventh toe!"). Polluting-rear end companies saying that actually they're doing their workers a favor because who wouldn't want to be like the Guthries with at least two beautiful bouncin' mutant children? etc.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 11:29 |
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Nessus posted:What would be more interesting would be to look at other twists on this stuff. Mutant superfans. People trying to adopt a mutant identity ("I got an eleventh toe!"). The U-Men verged on that, but not quite.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 13:00 |
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Back when District X was a thing there was a nightclub called Wannabee's where humans slummed it in mutant cosplay.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 13:26 |
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The Morrison-era outfit remains Jean Grey's only good costume.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 15:16 |
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Wanderer posted:The Morrison-era outfit remains Jean Grey's only good costume. The Phoenix costume is great.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 15:19 |
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The blue and gold X-Factor costumes were baller. I liked her red version, too.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 15:28 |
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I like her Jim Lee-era costume.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 15:37 |
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Mahmud Asrar haters better vacate.hope and vaseline posted:Loved X-Men Red. What do you guys think of the villain reveal at the end? I was just glad it wasn't Farouk after that endless first arc of Charles Soule's X-Men.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 18:27 |
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Who is that villain at The end of red?
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 19:23 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:Who is that villain at The end of red? Cassandra Nova. Professor X's twin that he killed in the womb. She first appeared in Morrison's New X-Men.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 19:26 |
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I dug Red but I wish the art was a little more consistent, when it was good, it was really good but there were a lot of pages that felt rushed or maybe just didn't have the care put into them and those didn't work for me. Kind of like Mark Bagley, when he can take time his stuff is really good but once he starts rushing it drops off in quality. At least Taylor is still on his game. Also, I really like Rachel's new costume over in Gold. Not sold on the "Prestige" thing but the costume's a pretty great reference to a lot of her past.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 21:53 |
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Rubiks Pubes posted:I am just getting tired of multiple versions of the same character running around. Whoa who is the second storm?
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 22:35 |
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Nevvy Z posted:Whoa who is the second storm? Bloodstorm.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 22:36 |
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It immediately took me out of Red when the torch and pitchfork lynch mob, which itself was pretty absurd, had literal pitch torches. That, and Jean appealing to the UN to recognize mutants as some extranational unified entity which I guess she just declared herself representative of (in an admittedly good speech) made absolutely zero sense. Are the X-Men ISIS now?
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 04:36 |
Autism Sneaks posted:It immediately took me out of Red when the torch and pitchfork lynch mob, which itself was pretty absurd, had literal pitch torches. That, and Jean appealing to the UN to recognize mutants as some extranational unified entity which I guess she just declared herself representative of (in an admittedly good speech) made absolutely zero sense. Are the X-Men ISIS now?
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 06:01 |
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seriously though who's storm 2
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 06:15 |
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Seriously, a Douglock Deathlok. Should've included Lockjaw in the mix, imo.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 06:22 |
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It's actually kinda weird that mutants apparently didn't have a voice in the UN until now? I just kinda assumed that Xavier had filled that role, but apparently that mofo was lazy as poo poo
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 08:19 |
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Utopia was recognized as the mutant nation at one point and Cyclops addressed a non-UN assembly of nations in the Schism event.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 08:31 |
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Cyclops status: still right
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 09:09 |
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Nessus posted:Creative bankruptcy. Morrison's New X-Men showing that there's Mutant culture emerging was a step in the right direction for that. Too bad no one followed up on it and we got House of M instead.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 10:06 |
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amigolupus posted:Morrison's New X-Men showing that there's Mutant culture emerging was a step in the right direction for that. Too bad no one followed up on it and we got House of M instead. Yeah, Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men is good but seems like it's entire purpose was to undo everything Morrison did.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 10:17 |
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Autism Sneaks posted:It immediately took me out of Red when the torch and pitchfork lynch mob, which itself was pretty absurd, had literal pitch torches. I thought it was a callback to when Nightcrawler was recruited. Especially since he's there to get them out of there.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 13:25 |
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IUG posted:I thought it was a callback to when Nightcrawler was recruited. Especially since he's there to get them out of there. It's the same group that's been constantly following him since then. They're really committed.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 18:28 |
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BrianWilly posted:Cyclops status: still right
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 18:31 |
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Codependent Poster posted:It's the same group that's been constantly following him since then. They're really committed. If all you have is a pitchfork, everything looks like a mutant.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 23:00 |
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amigolupus posted:Morrison's New X-Men showing that there's Mutant culture emerging was a step in the right direction for that. Too bad no one followed up on it and we got House of M instead. RIP Jumbo Carnation.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 23:00 |
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I was gonna post that the pitchforks and torches was probably something Cassandra Nova was making them do, but I also have to be honest that it's not as if Marvel universe humans haven't, in fact, done that exact sort of thing a lot of times without any kind of mind control at all, so "it's actually Cass Nova's fault" is not necessarily a given.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 00:15 |
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Yea, angry mobs out to kill mutant kids are pretty much standard in Marvel. You guys were right though, X-men Red was pretty good, but the art, woof.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 05:25 |
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Asrar's great, ya weridos.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 05:27 |
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Agreed, art was great.
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