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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I believe that you will find that Sam is nigh invulnerable while he's blastin'. He's also very vulnerable when he's not blasting. His best friend ran away because of a soccer tackle that went wrong.
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He's also immortal (sometimes) regardless of his blastin' status.
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Jan 6, 2020 22:45
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I hope the Sinister rumor is true. Giving him the keys to a mutant asylum is a great hook for a movie. Regardless, this looks good. Everybody looks like normal people, opposed to the X-Men looking like movie stars.
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Beerdeer posted:Early Rahne here is terrified of herself too. 'Tis nae proper!
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Well what I got from that preview was that it looks like at least some of it is going to revolve around Dani not having full control of her fear-based illusion powers, which seems horror movie as gently caress to me. Or did I interpret that all wrong?
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I believe that you will find that Sam is nigh invulnerable while he's blastin'. Also there was that time he was actually immortal. Fun fact: because of Krakoan Resurrection, everyone is an External now!
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Open Marriage Night posted:I hope the Sinister rumor is true. Giving him the keys to a mutant asylum is a great hook for a movie. Roberto should have been black, or at least darker skinned.
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I'm gonna reiterate my guess that Illyana is gonna show up in Dr. Strange and that's one reason they're releasing this.
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Skwirl posted:Roberto should have been black, or at least darker skinned. It irks me so much that so many portrayals of Roberto just ignore/forget that he's black. Like, a bunch of artists just draw him as a light skinned Hispanic guy (or in this case I guess cast him as one). It's important to his backstory that he's black Brazilian!
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Android Blues posted:It irks me so much that so many portrayals of Roberto just ignore/forget that he's black. Like, a bunch of artists just draw him as a light skinned Hispanic guy (or in this case I guess cast him as one). It's important to his backstory that he's black Brazilian! That's something Ewing's Avengers books always (thankfully) got right. Though it's not surprising since his first Avengers book was almost entirely Black characters.
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Android Blues posted:It irks me so much that so many portrayals of Roberto just ignore/forget that he's black. Like, a bunch of artists just draw him as a light skinned Hispanic guy (or in this case I guess cast him as one). It's important to his backstory that he's black Brazilian! They should have cast a black Brazilian guy sure, but the actor playing him is still Brazilian, not Hispanic.
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Gologle posted:It's very weird that they're marketing it as a horror movie, though. How the gently caress can you have a horror movie where your protagonists have superpowers? Part of what makes horror works is how powerless the protags are against the threat. Like, the people in The Grudge can't do poo poo against ghosts, but Magik has a magic sword and spells and stuff. Dude. Like half the loving horror franchises in existence have a superpowered protagonist. Jason got his rear end kicked by a psychic and a sexy android.
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Gologle posted:It's very weird that they're marketing it as a horror movie, though. How the gently caress can you have a horror movie where your protagonists have superpowers? - Find a way so that their powers contribute to their sense of powerlessness or alienation. Twist it so they're told they are Oh So Very Sick and make the powers a liability. - Go with the adolescence/puberty metaphor. Open Marriage Night posted:I hope the Sinister rumor is true. Giving him the keys to a mutant asylum is a great hook for a movie.
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FilthyImp posted:You could: I'm going to guess that all the horror stuff is a result of Dani's power, which they show they don't know what they are in the trailer. From the Marvel wiki: "Moonstar's mutant powers emerged at puberty, but she could not control her ability to create visible images of people's greatest fears. Manifesting the images at unexpected moments alienated her from everyone in her community, except for her parents".. I know you shouldn't spoiler tag speculation, but it seems pretty obvious if you know Dani Monnstar's powers. Also, in Deadpool 2 the asylum that Rusty is in is a Mr Sinister reference. The name of the place is the "Essex House for Mutant Rehabilitation". https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/State_Home_for_Foundlings
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Beerdeer posted:I'm very hype that Hickman has fully leaned on "Sure Sunspot is super strong but his real power is money" Sunspot's opening monologue was incredible and he just continued to be amazing throughout and I thought for sure that nothing could match it... and then Illyana's counter to the boarding party was equally amazing.  Honourable mentions: Chamber & Mondo, Deathbird's disdain, Karma's delight, the entire issue. Hickman & Reis are a ridiculous pairing. Dug Excalibur too. That was a really dramatic issue, but I enjoyed the disgruntled flirting & disgruntlement at not flirting with sexy druids in the quieter moments. Looking forward to seeing what's next, and glad that Remy was vindicated. X-Force was good, paying off last issue nicely.
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Magik did give them a choice.
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I skipped the Skottie Young Deadpool run-- does he still have his memory of the Duggan stuff erased? There's a scene between him and Captain America in today's issue and I wasn't sure to what extent their shared history was informing it.
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I always forget that classic New Mutants have some serious heavy hitters when they use their powers creatively. Magik and Karma could easily overthrow any government by themselves.
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Skwirl posted:I always forget that classic New Mutants have some serious heavy hitters when they use their powers creatively. Magik and Karma could easily overthrow any government by themselves. Karma is such a cool character who has been so consistently and drastically misused, going all the way back to Claremont, it's so refreshing to see her just get to do cool things and exist as a normal team-member.
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Archyduchess posted:Karma is such a cool character who has been so consistently and drastically misused, going all the way back to Claremont, it's so refreshing to see her just get to do cool things and exist as a normal team-member. Punch yourself, now say something nice to me, now punch yourself.
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Excalibur continues to have the most amazing art. It's heavenly to look at. I can't tell if I like the story it's telling, though. Five issues in and it's... serviceable?
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Archyduchess posted:Karma is such a cool character who has been so consistently and drastically misused, going all the way back to Claremont, it's so refreshing to see her just get to do cool things and exist as a normal team-member. Yeah. It's hard to walk away from 'the Shadow King possessed me and made me morbidly obese.' And it's not even as though nobody writes other characters with mind control, but for some reason Karma always gets the short end of the stick.
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Karma's one of the team's most powerful members, so she usually ends up jobbed, like whenever Dr Strange is on a team. That said, good issue!
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Archyduchess posted:I skipped the Skottie Young Deadpool run-- does he still have his memory of the Duggan stuff erased? There's a scene between him and Captain America in today's issue and I wasn't sure to what extent their shared history was informing it. As far as I know still erased yeah
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Roth posted:Between Sunspot respecting women and single mothers and Magik asking three aliens if they want to make out with her, that was a very good New Mutants issue. Magik asking if they were human just to make sure if she was allowed to kill them was pretty awesome.
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Saoshyant posted:Excalibur continues to have the most amazing art. It's heavenly to look at. I can't tell if I like the story it's telling, though. Five issues in and it's... serviceable? Yeah I'm really digging the series even though I'm not quite sure what's going on plot wise. It's gorgeous to look at and like I've said before it's a great team.
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Synthbuttrange posted:fallen angles So that's what's wrong with the art.
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Gologle posted:It's very weird that they're marketing it as a horror movie, though. How the gently caress can you have a horror movie where your protagonists have superpowers? Part of what makes horror works is how powerless the protags are against the threat. Like, the people in The Grudge can't do poo poo against ghosts, but Magik has a magic sword and spells and stuff. Characters having powers but being unable to just power their way through the horror scenario makes the horror more intense. It's why some horror movies throw in people who can fight, or people who are armed. Their being no less victimized than the unarmed non-fighters raises the stakes.
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Fallen Anglels is absolutely dunkable, but there was at least one pretty great Magneto moment in this latest issue. "But you want justice. You want to be justice. The boy inside of me will always understand that."
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I'm still reading Fallen Angels due to my apparent masochism. Even with the wildly inconsistent characterization of like, everyone but Magneto in the book (including Husk who ended up on the team this issue, along with Bling! who I have admittedly little experience with), the worst thing is the art, as demonstrated above.
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I also enjoyed Husk's line, but yeah get this old bad X-men out of my good new X-men.
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