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Saoshyant posted:(the one panel with Cyclops was disturbing). At the end? What the hell was up with his costume choice?
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Kingtheninja posted:At the end? What the hell was up with his costume choice? Laundry day
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Feb 9, 2020 18:26
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Gologle posted:This is honestly a good point. Right now I don't think we understand Xavier's true endgame other than "avert mutant extinction". Isn't Franklins power basically 'rewrite reality'? My guess is he'd want him on his side just for that, as it's a trump card basically. Beyond that, the resurrection protocols could possibly restore his powers as needed.
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Feb 9, 2020 18:35
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Itd be interesting if Franklin died or even got murdered by a mutant.
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Feb 9, 2020 19:36
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jng2058 posted:(though I guess even a cyborg Ross behind a desk filing reports no one reads would still fit the character) Call that series Desklok!
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Chinston Wurchill posted:The timeline on FF/X is a bit confusing. Pyro doesn't have his face tattoo so it's either before that happened in Marauders or after he died and was resurrected at some point yet to happen in Marauders. Or that's just a consistency error. In any case, probably best not to think about it too much. Yea i tend not to think about that buyt when its a big mystery of what happened to a character and then they're just chilling in another issue, it undercuts the tension. Not that I think they'd kill Kate off at this point.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:48
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We already know from previous issues that Kate and Emma have a permanent psychic PTT (PPPTT?) connection so I'm just waiting for the reveal about Kate being saved and while Shaw thinks she's dead, destroying everything he knows.
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Feb 9, 2020 22:54
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Kingtheninja posted:At the end? What the hell was up with his costume choice? Terrible costume, but this era is giving more leeway on costume choice. Jean is going to be wearing a different outfit in her issue of Giant Size than she has been in other books.
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Fishylungs posted:Call that series Desklok!  I'd read it.
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This is an excellent article: https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2020/02/krakoas-queer-futurism/
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frodnonnag posted:Isn't Franklins power basically 'rewrite reality'? My guess is he'd want him on his side just for that, as it's a trump card basically. Beyond that, the resurrection protocols could possibly restore his powers as needed. I can think of at least two other mutants with that same powerset on Krakoa already-- but neither of them with the moral upbringing of being raised in the first family of superheroics, which I think is the larger point. danbanana posted:Daredevil is always tortured by life. Spidey always sacrifices. Sam is always nigh-invulnerable when blastin'. Reed always fucks up because being smart means being unable to understand human nature. Somebody needs to make a horse version of Cannonball, in the style of Throg. "I'm neigh-invulnerable when I'm blastin'!"
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Feb 11, 2020 20:05
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Cabbit posted:Somebody needs to make a horse version of Cannonball, in the style of Throg. Well now I'm disappointed in Al Ewing for not giving Mr. Horse that line.
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Feb 11, 2020 20:10
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https://twitter.com/cracksh0t/status/1227274533641637893/photo/1 Lockheed on Emma's shoulder.
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Feb 11, 2020 20:16
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I still think they're playing Shaw.
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Feb 11, 2020 20:20
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Dawgstar posted:
Thank god.
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Aphrodite posted:I still think they're playing Shaw. Kate's funeral one issue BEFORE the logical conclusion of the arc (in #12)? Yeah, it's a long con all right.
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Aphrodite posted:I still think they're playing Shaw. Yeah, but I'm not looking forward to 5 issues without drunken pirate Kate.
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Feb 11, 2020 21:11
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Makes her appearance in X/FF kinda confusing?
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Endless Mike posted:Spoilers: it's a comic book and she will survive/be resurrected and timelines don't always match up exactly with other comics.
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Feb 12, 2020 03:18
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*editors note: this comic takes place when kate's not a corpse
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If only No Prizes still existed! We'd all win!
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Every month I waver back and forth on how much I buy into the Krakoan propaganda regime. Last issue I was honestly pretty for it, what with its bold new world ideology with the actual means and will to enforce that ideology. It was the first time since the reboot that I thought, okay yeah, this actually does feel like something new, something that hadn't been tried before, instead of just saying so ad nauseum. Go on with your bad selves, Charles/Erik. Your dicks are huge and you're using them to great effect. This issue, though? I'm reminded deeply of Ursula Le Guin's short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." And this week I'm fully behind team Mystique and her very deserved incentive to burn it all down to the loving ground. You go, Raven. Leave none standing. Next issue?...who knows how I'll feel! 
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Yeah it reminds me of why I'm skeptical of optimistic or utopian queer readings of the Krakoa reboot, insofar as I'm already skeptical of how well a straight writer can write a queer utopia that would be compelling to me. Krakoa is relentlessly and energetically focused on futurity, but a specifically reproductive futurity-- they're all about the injunction to make more new mutants through old-fashioned means as much as possible. We have vague intimations of polyamorous relationships but the main one we've seen coy hints of is still focused around the central point of the ultra-heterosexual Scott Summers, his exes, his romantic rivals. I think the only happy queer relationship we've seen on page-- and forgive me if I'm forgetting one, or missed one in one of the books I'm not reading-- has been Bobby Drake and Christian Frost, which seems like it is not going to end well given Christian's scheming. Obviously we're meant to sympathize with Mystique in this issue, with her rage at spending decades unable to openly celebrate her love for her wife and now, in a post-death society that promises everything, at still being separated from her, a singular act of estrangement in a nation where love is the strongest form of agitprop and death is no longer a barrier. We're supposed to see Krakoa, in this case, through her embittered eyes, but to me it's showing us a version of the place I'd sort of intuited all along. I liked this issue quite a bit and it suggests that Hickman is in his mode where he has something interesting to say about power and its operations instead of just showing us stuff about power.
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x-force is a very serious comic book
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how did Moira convince literally everyone in the leadership that Destiny has to stay dead? just tell that to Mystique
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Goa Tse-tung posted:how did Moira convince literally everyone in the leadership that Destiny has to stay dead? just tell that to Mystique
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Goa Tse-tung posted:how did Moira convince literally everyone in the leadership that Destiny has to stay dead? just tell that to Mystique Mystique would not give a poo poo. That os just not who she has ever been. She only cares about the bigger picture insofar as that picture benefits her.
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whenever mystique works with someone, she betrays them. it's how she's ended her every membership on an x-team over the years. the only exception was destiny. it was always foolish to try to keep her leashed with a promise they had no intention of keeping. like, what did they think was going to happen?
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I think the only question at this point is exactly how prepared Chuck and the gang are to deal with Mystique's inevitable betrayal (even if it is justified, for once) I kind of wonder if this results the first real political strife on the island. It's not like there's a shortage of beef to take advantage of, considering who's on the council. All it would take is a bit of commiseration between Raven and Apocalypse, who probably wants more power than he already has, maybe rope Sinister into it, and there you go. Hell, it could even be a ploy on Xavier's behalf to use Mystique as magnet to attract the island's dissident forces together under one banner before chucking them all in the Sabertooth hole.
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I would imagine there’d be considerably more pushback on throwing a council member into the pit. Which in turn is making me question why they made her one at all knowing this could potentially become an issue.
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The thing I'm wondering is how likely it is that Chuck hasn't already read her mind, either recently or over the years, and discovered Destiny's warning? e: You know, since Jean's already proven she can helm the resurrection process, maybe what Raven needs to do is to try and convince Jean and the Five to bring back Destiny without Charles' involvement at all. She is a Council member, and if she can convince Jean her cause is just then having two Council members ask the Five may be influence enough. Or, hell, bring it up in an open Council session and make Chuck and Erik either have to back down and let Destiny come back or at least get a public explanation why. But no, we're probably going to have her sabotage missions in a way that does incalculable harm instead. 
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jng2058 posted:The thing I'm wondering is how likely it is that Chuck hasn't already read her mind, either recently or over the years, and discovered Destiny's warning? Fritzler fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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jng2058 posted:The thing I'm wondering is how likely it is that Chuck hasn't already read her mind, either recently or over the years, and discovered Destiny's warning? Down this road lies the Phantom Menace
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jng2058 posted:The thing I'm wondering is how likely it is that Chuck hasn't already read her mind, either recently or over the years, and discovered Destiny's warning? Or I'm thinking of someone else.
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BrianWilly posted:I seem to recall Mystique having some degree of psychic resistance, 'cuz her mind is...malleable or something? No, that rings a bell. I think that's why she had Forge as a minder in her ongoing BKV did.
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Dawgstar posted:No, that rings a bell. I think that's why she had Forge as a minder in her ongoing BKV did. Also they have a history of banging
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Caught up with the last couple weeks of books. Marauders... I like them dragging out Kate's fate. I don't like them implying Lockheed is dead. But this is going to sound like an Old Man Yellin' At Sky thing... This is the kind of issue that Claremont slayed in his prime: a story heavily based on character interactions, some secondary action, little plot movement but a teaser for the next issue. I think Duggan's been pretty great on this book but I definitely wanted something more substantial. The Emma-Calisto stuff was all vagueries and one-liners and then a quick resolution. I want melodrama and exposition, dammit! X-Men/FF... Zdarsky's best trait as a writer is highlighting a character's most basic traits and he really succeeds here. But I loving hate a lot of the stuff Slott has done to FF, including the aging of the Richards kids and the nerfing of Franklin's powers. I don't want Emo Frankie. But Chip does his best with it. X-Men... Loved it. This has all that 80s X-stuff I love in a modern package. I also really like how it feels like they're finally pushing away from the 6-issue story arc that's been driving comics for the last 20 years. Hickman kind of played towards that with his Avengers run, but this is far more in-line with storytelling from the pre-trade era than that was. Maybe I'm appreciating it more since I am buying single issues for the first time in over a decade but I'm all for more books doing this.
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https://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2020/02/17/x-men-monday-48-jonathan-hickman-answers-your-giant-size-x-men-questions/ The Giant-Size stories will end with Storm, and are connected. Dauterman returns for it too!  Also, confirmation: quote:Jonathan: The Xavier we saw in HOX/POX and up to X-Force #1 was the Astonishing Xavier. Post resurrection is Charles in Charles’s body. We’ve drawn him ever so slightly skinnier.
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I’m ready for Buff Shirtless Charles still wearing the Cerebro helmet.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I’m ready for Buff Shirtless Charles still wearing the Cerebro helmet. Is he an American male?
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