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There’s also a plant race involved that will be the focus of the Empyre X-Men mini series, and the couple issues of X-Men that will be tieing in.
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Open Marriage Night posted:There’s also a plant race involved that will be the focus of the Empyre X-Men mini series, and the couple issues of X-Men that will be tieing in. The ones whose planet Phoenix destroyed?
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The plant aliens that Phoenix blew up in the Dark Phoenix Saga were the D'Bari. The plant aliens in Empyre are the Coati, who in deep lore were co-inhabitants of Hala alongside the Kree millions of years ago. The Skrulls (who were basically a peaceful race at the time) set up a contest between the Kree and the Coati for some goddamn reason to see which one would be admitted into their bootleg United [Federation of] Planets, and the tech-based Kree were worried/mad that the hippie plant/organic Coati might actually win the competition, so they slaughtered all of the Coati contestants and declared victory, which I think was probably supposed to be a Garden of Eden metaphor when Steve Englehart wrote this all fifty years ago. Even though the Kree won the 'contest', their violence eventually led to the eternal Kree/Skrull wars. This was all described in Englehart's run on Avengers, all for the backstory of Mantis, who was the prophecized Celestial Madonna of the surviving nomadic Coati, who resurrected Swordsman as a tree and made Mantis marry Tree Swordman to give birth to the Celestial Messiah. All of this has been politely ignored pretty much forever by anyone not named Steve Englehart, so it's confusing that it's the basis for this summer's big event. As it turns out, Mantis (and his dad(?) Tree Swordsman) are back! And the Celestial Messiah's plan to bring peace is to turn all plants into warriors to exterminate animal life in cosmic vengeance for the Original Sin described above. The Kree and Skrull aren't invading, they're allied uneasily with each other and also the Fantastic Four, Avengers, X-Men, etc. I do kind of wonder how much of this was planned in parallel/consultation with all of Hickman's Krakoa stuff.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:28
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Edge & Christian posted:All of this has been politely ignored pretty much forever by anyone not named Steve Englehart, so it's confusing that it's the basis for this summer's big event. It's an Al Ewing gig and Al Ewing has shown pretty good use of obscure continuity in most of his books I've read. Just based on his involvement, I'd expect it to be better-than-average as a event book that I'll try out when it hits MU. I guess Slott is involved too and I'm not a fan so that adds into the calculus as well.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:47
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Edge & Christian posted:This was all described in Englehart's run on Avengers, all for the backstory of Mantis, who was the prophecized Celestial Madonna of the surviving nomadic Coati, who resurrected Swordsman as a tree and made Mantis marry Tree Swordman to give birth to the Celestial Messiah. All of this has been politely ignored pretty much forever by anyone not named Steve Englehart, so it's confusing that it's the basis for this summer's big event. Even as Mantis' stuff hit critical mass ages ago and made my eyes reflexively glaze over I do sort of admire Steve for taking that story to no less than three different comic companies.
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Jul 15, 2020 22:09
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Hickman is writing the Empyre tie-in for X-Men, so I'm sure that he'll make it work and it'll be an important chapter even if it isn't until down the road. The guy doesn't seem to let anything not be something in his runs.
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Jul 15, 2020 22:17
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Also Empyre has a lot to do with the blue spot on the moon which will probably impact Cyclops' polycule.
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Jul 15, 2020 22:36
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I'm pretty sure The Blue Spot on the Moon is the name of Cyclops's polycule.
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Laughing Zealot posted:Is there any idea of when the next Marauders issue drops? Giant Size Magneto (which is good) finally has an updated publishing schedule in the back, Marauders isn't on there and it goes through the 29th, so Hopefully the first week in August.
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https://twitter.com/KrakoaWelcomes/status/1283566259712462848?s=20
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So a friend of mine is reading HoX/PoX and is doing a write up. She has no more than a surfave level, general population knowledge of X-Men and I am providing next to no context outside of what's in the books. This is a part of the... i don't want to call it an experiment, but experiment. She's done all of HoX #1 so far and I suggested she turn her document into a blog. Would any of y'all be interested in reading that?
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Adder Moray posted:So a friend of mine is reading HoX/PoX and is doing a write up. She has no more than a surfave level, general population knowledge of X-Men and I am providing next to no context outside of what's in the books. This is a part of the... i don't want to call it an experiment, but experiment. She's done all of HoX #1 so far and I suggested she turn her document into a blog.
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Adder Moray posted:So a friend of mine is reading HoX/PoX and is doing a write up. She has no more than a surfave level, general population knowledge of X-Men and I am providing next to no context outside of what's in the books. This is a part of the... i don't want to call it an experiment, but experiment. She's done all of HoX #1 so far and I suggested she turn her document into a blog. It’d be fun to hear the thoughts of someone that hasn’t been reading X-Men for almost thirty years, or all of Hickman’s Marvel work. First question is: What brought HoX/PoX to her attention?
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Open Marriage Night posted:It’d be fun to hear the thoughts of someone that hasn’t been reading X-Men for almost thirty years, or all of Hickman’s Marvel work. Anyways, here it is.
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Open Marriage Night posted:It’d be fun to hear the thoughts of someone that hasn’t been reading X-Men for almost thirty years, or all of Hickman’s Marvel work. Do you mind if I add? I Started reading Xmen in early 80s (likely 83 or 84). In fact I have a strong memory of telling all my GI Joe and Transformer loving friends about the comics and they got hooked for a few years. Keep in mind there were no cartoon, toys, anything with X-Men, back then. Was totally into New Mutants, X-Factor, and Excalibur but stopped reading right before AoA started. I don't recall my exact reason for dropping the books but I was more into DC at the time and was getting sick of the glut of X-Books and Wolverine showing up in every other title. Plus Claremontm left , X-Factor was all new, New Mutants moved on to be X-Force, it just wasn't the same for me anymore. I've tried to read some collections over the years of new stuff, but could not get into it. Wikipedia articles fill in the gap when I'm curious about some things. I've tried various jumping on points over the years but each time it seems I'm dropped in the middle of something I just don't understand. So when I heard of HoX/PoX I thought I would try again. They've done a fantastic job so far. Honestly it seems that in some ways they've just hit the reset button so I no longer need to have a working knowledge of the last 20 years of stories to understand what's going on. If an old obscure character or plot is talked about it's done so in a way that while I may not know the history, but the writing makes me understand why a "thing" is important to the current plot right now. I enjoy the nostalgia of classic characters but am thankful they are not beating you over the head with it. I am enjoying see all mutants now as a formidable force in the 616 were as in the 80s they were always last place.
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I don't know if it count as a spoiler, but here's some promo art of the villains from X of Swords. gently caress yeah giant crocodile with a sword!
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I don't know if it count as a spoiler, but here's some promo art of the villains from X of Swords. Is Summoner that person rescued in X-Men 1 that disappeared or the person on the island that merges with Krakoa in X-Men 2, and is Arakko that island? And have we seen any of the others anywhere before?
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Skwirl posted:Is Summoner that person rescued in X-Men 1 that disappeared or the person on the island that merges with Krakoa in X-Men 2, and is Arakko that island? And have we seen any of the others anywhere before? The latter, I think. And yes. and only maybe the horsemen, afaik
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Skwirl posted:Is Summoner that person rescued in X-Men 1 that disappeared or the person on the island that merges with Krakoa in X-Men 2, and is Arakko that island? And have we seen any of the others anywhere before? Given the Egyptian looks here, as well as the view glances we've had at the First Horsemen, I think there's an intended connection. This summoner looks a lot like the one from X-Men #2, though the dot is covering up part of the chest symbol. There's a data page in it talking about the "level" of Summoner based on what the symbol looks like.
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Just re-read X-Men 2 and Summoner, War, and Arakko are all introduced there. And yeah, of course they're tied to Apocalypse and this looks to involve his original Horsemen.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:25
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It appears to me that this Pog is some sort of champ
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Jul 17, 2020 22:47
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Pog your pogs, man, pog your pogs.
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Jul 17, 2020 22:51
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That image has led me to discover that, amazingly, there has never been a Marvel character named Slammer.
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Spent most of tonight with my spouse in our "office" which I have 3 shelves of old comic book stuff and saw this on top:
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Jul 18, 2020 05:41
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I'm looking and finding lots of X-Men. This is a pretty lame game!
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Saoshyant posted:Pog your pogs, man, pog your pogs. Remember Sobek? He's back! In pog form!
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Remember Sobek? He's back! In pog form! Better than shoes
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i'm the second cyclops
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Why is Colossus jumping around a leprechaun and the hare from Alice in Wonderland?
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nunsexmonkrock posted:Spent most of tonight with my spouse in our "office" which I have 3 shelves of old comic book stuff and saw this on top: You should post some more pictures of this book. I’d have loved this as a kid. I had a Gargoyles one back in the day that was a lot of fun.
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Codependent Poster posted:Why is Colossus jumping around a leprechaun and the hare from Alice in Wonderland?
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Endless Mike posted:I'm looking and finding lots of X-Men. This is a pretty lame game! As for me I love finding X-Men so I think the game is fantastic.
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Man, remember when Forge would be front and center for things?
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nunsexmonkrock posted:Spent most of tonight with my spouse in our "office" which I have 3 shelves of old comic book stuff and saw this on top: I had this as a kid and can confirm that it ruled.
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Open Marriage Night posted:You should post some more pictures of this book. I’d have loved this as a kid. I had a Gargoyles one back in the day that was a lot of fun. Sounds like a good idea - I am not good at taking pictures and my phone wants me to make everything sideways so I have to edit it to rotate it. Page 1:  Page1 (clearer?)  Page 2:  Edit: Codependent Poster posted:Why is Colossus jumping around a leprechaun and the hare from Alice in Wonderland? I always thought he was getting hit in the back with fire and not jumping over. Edit 2: Added what I think is a clearer image of page 1 nunsexmonkrock fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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I had that book as a child too, looking for X-Men is a lot more fun than looking for Wally (Waldo).
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Gateway looks like he's tossing a pizza.
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Skwirl posted:Gateway looks like he's tossing a pizza. you don't see what he has in mind
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If anyone wants me to take crappy pictures of more let me know - don't want to fill the thread with something no one wants. For reference I found everything except for the gyroscope and the control panel.
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