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Open Marriage Night posted:If anyone here ordered the new Haslabs Sentinel, I better see a picture reenacting “It appears to be the ace of spades.” Brood Saga is one of my favorite arcs. I need to read the annuals from that era, when I was doing my read through I wasn't using a guide so I just read Uncanny in order on Marvel Unlimited and then checked out other stuff when an editor's note mentioned it.
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I’m using a guide, and as a kid born in 1985, it’s loving wild finding out the timeline of how things really turned out. Tomorrow I’m going to dive into the New Mutants. Also, I’m going to go into my HoX/PoX box and see how many X-Men books have been put out since then. Maybe break down some numbers before X of Swords.
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Didn’t they try to make Ahab some supporting character from late in the original run of Excalibur who loved mutants and had a crush on Rachel but got injured in an accident or something so now was going to get revenge on all mutants?
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Open Marriage Night posted:I’m using a guide, and as a kid born in 1985, it’s loving wild finding out the timeline of how things really turned out. Tomorrow I’m going to dive into the New Mutants. If you don't already own Fallen Angels don't bother getting it. It's not good and barely referenced in the other books.
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Rick posted:Didn’t they try to make Ahab some supporting character from late in the original run of Excalibur who loved mutants and had a crush on Rachel but got injured in an accident or something so now was going to get revenge on all mutants? It was Roderick Cambell, who found out he's supposed to turn into Ahab in the future and gets freaked out about it, so he takes positions helping mutants so that he never develops any anti-mutant bigotry--but then, what if that's just the thing that sets him on the path to become Ahab? Kinda intriguing but not actually good, IIRC. The name got used in The Gifted in one of the deepest continuity pulls for any TV show I can think of.
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Skwirl posted:If you don't already own Fallen Angels don't bother getting it. It's not good and barely referenced in the other books. I don't plan on reading it but what was bad about it?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I don't plan on reading it but what was bad about it? Just a complete misunderstanding of every single character and at least in the first half the plot wasn't good either. A real hatchet job on Laura/X-23/Wolverine that seemed like they didn't know anything about her since her first ongoing. Edit: A good clue that it's gonna be mostly ignored is she goes by X-23 in the book (and she had been going by that in her most recent book because the other Wolverine came back) and then the first time Hickman gives her dialogue it's to correct Cyclops that she's Wolverine, not X-23 and Logan Wolverine immediately backs her up. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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Sep 4, 2020 12:07
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Also the art is loving atrocious.
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Skwirl posted:Just a complete misunderstanding of every single character and at least in the first half the plot wasn't good either. Hill admitted he didn't read Laura's stuff since... well, he just hadn't read Laura's stuff and was a little surprised by the pushback.
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Dawgstar posted:Hill admitted he didn't read Laura's stuff since... well, he just hadn't read Laura's stuff and was a little surprised by the pushback.  She was literally Wolverine, and he didn't bother doing any research and just assumed nobody would care? You had like three leads, man! She was theo ne with the most backstory, why would you skip hers? Anyone got the tweets? I want to see his reasoning.
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I think he was just operating on 2000s-era X-23 as brooding, damaged loner canon.
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How Wonderful! posted:Smythe is also a former SA admin so I thought there was some horrific new goon scandal to catch up on.
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Skwirl posted:If you don't already own Fallen Angels don't bother getting it. It's not good and barely referenced in the other books. I’m dedicated to buying every X book as they come out. Fallen Angels was the only one that burned me. New Mutants I’d consider the most uneven.
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Android Blues posted:I think he was just operating on 2000s-era X-23 as brooding, damaged loner canon. Isn't that just Wolverine, though.
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Retro X-23 is extra damaged and extra brooding. Logan usually surrounds himself with allies, apprentices, and love interests, even in his low moods.
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I was trying to be funny, but you're right. She also doesn't drink, that I'm aware of, which is a nice change of pace.
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Android Blues posted:I think he was just operating on 2000s-era X-23 as brooding, damaged loner canon. On some level I can appreciate writers are too busy to read everything about the character they're writing but Hill didn't look at anything. You'd think at least he'd sneak a peek at the very last X-23 series.* What really got people was he was writing Cassandra Cain (who is, for good or ill, often compared to Laura) over for DC as part of a team book and people just loved it. *I can't recall if Hill ever even mentioned Gabby.
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Dan Didio posted:I was trying to be funny, but you're right. She also doesn't drink, that I'm aware of, which is a nice change of pace. Nope, just cutting! ...Which, given the drinking games on Krakoa is... hmm.
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Sep 4, 2020 21:47
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Is Anole old enough to be a bartender? Or even be anywhere near a bar?
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Saoshyant posted:Is Anole old enough to be a bartender? Or even be anywhere near a bar? Mutant laws! Maybe it's 18+ on Krakoa. I can't imagine the various Europeans and -[A]- on the Quiet Council pushing for 21 as the drinking age.
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 Some states let you tend bar at 18 even though you can't legally serve yourself!But also Krakoa has its own laws and maybe they don't give a gently caress about drinking at a minor!
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I think given that they have like 14 different ways to recover your body and brain to a perfect undamaged state, unblemished by everything from stab wounds to experimental super-viruses, that maybe the usual concerns about underage drinking do not necessarily apply to krakoan mutants I figure they've been okay with children committing murder if the dude's bad enough, let 'em have fun too
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Anole also was older at one point because a bunch of X-Men got stranded in the future or something. Never gets brought up because none of the New X-Men cohort other than Armor get the respect they loving deserve. Regarding the current arc in Wolverine: I never get tired of stupid Dracula poo poo in X-books. Vampires and X-Men make so little sense and I just cannot get enough of it.
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Rochallor posted:It was Roderick Cambell, who found out he's supposed to turn into Ahab in the future and gets freaked out about it, so he takes positions helping mutants so that he never develops any anti-mutant bigotry--but then, what if that's just the thing that sets him on the path to become Ahab? Kinda intriguing but not actually good, IIRC. The name got used in The Gifted in one of the deepest continuity pulls for any TV show I can think of. Ah, yes that's it. I remember it being very eye-rolly in execution and I'm normally a sucker for dramatic irony.
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rantmo posted:Anole also was older at one point because a bunch of X-Men got stranded in the future or something. Never gets brought up because none of the New X-Men cohort other than Armor get the respect they loving deserve. It is weird that there was a whole New Mutants comic and only the member who was a Reaver has any presence anymore.
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Beerdeer posted:It is weird that there was a whole New Mutants comic and only the member who was a Reaver has any presence anymore.
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Fritzler posted:Hey, Prodigy is on X-Factor and back with the X-Men after his short stint as a young avenger. And after graduating from multidimensional college! I was lukewarm on that book but I'm weirdly happy that it was mentioned.
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Fritzler posted:Hey, Prodigy is on X-Factor and back with the X-Men after his short stint as a young avenger. I wonder if speed will be appearing in x-factor
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bobkatt013 posted:I wonder if speed will be appearing in x-factor Is he a mutant? Not that that's a requirement, I just realized I didn't know if he was considered one, especially since Scarlett Witch is no longer a mutant.
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I'm pretty sure he is a mutant.
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In my heart maybe, but no. After Wanda's mutant status was retconned, Billy and Tommy are no longer considered mutants either.
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Skwirl posted:Is he a mutant? Not that that's a requirement, I just realized I didn't know if he was considered one, especially since Scarlett Witch is no longer a mutant. Northstar’s human husband is there. The issue might be his mother as she is the devil
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Important reveal regarding the resurrection process in the newest Marauders: Kate's finger tattoos didn't survive.
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Man, X-Factor.  It would be so easy to do a thing with the Mojoverse and social media and do it badly, having it come off as 'the Millenials with their twitchy streams and bell ringing and their big pants and I don't know what' but it really sings here. Daken gives the most perfect description of himself. #XFAQtor Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Beast is such an rear end in a top hat. It was nice to see Wolverine slug him.
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Dawgstar posted:Man, X-Factor. Did those New Warriors comics with Safe Space and Screen Time ever come out, or was that stuff scuttled before publication?
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Laughing Zealot posted:Important reveal regarding the resurrection process in the newest Marauders: Kate's finger tattoos didn't survive. That was revealed in last month's! Not pointed out directly but you can see they're not there. What WAS revealed this month about Kate is that resurrection CAN FINALLY MAKE YOU REALIZE YOU'RE BI AAAAAAAAAAA it's about GODDAMN time.
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NmareBfly posted:That was revealed in last month's! Not pointed out directly but you can see they're not there. I loved how Marauders #12 was in "that's gay to me, but people will just write it off as gals being pals" territory (though, really, really gay) and then Kate finally unleashed her best bisexual self.  My bet's on Rachel and Kitty getting together at last, not least because I'm pretty sure that Leah Williams is a big proponent of them?
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