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Today’s X-Men has a really interesting ending, great swerve I didn’t see coming. Hickman is just so good at producing these high concepts and getting tons of story possibilities out of them, there is enough here for years. Wolverine, though, was just ok and kind of boring tbh.
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I read today's X-Men and my feelings can be summarized in one panel. Indeed. The whole affair was not even necessary as a setup for yet another new status quo, one of uninteresting new characters being at war with Krakoa for dominion on Earth and ruining whatever masterplan Hickman's Moira had.
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Dec 30, 2020 19:28
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This is a pretty surface level read, but it's easy to read Arakoan mutants as some kind of reserve fighting force for when the X-Men get around to dealing with the existential threat posed by machine intelligence, since that is the ultimate endgame for Moira and the most looming of all threats to mutantkind's continued long-term existence. Not that I don't feel X of Swords was a whole lot of faffing around for not a lot of gain The X-Men as an elected body sounds like fun though
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Dec 30, 2020 20:07
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i thought x of swords was fun
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Dec 30, 2020 20:08
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Saoshyant posted:I read today's X-Men and my feelings can be summarized in one panel. I did like Doug's response to that question. 
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Dec 30, 2020 20:52
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howe_sam posted:I did like Doug's response to that question. 
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Dec 30, 2020 21:33
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One thing X of Swords did is create a power vacuum on the council and definitely set up for a future where apocalypse's return will feel triumphant.
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Dec 30, 2020 22:11
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OnimaruXLR posted:This is a pretty surface level read, but it's easy to read Arakoan mutants as some kind of reserve fighting force for when the X-Men get around to dealing with the existential threat posed by machine intelligence, since that is the ultimate endgame for Moira and the most looming of all threats to mutantkind's continued long-term existence. Not that I don't feel X of Swords was a whole lot of faffing around for not a lot of gain that is what they should be. instead, all the mutants will fight each other because this is x-men.
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Dec 30, 2020 22:31
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correct amounts of Doug, but there was not enough Bei
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Dec 30, 2020 23:37
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Next issue is the one where we find out what the gently caress happened to the better Wolverine, right?
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Dec 31, 2020 00:01
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Yeah, Laura comes back next issue. Really hoping my shop is open tomorrow because I just caught up on the other post Swords of X books (SWORD was really interesting), and I’m excited to see what Hickman is up to.
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Dec 31, 2020 00:12
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I appreciated the little detail in SWORD of Ewing calling out that Alpha Flight is now under Henry Gyrich... because that happened in Hulk. (And if you're not reading Hulk, a- What the gently caress is wrong with you and b- Gyrich has already royally screwed the pooch over there)
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Dec 31, 2020 00:25
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Gaz-L posted:I appreciated the little detail in SWORD of Ewing calling out that Alpha Flight is now under Henry Gyrich... because that happened in Hulk. (And if you're not reading Hulk, a- What the gently caress is wrong with you and b- Gyrich has already royally screwed the pooch over there) Peter Corbeau got a call out in SWORD didn't he? What's he been up to lately? Now that Moira is a mutant he's probably the coolest human that's mostly associated with X-books
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Dec 31, 2020 00:38
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Gaz-L posted:I appreciated the little detail in SWORD of Ewing calling out that Alpha Flight is now under Henry Gyrich... because that happened in Hulk. (And if you're not reading Hulk, a- What the gently caress is wrong with you and b- Gyrich has already royally screwed the pooch over there) Isn't Alpha Flight's whole thing being Canadian? And isn't Henry Gyrich's whole thing being a turbo American Neo-Con? How the hell did this happen?
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Dec 31, 2020 01:24
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OnimaruXLR posted:The X-Men as an elected body sounds like fun though I hope they let fans vote so I can finally have my team of Doop, and only Doop
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galagazombie posted:Isn't Alpha Flight's whole thing being Canadian? And isn't Henry Gyrich's whole thing being a turbo American Neo-Con? How the hell did this happen? Very excited to see what is happening in the vault. It is the X-men plot point I am the most interested in currently, and a very interesting team. edit: Open Marriage Night posted:Yeah, Laura comes back next issue. Fritzler fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Dec 31, 2020 01:38
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Fritzler posted:
Shoot, though I like Hickman's Scott and Jean and I always like Storm.
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Dec 31, 2020 01:51
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it's going to be really funny when warren gets more votes than hank.
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Dec 31, 2020 02:10
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Reposting this again: I can't really make out any of the silhouettes for the new X-Men team. Though it might be misdirection anyway.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:11
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I haven’t read a comic book from this century, but that really looks like Grant Morrison with purple lightning coming out of their eyes and mouth up in the top center there.
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Dec 31, 2020 03:13
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galagazombie posted:Isn't Alpha Flight's whole thing being Canadian? And isn't Henry Gyrich's whole thing being a turbo American Neo-Con? How the hell did this happen? Alpha Flight was retooled by Ewing and whoever was writing Captain Marvel at the time (Stahl?) to basically be what SWORD used to be (including Brand being second in command, which she mentions in the new SWORD), with some of the OG Canadian characters like Puck and Sasquatch, and backed by the UN, but mostly the US, Canada and Wakanda, it seemed. They've been appearing in Ewing's Hulk run with a mandate to hunt gamma mutates as 'Gamma Flight' and most recently resulted in Gyrich being a massive gently caress-up by letting Joe Fixit escape their space station by shooting out a window and literally cannonballing to Earth. There was some interesting stuff with them in Captain Marvel and Ewing's Ultimates.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I haven’t read a comic book from this century, but that really looks like Grant Morrison with purple lightning coming out of their eyes and mouth up in the top center there. That looks like one of Morrison's creations from New X-Men (2001-2004): Quentin Quire. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Dec 31, 2020 03:36
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Codependent Poster posted:Though it might be misdirection anyway. Promo stuff made it look like Magneto and I think a few others that didn't would be a big part of X of Swords.
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Dec 31, 2020 04:10
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Gaz-L posted:I appreciated the little detail in SWORD of Ewing calling out that Alpha Flight is now under Henry Gyrich... because that happened in Hulk. (And if you're not reading Hulk, a- What the gently caress is wrong with you and b- Gyrich has already royally screwed the pooch over there) Henry Peter Gyrich's continued employment by the US government is the single most salient sociopolitical criticism in superhero comics Even Lex Luthor eventually got removed from office after being elected president.
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Dec 31, 2020 10:17
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"if we fire him we're saying we made a mistake to hire him. Just find some harmless little project for him to lead. alpha flight? That's Canadian right? Perfect."
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I'm not taking the L, Emma. Thanks.
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Dec 31, 2020 15:46
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That face is super young so it'd have to be a Cuckoo.
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Beerdeer posted:That face is super young so it'd have to be a Cuckoo. Isn't there only one left?
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Dec 31, 2020 17:20
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I'm months behind so sure.
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Dec 31, 2020 17:21
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Gaz-L posted:Isn't there only one left? No, they're all back, even the one who was a crazy psychic vampire ghost. They're also all dating Cable, but consecutively and not concurrently, so it's not weird or anything.
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Dec 31, 2020 17:23
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And they’re all dating Cable. It’s still amazing that young Cable has been such a breakout hit character in this era of X-Men.
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Dec 31, 2020 17:27
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Open Marriage Night posted:It’s still amazing that young Cable has been such a breakout hit character in this era of X-Men. He's literally a likeable, popular Quentin Quire. It's amazing. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Dec 31, 2020 17:35
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Quentin Quire owns, though, unlike Kid Cable.
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Dec 31, 2020 17:39
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Yeah, it owns to see Quire being killed in so many creative new ways.
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Dec 31, 2020 17:52
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Saoshyant posted:Yeah, it owns to see Quire being killed in so many creative new ways. 
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Dec 31, 2020 17:52
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Young Cable rules. I just wish they would give him a different haircut.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Quentin Quire owns, though, unlike Kid Cable. Quire does own but still has a lot of lingering baggage from his initial, fascist characterization. Kid Cable doesn't have that baggage which gives him an advantage, but they're both good.
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They’re both good mohawk boys. Another great thing about young Cable is his relationship with Cyclops.
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