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Gologle posted:That reads like Forge has low to mid level cosmic awareness like guys like the Silver Surfer, Thor, Galactus, etc. have. He's also shaman and could actually cast magic spells in the past, I think.
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A fan minutia moment, I googled and see that page is from X-Factor's part of the Phalanx Covenant, Life Signs. In my time burning ways I curated myself a reading order of 90s X-Men books, skipping a lot of stuff, and opted to skip Life Signs. Just to make my load three issues lighter. And I miss a glorious Forge moment. Thus is the lot of the comic reader, too many to read, but you kinda want to read them all. But it's just not possible. Plus I'd probably get bored of the less good stuff.
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Jan 27, 2021 02:33
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rantmo posted:Tempo's gonna have a strong showing, X-fans loving love obscure but interesting characters like that. Personally I'm torn between her, Strong Guy, or Banshee because I'm the person who has always loved Banshee. I’ve always liked Tempo because of her 1994 trading card. Just some golden woman with all these blurred lines around her. Don’t really remember her from any comics, but I always remembered that image. She was the T in the X-Men ABC book I made in elementary school.
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Jan 27, 2021 02:34
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Skwirl posted:He's also shaman and could actually cast magic spells in the past, I think. He called demons up to avenge the killing of his unit in Vietnam! Which I guess means that actually happened in that racist fake Vietnam that's now canon? Anyway, Forge is good and that one time he wore those horny shorts.
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Jan 27, 2021 03:09
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danbanana posted:He called demons up to avenge the killing of his unit in Vietnam! Didn't he also cast the spell that made it look like the X-Men died just before the Australia arc?
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Jan 27, 2021 03:14
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Skwirl posted:Didn't he also cast the spell that made it look like the X-Men died just before the Australia arc? Kind of? I'm probably gonna butcher the details on this but if I remember right, he did do the spell to sacrifice them to save the world from The Adversary and then Roma stepped in and reincarnated them and made them invisible to electronic devices. My brother started buying the books just after this, so I have a very soft spot for the Ausie stuff.
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Jan 27, 2021 03:19
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drat I was hoping Bobby and Sam were both gonna be on the team. I'm leaning toward Sunspot because if he doesn't have his best pal at his side, he seems the type to trap someone else into being his best pal in the meantime. Or Boom-Boom, cause she's an agent of chaos. What I really want to see is Sunspot and Boom-Boom throwing back a few drinks and seeing where the night takes them. Not like that, but, you know, hijinks.
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Jan 27, 2021 03:21
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danbanana posted:Kind of? I'm probably gonna butcher the details on this but if I remember right, he did do the spell to sacrifice them to save the world from The Adversary and then Roma stepped in and reincarnated them and made them invisible to electronic devices. he did the spell to sacrifice them and thought it succeeded. he ended up being one of the later x-men characters to find out they survived.
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Jan 27, 2021 03:28
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Sunspot is one of my favorite characters, but I liked where he ended up, crashing on Sam's couch and flirting with Deathbird. Polaris has X-Factor and Armor has New Mutants. I like Boom Boom, Forge and Strong Guy, but I might vote for Marrow, it's been a while since she has done something interesting and I would love to see her have some sort of role in this era. Still, can't help but think on the time Marvel did something similar for a new Thunderbolts member during Parker's run, Shocker won and he lasted a couple of arcs before he was written out.
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Jan 27, 2021 14:55
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I've completely changed my mind. I'm voting for Tempo. Hope her fellow Mutant Liberation Force teammate Forearm eventually shows up too. New Mutants #98
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Fritzler posted:I've completely changed my mind. I'm voting for Tempo. Hope her fellow Mutant Liberation Force teammate Forearm eventually shows up too. There were jokes about MLF in the current New Mutants book, I think? They have their own section of Krakoa.
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This week's X-Men really does not benefit from having Brett Booth on pencils. Inexplicable. New Mutants was a delight though, and Vita Ayala seems to have introduced a new (albeit so far minor) non-binary mutant, which is cool.
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Jan 27, 2021 17:57
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so strong guy was dead and only came back via krakoa, right? this week's new mutants reminded me that his body only looks that way because of how his powers first manifested. so, what's up with him still looking the same as always?
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Jan 27, 2021 18:02
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Other than the art, one thing I rather liked about this week's NM was Rahne's depiction. Krakoa era has basically portrayed her as the baby girl on the team again. This week though it goes over both her past relationship with Elixir (from nearly two decades ago, jesus) and her (much maligned) son from the late X-Factor era. I am one of those people who geeks out when continuity is being used right to tell new stories. Also, lots of new little plots going in just one issue. I'm actually worried that Scout has barely no support with Laura gone and with all the crazy X-Men bullshit wasn't surprised she's not having an easy time figuring out what's real and what's not (i.e. people she met in Nate Grey's pocket dimension thingy).
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Jan 27, 2021 18:04
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Saoshyant posted:Other than the art, one thing I rather liked about this week's NM was Rahne's depiction. Krakoa era has basically portrayed her as the baby girl on the team again. This week though it goes over both her past relationship with Elixir (from nearly two decades ago, jesus) and her (much maligned) son from the late X-Factor era. I am one of those people who geeks out when continuity is being used right to tell new stories. With the way she'd been depicted, I was kind of thinking they might have deleted the crappy son and her death and stuff. I would have been super happy to have the Rahne back from right before the Elixir mess.
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Jan 27, 2021 18:07
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:so strong guy was dead and only came back via krakoa, right? this week's new mutants reminded me that his body only looks that way because of how his powers first manifested. so, what's up with him still looking the same as always? I choose to think it works like the Matrix. You look the way you look because that's how you looked and unless you specifically ask to come back different you're going to come back the way you and everyone else saw you/rself. It's the same reason Logan and Laura's hair always grows back to a certain length after being incinerated or whatever. Subconscious something or other blah blah
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Jan 27, 2021 18:09
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I mean, in this case, there's a literal reality distorter at work here in the form of Proteus.
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Jan 27, 2021 18:11
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Saoshyant posted:Other than the art, one thing I rather liked about this week's NM was Rahne's depiction. Krakoa era has basically portrayed her as the baby girl on the team again. This week though it goes over both her past relationship with Elixir (from nearly two decades ago, jesus) and her (much maligned) son from the late X-Factor era. I am one of those people who geeks out when continuity is being used right to tell new stories. Wow. I'd forgotten Rahne was once super horny for her student. (Elixir more than reciprocated, mind you.)
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Jan 27, 2021 20:30
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How Wonderful! posted:This week's X-Men really does not benefit from having Brett Booth on pencils. Inexplicable. New Mutants was a delight though, and Vita Ayala seems to have introduced a new (albeit so far minor) non-binary mutant, which is cool. I liked X-Men because it was completely 90's art as hell, along with Jean and Scott in their X-Factor uniforms.
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Yeah, it was very Whilce Portacio's X-Factor. Nice callback between the art and the costumes.
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Reminder that Brett Booth is a garbage person: https://www.comicsxf.com/2021/01/26/why-comicsxf-is-not-covering-brett-booths-comics/
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Uh, oh... So much for caring about this guy's work.
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danbanana posted:Reminder that Brett Booth is a garbage person: well now I don't feel bad for thinking his art looks like trash.
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Are they finally going to address the Big Space Collapse that arguably started with Annihilation: Conquest with the Phalanx take over and stuff? And why is it still a thing when Franklin remade reality?
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the gorgeous art definitely helps sell it but Gabby's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is my favorite comics this week. e: okay it's tied with Conan the Barbarian doing the popclaws pose and saying "SNIKT!" but New Mutants was very sweet Protagorean fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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I'm not sure if the Chainsaw Hands/Five Dicks paradigm has been addressed more recently in X-Line, but it was definitely interesting to see badass space valkyrie Dani Moonstar try and give a pep talk about how there's nothing wrong with the mutant powers of the girl who accidentally killed her family and warped herself into looking like a grade schooler's drawing of a monster
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it was a standard pep talk for young mutants and dani put absolutely no thought into it
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Ehh, the Crucible is specifically for mutants who lost their powers on M-Day, not mutants that have a physical deformity they don't like, Dani spends a huge chunk of her time hanging out with one of her closest friends that is missing a leg. Cosmar isn't eligible for it and Dani is trying to get her to realize that while also trying to keep her from committing suicide and having to wait in line behind all of Genosha. Also a poo poo ton of mutant's physical appearance radically changes when they first manifest their powers, if Cosmar was resurrected I'd put odds on either her looking identical the first time, or looking even weirder.
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The swerve with Amahl is that he's going to spend almost the entire story arc hanging around seeming to be the villain and in the end he has a heart to heart with Karma about the things the Shadow King did to them both and they end up finding a way to help Cosmar together.
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Gologle posted:Are they finally going to address the Big Space Collapse that arguably started with Annihilation: Conquest with the Phalanx take over and stuff? And why is it still a thing when Franklin remade reality?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:so strong guy was dead and only came back via krakoa, right? this week's new mutants reminded me that his body only looks that way because of how his powers first manifested. so, what's up with him still looking the same as always? Strong Guy was back from hell pre-Krakoa, though I'm not sure there was any explanation.
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rantmo posted:Strong Guy was back from hell pre-Krakoa, though I'm not sure there was any explanation. He got overthrown and then Magik pulled some strings and got his soul back. Then Rosenberg had him arrested by O.N.E., infected him with the transmode virus then he died shielding the rest of the Xmen from an explosion.
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It's nice to have Magik's actual personality back. I missed her as the snarky, aggressive big sister for the New Mutants.
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I need y'all with actual social media to tell Polaris fans to stop voting for Polaris in this poll and read X-Factor instead, cause she's gonna be out of that book if she becomes an X-Man and Hickman is clearly not planning anything specific to whoever gets this slot yet.
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Adder Moray posted:I need y'all with actual social media to tell Polaris fans to stop voting for Polaris in this poll and read X-Factor instead, cause she's gonna be out of that book if she becomes an X-Man and Hickman is clearly not planning anything specific to whoever gets this slot yet. Right, characters are only allowed to be in one book at a time. This is definitely how comics work.
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someone should have told Al Ewing before he put Cable in S.W.O.R.D., now they're gonna have to cancel his solo book!
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Don't even get me started on the 3 Wolverines theory!
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Semi off topic but is it just me or is there no way to actually vote if you're using Chrome? I was totally confused by their website until I opened it in lovely ol' Internet Explorer and all of a sudden there was the poll at the top of the page. Or UBlock Origin decided it was an advertisement or something. So I don't actually have a problem because I voted, just wondering if anyone else gets the same thing or letting anyone with the same confusion know there actually IS a poll but maybe ad-blockers block it. Anyway vote Roberto.
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Endless Mike posted:Right, characters are only allowed to be in one book at a time. This is definitely how comics work. https://mobile.twitter.com/mymonsterischic/status/1354408978248298496 Might not want to snark when you're uninformed about something.
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