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Nessus posted:Bobby is probably an old-blood WASP. That was his Super Sauce. Nah he's from a blue collar Long Island family, Irish-Catholic dad, Jewish mom. They came up a surprising amount in the 90s.
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How Wonderful! posted:Nah he's from a blue collar Long Island family, Irish-Catholic dad, Jewish mom. They came up a surprising amount in the 90s. Whatever happened to Bobby's yakuza princess girlfriend I wonder?
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Dawgstar posted:Whatever happened to Bobby's yakuza princess girlfriend I wonder? Still away from the family business. Had a baby with some European guy who supposedly looked like Bobby, and she named her son Robert. It was not a very good story, which is surprising considering the authors usually come up with good stuff. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jun 17, 2021 |
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Jun 17, 2021 16:30
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How Wonderful! posted:Nah he's from a blue collar Long Island family, Irish-Catholic dad, Jewish mom. They came up a surprising amount in the 90s.
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Jun 17, 2021 16:32
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bobby drake is not an omega level mutant please stop saying he is
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Jun 17, 2021 16:35
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Nessus posted:I can tell you it's not exactly rare in the NYC metro area, at least. Neat! Yeah, it's somewhat similar to my background (not NYC metro) so I always liked it.
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Alaois posted:bobby drake is not an omega level mutant please stop saying he is sure he is it's right there on the chart, dude
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Jun 17, 2021 17:07
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Alaois posted:bobby drake is not an omega level mutant please stop saying he is Um, excuse me he got a belt to stop him from freezing the world. 
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I'd like to see more Omega if they weren't a dumbass type mutants like Bobby. Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)* * When she realizes her power is effectively splitting atoms.
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Aphrodite posted:I'd like to see more Omega if they weren't a dumbass type mutants like Bobby. Honestly a little surprised her and Synch weren't on Hickman's Omega list. Back in Gen X they were referred to as "eventually becoming two of the powerful mutants ever" and now Synch can mimic robots.
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Jun 17, 2021 17:33
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Gologle posted:Yeah but Wolverine is the best there is at what he does, and what he does isn't very nice! With Laura around I don't think that's true anymore. Doubly so if what happened to Gabby isn't permanent.
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Skwirl posted:Back in Gen X they were referred to as "eventually becoming two of the powerful mutants ever" There's no lazier way for a writer to give a character heat than imply that at some undetermined point in the future, they get super important/powerful. *Thinks back to the BKV Runaways where a flashforward to the future shows them in the Avengers in 10 years, amongst other examples of this* ETA: This should not be as me stating that run is bad and/or BKV is lazy. But the trope in comics is pretty pointless given the unchanging (long-term) characters.
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Skwirl posted:Honestly a little surprised her and Synch weren't on Hickman's Omega list. Back in Gen X they were referred to as "eventually becoming two of the powerful mutants ever" and now Synch can mimic robots. synch isn't even the strongest proximity-based power duplicator. hope can do that effortlessly, as well as a bunch of other poorly-defined stuff too.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:synch isn't even the strongest proximity-based power duplicator. hope can do that effortlessly, as well as a bunch of other poorly-defined stuff too. I really noticed during Planet-Size how much they use Hope to do basically everything, and yet she almost never appears on camera outside of being a plot device. Barely has any lines, doesn't get any laffs. I loved her as "a girl raised by Cable who's been fleeing from a murderer her entire life so she's better than you at everything but isn't usually obnoxious about it" and it's weird that she's practically the pin holding together the entire Krakoan system and yet is hardly a character anymore. Also I too am totally bouncing off X-Corp until they figure out how to make running a business something actually worth reading about in a comic book. I did laugh out loud at the line "Nazi mutants (gently caress) off" though. edit: Wait, they already figured out how to make a mutant business interesting. It's called Marauders. Why do we need X-Corp, again?
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Hope gets a bit more screentime in SWORD (It's nice, I like the 5), but I'm not sure that'll continue once it starts getting more and more spacey. BTW, I'm not stepping foot inside SWORD Station 2. Anything that comes out of that man is unholy. I bet if you die in it you get Rockslided.
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I did kind of raise an eyebrow at everybody being like "wow, what a WEIRD idea! We've done some crazy stuff before not like this THIS!" and then the plan turned out to functionally be "make another space station like the one we already have." I guess it's kind of weird that it just popped out of Jamie Braddock's womb and impressive that he could do it at all but that seemed like an unintended consequence. And then everybody being like, "now HERE'S another DOOZY" and then they just make a boring looking space port. Like surely they would have built a space port eventually anyway? If a wizard appears before me and manifests a parking garage I'm going to be more impressed by the wizard than the parking garage. Maybe I missed something really astonishing about SWORD II or the port?
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The fact that a space station and space port were created in the blink of an eye?
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There is a lot of supremely advanced tech on the Sword station. Forge could have probably built something similar or even better, but why bother when you can reality warp a photo copy in. That's what's impressive. The port was just compliments for attention to detail.
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The port was probably so they could do the 2010 riff about landings
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if there is a mutants at work book i'd rather get one about the five than x-corp. proteus has never been treated as a person before, hope is hope, elixir is a mass of ptsd, tempus has spent decades lost in time, goldballs was never taken seriously by anyone including himself. then they've got this weird rear end family dynamic which has been only briefly hinted at. that's way more interesting than the monet and angel incompetence extravaganza.
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I didn't expect the omega question to result in all of this discussion but I love it. Seconding the idea of a book about the Five over x-corp. You create a utopia separated from the world and then want to get into the mechanics of capitalism and corporate life. I'll pass
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I enjoy the idea of a book lead by Warren, Monet, and Madrox, but I have no clue where they’re going with this, and why anyone would think involving Mastermind would be a good idea. More Sunspot, please.
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I suspect Mastermind is there for the same reason they let Sinister lead a team of emotionally traumatized former villains.
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Skwirl posted:I suspect Mastermind is there for the same reason they let Sinister lead a team of emotionally traumatized former villains. Hijinks and shenanigans 
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rantmo posted:Hijinks and shenanigans The mutants are trying to create an entirely new culture here, so clearly "because it's funny" has been adopted as a guiding principle
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:The mutants are trying to create an entirely new culture here, so clearly "because it's funny" has been adopted as a guiding principle Also give the dangerously deranged capes
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:The mutants are trying to create an entirely new culture here, so clearly "because it's funny" has been adopted as a guiding principle So they're adopting internet culture circa 2004? I foresee zero potential issues with this.
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I kind of wish SWORD was coming out more often because I'm curious if the second station is going to be covered in it, and kind of hope they develop an inter-satellite rivalry Actually, are the Arakkoans going to be manning the Mars station? That seems like a good way to get into a war with the rest of the universe
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Nah,they adapt best when challenged, keeping the peace is the biggest challenge they ever faced. First sign of conflict it will be this [MODEDIT: IMAGE REMOVED] Times a million. Somebody fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:The mutants are trying to create an entirely new culture here, so clearly "because it's funny" has been adopted as a guiding principle when you petition the council for anything, there's a list of reasons you can check off for why you want it and one of the options is "lol. lmao."
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https://twitter.com/RPHutch1975/status/1406327045630664721?s=19
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Skwirl posted:Nah,they adapt best when challenged, keeping the peace is the biggest challenge they ever faced. Put a content warning on pictures like this next time, please! 
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That was a roller coaster of emotions in today's SWORD. From "well, this is interesting" to "wow, WTF, I did not expect this reveal" to "aww, I can't believe Ewing is making me care about these two" And the art, it just makes it gel so perfectly. I loved every panel in this thing. More, please. I need more!
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I love the recurring theme that Krakoa can't get leverage on Wakanda no matter what. I feel like that has to come to a head somewhere. Edit: Also, when was it revealed that Doom's middle name is Karen? 
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And the one thing I was missing in SWORD, always someone out there dunking on Cortez, Way of X got that covered: Amazing work in everything else as well. Stacy X showing up was a surprise. Give it up for the procreation police!
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And, finally, Wolverine #13 sucked rear end. Dreadful conclusion to the plot it was trying to set and for anyone expecting Beast to finally get his comeuppance keep waiting, 'cause that didn't happen.
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Saoshyant posted:And, finally, Wolverine #13 sucked rear end. Dreadful conclusion to the plot it was trying to set and for anyone expecting Beast to finally get his comeuppance keep waiting, 'cause that didn't happen. The speech he gave Emma will come to bite him in the rear end, and I am sure it will happen in x-force not wolverine
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I get the feeling the Storm reveal in SWORD was supposed to be like "OHHH poo poo" but instead my reaction, and I imagine Doom's, was more along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pePpxU58M
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OnimaruXLR posted:I get the feeling the Storm reveal in SWORD was supposed to be like "OHHH poo poo" but instead my reaction, and I imagine Doom's, was more along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pePpxU58M To be fair, it's supposed to have that effect on anyone who knows anything about anything. The entrance was for the aliens who don't know to put respect on the name Storm.
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