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On Legion of X #4, I know it's out-of-time with the other X-books and probably set well before A.X.E. #1 but the first thing I thought when we met Tumult, the God Chimaera was "Eternals and Iron Man, what the hell have you done giving Sinister Celestial DNA"
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It's too bad Gambit is dead so he couldn't supercharge Wrongslide to run at Uranos.
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I really loved two lines from Immortal today too. "Bless that nerd." and "I have a sweary messiah."
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danbanana posted:Loved the Big Gun joke.
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So Uranos is Thanos, plus he has a massive, possibly infinite? arsenal of all kinds of weapons that are hiding in a sub-dimension that can be deployed at at will, even from great distances? nobody tell tony. he'll start getting ideas.
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I don't want him to Wrongslide into Uranos though. It sounds like it would be very painful!
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Regarding Immortal X-Men I thought the data page combining the style of the Eternals and X-Men data pages was a clever touch. It was a good slate of issues today but I suspect Legion of X will read better in a trade format.
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"e-psi-dermis" is loving brilliant.
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Aug 4, 2022 04:55
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I also really enjoyed X-Men Red where Nova was kicking rear end and saving lives again, while also being like "goddammit not again". Nova needs a break! Also I like that he's sort of an honorary Brotherhood/X-Men member now
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So with Magneto did I read that right in that he’s using his powers to keep his blood circulating?
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:So with Magneto did I read that right in that he’s using his powers to keep his blood circulating? 
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BrianWilly posted:That’s how I took it! Something something iron in his blood something If that's the case he should have started stuffing the barf metal down Uranos' throat and see if he could rupture him from the inside out as a clever temporary victory, I'll never understand when you have a writer have someone like Magneto be clever enough to squash Tarn's head like a watermelon with his own helmet, but not have him just be like oh right you're really strong, how's about we start shoving slivers of metal down your nose to clog whatever you call a heart or brain be severed internally. Only for them to follow tired tropes to show how badass grandpa villain is. And that's because I loved the end splash page. If the Eternals can resurrect themselves pretty quickly have them take a temporary loss due to their hubris. It wouldn't have hurt in the long run I don't think.
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Aug 4, 2022 07:07
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I think it's safe to say that Magneto's powers are "whatever you can show with a pink energy field and make up a Magnetism buzzword for."
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wiegieman posted:I think it's safe to say that Magneto's powers are "whatever you can show with a pink energy field and make up a Magnetism buzzword for." That's why I was initially confused. It almost looked like a machine or something
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:That's why I was initially confused. It almost looked like a machine or something Perhaps he assembled nearby scrap metal into a substitute circulatory system.
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Aug 4, 2022 23:51
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Saying "Magneto should have beaten the most powerful Eternal guy right off the bat" is not the way to build a story. You have to put the X-Men in danger. You have to make it seem like the Eternals are going to win. Because we all know as fans that the X-Men are gonna walk away from this and keep on having adventures, so the fun in the story is seeing how they can pull off a victory against overwhelming odds. So you have to take the Arakki off the board so there's no backup for the X-Men. You give their most powerful members a temporary defeat so they're the ones who look like the underdogs and we see how they win in the end. How will they defeat Uranos? Who will defeat him? Will anyone actually defeat him?
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Hey, maybe by both murdering the hell out of the Arakki and having a name vaguely like at least one divine entity Uranos has now fulfilled their criteria to be their god and Mars can have an evil old man Thanos commanding a horde of subservient social Darwinists to transform it into some sort of doomsday device.
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magneto killing uranos wouldn't even matter. he'd be back the next day.
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I’m amazed that Marvel had the restraint to take Thanos off the table before the event. He might still show up, but he was the Prime Eternal before this.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:magneto killing uranos wouldn't even matter. he'd be back the next day. Also literally nothing they did meaningfully phased him at any point, if Magneto filled the guys heart with metal his heart would have beaten the poo poo out of the metal and called it a mutant slur. Uranos killed a planet of super people 1v1 while sneering at them the entire time, there's only so far you can push character popularity power before you give the excuse of why it's working. They need to figure out a "Man, what do we do about this guy?" that makes sense before they start fighting back. Granted they did set the bar a little high this time, what with taking David out really quickly and having Uranos basically unaffected by the process.
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gonna go ahead and guess that since that battle was entirely off page that what you think happened isn't really what happened
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Mulva posted:Also literally nothing they did meaningfully phased him at any point, if Magneto filled the guys heart with metal his heart would have beaten the poo poo out of the metal and called it a mutant slur. Uranos killed a planet of super people 1v1 while sneering at them the entire time, there's only so far you can push character popularity power before you give the excuse of why it's working. They need to figure out a "Man, what do we do about this guy?" that makes sense before they start fighting back. Granted they did set the bar a little high this time, what with taking David out really quickly and having Uranos basically unaffected by the process. Well Uranos is still bound to his cell. Any appearances he makes are temporary. So long as no one lets him out Uranos can't do anything. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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Drakyn posted:Hey, maybe by both murdering the hell out of the Arakki and having a name vaguely like at least one divine entity Uranos has now fulfilled their criteria to be their god and Mars can have an evil old man Thanos commanding a horde of subservient social Darwinists to transform it into some sort of doomsday device. This would actually be a good way of wrapping things up!
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Open Marriage Night posted:I’m amazed that Marvel had the restraint to take Thanos off the table before the event. He might still show up, but he was the Prime Eternal before this. Honestly, this doesn't really feel like a corporate-mandated crossover kind of event, and Gillen is the writer of Eternals as well as the lead on the crossover, so I don't think it's too surprising at all. It really feels more like "hey let's do a cool crossover and smash all the toys together" kind of thing.
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wiegieman posted:I think it's safe to say that Magneto's powers are "whatever you can show with a pink energy field and make up a Magnetism buzzword for." Magneto's actually a reality warper like Wanda, he just doesn't realize it.
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Angry Salami posted:Magneto's actually a reality warper like Wanda, he just doesn't realize it. I vaguely remember that being a real plot point somewhere, that literally all mutant power explanations are bullshit and their x-gene is just crumpling reality like paper to make things work out to a theme that makes sense in their heads.
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I just wanna snark about magneto saying "you bore a brave boy, Charles". Gabby Haller bore a brave boy thank you very much. Charles should not get credit
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Yeah my guess for David vs. Uranos was that it was not about power against power but a battle of wills and minds which is David's weak point.
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I know we'll get a better idea of how the Uranos/Legion fight played out once we actually get to, y'know, see it, but given the likelihood that there's a big ol' Mental Combat aspect to said fight, I do think it bears noting how Gillen's conception of the Eternals - referenced in a few of this week's X-books, like Immortal - has them being less 'people' and more 'computers with personalities.' Their minds are specifically called out as being alien and machine-like, and I have to suspect that there's something about a cold, orderly, vastly logical mind like Uranos' being hard for a guy like David - whose mind, as we've seen time and again, is anything but orderly no matter how hard he tries - to get a handle on.
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wiegieman posted:I vaguely remember that being a real plot point somewhere, that literally all mutant power explanations are bullshit and their x-gene is just crumpling reality like paper to make things work out to a theme that makes sense in their heads. During the Lobdell/Nicieza days, every new mutant would have their powers described as "psionic" even if it was like, making force fields or growing plants or whatever. I always wondered if they were intentionally making the point that every mutant has basically a mind-based power that expresses itself differently for each individual.
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considering that uranos withstood a combined psychic assault from every other eternal until they gave up i don't think telepathy would work very well.
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wiegieman posted:I vaguely remember that being a real plot point somewhere, that literally all mutant power explanations are bullshit and their x-gene is just crumpling reality like paper to make things work out to a theme that makes sense in their heads. That would explain why Magneto's portrayed as stronger than Polaris: she has a doctorate and actually understands how magnetism works. 
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:considering that uranos withstood a combined psychic assault from every other eternal until they gave up i don't think telepathy would work very well. Uranos is super stubborn, that's pretty much his whole thing. Like upon being told that his thesis was for sure wrong, he just said the gods who programed him were incompetent then, and what their actual intentions are don't matter only the programing.
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https://twitter.com/ComicsXF/status/1555700506521214977 There are some true Claremont gems in here.
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chris claremont is having a normal one today (thread) https://twitter.com/ComicsXF/status/1555688080606208001?s=20&t=GqzuQcOAKhS2wBd76l5iLw efb
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I kept reading it and it somehow kept getting funnier the longer it went. Is it age that does this? Or was Claremont always like this? I mean, everyone knows "the Canadian" was this (and worse) back in the day and now. He's infamous for it. Claremont on the other hand was just, hm, very vocal about his tastes and ideas about sex. This is my favorite bit from that Twitter thread: "Claremont just did a Cajun accent and our Louisiana friend shook Said Kitty would have to decide if she stayed Black or went back to being White. We do not know how this happened, the question was about Gambit"
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Saoshyant posted:I kept reading it and it somehow kept getting funnier the longer it went. Is it age that does this? Or was Claremont always like this? Kind of, yeah. I remember him being cantankerous as all hell when I saw him live in 1991 or so at the Chicago Comicon (13-year-old me had a real "never meet your heroes" moment over that, although it made more sense when I learned about his working environment at the time), and this live thread sounds a lot like the experience of listening to that live panel with him and Louise Simonson that Jay & Miles ran a couple of years ago.
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Ugh, I'm gonna move Claremont off my "quirky but okay" list now and straight on the "go away" list.
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Wanderer posted:Kind of, yeah. I remember him being cantankerous as all hell when I saw him live in 1991 or so at the Chicago Comicon (13-year-old me had a real "never meet your heroes" moment over that, although it made more sense when I learned about his working environment at the time), and this live thread sounds a lot like the experience of listening to that live panel with him and Louise Simonson that Jay & Miles ran a couple of years ago. The episode with Claremont versus the Weezie episode were loving stark contrasts.
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