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The hook is that the book is just over the top and gratuitous and enjoy the fun poo poo and pretty art.
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Codependent Poster posted:The hook is that the book is just over the top and gratuitous and enjoy the fun poo poo and pretty art. You raise a good point.
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Like Nextwave. Boom-Boom has a real specific niche.
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I posted this in the wrong place!
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Sep 29, 2022 03:03
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imagining the dark period of my life I'd have to be in for my literal entire twitter feed to be complaining about spider-man
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Sep 29, 2022 03:24
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Spider-Man was good but this is the X-Thread and X-Men continues to be good. I'm always down for some crazy Forge inventions and I like how the team is gelling. It feels like they all gel together while also being supportive of one another.
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A funny thing I just realized is I think the X-Men have the best relationship with their home nation (Krakoa) out of any super team in Marvel, ever The US government and the Avengers barely get along, every time the government tries to start their own sanctioned team it ends up going poorly, Alpha Flight intermittently evil, underfunded, or not Canadian, and even Wakanda has gotten tired of Black Panther treating the entire country like the Robin to his King Batman lately But everyone on Krakoa of importance is either a former X-Man or an an X-Men villain, so they all have respect for Scott and his gang of daysavers even when he does do poo poo like confirm mutant immortality
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huh, no real axe movement this week.
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OnimaruXLR posted:A funny thing I just realized is I think the X-Men have the best relationship with their home nation (Krakoa) out of any super team in Marvel, ever And realize that the reason they could never beat the x men since they throw knives at each other for fun
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OnimaruXLR posted:A funny thing I just realized is I think the X-Men have the best relationship with their home nation (Krakoa) out of any super team in Marvel, ever The Winter Guard have been okay, probably because they bribe the right oligarchs.
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Synthbuttrange posted:huh, no real axe movement this week. We got a little in the Avenger's one-shot, though it was mostly "the heroes are inside the Celestial trying to kill it, here's Tony working through his daddy issues."
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Yeah these AXE one shots are more just to give some important characters to the story more time between issues. Probably not going to advance the story too much. Jean's issue next week will probably be pretty interesting.
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Sep 29, 2022 15:42
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glitchwraith posted:We got a little in the Avenger's one-shot, though it was mostly "the heroes are inside the Celestial trying to kill it, here's Tony working through his daddy issues." You left out "while Sinister continues to be a glorious rear end in a top hat" which was a highlight for me.
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Gillen talked a bit about it in his newsletter:quote:Another week and another slice of Judgment Day – specifically, AXE: Avengers #1 which follows the team trying to infiltrate the Celestial, with a specific focus on Tony Stark. The specials across the next two weeks before the finale – AXE: X-Men and AXE: Eternals - continue the psychic dungeon delve.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:You left out "while Sinister continues to be a glorious rear end in a top hat" which was a highlight for me. That's just Sinister's default state, especially these days.
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i thought axe avengers was maybe not an important axe tie in but a good side story if you've been following cantwell's iron man. i don't know if gillen is reading it himself but if not he's at least able to incorporate it pretty well
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Gillen is the type to do research when he can, so he almost certainly at least read through it before writing the one-shot even if he hadn't been following it as it was coming out.
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Endless Mike posted:Gillen talked a bit about it in his newsletter: What is the "DIE" he's saying AXE is influenced by?
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Cartridgeblowers posted:What is the "DIE" he's saying AXE is influenced by? One of his creator owned books. It's about DND or something.
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danbanana posted:One of his creator owned books. It's about DND or something. To expand, if one will recall in the D&D cartoon from the 80's a bunch of kids are transported to a generic D&D world and have lessons about getting along and love and hygiene or whatever complete with the one guy who didn't want to get along so of course he was always proven wrong. Gillen's book DIE is 'what if a band of average gamer dorks were sucked into a game world for years and what psychological scars would it leave, especially when they have to go back after they've been out for a while.'
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Yeah DIE, much like Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children books, is a really nice little examination of the whole "after the kids get out of Narnia and come back to the real world, shouldn't they be traumatized as gently caress?" issue It was excellent
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I can't recommend DIE enough. It fully commits to the idea that this fun fantasy adventure would be hosed up to all hell and back. Like the character that is classified as a diplomat, who one day casually says that they hope the errant knight they've been travelling with would wait for their return. Well, their special ability as a Dictator was to bind people's will and fates to her words, so when they return as adults they find a loving zombie knight that can't die because they've been stuck in a living hell waiting for the sweet release of death that only that Player Character could deliver. The kid who designed this knockoff DND basically made it as malicious as possible, and the mechanics of that poo poo are baked into the world. Like the party member who is an emotion-powered knight only they gain strength from sadness so they have a magic item that verbally and psychologically abuses them
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They're also making a tabletop game of it that is pretty neat
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DIE is amazing and you should read it, it queer af and the art is gorgeous
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In regards to the issue of X-Men has it been previously established that Charles has the power of telekinesis? Edit: this article shows him using it in Inferno #4 which I totally forgot about. It also mentions using it to take grab the USB drive that mystique stole at the beginning of HoXPoX but I always assumed it was Magneto doing it to Charles’ outstretched hand https://www.cbr.com/xmen-new-superpower-professor-x-explained/ Synesthesian Fetish fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Oct 2, 2022 |
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Oh yeah I was wondering that too. Was this ever a thing? I thought it was only Ultimate Xavier that had TK. I know they said the resurrection made him stronger but how do you get stronger with a power you don't have? I know telekinesis and telepathy gets grouped under the same general powerset of "psychic powers" but I always actually considered them distinct "branches" nonetheless. Unless 616-Xavier really has shown TK before, in which case disregard all this 
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Yeah he's had telekinetic ability before but it's super weak so it isn't really useful.
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It didn’t seem weak in Inferno
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IIRC, there were a couple of issues in the Silver Age where somebody, probably Stan Lee, got telepathy and telekinesis confused and Xavier used the latter, but those were explicitly considered mistakes until the Krakoan era.
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xavier once destroyed a sentinel using telepathy
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Mental blast side affects? Killing the sentience in the machine makes it fall apart? Idk. I don't love it but I guess if Mags can astral project and mind control because of magnetism, Xavs can be a little bit telekinetic.
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Didn't he use a special suit and some telekinesis to walk for a bit back in one of his cripple days?
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Names for "moving things with your mind" also weren't cemented as sci-fi genre conventions in the 60s, when a lot of the early X-Men lore was being established. There's an early issue of Uncanny X-Men where Jean moving things around with her psychic powers is referred to as "teleportation", because "port" means "carry" and "tele" means "distance". Perfectly sensible thing to call it, reads weird today. Probably some of the early Xavier stuff is similar.
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Mulva posted:Didn't he use a special suit and some telekinesis to walk for a bit back in one of his cripple days? that's what I remember as well, his Shi'ar suit in Fatal Attractions was powered by his tk
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GOD IS BED posted:that's what I remember as well, his Shi'ar suit in Fatal Attractions was powered by his tk The period where every mutant's power was "psionic" based.
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danbanana posted:The period where every mutant's power was "psionic" based. Powerful psionic = 'eyes glow and power blasts.'
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Using the power of my mind to heat up my claws
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"bub, these here PSY CLAWS are the focused, neigh-invulnerable totality of the best at what I do"
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danbanana posted:The period where every mutant's power was "psionic" based. It's been a cyclical thing for a while, explaining any superpower as "psychic phenomena" Hell, Byrne's post-Crisis Superman was all about that poo poo, which mostly got forgotten by everyone else until they dusted the explanation off to give Superboy his "tactile telekinesis" that he never shut up about
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Now I simply believe that Professor X is like actually X-Man or something.
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