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glitchwraith posted:To be clear, I don't think it was foolish to hope. I was certainly hoping this issue would change the status quo and somehow bring Phoenix back to Jean. In fact, I think it's still a possibility that might happen before the end of the event.  (or maybe it's not!) (but it probably is) (BUT)Speaking of that image: I have to admit that part of the reason I’d like to see Jean do Phoenix poo poo again is because, imo, her power signature has become kind of visually "blah" without it  . She just throws bright non-distinct pink blobs around nowadays…which, don’t get me wrong, most artists are doing their damndest to make these the most appealing, impressive pink blobs you've ever seen, but can we be honest that they aren't nearly as visually stunning as them good ol' flaming raptors. Jean and Quicksilver both have this issue where, like, they’re the “prototype,” “archetypal” psychic and speedster of Marvel Comics, so every other psychic and speedster's powers get a bit more specialized and individualized -- visually or otherwise -- to contrast against them. So Emma gets a diamond form, the Psylockes get butterflies and swords, Quentin shapes his power into guns, and even Rachel gets to flame on again now along with doing some casual chronoskimming. Meanwhile Jean -- THEE preeminent inborn psychic powerhouse -- has her pink blobs. Yes we know her pink blobs are very powerful but they still lack that panache!See the thing is, I'm actually not opposed to putting the Phoenix to bed sometimes. I don’t actually mind if it’s not the center of every Jean story, as if everyone should always be asking where the Phoenix is if the Phoenix isn’t on the page.  The problem, to me, is that has been on the page, despite that -- again -- Jean herself hasn’t actually had it for decades. The problem, to me, is when everyone except Jean constantly gets to take a turn on the space bird bus ride, as if it’s somehow right for them to have it as opposed to the character that it actually came from, the one whose story is actually tied to it. Unfortunately for me (because this is definitely a targeted attack against me specifically), giving the Phoenix to every character except for Jean is absolutely Jason Aaron’s utter most favorite thing in the world. Never mind the current situation with Echo; even giving Wolverine them white hot Phoenix claws -- which Aaron has done at least twice now, he literally just can’t help himself -- feels like somehow intentionally trolling Jean or, hell, at this point it also even feels like trolling Scott  .Ahh, I shouldn't always be bringing so much Jason Aaron negativity all the time, 'cuz the problem goes far beyond simply him; it's just that he's the one perceptible focal point scapegoat for all my Jean turbostan woes. But still...it was really all over with him as soon as he'd once called Phoenix a "giant space parasite" like drat buddy don't hold back now.
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Heavy Metal posted:Honey Badger is rad. Also Gold Balls is better than Egg of course. No poo poo? That’s awesome. Loved him as a big bad in those books.
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Oct 7, 2022 18:39
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I wish, I was about 7 years old at that time. If I had Cyberface money I'd be all set. But legit, Cyberface is great, especially in that Kamandi inspired new world arc after #75.
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glitchwraith posted:My personal nitpick is that Honey Badger fits Gabby better than Scout, even if the series the name change occurred in was pretty good. Much better fit, but outside of titles and numbers 4 syllable+ superhero names don't work. Badger would still be better than Scout, though
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I was pissed that they had Rachel date Cloud Strife because when I was a loving kid I made up a dude with a Phoenix sword and I was mad somehow some writer had stolen this from my brain. Except instead of Cloud I was ripping off Galford from Samurai Showdown.
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SNK, FF7, good stuff, this Korvus guy sounds pretty legit. I hadn't heard positive things about Brubaker's tenure, but seems interesting. If I ever get to filling in that area of X-history on my read.
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Rick posted:I was pissed that they had Rachel date Cloud Strife because when I was a loving kid I made up a dude with a Phoenix sword and I was mad somehow some writer had stolen this from my brain. Except instead of Cloud I was ripping off Galford from Samurai Showdown. did he also have a phoenix dog
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Heavy Metal posted:That's another example, she's Kate Pryde in the comics now, but she's always gonna be called Kitty Pryde. Even on a podcast talking about the change Duggan called her Kitty mostly. Kitty Pryde is a dope name, and better than Shadowcat which sounds try hard for her, so that's what we call her. Kate is not as memorable either. I still call her Kitty, most characters in universe still do as well. Also was never really fond of the name change as you say Kitty is more memorable than Kate.
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What's up with Danger nowadays? You'd think she might hop a ride on the great Sentinel uprising to come, but wasn't there something about her technically being a mutant AI?...or something? If Warlock is welcome on Krakoa then she could be there too.
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BrianWilly posted:What's up with Danger nowadays? You'd think she might hop a ride on the great Sentinel uprising to come, but wasn't there something about her technically being a mutant AI?...or something? If Warlock is welcome on Krakoa then she could be there too. She was just in Wolverine where she was living at the old mansion and was evil again or something, I dunno. It was a bad story.
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Alaois posted:did he also have a phoenix dog Of course.
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It has been renowned that the X-Men enjoy baseball, and romping around. At least 5 times they've played baseball, according to a CBR article. I've witnessed only the first one myself. Should there be more recreation and romping around in the Krakoa era? I know they had a hot tub or something. And for a headline hot take, is Professor Xavier going to have recreational sex with anyone in the comic in the years to come. Thank you. Charles to get busy, sources say.
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Caught up with the last few weeks. Forge (and Caliban, unbeknownst to him) vs the Vault is my loving jam.
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I thought it was weird we didn't see Caliban on the Marauders, now I know why
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I can get behind them having a way to do an AoA-style alternate universe story without going back to that well.
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Fall of X though, that sounds ominous!
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Heavy Metal posted:Fall of X though, that sounds ominous! I really hope it just turns out to be a harvest festival.
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BrianWilly posted:What's up with Danger nowadays? You'd think she might hop a ride on the great Sentinel uprising to come, but wasn't there something about her technically being a mutant AI?...or something? If Warlock is welcome on Krakoa then she could be there too. doug kept warlock secret for quite a while. though the reason was never explained, he definitely knew about the council's 'death to all intelligent machines' policy. doug has a lot of informal authority now, but i don't think he could get a pass for anyone other than warlock (because the council is terrible). also, no one ever acknowledges the brief incarnation of x-factor where doug and danger were on a team together.
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I thought Warlock was from like, natural organisms that happened to be 'machines' like how Transformers arose from naturally occurring gears and pullies, as opposed to, like, building a Sentinel.
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Nessus posted:I thought Warlock was from like, natural organisms that happened to be 'machines' like how Transformers arose from naturally occurring gears and pullies, as opposed to, like, building a Sentinel. Warlock and his kind are the basis for the big-bad Dominion which is destined to consume humanity per Life 6. It's weird how anti-precog Moira was but seemed fine with Warlock.
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Saoshyant posted:That's like the only part that isn't incomprehensible or dumb of the whole affair. After the Shiar storyline, their Fang bestowed on Aki the name and uniform and the latter took it to get away from that edgy Daken nonsense from that incredibly bad Wolverine/Romulus run from Daniel Way. I'm fine with that I just think Fang is bland and generic. Frankly I think it'd be better if he took the Jean Grey route and just went by Akihiro all the time.
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I dig these new titles they announced, almost directly aimed at me too. https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-x-men-x-23-rogue-gambit-captain-britain-nycc/ X-23 name/look is back, and I was randomly kibitzing about wanting that the other day, go figure. Rogue & Gambit series, always want more o those two, and doing something different from the Excalibur thing, nice. Also a Captain Britain book.
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marvel stop using that lovely x-23 name challenge
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That article speculates "X-23: Deadly Regenesis" might be a prequel, or at least set in the past... Not sure I'm thrilled about that. All I want to see from Laura is more semi-lighthearted shenanigans with her sister. Or, okay, someone had the theory that she never died in the Vault (we never saw a body) and I would read a hellish grimdark story about her fighting for survival in there. Just no bullshit backsliding, which is why I hate every time they call her X-23 instead of Wolverine or even just Laura Kinney.
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It's like Shakespeare said, X-23 is a sweet name. I think he said that. She's also in the ol' Fortnite as X-23 recently. I give it seven months until she's out of the yellow Batman cowl, and into the spotlight. Y'all see that Dark Web action: https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/xzj4uj/dark_web_my_beloved_sorry_for_ever_doubting_you_i/ Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Oct 9, 2022 |
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Heavy Metal posted:It's like Shakespeare said, X-23 is a sweet name. I think he said that. All aboard the Dark Web train!
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Codependent Poster posted:All aboard the Dark Web train! Zeb.
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Another week another reading order from Gillen that you've already messed up:quote:A lot of AXE, before the final issue next week. AXE: Eternals continues the tripartite focus on the key players putting those pieces in place for later, Immortal X-men #7 focuses on Nightcrawler’s actions during AXE 5… and afterwards, and Death to the Mutants #3 does the same from the Eternal side, though with less (but more than zero) Nightcrawler.
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Nice double feature for Nightcrawler today, which is almost unfair given how much spotlight he got in the last issue of AXE. Legion of X fills in the gaps left in the initial Arrako attack, in some ways necessary, in other ways less so. Spurrier excels at writing Legion, but his Kurt still seems off. Again he's teleporting as much as possible to be the big drat hero, but compare this to Gillen writing that exact premise twice now and it really shows where Spurrier falls short. Gillen also fills in some gaps with his Immortal issue, but it's elevated once again by just how well he gets every character he focuses on, and Nightcrawler is no exception. Unsurprisingly, Sinister nearly steals the show, but seeing him and Kurt bounce off each other in this desperate situation was really great. I suppose that's why there will be an entire team of Nightcrawler chimeras in Sins of Sinister. Haven't gotten to the Eternals focused books yet, though they are next on my list.
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Cloks posted:Legion of X #6 Spoilers Loved that entire splash page. That and the tap dance where really funny.
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glitchwraith posted:Nice double feature for Nightcrawler today, which is almost unfair given how much spotlight he got in the last issue of AXE. Legion of X fills in the gaps left in the initial Arrako attack, in some ways necessary, in other ways less so. Spurrier excels at writing Legion, but his Kurt still seems off. Again he's teleporting as much as possible to be the big drat hero, but compare this to Gillen writing that exact premise twice now and it really shows where Spurrier falls short. Gillen also fills in some gaps with his Immortal issue, but it's elevated once again by just how well he gets every character he focuses on, and Nightcrawler is no exception. Unsurprisingly, Sinister nearly steals the show, but seeing him and Kurt bounce off each other in this desperate situation was really great. I suppose that's why there will be an entire team of Nightcrawler chimeras in Sins of Sinister. I love that he attempted to address the whole "why doesn't sinister just reset the timeline?" thing.
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