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Jiro posted:At least show Shithead Present Day Hank blowing himself up and not tell. It was kind of a disappointing thud for me as well, it felt incredibly pressed for time. He's alive
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Caros posted:Given that the next xmen forever cover is Three redheads in front of the Phoenix, I think that is a safe assumption on your part. Hmm. I wonder if that means the announced Phoenix comic will be a team book.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 17:47 |
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site posted:He's alive Hey now. If there is one thing I know about comic books, it is that dying off screen is a surefire way to tell a person is totally dead.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 18:08 |
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site posted:He's alive The Beast that was cloned with only memories going up to the 80's survives, Antagonist Beast died. I was hoping for a panel of him at least blowing the hell up.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 19:50 |
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did you see antagonist beast die
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 20:00 |
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Fishylungs posted:It really speaks to the Clairemontian ideal of what the X-men is, and I'm glad it still lives on in this day and age. The standard X-Men power fantasy that Claremont pioneered is "I wish I was an oppressed minority, but instead of confronting the ugly realities of systemic oppression, I just want to live at hogwarts with my found family of sexually-repressed fetish models." Indie Rocktopus fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Indie Rocktopus posted:The standard X-Men power fantasy that Claremont pioneered is "I wish I was an oppressed minority, but instead of confronting the ugly realities of systemic oppression, I just want to live in a mansion with my found family of hot superpowered fetish models."
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 20:07 |
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site posted:did you see antagonist beast die Let me introduce a new mysterious character pulling the strings behind the scenes. He’s furry, and goes by “unilluminated brute” you’ll never guess who it really is!
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 21:05 |
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Yeah, Xavier shooting Rachel is probably to help save the Phoenix. Rachel will go to the White Hot Room where everyone is since that's where all Phoenix hosts go. Still a really dick move to shoot her in the back.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 21:19 |
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I hope the dead X-Men got back before Xavier shot her.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 21:45 |
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Codependent Poster posted:Yeah, Xavier shooting Rachel is probably to help save the Phoenix. Rachel will go to the White Hot Room where everyone is since that's where all Phoenix hosts go. Poor Rachel. If she had a nickel for every time somebody grievously injured her to help her, she'd have a dime but it's weird that it happened twice.
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 22:50 |
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Indie Rocktopus posted:The standard X-Men power fantasy that Claremont pioneered is "I wish I was an oppressed minority, but instead of confronting the ugly realities of systemic oppression, I just want to live at hogwarts with my found family of sexually-repressed fetish models." And they’re the best comics of all time 🫡
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:42 |
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cia beast is probably supposed to be actually dead, but that obviously won't stop future writers.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:54 |
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:cia beast is probably supposed to be actually dead, but that obviously won't stop future writers. They will do a twist where good Beast died i loving know it
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:55 |
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i don't think he could pretend to be a tolerable person for that long. but well, retcons make fools of us all.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 00:58 |
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:cia beast is probably supposed to be actually dead, but that obviously won't stop future writers. I'm sure that just like Hydra Steve Rogers, he'll pop out one day to make us all go "goddammit I thought we all agreed that was a bad character and wouldn't use him again"
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 01:01 |
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Beast was “atomized” by an explosion from a black hole generator that he said was meant to store away Arako for safe keeping. ZERO WAYS he could come back. Zero.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 01:10 |
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Finally got to issue 3 of Magneto's Resurrection. And the thing was so wordy, with characters just getting more powerful while monologuing to defeat an evil psychic entity... that it felt ghost written by Claremont himself. A very good pastiche at least! I think he'd even be proud if he ever bothered to give other writers' comics a chance some time.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 01:20 |
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RotPoX has the distinction of pulling off the single most compelling overarching plotline I've seen in comics in a long long time...that unfortunately seems keen on spotlighting 4 out of 5 characters I'm mostly pretty impartial about, with a story that has pretty much just been going "Hey let's try this thing for an issue...welp no that didn't work, now we gotta do something else" for three whole issues. Really interesting stuff with the Dominions timeline shenanigans, though. I enjoy the juxtaposition of the Dominions as the ultimate AI gods in a way that parallels the Phoenix as the ultimate representation of mutant ascendancy, if not organic ascendancy altogether. Xavier "killing" Rachel is definitely just part of the plan to express airmail her to the White Hot Room, but I also choose to view it as a tragic case of m|m on w|w hostility. Mostly 'cuz it's funnier. This X-Force plot started off pretty well and then got so rushed at the end that it made my head spin. We get one page to wrap everything up, a single panel mentioning offhandedly that 80s Beast went to live offscreen with his ex and that's that, and then one final shot of everyone going "We sure were the best, weren't we? X-Force! The most awesome team ever!" the end. I can't understand it. It's like Percy expected this book to go on for another issue at the very least. BrianWilly fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Veg posted:They will do a twist where good Beast died i loving know it Evil Beast will pose as good Beast, but he'll spend so long in the role that he'll end up seeing the error of his ways for real. Good Beast will be revealed to have actually survived, but be left feeling bitter and abandoned by his friends and will turn evil.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:08 |
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BrianWilly posted:RotPoX has the distinction of pulling off the single most compelling overarching plotline I've seen in comics in a long long time...that unfortunately seems keen on spotlighting 4 out of 5 characters I'm mostly pretty impartial about, with a story that has pretty much just been going "Hey let's try this thing for an issue...welp no that didn't work, now we gotta do something else" for three whole issues. Really interesting stuff with the Dominions timeline shenanigans, though. I enjoy the juxtaposition of the Dominions as the ultimate AI gods in a way that parallels the Phoenix as the ultimate representation of mutant ascendancy, if not organic ascendancy altogether. To me it felt like he thought he was going to get an oversized issue (50! Last issue!) and then the suits were like lol nope.
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 15:11 |
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Joe Fisto posted:Let me introduce a new mysterious character pulling the strings behind the scenes. He’s furry, and goes by “unilluminated brute” you’ll never guess who it really is! Forearms, is that you?
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 19:55 |
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Haven't checked in since like the Hellfire Gala and the Moira escaping series which I didn't like, any good runs similar to the comedy, well honed continuinty, and surprising maturity of X-Men Dark Web and that team Sinister led that had the egg lady in it? Love to catch up. My first thought is to finally read X-Men Red since alot of you people seem to like it and Al Ewing wrote it?
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 01:39 |
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Red and Immortal were probably my favs of the most recent books before the fall.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 01:45 |
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I haven’t really liked anything but Red and Immortal post fall.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 01:48 |
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X-Terminators was good :v
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Cool I'll start with Red. And X-Terminators was the first thing I read coming back. So loving good.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 02:19 |
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there have also been some good minis, like dark x-men and children of the vault.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 10:21 |
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If you liked Dark Web, Dark X-Men is a direct follow-up. Duggan's X-Men has less hits of late, but I'd argue it's far from a bad book. His Iron Man ties closely into Fall of X and does a surprisingly good job of selling Tony and Emma being in a marriage of convenience. While it's more of a Ms. Marvel book than an X-Men one, Ms. Marvel: New Mutant is set in the Fall of X status quo, and is worth checking out if your a fan of the character. Uncanny Spider-Man continues the Nightcrawler work Si Spurrier started in Way/Legion of X, and is an overall better series thanks to the tighter focus. That said, Spurrier's X-Men: Blue one-shot is the stand-out of his run, and worth reading even on it's own. I agree with the others, though, that Red and Immortal continue to be the gold standard of the line. Once your caught up on Red, be sure to pick up Ewing's Resurrection of Magneto mini-series.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:14 |
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X-Men: Blue features the best retcon I've ever seen because it's something that was obviously supposed to be the original story, but editorial wouldn't let them do it 40 years ago
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Air Skwirl posted:X-Men: Blue features the best retcon I've ever seen because it's something that was obviously supposed to be the original story, but editorial wouldn't let them do it 40 years ago Are we talking about a civil rights thing or a weird sex fetish thing?
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 06:19 |
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both
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 06:32 |
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https://x.com/gailsimone/status/1775184178205851992?s=46 Manifold Storm Forge Hope Sunspot Domino Edit: I had more time to think and made some changes for a better power spread. I think the group dynamics would be interesting too. I don't care who the leader is. Synesthesian Fetish fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Air Skwirl posted:X-Men: Blue features the best retcon I've ever seen because it's something that was obviously supposed to be the original story, but editorial wouldn't let them do it 40 years ago It also features one of the least convincing retcons, too! I'm sorry but the day I believe that either Mystique or Destiny were torn up emotionally about what happened with Kurt is the day I believe Magneto does not wrestle with a messiah complex every day of his adult life
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 07:57 |
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Cyclops Jean Iceman Wolverine Storm ...either Kitty or Jubilee, I can't decide
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 13:54 |
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Cyclops Gambit Rogue Wolverine Colossus Nightcrawler 6 is pretty tight these days! This team is a bit man heavy, but I can't have just Colossus or Nightcrawler, I demand both.
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:https://x.com/gailsimone/status/1775184178205851992?s=46 Cyclops Jean Madelyne Emma Havoc Wolverine Not a good team, but oh man the drama.
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 14:50 |
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Fivemarks posted:Cyclops Not a million miles from the New X-Men team and oh man the drama.
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 14:57 |
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Fivemarks posted:Cyclops I'd like to change my answer
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Fivemarks posted:Cyclops Fixed it for you!
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