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Post by Johnny Smith on Jul 27, 2019 23:41:21 GMT
You should be pleased. Your boy Slim is written 1000% totally in-character, as he's a total prick d-bag to the First Family. The Fantastic Four?! They probably deserved it though, especially Reed.   {Spoiler}
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Post by chap22 on Aug 1, 2019 19:17:05 GMT
And now for Powers of X #1:
Once again I loved the art. Silva kills it.
As for the story, to be honest, post-apocalyptic stuff ain't always my bag, and "future X-Men" stories are my least favorite kind of X-Men stories, but this was certainly a solid entry. I like the conceit of looking at the different timelines concurrently in snippets, with references and obvious links between them. And there are certainly some cool ideas being thrown around in the past (why does Charles not recognize Moira, or conversely why does she know so much about him if this is their first meeting?), present (more hints that Prof. X is evil and/or being controlled) and future (I'd read a book featuring Rasputin right now, I kinda dug the childlike/adolescent attitude Nimrod the Lesser seems to be infused with, etc.), and all of this is right up Hickman's alley so I expect it to work. I liked it slightly less than House #1, but there's tons to like here.
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Post by Johnny Smith on Aug 4, 2019 0:44:21 GMT
Agree with you about Nimrod the Lesser.  Can’t wait to see him appear in future issues! |
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Post by liama on Aug 5, 2019 15:46:02 GMT
I'm in the middle of House of X and I can see Grant Morrison's influence.
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Post by chap22 on Aug 5, 2019 17:02:07 GMT
I'm in the middle of House of X and I can see Grant Morrison's influence. No doubt. It’s very Morrison-esque. |
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Post by Grayson on Aug 7, 2019 22:31:45 GMT
{So...}
...Moira MacTaggert is now a mutant or rather, she has been a mutant all along. Apparently every time that she dies, she starts over with all of the knowledge and memories of her previous life. There's some interesting parameters. She does not have infinite lives. During one of their previous encounters, Destiny estimated that she had 10, maybe 11 lives in total depending upon the choices that she makes and she is currently on the tenth life. If she would have died prior to her mutant gene activating during any of these cycles, it would have been game over. Quite intriguing. |
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Post by chap22 on Aug 8, 2019 1:45:11 GMT
Wow, guess that quickly answered my question from Powers #1 about Moira and Charlie's first meeting. Hickman is breaking out some SERIOUS revisionist history and Goddammit, it is already making my brain hurt. In trying to make Moira cool, he's now basically invalidated every prior appearance she's ever had, instilled more doubt in me as a reader in the altruism/goodness of Xavier's current status quo, created 9 new alternate timelines (I guess) that means every character we're reading (and have always been reading) in Marvel comics are not the original versions of said characters but a tenth carbon copy of those characters (as I read it...I may be dead wrong but the whole damn thing has me confused and more than a little put out, tbh).
I've seen Hickman create gold out of what I thought were rough beginnings before (see: Fantastic Four), so I'm giving him plenty of benefit of the doubt and am willing to play along, but this issue rapidly went downhill for me.
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Post by Johnny Smith on Aug 16, 2019 19:25:11 GMT
Wow, guess that quickly answered my question from Powers #1 about Moira and Charlie's first meeting. Hickman is breaking out some SERIOUS revisionist history and Goddammit, it is already making my brain hurt. In trying to make Moira cool, he's now basically invalidated every prior appearance she's ever had, instilled more doubt in me as a reader in the altruism/goodness of Xavier's current status quo, created 9 new alternate timelines (I guess) that means every character we're reading (and have always been reading) in Marvel comics are not the original versions of said characters but a tenth carbon copy of those characters (as I read it...I may be dead wrong but the whole damn thing has me confused and more than a little put out, tbh). I've seen Hickman create gold out of what I thought were rough beginnings before (see: Fantastic Four), so I'm giving him plenty of benefit of the doubt and am willing to play along, but this issue rapidly went downhill for me. Hickman testing your mental agility, huh? 
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Post by Johnny Smith on Aug 16, 2019 19:37:56 GMT
I've decided to make Powers of X fun by assuming that Nimrod the Lesser speaks in a Ron Burgundy voice
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Post by Johnny Smith on Aug 16, 2019 20:06:34 GMT
Year 0 - Magneto gets the Moira treatment and becomes an ally of Xavier and the X-Men from the very beginning Year 10 - Orchis (an anti-mutant organization of ex-SHIELD, AIM, and Hydra scientists) are about to build a Mother Mold. This might lead to the creation of Nimrod, so Cyclops volunteers to lead a team to destroy it.
Year 100 - Apocalypse is the leader of the X-Men  They're about to launch a suicide mission on Nimrod's fortress. Year 1000 - the mutant utopia isn't Earth but a Worldmind called Nimbus. The Phalanx show up. The Librarian wants them to assimilate Nimbus as the key to the final ascension of mutantkind.
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Post by chap22 on Sept 5, 2019 5:38:03 GMT
Well goddamn, House of X #4. You do you.
There are no superlatives adequate to describe what Hickman's doing on these books. He is running an absolute fucking master class.
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Post by chap22 on Sept 19, 2019 3:55:24 GMT
Man, every issue of this stuff makes me feel ickier about the whole thing. It's kinda like what I imagine Onslaught would've been like if Hickman wrote it instead of Lobdell & co. Because let's face it, this is the quintessential "ends vs. means" kind of deal and Xavier's totally focused on the end. As such, he, and by extension now everybody in this book, are varying shades of evil if you have to ascribe a label to it from the classic dichotomy. Even if, best case, the ultimate end of all this is a good thing, with mutants on something resembling an equal status with humans and oppression and fear ended, they had to break a LOT of moral eggs to make that omelet. They're not just taking in Magneto and Sinister and Apocalypse and Sabretooth, they're all acting like them too. They're playing god, they're deeming themselves above the humans, they're killing people, they're altering minds...they're acting like villains, whether they think of it that way or not, and those chickens HAVE to come home to roost at some point.
All that said, and maybe because of all the above as opposed to in spite of it, it's really, really great writing. Hickman is the truth.
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Post by liama on Sept 27, 2019 20:01:44 GMT
We're not going to get any sort of followup to Xavier hijacking Phantomex's body are we?
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Post by GOSD on Oct 1, 2019 19:30:11 GMT
Love what Hickman's doing on these books. LOVE them!
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Post by Johnny Smith on Oct 8, 2019 3:59:49 GMT
It’s too bad Bendis doesn’t read other people’s comic books because he’ll miss the awesome improvement Hickman made to Goldballs.
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Can’t wait to see him appear in future issues!
They're about to launch a suicide mission on Nimrod's fortress.