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Okay, couldn't find a thread for it, so sorry if there is one, but yeah, spoilers for #16:
[spoiler:18cca16e71]This issue was good. First of all, he plays up the whole "Maybe the Hellfire Club is all in Emma's head" angle, with the payoff of Emma staring in the mirror, which turns on you and into one of the most badass Kitty Pryde action scenes EVAR. THEN he turns it around AGAIN with the "White Queen" reval, and the "YEAHBUHWHAT?" is probably the best reaction by a chracter to a big dramatic reveal in a comic like ever. Then everything else in the book was fun and good. And the inking and coloring is no longer ruining Cassady's art.[/spoiler:18cca16e71]
So anyway I though it was awesome how about you guys.
[spoiler:18cca16e71]This issue was good. First of all, he plays up the whole "Maybe the Hellfire Club is all in Emma's head" angle, with the payoff of Emma staring in the mirror, which turns on you and into one of the most badass Kitty Pryde action scenes EVAR. THEN he turns it around AGAIN with the "White Queen" reval, and the "YEAHBUHWHAT?" is probably the best reaction by a chracter to a big dramatic reveal in a comic like ever. Then everything else in the book was fun and good. And the inking and coloring is no longer ruining Cassady's art.[/spoiler:18cca16e71]
So anyway I though it was awesome how about you guys.
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Yeah! Someone's got egg on thier face!
And like little eyelash thinges.
And that fuckep up nosegaurd.
The guy is just ugly is what I'm saying.
Oh man, I read the last page and thought the exact same thing.
And laughed my ass off for like the next 30 mins.
In retro spect you could say [spoiler:1c02fbbb55] Ord is the real reason behind the "death" of breakworld [/spoiler:1c02fbbb55]
That what happens when you can see you own death, the universe has a fucked up sense of humor.
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So how about them Astonishing X-Men?
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I personally find their exploits quite astonishing.
Also, Hisako seems interesting, and I'm curious where they're going with her. She's gone toe to toe with a couple heavy hitters, she's gotten some decent development, and if you believe BKV checked with anyone before the first Runaways arc of this run [spoiler:1bd27039df]she's going to end up leading at least a, if not the main, X-team.[/spoiler:1bd27039df]
[spoiler:54d49d81bf]...Yeabuhwhat?[/spoiler:54d49d81bf]
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And, yeah, it must suck to be Ord right about now.
And dangit, Whedon is lobbying HARD for Kitty Pryde to be my favorite X-Person of all time. It's like he's in love with her and he's explaining why.
[spoiler:69ddb421db]I was expecting it to be an Omega-level mutant. How the hell does Colossus destroy the Breakworld? Does he punch a nuclear reactor that powers their whole world or something?[/spoiler:69ddb421db]
other than that, pretty good issue
i hope there's a good explanation for all this
Yeah, I dunno. I assume we'll find out though.
Wheadon has an unreasoning affection for wee waifs that kick butt. But I'm down with that.
[spoiler:79ce0337a2]I thought it was gonna be Kitty, myself. Like she was going to phase the center of their planet or some shit.[/spoiler:79ce0337a2]
[spoiler:e7ccaffaf5]Ord manages to bungle the obligatory raid on the mansion and mistakenly wipes out the Hellfire guys in the process.
Then again, "Danger" should know the X-Men too well to let that happen, and SWORD could've been smart and strategically leaked the culprit's identity to minimize collateral damage.
Still, I like to imagine Cass Nova getting knocked down a couple pegs by poor ol' Ord.[/spoiler:e7ccaffaf5]
Pretty much, yeah.
here's a list of things he's worked on that don't have a girl kicking ass:
They changed a lot from his screenplay. Which explains why ressurection sucked.
"Also, I met an Oriental...."
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Yep thats him as a child. The "Logan" he's referring to is the drunk groundskeeper who is his biological father... I think. Thats one thing I never got, why did the grandfather (on his father's side) have claws even though it was implied that they weren't biologically related? Was Logan his illegitimate son? Or is it just a coincidence that groundskeeper-Logan looked just like Wolverine-Logan?
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[spoiler:47ec587e1c]But then why did the grandfather have mutant claws?[/spoiler:47ec587e1c]
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[spoiler:e8e73688eb]I guess the most logical explaination is that Thomas Logan was his illegitimate son.[/spoiler:e8e73688eb]
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I mean look at the Summers brothers. They're SIBLINGS and they don't even have the same powers.[/spoiler:34c40f8b85]
Most of the examples are from alternate futures:
Rachel Summers, Nocturne, Nate Grey, Polaris, Spider-Girl and a whole bunch of heroes from MC2, Beak's kids. There are plenty of examples.
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except with the guthries.[/spoiler:a7ed3a8119]
Great art, great dialogue, but Whedon's poor plot pacing has been this book's Achilles Heel. Astonishing #15 barely had any plot progression, but at least #16 was a sharp improvement. Hopefully, #17 blows the door wide open.
Don't forget my favorite, Siryn.
Yeah, but there's no hard and fast rule about this. I'm sure Joe Quesada doesn't require his writers to provide him with a full mutant DNA sequence when they introduce mutant siblings and children. It's really up to the writer and, more often than not, they'll build upon parental traits to craft the characters. But, I'm sure there are the mutant equivalents of two blonde parents giving birth to a redhead or something. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch come to mind.
Eh, that's kind of a stretch, but whatever. Trying to make sense of mutant genetic traits through hereditary means in a comic book seems like a fruitless enterprise to me. Everything will ultimately come down to conjecture and leaps of logic.
But, in a no-prize sense of things, you make a really strong point.
THAT STORY DOES NOT EXIST!
[pushes the emergency Chuck Austen Retcon button]
Yeah, that's right.
Ya think?