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MOTW 3/13/13: Hmmmm.....
TexiKen
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Uncanny #3, X-Men and Avengers get into a staring contest:
Manhattan Projects #10, if this doesn't win an Eisner this year Ima punch some people. Robert Oppenheimer deal with the crazy of his brother, and he punches a horse!
Buddy Cops #1, Nate Cosby makes what is basically a more mature Axe Cop. Funny stuff that can work as a nice breather every season or so. Talk down an Orangutan Monk with a nuke, or deal with being impregnated by an alien, it's all here:
Manhattan Projects #10, if this doesn't win an Eisner this year Ima punch some people. Robert Oppenheimer deal with the crazy of his brother, and he punches a horse!
Buddy Cops #1, Nate Cosby makes what is basically a more mature Axe Cop. Funny stuff that can work as a nice breather every season or so. Talk down an Orangutan Monk with a nuke, or deal with being impregnated by an alien, it's all here:
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Being a civil rights activist and part of an oppressed minority doesn't make you immune to the rule of law.
edit: it was pointed out in the issue that it was Iron Man who unwillingly made them Phoenixes in the first place.
Also the constant crossing of his arms makes him look like he's a LARPer maintaining invisibility.
but those pages are pretty bad
we took out the Avengers without lifting a finger! Fear our mighty plot device!
are you high
of course removing your inhibitions is mind control,
it's a deep and profound alteration of how your mind works
the removal of self control from someone means that they cannot help but act on any urge they have
you can't then blame them for anything they do
if you're drunk and hit your significant other, do you blame it on mind control?
it's removing the inhibitions
that's a form of control, or at least alteration, which is at least just as bad
also that is not the same thing. Like, at all
don't be silly
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That's the kind of thing you need to bring up during your trial where you have plead innocent. It does not give you Carte Blanche it ignore the entire legal system. And really, "the Phoenix made him do it" is a fantastic defense for a guy who wanted the Phoenix to show up and intentionally got in the way of the guys who were trying to stop it.
I'm guessing that's custom made? WHY WOULD YOU SHOW MY NO-ARTISTIC-TALENT-HAVING-ASS SOMETHING THAT AMAZING!?!?
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Or Namor but I guess you have issues with sovereignty and international diplomacy and blah blah.
But yeah, fuck Cyclops. I really hope he gets whats coming to him and this all blows up in his face, the self righteous prick.
I'm sure the police know.
The coroner too.
Oh and the dude's family who were sitting right there when it happened.
But yeah that kind of thing just never comes up unless it happens in public with cameras and stuff.
I would think the legal system would be sorta complicated here.
I would think Cyclops renounced his american citizenship when he went and built his own country.
Anyway in Ultimate Wolverine Black box and Quicksilver make long overdue reappearances.
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Threshold, for the love of God, READ THRESHOLD!
He isn't saying 'I can get away with murder because I'm a mutant.' Hell, he was in jail, willingly, for a while because of what he did.
He's basically saying 'Alright, I really can't afford to be in jail right now because my people are crazy-oppressed and they need my help. Either accept that or get ready fer a fight.'
Not saying he's entirely correct, but hes not being "Murder with Impunity!" man or anything.
Ack, at first I thought she was in the front seat and being drawn with a really, really thin body and no arms.
Look I don't want to use a metaphor here because no matter what it would be ridiculous but lets be clear here but lets take a look at what happened. The official leader of a Nation killed someone. There are a ton of things that make things more complicated but just going with that how was this ever simple?
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This is the main push of the issue. Cyclops is saying "I don't care that you have my brother as your token mutant leader, cops are pulling guns and being violent to new mutants who did nothing and you aren't doing a damn thing about it"
That's why Eva is telling her role model to listen to Scott, because the Avengers have first hand proof of it being the case right in front of their eyes.
but now I hate all of you
those pages don't make up the entirety of the confrontation, there is a bunch of stuff before. The stand-off takes up almost the entire issue.
Well, when you believe the laws are unjust kind of the whole idea is to break them.
Cyclops did surrender himself at the end of AvX, he was willing to let himself be punished for actions wether he considered himself responsible or not.
But his treatment in prison and more importantly the treatment of other mutants around him convinced him that this new race of mutant kind needed to be saved.
Now, it's obviously incredibly arrogant that Cyclops thinks he is the only one capable of doing this but he's not attacking anyone, he has not taken up arms against any goverments or people, he has simply acted (so far) to extricate new mutants from compromising situations.
Cyclops is a completely fascinating character right now, and the reason he is so is because he so straddles that line between sympathetic cause and potentially unsympathetic actions. It's the same dynamic that made Magneto one of the most fascinating characters in the Marvel universe for large stretches of the last 30 years and it's working beautifully here again.
For as much as I had been looking forward to this specific book, I was a little let down by the first 2 issues. But this allayed every fear I have, I loved this issue and am now as fully onboard with this as I am with All New X-Men.
I am not really rooting for Scott's squad. I think the Uncanny Avengers and Logan's crew are in the right, personally.
But it is well written and taking characters I do like in interesting direction.
Overall I like it, but it is weird reading a story where I hope bad shit happens to the protaganist.
And Bendis has written him well before so I it was more of a "hrmmmm" but I have faith once again now.
Yet he makes contact with SHIELD while not wearing his blocking helmet, and isn't worried they wouldn't have scanned him for his intentions?
honestly I think you can chalk that up to
also I'm not sure how it's a "plot device" given that that it's been established since the first issue thats how Eva's powers work? Also the whole plan was for Magik to port them out the moment the Avengers made a move, Eva just acted first. Scott never intended to fight them.
Which would be a fine story to tell if
A. I personally thought the law was unjust (Standing trial for a murder witnesses saw you commit is not an unjust law) and
B. If "the other side" wasn't represented by a ton of superheroes who I can't say are acting in the wrong.
Last I checked murder and escaping prison were grievous crimes, and you do not get a free pass on grievous crimes just because your doing humanitarian work. Seriously, any other person on earth would still be in jail, so why does Cyclops get special treatment. (Aside from the diplomatic stuff).
It'd be one thing if he holed p somewhere and was directing things from afar, but he's not. He's running around, doing whatever he wants, and the moment anyone tries to enforce the laws he broke, he gets ready for a fight.
IMO, the way he's written makes him entirely unsympathetic. But that's just my opinion.