What could go wrong with that?
What could go wrong with that?
That actually worried me a bit. When Magneto's ego gets out of control... It's sort of like the same result as when Namor's does.
News cameras, destroyed cities and speeches about "Behold humanity because your reckoning has come."
Noticed something about the Summers House map:
It lists bedrooms, a kitchen, living area, and dining room.
No bathrooms.
Do mutants poop?
Only Doug and Apocalypse get the happy ending.That solved the poop issue. How about bathing? Green goon too? Krakoa eats the bacteria and sweat of their bodies and at same time give a blowjob?
Just seems strange how they keep harping on about their "paradise" and then don't even actually want to live there.
Hickmann himself seems pretty impressed about it, so it's a core book to me.Marauders #1 preview is out.
Gotten pretty interested in this one since we've learned more about its premise.
I want more Children of the Vault.
They seem like the logical step for humans to stand against mutantkind.
I want more Children of the Vault.
They seem like the logical step for humans to stand against mutantkind.
Marauders #1 preview is out.
Gotten pretty interested in this one since we've learned more about its premise.
What I don't understand:
- Homo novissima is behaving like a personified villain that's been around forever - it is still at least decades out from ever existing as even a first, isn't it?
It was more that humans were always the enemy as they eventually become Homo Novissima.
Still, he's acting like he lived through what happened in the past personally
- and from there it's evolving without evolution thanks to machine. But that is as a species not as an individual?
Evolution ceases to matter when they can manipulate their own DNA.
See above - I'm wondering if how long that specific being has been alive. Or if it's some kind or form of hive mind.
- what exactly was that plan? If it understood what Moira is, why would it send both her and wolverine off world? That wouldn't prevent suicide at any point - that was even possible in the zoo
If Moira was to die before they could be absorbed into the Phalanx then reality would reset (which is what happened when Wolverine killed her). They were going to be sent off planet so that they would be absorbed before that happened. The Phalanx can exist outside of time when they enter into a dominion. If they knew about Moira's power they would snuff her out when she is born, and prevent the rebirth cycle.
Yes, but if they understood Moira and Wolverines intention that well, why would they even have them out and running around free in the first place? If they don't restrict her, she'll always chose death, especially now that she knows what's at stake.
- is Sinister the one that kick-starts Homo novissima with his dna manipulation?
I believe this was a different reality that will come into play later on based on how the dominions exist. Sinister created an omega-based chimera batch with a hive mind that was corrupted and all died (or did they?) after collapsing into a self-singularity. Most likely we will see this hive mind in the future.
But he is on the forefront of DNA manipulation - which is what eventually end up in the end state of humanity. So it's gonna be interesting to see if he personally was involved in making advancements that fastens the progress.
- does it matter if they use a normal human or a mutant as a base?
It was humans in the book, that is never brought up from what I can see.
- why does Homo novissima act like it had planned all this out? It clearly didn't at the point most of the X-Men universe takes place in.
I think that was just a villain speech about how humanity would always adapt and win.
- what is the second Krakoa?
- is there anything in the books so far that took place there?
Not sure about these.
Overall I loved the world building and the setting of a giant play board that can develop a lot without reaching a new stale status quo soon. But there are maybe too many hooks at play here to get people to read on. I get that it's too much to develop all of it in 12 issues, but they have basically wet up an unsolved mystery a page.
I feel like reading on at least a little, so I'll probably get the X-Men comics and the other one that Hickman writes - was it New Mutants?
Just finished X-Men #1:
Besides not being the biggest fan of the art, I'm also not big on the decision to have a villain that apparently already has a understanding of the new reasurection process of the X-Men including the technical side, including a working christal that for some reason has a human stored in it.
Feels like they jumped several things to get there without building up to it.
Just finished X-Men #1:
Besides not being the biggest fan of the art, I'm also not big on the decision to have a villain that apparently already has a understanding of the new reasurection process of the X-Men including the technical side, including a working christal that for some reason has a human stored in it.
Feels like they jumped several things to get there without building up to it.
I think this is a little premature when the comic hasn't even stated what the crystal actually is yet.
She and Orchid don't have any understanding of the X-men resurrection process. She is using a data Crystal to store an human conscience, yes, but the end result will be A.I, or more likely Ninrod. Totally different process, and the story is slowing building to that.
Ah, I see - I completely misread this then. Where the data christals a big concept before this arc?
The more I read about crystals and storage solutions I think Hickman is reading through AWS documentation at night and its bleeding into the story.
Thanks for answering - still playing catch up with the thread, but a lot of stuff became more clear in the meantime.
Gorgeous. Gots that iconic feel to it.
Rachel should be from Scott and Jean from an alternate universe. I haven't read the X comics since the 90s so that is what I presume.Having not read any X-Men books in...a really long time, I'm lost on some of the characters/references but I'm trying to catch up.
I understand two of the three women in the Summers house are Jean and Rachel, but who was the third?
And this Rachel is the one that many presume is actually a product of Wolverine and Jean, right?
I hadn't seen it posted, but there is going to be a Moira-centric book that will "dance between the raindrops" of X-Men continuity according to Hickman. In fact, they were ready with a 1000 year timeline to put in the back of PoX 6 that would cover Moira's 9th life...but decided not to at the last minute when the writer they wanted accepted the offer. I wonder who that writer is?
Hickman says it won't be out until next year. News was from earlier in the week so maybe its old.
Rachel should be from Scott and Jean from an alternate universe. I haven't read the X comics since the 90s so that is what I presume.
Just seems strange how they keep harping on about their "paradise" and then don't even actually want to live there.
Speculation is they've gotten either Mike Carey or Warren Ellis back for the Moira X book. Either would be great I think, both did her justice in the past (although Carey's turned out to be a villainous construct of Legion's mind rather than the real Moira).I hadn't seen it posted, but there is going to be a Moira-centric book that will "dance between the raindrops" of X-Men continuity according to Hickman. In fact, they were ready with a 1000 year timeline to put in the back of PoX 6 that would cover Moira's 9th life...but decided not to at the last minute when the writer they wanted accepted the offer. I wonder who that writer is?
Hickman says it won't be out until next year. News was from earlier in the week so maybe its old.
Claremont actually had an alternate origin planned for Rachel, that she was an "immaculate conception" and the child of Jean and the Phoenix itself. He was big on a holy trinity comparison between the three of them.Supposedly she is the child of Scott and Jean from an alternate future where the Phoenix never died. They even did a What If comic that used the original ending of the Dark Phoenix Saga that ended with Jean/Phoenix having her brain altered so she could not use telekinesis or telepathy again. And basically implied that was Rachel's original time line.
Over the years people have taken Rachel's temper, violent nature, and hound skills to read as that she is instead Jean and Logan's kid.
Claremont, who created the character has never dismissed the idea. Even wrote Jean and Logan as soul mates in his X-Men The End alternate book.
Add to that when he picked up Uncanny X-Men again after the Morrison run he had Rachel going by the last name Grey, instead of Summers. And having Logan be extremely protective of her, has just fueled that theory.
Supposedly she is the child of Scott and Jean from an alternate future where the Phoenix never died. They even did a What If comic that used the original ending of the Dark Phoenix Saga that ended with Jean/Phoenix having her brain altered so she could not use telekinesis or telepathy again. And basically implied that was Rachel's original time line.
Over the years people have taken Rachel's temper, violent nature, and hound skills to read as that she is instead Jean and Logan's kid.
Claremont, who created the character has never dismissed the idea. Even wrote Jean and Logan as soul mates in his X-Men The End alternate book.
Add to that when he picked up Uncanny X-Men again after the Morrison run he had Rachel going by the last name Grey, instead of Summers. And having Logan be extremely protective of her, has just fueled that theory.
Speculation is they've gotten either Mike Carey or Warren Ellis back for the Moira X book. Either would be great I think, both did her justice in the past (although Carey's turned out to be a villainous construct of Legion's mind rather than the real Moira).
Wouldn't the thousand year timeline be the sixth life instead? And the only we didn't get a timeline of. In any case a Moira solo sounds great after all of HOX/POX, and something I definitely will buy into.
It's the Cable we know from an earlier point in his life. He killed his older self because he failed his duty to protect time.So, was the Cable in X-Men #1 a different version from the 90's cable? I'm seeing "kid Cable" references. If so, is he infected with the virus as well? Does the other Cable exist anywhere else?
This is one of those gloriously dumb things that comics love to do. It really is absolute nonsense but it looks even more nonsensical without any context. I love comics.It's the Cable we know from an earlier point in his life. He killed his older self because he failed his duty to protect time.
Yeah, you could be right about that. I based what I wrote off what the article said. Maybe they meant to say it was her sixth life:
"So, yes, there was going to be a thousand-year timeline in the back of Powers of X #6 explaining all the cool things that happened in [Moira's ninth life]...the reason why this changed in production is because there was a writer we had hoped to get to do our eventual Moira book (that works as a kind of 'dancing between the raindrops' of X-Continuity story), and they agreed to do it long before we were expecting them to commit. Which was great news," Hickman told the site. "Then I basically told them what I was planning to do and asked if they wanted me to NOT put the timeline in the book (which would lock a lot of plot/story stuff in), and after talking about it, we decided not to stick it in there. But we got the writer we wanted, and that book is going to be amazing."
Doesn't Marvel still have Claremont on retainer? If the book is all about digging back and recontextualizing older X-Men stories, who would be better?
Someone who can write a modern comic?Doesn't Marvel still have Claremont on retainer? If the book is all about digging back and recontextualizing older X-Men stories, who would be better?