Why is callisto there?
Smh, X-men don't love ugly people
Why is callisto there?
I can't wait for Damian to become:Is he supposed to be Knull?
My new codename is Aizo. Shhh! Don't tell people my other name, though.
It sounds better than the old one, but c'mon. It's hardly a codename.
It satisfies my wants, and its better than Red Robin. Is it a bit ridiculous, sure, but im down with it.
It's one of my favorite shows of all time and I base my entire love of the DCU off of that show. Fuck anybody who fights me on it.
It's a high quality joke
I highly recommend watching Justice League and then Justice League Unlimited, since JLU is essentially seasons 3 and 4 of Justice League just rebranded as a different seriesso i don't really know any of these DC groups like Spyral.
should i be reading stuff before i start Bendis' AC -> Event Leviathan
It's been on my list forever, so here goes!
Not really. You can pretty much just jump straight into the AC arc.so i don't really know any of these DC groups like Spyral.
should i be reading stuff before i start Bendis' AC -> Event Leviathan
I highly recommend watching Justice League and then Justice League Unlimited, since JLU is essentially seasons 3 and 4 of Justice League just rebranded as a different series
Some of the JL episode storylines are especially prominent.
More people should be reading wonder twins, each issue is heartwarming and heartwrenching in some way. The only issue I have is that Superman looks too young, but that's a minor quibble at the end of the day
Not really. You can pretty much just jump straight into the AC arc.
Basically there are a shit ton of spy organizations in the DCU. Spyral was in Batman Inc and Grayson. The DEO is the organization that Supergirl works for in the CW show. But you dont really need to know much, besides they are there and who people like Amanda Waller are.
The dumbest thing.
Yes, but I'm hoping it will get extended again
Dang. I think this is the first Hoxpox I didn't like. It wasn't direct. It was too hinty, referency. It took too many pages say very little, while still not answering obvious questions. And nothing actually happened. That's the big one.
The issue starts off strong with Magneto + Xavier visiting Sinister in X^0. X^0 makes the most sense to be 616, but you never know. Sinister is goofy in a great way and then Xavier plants the idea to collect mutant DNA into his head and then erases Sinister's memory. Okay, cool. It's building up to Kraklonea. Good so far.
BUT THEN... what the fuck are the Sinister secrets? Completely unhappy with these things. I can't tell if they're meant to reference secrets we already know from X-Men past, story beats from Hoxpox, or things planned for further in the future. And I don't get the format, either. Did Sinister just decide to make a weird document listing secrets? I'm so fucking unhappy with this. I don't even want to look up theories.
We jump to X^1, which could also be 616. Only, now it can't be, right? Because 616's Krakoa was blasted off into space in Giant-Size. Because Doug didn't know Xavier while Xavier could walk. Does this timeline never have Xavier's spine get fucked? Is this a hint that HoX's timeline isn't the real timeline? We get some exposition showing more plotting by Xavier which makes me confused as to whether X^0 and X^1 are supposed to be the same lineline, or if they're different timelines which share similar plotting by Xavier? Magneto isn't here, so maybe this is a timeline without including him in the plot. Anyway, completely wasted space, IMO. Beyond making me fucking confused. We could already have assumed Doug was the one to set up the Krakoa translation shit. Beautful coloring though. And it did tease the "ORIGINAL HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE" that were referenced in Sinister's secrets. Cool.
Jump to X^3. This part is the worst. No fuckin clue what Hickman's trying to do here. There's so much dialogue and it's all used to explain what's happening. So in the process the "why" of what they're doing is fucking completely lost. Is this related to Moira? Is the Nimrod robot important anymore? Who the fuck are these people? Why have several pages for them when you won't actually do anything with them?
BLARG. This is Hickman at his worst, IMO. When he jots out 50 bullet points before he writes a story and we get to book #8 or w/e and he's just writing three bulletpoints that should have been fucking edited out. Like he thought they were important one time and then couldn't remember why later, so we just get wasted pages.
tag is spoiler not spoilers! :DI thought it was pretty basic, but I don't think it was particularly confusing. Maybe I'm just inoculated against Hickmanisms?
X^0's document is formatted as a gossip rag, full of blind items, because Bar Sinister is a cliquey island populated entirely by Mister Sinister clones. Probably a mixture of teasers and red herrings.
X^1 is 616, taking place a few weeks/months before "today" and presumably after whatever happened with Age of X-Man and all that nonsense. It's got current Professor X, as far as we know currently still in Fantomex's body, and the Doug who merged with Warlock. The only mystery is why Doug is totally cool with Xavier being around since that was, as far as I know, still a secret at that point?
X^3 is focusing in on the whole thread that the conflict between man and mutant is really just a sideshow to the real inevitable conflict between organic and synthetic life. Who are these people? Do humans or mutants "win" in the end? Doesn't matter, they all end up surrendering to the machine intelligence that is the Phalanx.
People paint Hickman as a purely mechanical writer, and he's of course doing a lot of mechanical plot work, but the X^3 (and to an extent even the X^2 stuff) exists for purely theme/messaging reasons. The whos and whys aren't as important as the whats.
The dumbest thing.
But that has...
Starcrossed
Twilight
A Better World
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
And the Christmas episode the name of which I can't totally remember
Fuck all of like the best episodes
Oh and I think S2 has the Defenders homage, too
Were you reading Morrison Batman? If not, you should see the first iteration of Leviathan that started in Batman Inc.
And read about Spyral in Grayson, cause Grayson's amazing. It's Tom King (co-writing) and Mikel Janin on art before he was on King's Batman.
more hoxpox spoilersI thought it was pretty basic, but I don't think it was particularly confusing. Maybe I'm just inoculated against Hickmanisms?
X^0's document is formatted as a gossip rag, full of blind items, because Bar Sinister is a cliquey island populated entirely by Mister Sinister clones. Probably a mixture of teasers and red herrings.
X^1 is 616, taking place a few weeks/months before "today" and presumably after whatever happened with Age of X-Man and all that nonsense. It's got current Professor X, as far as we know currently still in Fantomex's body, and the Doug who merged with Warlock. The only mystery is why Doug is totally cool with Xavier being around since that was, as far as I know, still a secret at that point?
X^3 is focusing in on the whole thread that the conflict between man and mutant is really just a sideshow to the real inevitable conflict between organic and synthetic life. Who are these people? Do humans or mutants "win" in the end? Doesn't matter, they all end up surrendering to the machine intelligence that is the Phalanx.
People paint Hickman as a purely mechanical writer, and he's of course doing a lot of mechanical plot work, but the X^3 (and to an extent even the X^2 stuff) exists for purely theme/messaging reasons. The whos and whys aren't as important as the whats.
Or just watch whatever you have because it's fucking goodah well, i will keep an eye on S2 around the holiday sales and dive in then. or splurge whenever YJ s3 drops in full on iTunes
There is an older blue alien dude in PoX #4, but the younger blue alien dude from PoX #1 is also there.In PoX, wasn't the future librarian dude a child in the previous issues? He looks older here that what I remember.
This book would legit be one of the best of the year if it wasn't burdened with Knull. It's excellent, but holy shit WHY KNULL. The red pages in today's issue were so crazy good.
I picked up batman 78 after all and jeez what's with the choppy dialogue? It almost feels like frank miller wrote this
There is an older blue alien dude in PoX #4, but the younger blue alien dude from PoX #1 is also there.
Nah I checked. The younger blue dude looks identical between PoX #1 and PoX #4.Yeah. There's the Elder, a female character and The Librarian w/ the lil Nimrod robot. Librarian looked fully adult here, but I'm sure he was a kid earlier. Guess I'll check later.
Around 7am for meSo what time did books end up hitting CMX last night? They still weren't up when I went to bed.
Oh boy, what happened now?I've been playing Monster Hunter Iceborne, getting upset with people in wrestling threads and cleaning the apartment!
Read Tomie next.Uzumaki is still amazing when I have time to read it. It's cool because Ito is clearly just experimenting with different types of horror story telling. He even has a disaster sorry about a hurricane in here. BUT IT'S A HAUNTED HURRICANE!!! OoOoOoOo!!~
Cainhurst Castle was such a cool locale. I hope we get more horror style games out of From Software.Everytime people say Iceborne without the prefix of Monster Hunter, I think it's like just Bloodborne if it were only Cainhurst Castle.
Go read the AEW thread.