X-Men

[The Doctor]

His 11th Doc run was fabulous.

-Ralph

[manmiles]

May 17, 2021 19:32:48 GMT The Doctor said:

His 11th Doc run was fabulous.

-Ralph

I’ve been reading his Immortal Hulk in trade and his current run of Guardians of the Galaxy as monthly, he does Weird SF so well. You been reading either of those, Ralph?

Just caught up the current arc of New Mutants too... interesting, but not enough Cypher.

[The Doctor]

I've not read either of those, just his 11th Doc run when the Titan reprints were a monthly thing. Do need to grab it in trades at some point.

-Ralph

[manmiles]

May 17, 2021 19:45:46 GMT The Doctor said:

I've not read either of those, just his 11th Doc run when the Titan reprints were a monthly thing. Do need to grab it in trades at some point.

-Ralph

I’ve got the singles lying around. If you want, after I’ve read them, I can mail ‘em to you, I’m trying to tidy up my comic clutter.

[The Doctor]

Will bear that in mind, thanks.

I currently have three piles of things to read that have accumulated over the last year!

-Ralph

[manmiles]

Last night, I read ‘The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix’ where Cyclops and Phoenix are telepathically pulled two-thousand years into the far future to help raise their time displaced, techno-organic virus infected son, Nathan Christopher Summers and fight Apocalypse.

While still on their honeymoon.

For about fifteen years.

F*ckin’ love comics.

[Philip Ayres]

TOP book, love that one. FAB art.

[Benn]

I remember not liking the art on that, myself. Only vague memories of it now.

[Andy Turnbull]

Gene Ha on that, I liked it too.

The Further Adventures has the sadly recently passed John Paul-Leon on art duties.

[Andy Turnbull]

Picked up the X-Men Legends first 4 issues - the Adam X story and a Weezie/Walt X-Factor tale. Nice art on both, the Adam-X story had the laziest fucking ending to the tale, and the Weezie/Walt X-Factor was nice enough and a prequel to Judgement War - Phil's favourite. Nice wee nostalgia dose, but nowt else.

[Philip Ayres]

Hickman leaves X-Men

bleedingcool.com/comics/jonathan-hickman-confirms-he-will-leave-x-men-after-inferno/

bleedingcool.com/comics/on-the-illusion-of-change-and-jonathan-hickman-leaving-the-x-men/

[The Doctor]

Good.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

But it looks like they won't make seismic changes to the x-line when he goes.

Andy

[Andy Turnbull]

Paging Philip Ayres

bleedingcool.com/comics/chris-claremont-to-make-x-men-legends-debut-in-february/

[The Doctor]

I can't wait for the Shadow King to return.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

It's a Nightcrawler related issue apparently...so origin or Excalibur tie in

[The Doctor]

Shadow King then.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

Remember the Hickmanverse has resurrected almost ALL mutants...

[manmiles]

Oct 8, 2021 18:17:40 GMT The Doctor said:

I can't wait for the Shadow King to return.

-Ralph

He’s been making trouble over in the New Mutants.

[The Doctor]

Oh no.

-Ralph

[manmiles]

Oct 12, 2021 15:44:25 GMT The Doctor said:

Oh no.

-Ralph

Oh yes.

[Andy Turnbull]

AHAHAHAHAHA

[Philip Ayres]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulsmithdraws/status/1462866459944706051

[The Doctor]

Dec 9, 2021 14:16:53 GMT The Doctor said:

Catching up on 6 months of Paninivision. Great reprint formats but they're polishing turds. Why has colouring become so murky in modern DC/Marvel? Why is so much of the art genric and lacking individual flair? Why can't most of the artists not know how to lay out a page?

When did Hickman jump the shark? What happened to Al Ewing when he went to Marvel?

This lot is going straight in the charity shop box.

-Ralph

Marauders is enjoyably mad though. Might get that in trades. I bet it's been cancelled.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

Relaunched following Inferno as part of the Destiny of X line.

[The Doctor]

Hmmmm.

Surprised how much I enjoyed the 6 issues I read in Paninivision as I don't usually like Gerry Duggan's work and none of the other Hickman-x-verse books caught up my eye.

The main problem with the Hickman-x-verse is that the X-Men are now effectively villains and massive dicks but I don't get the sense the writers have clocked that. Mauraders is at least barmy and fun.

Oh, and no-one can die.

Fed up to the back teeth with each x-relaunch having Cyclops being a knobend. When was he last properly heroic?

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

Dec 10, 2021 21:14:36 GMT The Doctor said:

Oh, and no-one can die.

This has been bothering me since HoXPoX. Because they do die, the new versions are just copies.

Dec 10, 2021 21:14:36 GMT The Doctor said:

Fed up to the back teeth with each x-relaunch having Cyclops being a knobend. When was he last properly heroic?

Before he was possessed by Apocalypse. I will not be surprised if at some point it turns out he still has been for the last 20 years.

[Jaymz]

Dec 10, 2021 21:44:58 GMT Philip Ayres said:

This has been bothering me since HoXPoX. Because they do die, the new versions are just copies.

I want to know why they haven't fixed Cyclops eye beams when they resurrected him. Not being able to control them isn't his natural state. And if they ever bothered to do anything with Chamber they could fix his face/chest if he got resurrected.

[I'm months behind, maybe they have done that]

[paulbyrnex]

I think the opinion is that the back up of Cyclops and Chamber was recorded after their accidents so their new bodies can't be restored prior to that point.

[Jaymz]

Quentin Quire got the team to modify his body with each resurrection.

And with Chamber his disfigurement was due to lack of understanding of his power, rather than a head injury like Cyclops. The clone bodies they resurrect into aren't damaged, so Chamber should [theoretically] be able to avoid blowing up his face. If not, someone could provide a harness to focus his power like in AoA.