Ryan Stegman shares another art from the upcoming X-Men series.
Cyclops looks awsome!
What I liked about Gillen is that even if he saw Cyclops as a villain he did his best to show us his point of view and make him sympathetic, AvX: Consequences is one of the best Cyclops stories ever told.
But maybe is a good thing his run ended when it did, considering his plans not only for Scott but also for Emma. Bendis get a lot of criticism about his X-Men run, and I agre with some of it, but at the end of the day he also put a lot of work in showing us Cyclops side of things, and we should remember that at the time, he was the only one "siding" with Cyclops, the other x-books and Avengers book all painted him as the villain.
And while people consider the Bendis run part of Scott's "villain" era, they should remember that he was returning to form. His calls of revolution were revealed to be a bluff, he kept the teen O5 from killing, and the comic ended with a peace rally. In fact, that ending is a large part of why "Mutant Hitler" fell so flat. Too many people had this idea of who Cyclops was formed entirely (or so it seemed) from message boards devoted to hating him, and not from reading what was happening at the time.
Dark does not mean deep.
AvX: Consequences is among my favorite Cyclops comics. UXM 18 and 19 also portrayed him as tragic and sympathetic fallen hero. The problem is that they failed to properly villainize him. For the first five issue of the main AvX series, he was just right, Avengers were the bad guys who acted like fascists. Scott just wanted Hope to bond with the Phoenix and reignite the mutant gene. This was something that Nathan told him to do and we know that Phoenix has restarted evolution in other planets too.
So basically Cyclops was right until the Avengers split the Phoenix into five fragments and Scott refusing to give it to hope, believing himself to be the mutant messiah.
Last edited by Darth_Caedus; 05-09-2024 at 04:26 PM.
Bendis' run is definitely not part of Scott's "villainous" era, in fact he was trying to redeem himself more than anything. Late Utopian era is when Cyke shows signs of "villainy" and I could only consider him a villain in the last two or three issues of AvX.
Either way, Schism and AvX should not have happened in the first place.
Last edited by Darth_Caedus; 05-09-2024 at 04:32 PM.