Marvel may indeed be slackers. I do not know. I honestly wasn't defending anyone. I was saying that maybe they went with some of these moments to show her powers are changing. I read the Rogue issues, so for me there is a logic there that maybe others who do not follow Rogue did not see.
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate, and say that it's not Marvel's job to point out to you on the page exactly how things fit into continuity. If you've been reading their books, you should know how the pieces fit. As Jen shows, Rogue's powers have evolved since she failed to absorb Wonder Man's powers, and she has displayed the ability to take the powers of non-corporeal individuals, so this particular continuity error doesn't appear to be all that erroneous.
That said, Marvel, and Remender especially, are still shit at continuity
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I've been loving this arc. I feel like there is too much to wrap up in one issue. You have all of Kang's group fighting and then the showdown with Kang without even mentioning what is going to happen with Sentry. I hope that they can give it a satisfying conclusion.
Kang is my favorite villain and I have been waiting for something this awesome with him since Dynasty and Avengers Forever. I hope it doesn't get cut too short.
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Jen, I think you are a bit confused. Sage jump started Rogue's Extreme powerset so she could have total control over it. After Rogue was stabbed by Vargus's sword, Rogue's powers left. When they came back, it was never shown how or when they came back nor it was never explained why the powers she got from Carol never return. It was Gambit that Sage jump started to return his powers and again to restore his eyesight. I think Rogue's "just absorption" power somehow returned between the end of X-Treme and being make part of Austin's Abjectiveless.
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Yeah, considering that the axe was able to take down Exitar, the Celestial only some of whose energy Kang has absorbed, it should be equally able to take down Kang. Even Celestial-empowered Kang is unlikely to be more powerful than his power source, any more than Korvac was ever more powerful than Galactus.
Well, not hastily. They've spent a good deal of time setting up Jarnbjorn and its ability to cleave Celestial armor and let out their energies.
It's just that given that Thor applies the enchantment to the axe well before the Fourth Host came to Earth and smacked Odin in the gigantified Destroyer armor around like a redheaded stepchild, what buggers me is why Odin didn't retrieve the axe for use in that encounter. It's not like he was holding back from trying to kill the Celestials, he was pulling out all the stops, so why not this one? Sure, the real why not is because Remender hadn't invented this one at the time, but what was the reason in the context of what Odin was thinking?
Except Odin got killed by the Fourth Host in that story, his life force driven from the Destroyer armor into limbo. He didn't leave the axe and instructions to use it if he got killed with Thor or anybody else, so what would have been the point of keeping it secret from the Celestials rather than using it against them? Remember, he was in direct combat with them, they were well past the point of talking as far as Odin was concerned.
Unless you think he was privy to the secret plan of Frigga and the other mother goddesses to offer the Celestials the Young Gods as party favors, and figured that letting onto having an effective Celestial-killing weapon would prevent that deal from being accepted... but that still makes no sense, because if that were the case, why risk ticking them off equally badly by attacking them in the Destroyer armor with the Odinsword?
More like Remender doesn't give a damn about little things like continuity or previously established characterizations. He'll crowbar them into his story no matter how OOC they have to be in order to do so. His treatment of Rogue in this entire book is exhibit A of that.
What bothers me is the bottom three panels of Kang smacking around Thor, Acuna clearly has Thor holding the hammer in the first panel, and then the axe in the following two. I'm not one to be nitpicky, but when the same artists is drawing everything in the issue, not to mention side by side panels, how does one screw that up? That just seems stupidly careless. Nevertheless, I've been enjoying the hell out of this series and this is one of the first times I've really loved Acuna's art (besides the aforementioned issue :P )