Originally Posted by
lefthanded
Picked up this series since I liked New Mutants and Nate Grey's role on it, and liked the original Age of Apocalypse.
This character..... meh. It has the same reason why I dropped all X-men books. Various mutant characters are sold as "omega level", with powers that enable them to essentially do anything. And yet, character's powers are neutered for the point of the story. Omega level mind control? Yes, super dangerous (Eg. Red Skull with powers), but if I'm on the side of good, suddenly everyone and their mom has mind control protection (Eg. Every bad guy Jean Grey faces). The entire X-men team can't beat evil Magneto, but good Magneto is beaten by all the bad guys who suddenly are resistant to magnetism.
Good Nate Grey has been sold as one of the most powerful mutants ever, bu because of that, he's always written as fighting villains who happen to be able to counter his powers.
Bad Nate Grey is actually living up to his billing. But, now the writers have built him up so much that his inevitable defeat is gonna ring hollow. I didn't care at all for the vaccine storyline, but you can bet that someone is gonna give Nate Grey a vaccine to get rid of his powers, and through the "power of distraction" and "to me my x-men" he won't be able to stop it. Now that he theoretically has his powers and Legion's power, he should be unbeatable.
I guess my main opinion are that the X-men team books suffers a bit too much from power inflation such that I can't appreciate any of the stakes. That New Mutants run was better in that stakes were more intimate, and people's powers were more limited.