The way how Brisson writes is tricky. When Cyclops says he was wrong, what actions are he regretting? Post-Morrison covers 2004 - 2017 when Scott dies. That's even before Wanda wipes out 98% of mutants, Deadly Genesis, Utopia, AvX and Death of X.
Then you have Cable's rant about Emma. He's half-right since Emma's stunt did make Scott look bad.
"This is starting to sound like a bad comic book plot"
-Spider-man
“Evil is evil...lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same."
-Geralt of Rivia
Where they double-down on making her out to be as irredeemable and villainous as possible to turn off fans calling for her redemption? The one good thing about that is that like what happened with Felicia, Marvel will eventually get tired of doubling down with lessening returns on their investment and reset Emma's character to being more-or-less on the side of the angels again, though as a certain modernized incarnation of Sherlock would put it, "Don't think because she's on the side of the angels that she's one of them." Hmm, come to think of it, Felicia and Emma would definitely have a lot to talk about, given certain commonalities between them as characters, and particularly how Marvel has gone out of its way to vilify and demonize them both in recent years. Again, though, Marvel eventually got tired of not getting what it wanted out of "outright villainous instead of morally ambiguous Felicia" and finally wrote off the whole thing as the failed experiment that it was. No reason to presume the same couldn't happen with Emma, though it'll probably be at least as long a wait for Emma fans as it was for Felicia fans.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Iron Man's godlike arc about doing whatever it takes to secure his ideal future as quickly as possible, succeeding brilliantly but realizing it wasn't worth it, trying to move forward and create that future anyway, getting his ass beat and then his ankles and knees blown out for it, and then having to put the pieces back together from scratch will always be a great model for that kinda story. But Scott's story wasn't one of those stories.
The legend of Scott Summers shall now always be known as him pouring a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, having no milk, going to get the milk, getting hit by a car for trying to get milk because someone was driving under the influence (of the Phoenix), and then saying to himself -- "I did the same thing everyone I'd been fighting had done. Put my breakfast above theirs. I became the consumer they feared. It was wrong. I was wrong."
Then he switches to breakfast bagels. Disgusting.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
Cable is Scott's son. Brisson writes it as Nathan acting out because Emma used his father how she did for DoX instead of telling his friends how he really died and giving him a better burial which actually happened. He doesn't blame her for his death; he even covers it later when he says he couldn't believe some mist took him.
Yeah, this issue reads more as a setup for Jott by burying the past when it should have been built off of and developed. I'm fine with Scott returning to his old self, but this isn't the best way to finish development of the arc. So, I'll wait and see how Uncanny runs with it. That book seems like it might be striving for a better balanced Scott.
"This is starting to sound like a bad comic book plot"
-Spider-man
“Evil is evil...lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same."
-Geralt of Rivia
At this point, I think we should just consider Brisson wrote Cyclops saying that thinking of AvX. We all know it backfired rather spectacularly on Marvel's face and they've been trying to paint Scott as the face of evil for quite some time since then. Now they're giving us our Scott back and they want their tribute, which is accepting that he was a "villain" then. And I'd say let them have it. AvX was a shitshow for everyone involved, anyway. As long as we can move on without Scott being stuck to it. I'll do like some fans, stick with my headcanon and be happy with it
Last edited by PrezValentine; 01-23-2019 at 07:17 PM.
Brisson is trash. This read like a New X-Men hitpiece.