I am thinking it's Emma vs. Magneto. Mystique is with Emma & Toad is with Magneto. While Creed just invited himself to cause trouble & is getting schooled before the EmmNeto war wages on. lol
Either way, Agree it's hard to look on the bright side that X-Office isn't pandering to nostalgia when everyone who had some form of redemption or was on their way there has been reverted back to more evil roots.
I think the spoiler we saw of Emma wearing a costume very similar to the ones the Cuckoos used in the X23 book pretty much eliminate any chance of her being a villain. I also think that means she won't be Black King anymore. Pretty much everything is irrelevant until these books come out.
Weren't the Cuckoos the villains in X-23 (yes I know it was just Esme, but still)?
The Lady Cardinal/Black King thing likely won't go away, which is fine. All Emma fans are asking is that Emma not be stupid evil. Working against the X-Men on a different path for mutants? Cool. Opposing them on how to deal with a threat to mutants? Cool. Cackling while she tortures Havok and Logan? Not cool.
Please make Black King Emma go away. Singer and Tony award-nominated Broadway actress Laura Bell Bundy agrees with me that it should go away.
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"I do not like it, so it's an AU" god, are we in a denial phase?
Depending on circumstances, denial can be the best medicine. lol
I am wary on one of my favorites as things don't look good. However, even I think it's best to wait & see what Hickman has planned. We're only getting snippets of info.
The first couple of issues of HOX and POX should paint a decent picture, and some of us can either relax or go into denial & continue waiting for something better suited to our taste. Some will have to wait longer than others. lol
I have my favorite characters, but before that I'm a fan of the X-men.
So I'm happy if I'm reading a good X-men story, no matter who is part of it.
Life must be so much harder for hardcore fans of specific characters in a team franchise...
I am looking forward to this run.
But, I am hoping it avoids some of the conceptual problems that X-books typically have. (How the hell can a group be oppressed when it has members that can flatten cities by looking at them funny?)
Current pull-file: Batman the Detective, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Marvel Dark Ages, Nightwing, Superman Son of Kal-El, Transformers, Transformers: King Grimlock, Warhammer 40,000 Sisters of Battle
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