POWERS OF X [04] : Something Sinister (SPOILERS)

[TheDeadSpace]

I can't believe that those arcs of Hunt for Wolverine have gone somewhere.

It is quite the surprise.

[nx01a]

when hickman does the x-men/queer eye crossover with sinister you'll all be begging for him to accept you into his omega-level mind like a blueberry to a phalanx
the x-men franchise will flourish if it embraces what truly makes it special, really old lgbt people

Is it inappropriate to refer to this incarnation as Queen Sinister? I call him that.
Professor M is the couple we need!

[H-E-D]

I can't believe that those arcs of Hunt for Wolverine have gone somewhere.

They have? I mean, I'll be honest, I didn't read them. So I guess I wouldn't have picked up on it.

[RD155]

Republicanesque X-Men fans. I will never understand how that's a thing.

On the non-Byrne, real topic of the thread: you folks are really drawn in by this issue? I don't get it. I'm finding out Secret History stories make me sleepy.

not really minding the “secret history” aspects of it. Its more so how out of place the x1000 elements of the story feel especially in this issue.

[phoenixzero23]

you folks are really drawn in by this issue? I don't get it. I'm finding out Secret History stories make me sleepy.

I didn't like it, it was honestly the least exciting issue so far.

[ermac]

I don't recognize this Sinister. Specially at that time (X^0)

[Triniking1234]

They have? I mean, I'll be honest, I didn't read them. So I guess I wouldn't have picked up on it.

So far it's only Adamantium Agenda and Madripoor (white Betsy) have been picked up.

[powerpax]

Sinister was boring as **** until Gillen (and then Hickman) got him.

[Zhaxra]

This was one of the most beautiful rendition of Cypher since Alan Davis.

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Now, if we can only get Douglas and Elisabeth to have some panel time together...

[stormphoenix]

I did not like this Sinister.

The Sinister from the Inferno Story was awesome.....IMO.

[ExodusCloak]

Which one of those Sinister secrets reveals Xavier knocked up Jean Grey with Quentin Quite then mind wiped her of the incident?

[JB]

This was one of the most beautiful rendition of Cypher since Alan Davis.

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Now, if we can only get Douglas and Elisabeth to have some panel time together...

Yes please! Hopefully we'll see some of that in Excalibur.

Loved Doug's expressions and voice. Well done.

[RamaBird]

I did not like this Sinister.

The Sinister from the Inferno Story was awesome.....IMO.

Agreed! This Sinister sounded goofy as hell. Not threatening at all.

The future ascension stuff really brings it down for me and goes over my head.

Do people suspect the Xavier we saw was actually Cassandra? The clothes especially around the knees really took me back to when Cassandra first came on scene. Maybe she used tricks on Cypher?

Also, loved Trinary being mentioned!

Really anxious for next week! Isn't the HoX #5 the most important issue in the series? Followed by HoX2 and POX6?

[ExodusCloak]

Sinister telling everyone he's fabulous means he isn't. Should have copied Emma's genome instead of Proudstars

[GrandEleven]

The baby thing was from X^2 in timeline 9, and it was to show that there are a group of humans who will merge with machine to become something else, it is implied the blue future people of X^3 are the result of this merger. This issue reveals that although the Phalanx can absorb organic material, there consciousness' are not added to the collective, they are only interested in the machine half. So they came up with a possible solution of copying their consciousness into pure mechanical form as a work around, and they are awaiting word from the Phalanx to see if that is acceptable to them.

This was my take as well.

The only mystery to the race is if they are man+machine or mutant+machine, as there was a brief reference to some humans being left alive in a bio-dome like some kind of zoo animal with how dangerous they are being referenced.

If we track back that Sinister was making his own database of mutant DNA ... my current theory is that we are watching an evolutionary arms race play out: Miora's visions from the apocalypse wars is that of Nimrod eventually evolving to the point that it causes an assention to occur and all individuality to get wiped out. If the mutants can do it first ... build their own nimrod leveraging help from Sinister to kick things off, _they_ become the new man+machine survivors of the war and then can plan for the arrival of the Phalanx in order to essentially save themselves from absorption. "Here's our knowledge, no need to absorb and discard our biology anymore, move on". That's the real reason they even bother to pull Sinister in so early.

That's my latest take, at least.