And if those 'gifts' ruin their lives, kill someone near them, or just straight up cause them to die on the spot, then there's no way to fix. Saying they were always meant to be a hideous rock monster or something isn't going to fly.
Its really not much different than Black Bolt detonating the terrigen bomb. Which was also terrible
It's almost as if the Phoenix wasn't coming to Earth to reignite the X-Gene in the first place.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
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Hopefully Hickman will enforce that mutations are actually powers because the whole idea that they are totally debilitating is just counterintuitive. The Morlocks weren’t too bad, but even they felt like a plot device.
The underlying logic of mutant powers was that they would be related to empowering dispossessed or traumatised teens. The notion that they are random was always a misunderstanding, confusing the X-Gene with genetics. The mutation IS the X-Gene and that manifests in a manner related to a coming of age event.
This would imply that mouth for eyes kid would certainly not have had that mutation if it wasn’t for Now More Mutants. Instead it implies that Mothervine went badly wrong and forced people to express their X-Gene unnaturally and not at a coming of age moment.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
But it was a crackpot plan from the wrong universe. It didn’t work as expected and the mutations went badly wrong. The story was a carryover from Bunn’s Ultimate Universe work. It was never going to work properly.
I feel like this is actually more discussion than anyone ever gave Blue at the time. That was an underrated run all around, especially on these boards.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Because Blue was just... serviceable. It was good, don't get me wrong, but it was just good so at first people talked over it about the ridiculousness that was Gold and then it was outshone by Red.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
From my perspective Blue was better than both, but mostly people moaned about the O5, who I thought were great but ended up being wasted anyway, when editorial course corrected and threw their whole point away.
When editors listened too closely to fans, their moans of pointlessness became a self-fulfilling prophesy.
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Polaris stuff was weak filler that did her no favors. But the entire book was filler AFAIC.
This. Bunn's team ideas are actually interesting , he's like one of us where he tries to combine characters in new ways, uses ones that you need deep knowledge to care about, but also uses Alisters too.
I just wish it had gone on longer than 4 issues of course. Still Lorna's best showing in a while, it fixed her in many ways (re established a familial/working relationship with her dad Magneto, showed her as powerful, showed her as competent, showed her as a team leader). It also managed to touch on her relationship with Havok without letting it dominate her story too badly or force her back in with him. In general BLUE is super underrated, but so is Bunn's Uncanny as well. Bunn's problem is I think lack of ego, he tries to write in a very accomodating way to the general continuity while SUBTLY shifting it in a way he wants. He needed way more issues in both books for it to truly "pay off" in a way for general fans to notice.
(Note: he also fixed Raven, sure you can call it gimmicky but SOMETHING had to be done with her. And both Raven and Lorna's portrayals so far in HoX/PoX/DoX seem to stem from Bunn's work so it does live on that way. It also lives on in the Betsy-Erik conflict, not that I think that's a great thing, I enjoyed their partnership. But it shows some things Bunn did are at least being picked up and carried forward in this new era. Regrettably doesn't extend to his created character Briar Rahleigh. She was great as a sort of "hard to pin down" type character, a human who wasn't really pro mutant but was an ally of Magneto for other reasons. We could use more human characters in X-books, like noteworthy developed ones I mean. Also doesn't seem to extend to his work on changing Elixir into a bit darker, but who knows, he just hasn't been shown at all yet.)
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Forget the old ways - Krakoa is god.
OBEY
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.