That was bugging me too. I thought for a moment the scene was a flashback from before he left with the other New Mutants. But I guess he somehow came back for this meeting? :/
I like Raven thinking the CIA thing is 'gross'. She was a DARPA director for a long time, she's seen the underbelly of the beast. Even if her own hands have plenty of filth under the nails, it is good for her to point out how gross it is to Charles.
I love Krakoa's face. I still need a reason why there is a Krakoa anymore when the X-Men explicitly threw it into space in 1975; and I never understood Kid Krakoa either. It's amazing how Hickman just skipped all of this, added thousands of years of backstory(Giant Sized's Krakoa gain sentience only as a result of nuclear weapons testing), and everyone's just onboard with it.
I need Storm to do more on this Council. She's actually been a head of state before, she's actually worked with the UN Security Council. She actually has fostered relationships with humans all over the world all her life. She should be a more nuanced and provocative voice in these meetings. That said...
Storm checking Shaw is fun. (Remembers Uncanny 152 when she almost killed him subconsciously with a lightning bolt after he and Emma raped her).
And I am glad the X-Force mandate is openly known in the Council. I thought that under-the-waterfall-meeting last issue might mean they meant to keep it secret.
I'm glad you're back Vegan Daddy!
As much as any story has to take certain liberties to work, it is hard to accept that mutants are so challenged by humans, when there are literally several handfuls of mutants that could kill every human alive within a day, or even with a single thought. The idea that they are fated to struggle for centuries before being defeated by machine/men is a bit of a reach.
To me, it seems like Cerebro[with Forge's modification] is really doing the hard work of digitally storing the data. The telepath just has to transfer it from the machine to the biological brain/body.
^ Exactly. When Hickman first introduced this resurrection concept, I kind of balked, because it reminded me of real people who think you can download a person into a computer and that would actually be them, like, actually them, not just an algorithm that would reproduce outcomes like the real them. But then I remember scenes like when Moira 'did die', and Xavier was with her soul/psyche in the Astral Plane and almost died with her. Or when Jean found Ororo's psyche in the Astral Plane when she almost died in X-Treme X-Men and they met with Ororo's parents. Or even when Jean's telepathy first manifested and she kept Anni Richardson from dying for a little while just with the strength of her will(and nascent Phoenix connection?). So, the precedence for telepaths being able to actually interface with the soul/spirit of a person(or anima as Hickman specifies), not just their algorithmic thoughts, makes the whole Cerebro resurrection protocol a bit more digestible for me. And given it's almost a reflex for strong telepaths(think of how Shadow King survives bodily death, or when Jean hopped into Emma's body when the Sentinels got the best of her that one time, or how Betsy reformed her own body recently), I don't think it should be construed as overly difficult. Especially not for someone like Jean who has been trained by Xavier with Cerebro since she was a teenager.
Again, literary limitations. Of course the mutants all working together should be nigh-unstoppable, but I guess people can't relate to such stories for long.