I remember he was rebuilding Genosha before the Secret Wars crossover, I doubt he was happy the crossover killed his plans there.
Genosha had some great stories over the years and it’s part of the X-Men Mythos it will never fully sink long term. Some of Pietro’s best stories of the late 90s were there. I also thought he had a really nice role in New X-Men 132.
Only uses of Lorna by Hickman to date are 1) to have exposition talked at her from Magneto in House of X, and 2) to have Cyclops talk about family at her (with a quick namedrop/cred boost for Havok in the form of "I don't wanna date him right now") in X-Men #1. Those aren't signs he likes Lorna. They're signs he likes using Lorna for men to talk at her about things relevant to the men.
Even if you take the angle of "there wasn't room for anything about Lorna's history to come up on HoX/PoX" (which I do not), Hickman could've very easily had Lorna mention surviving the Genoshan genocide in X-Men #1 and didn't. He chose to use up that panel space to give Havok another mention that wasn't in any way needed.
Writers can of course improve, but if you're judging by Hickman's work to date, it says he sees her as a useful prop.
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These creative teams are a godsend. I can't wait to read the second issue in particular- Percy, Duggan & Williams, writing Warren, Illyana & Monet? Hell yes.
Regarding Lorna and her ties to Genosha, I'm hesitant to expect her here, just because this seems to be another side-story, and doesn't seem to include characters attached to other ongoing titles (Illyana, along w/ Sam, Berto & Doug, seem to be off NM for the time being)
Assuming the team sent to Genosha has more members, I'd hope for Sunfire, Warpath, Husk, Skin, Siryn or any of the NXM kids not already set to appear in Cable
I usually skip the crossover tie-ins, but the whole DoX writer line-up doing a round robin sounds like fun. I'm in.
Let's be bit more pragmatic about this shall we? It's good to see non-maintstream or minority characters getting chancrs but this comics are related to Empyre, the so called earth shattering event which is kinda indifferent towards all those generic earth shattering events that happened before.
It's about time Angel gets some more attention.
I'm wondering if issue 2 still features these three, since two issues own different writers and artists.
Not surprised that Hickman finally got panels for Monet, now called Penance. I'm so interested in his new creation for the whole M-Plate-Penace thing lol, and anyone remember the baby-penaces featured in New Mutant #1?
Last edited by WildR; 02-19-2020 at 11:41 PM.
Boom. I request the appearances of Shola, Lorna, and Wicked please.
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