This book is very fun, but it also regressed some characters.
This book is very fun, but it also regressed some characters.
Chamber and Rahne are better backing down than where Rosenbetg left them.
In US Avengers his powers were boosted to Hulk level so I think he is showing both bravado and he is more powerful but not sure he is that powerful. It seems like his reflexes are superhuman given him catching the spear after Gladiator threw it? With Gladiators strength the speed would have been ridiculous.
Roberto's powers were out of control because of the M-Pox and hurted himself every time he used them.
We must assume that after resuscitation, he no longer has M-Pox (and therefore, neither those levels of power).
Very fun issue. I wonder what Hickman's long term plans for Berto and Sam are.
Was that Hindsight talking to Nature Girl and Eyeboy in the party scene or a weirdly colored Cable?
We've seen so little of post-resurrection Rahne, it almost feels like she's was uploaded with the memories of a much younger Rahne, from before her X-Factor and X-Force appearances, the birth and death of Tier, etc.
But it's entirely possible that she's got all those memories, and is just refusing to let them define her, and sort of viewing this second chance at life as a 'reset.'
Given her religious upbringing, she might not even think that she's *real,* and just sort of going with the flow, thinking of herself as a 'walking ghost' or whatever, feeling that her friends wanted 'the old Rahne back' and she might as well play along and be 'the old Rahne' they want her to be...
Or she could be in world-class denial / avoidance, and be headed for some big shouty drama. Who knows.
The Five work off of genetic samples. The M-Pox power boost was because he was infected with that stuff, unless it altered his DNA and said DNA is the basis of the sample being used to resurrect him he wouldn't have that power level. I just chalked it up to inconsistencies from book to book.