You know, I know that the post about Doom talking the Celestial into submission from the Judgement Day thread was a joke but after Cyclops’ scene I’m now wondering if Doom could literally pull something like that off
You know, I know that the post about Doom talking the Celestial into submission from the Judgement Day thread was a joke but after Cyclops’ scene I’m now wondering if Doom could literally pull something like that off
Is Bobby trying too hard? He seems like one of those people who was closeted for so long that now that he's out, he's trying to make up for lost time. I read somewhere once that people who have been out for decades are way calmer than the freshly liberated. Is that what this is, or is this just straight people writing a gay character but not really understanding how to do it?
"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."
This is a good theory. It would explain why Emma got a failing judgment - even if you ignore her feelings of guilt and sadness over letting her kids down, her focus issue in Immortal was all about her seeing the worst in herself. The Celestial's judgment just "confirmed" everything she feared about herself.
With this in mind, Tony will likely fail. He holds Cap in higher regard than he does himself, and is aware of his own issues. Sinister will most likely pass, unless they throw us a curveball on his character. Druig might fail, and that could be a disaster for his rule.
My alternate theory is that the Celestial Judge (seriously, we need a name for it) is gay. It downvoted all of the women. It repelled the all-female Hexes. But it gave Cyclops and Kor thumbs up, and it will likely give Kraven a passing judgment after he flashed it. Shaw will likely get a pass, too. The only exception to this rule is Steve, but maybe it's not into blonds. It might have gotten its sexuality from Sinister's campy influence, or maybe Tony's not telling us something.
This issue felt like filler. Just treading water during the event.
“Not as good as I once was… but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.”
The celestial’s judgement is getting more pointless with each issue. Even if the theory is true and everyone is judged by there own self esteem, what difference does it make to the x-men’s story in the long run?
Cyclops judgement is amusing: ‘just try and judge me and my wife will beat you up’.
This is an interesting question you bring up. I think his Marvel Unlimited series did “catching up for lost time,” in a really fun and organic way. I want to say this is more of the latter because him shouting “I am gay,” does seem like what a straight person would think pride looks like because they don’t actually understand what a gay person might do in their free time that demonstrates a sense of pride.
I wasn't expecting this to be about Iceman and I liked it. Usually coexistence is just "don't be yourself to don't be a problem" and that's not true coexistence, it is just assimilation
Duggan did a good job with the team in this book and I didnt mind the art. Loved seeing Bobby get spotlight. Firestar's new uni looked good on her
Last edited by Havok83; 08-31-2022 at 09:57 AM.
Nice spotlight issue for Iceman but besides that I was pretty underwhelmed with the issue as a whole. Poor Havok is going to be the ignored team member this year it seems like.