Storm accused Emma of wasting her time in the Moon and Sinister Secrets told us that Scott was fine with Logan/Jean because he has a similar deal.
Also, Emma said in Immortal X-Men she recently begun to sleep in diamond form and Scott hates that.
Okay, I just misread the “This is the way he chooses to *^%% me?” Line in Hellfire gala then.
Weirder things have happened in this book. This current run is predicated on the idea that a supporting character with a maybe there/maybe not Scottish accent was secretly a timeline resetting mutant who had a plan with Charles, Erik, and the Nazi the last forty years of comics.
Also I don’t think I read #3, I read #1, stuck to review threads, picked it back up around the Halloween issue. Which I am still disappointed over. Where is my Headless Cyclopsman?!
Edit: Also I assumed it got retconned out during the Hickman’s gone, we need to defuse these land mines period right after that.
IDK I feel the only writer still doing the poly thing is Ben Percy because everyone else has ignored it aside from him. Seems like it was done for laughs in a throwaway panel at the end of Hickmans first X-Men issue and Percy took that ball and ran with it to the point where he has turned Jean into a caricature in both X-Force and Wolverine. I wouldn't put too much stock into it. That said I don't think X-Men is for someone like you.
Eww.
Also, the only reason it was called the Summer house when Jean is the one who died on the moon is Hickman has his woman issues.
Or...hear me out...because everyone living there apart from Logan is a Summers.
It wasn't for laughs, and he's not only writer to address, as was pointed out in this thread. That said, about Percy...
Yeah.
I think people often Mistake Passion or Lust for Chemistry. Scott and Jean have more Chemistry cause they Know one another to a T Whilst Logan has underestimated Jean Multiple times. When it comes to Chemistry Scott and Jean are Chocolate, Logan and Jean are just Caffeine.
While I'm not a fan of either pairing, the fact that Scott and Jean know each other to a T is a point against them to me, and I'm sure many others. The best couples in comics, and fiction really, work because they're different, though just similar enough to be a completely random pairing. As they're written most of the time when they're together, there's simply zero difference between them- everything they've done since the start of Krakoa shows no conflict or disagreement, to the point most actions of both were together or could easily be done by one or the other.
This is a point I think is lost on most writers as well, that couples shouldn't be selected on "whose characters I like most" or "who was my favorite pairing growing up", and Scott and Jean offer not much if at all. Hickman put them together, with the side relationships, clearly to a) Have people stop asking who they will be (answer: with each other and the others, now stop bothering me) and b) Because he clearly intended for the Krakoan modern family to fall apart in conflict ("there's not a lot of love left in these islands" was a pretty on the nose foreshadowing about the future), but he left and writers either didn't pick up or weren't interested in that.
Ironically, if they wanted to exploit conflict and have them be more different, there would be an easy way to do it: just have Cyclops be more militant and suspicious of Xavier, as he was in around the Decimation/Extinction era (and there's more than good reasons to it), which would be a contrast to Jean and something she never saw and might not accept (particularly since she was always Xavier's pet and never burned by him, like Scott was), but editorial already made clear how much they HATE that portrayal of Cyclops, and dedicated Rosenberg's run that preceded House of X to give the middle finger to anyone that liked it.
The issue with millitant cyclops is that there’s too much whiplash. It was bad during the “Worse than Hitler” material which was a goddamn trip, but going to that to this era where Apocalypse went around without any side-eye besides the best Cajun has got to be one of the prime examples of tonal whiplash ever.
Well that and burying what Bishop did.
There was clearly something intended with the Polycule, it fell through, the writers aren’t addressing it because probably the last thing anyone wants is to restart those shipping wars all over again.