Rise of the Powers of X #3 - Review/Spoilers

[JB]

But doesn't HoX/PoX establish the timelines of her previous lives are erased after she dies? We know in her 6th Life that Homo Novissima specifically kept her alive so that the timeline wouldn't be erased before they joined the Dominions in the post-human heaven.

Yeah that was basically retconned earlier in the run and in Dead X-Men. Rachel calls those timelines "defunct" and she can't quite "see" them but she's been able to send her team to them.

[H-E-D]

Great issue. Glad to see that Gillen gets to tell an actual story here. The rest of the era feels like cleanup work.

[king of hybrids]

Controversial opinion: I’d have preferred salvaging Karima from being bodyjacked than walking back Moira’s villainy at this point.

For a genre infamous for the impermanence of death, off page ‘annihilation of consciousness’ sticks surprisingly well

[The Cool Thatguy]

Controversial opinion: I’d have preferred salvaging Karima from being bodyjacked than walking back Moira’s villainy at this point.

For a genre infamous for the impermanence of death, off page ‘annihilation of consciousness’ sticks surprisingly well

Yeah, two well developed female, human allies have been thrown into the meat grinder to be villains with nary a reaction by the heroes.

Can someone ring up Gail? Because she's an excellent writer, and first coined 'Fridging'. And there is no better example of being shoved in a fridge than Moira and Omega

[king of hybrids]

At least Moira has a chance of being rehabilitated one day, if only because synergy will raise her bones in time.

Karima’s body jacking has been referenced only twice, once as a flashback and once as a datasheet.

[JamJams]

But doesn't HoX/PoX establish the timelines of her previous lives are erased after she dies? We know in her 6th Life that Homo Novissima specifically kept her alive so that the timeline wouldn't be erased before they joined the Dominions in the post-human heaven.

They exist but they all end at the point where Moira dies. They are using comic book logic of traveling into that timeline before whatever event happens that causes her to die to interact with it.

[H-E-D]

I think the issue is just that when you have two humans-turned-AI women with secret knowledge of the future on the bad guy team, one is inevitably going to steal focus.

[Wolverine12]

Really fun read and I was shocked when Xavier shot Rachel. Gillen is really delivering on his end.

[jsg2295]

Really fun read and I was shocked when Xavier shot Rachel. Gillen is really delivering on his end.

If I didn’t know that was Rachel he shot I would have thought it was a guy. I liked the issue but I am just saddened by how far Xavier has fallen since the beginning of the Krakoa arc.

[The Cool Thatguy]

At least Moira has a chance of being rehabilitated one day, if only because synergy will raise her bones in time.

Karima’s body jacking has been referenced only twice, once as a flashback and once as a datasheet.

Fair enough.

God, unfortunate implications abound in in the X-franchise these days, don't they?

Karima was body jacked for what, exactly? Fan recognition?

[Alex_Of_X]

book of the week.

Gillen asking the real question: what kinda life it that, a dominion? can dominions smell a flower? laugh at jokes? feel the thrill of being hunted thru a meadow by a bald man with a gun?

[Wolverine12]

If I didn’t know that was Rachel he shot I would have thought it was a guy. I liked the issue but I am just saddened by how far Xavier has fallen since the beginning of the Krakoa arc.

Yeah the art in that scene for Rachel was a bit off.

[PhoenixStudies]

If I didn’t know that was Rachel he shot I would have thought it was a guy. I liked the issue but I am just saddened by how far Xavier has fallen since the beginning of the Krakoa arc.

Rachel is back in her masc presenting phase, like when she first appeared.

[jsg2295]

Rachel is back in her masc presenting phase, like when she first appeared.

You mean when she was a hunter…she had hips back then as far as I remember.

[JB]

book of the week.

Gillen asking the real question: what kinda life it that, a dominion? can dominions smell a flower? laugh at jokes? feel the thrill of being hunted thru a meadow by a bald man with a gun?

Yes, yes, yes.