Extraordinary X-men #2 PREVIEW

[ImprobableQuestion]

I want to see more of the xmens personal lives outside of the superheroics and tight spandex fetishes.

Also, having some non mutant supporters would be nice. Like during the Claremont years with Stevie Hunter and the like.

That's one thing about Bendis' run (probably earlier than that too but it's the last place I saw it) that could do with some revitalizing. The X-Men books are fast becoming the ONLY place where mutant-human relationships are worn thin enough to become outright violence. And I don't know how to fix that. To put less emphasis on the hate and fear would downplay the theme of hate and fear that X-Men books go for in the first place. But to make the outside books more hateful/fearful would takeaway a lot of fun from books like Ms Marvel and Squirrel Girl, where most people would presume them to be mutants but don't act kn it in any way.

[ImprobableQuestion]

I have a feeling this book is going to get cancel as soon as we start getting Uncanny X-men. For one thing, Cyclops is not involve (because he's dead) and Wolverine is old. All the rest of the x-men are either young and weird looking. This will be another unsatisfied book for the reader. Well at least to each their own

I can't wait for UXM to be cancelled.

Yeah, you could make the same argument about UXM. "Cyclops isn't there, it's all villains, etc." Plus it's got Land on art doing constant porno faces. That isn't the X-men.

What was it you were saying about "canyon-esque leaps" there Fokken?

[XchaiX]

Bean: strangled in its cradle before it even had a chance to live.

Tsk.

So Bendis gives one last desperate heave of the ball at the end of his mediocre run and Lemire basically slaps it down with a hard reject. I like him already.

[DDD]

Sleeping with? A kiss now equals "sleeping with"?

She def telekinetically stimulated his prostate.

[The Big G]

She def telekinetically stimulated his prostate.

TK play is qutie popular in the MU i hear

[Huntsman Spider]

TK play is qutie popular in the MU i hear

It should be. Creative uses of telekinesis would provide incredible sensations beyond mortal ken. Couple that with telepathic linkages and . . . split that atom!

More seriously, this sounds like a Teen Jean I might actually like. And Fokken's posts about overcoming suffocating cynicism are win. Kudos to you, fellow Illyana Rasputin fan!

[Fokken]

What was it you were saying about "canyon-esque leaps" there Fokken?

Me and mine have already amassed TWO practically-new-barely-used cinnamon splendor candles to light up during our prayer circle for those lost in the gorge. Mandy Moore has generously donated her 2001 chart topper "CRY" --so appropriate-- to be played when we lower the wagon filled with Capri Sun juice packs and Archer Farms trail mix.

This too shall pass, Canyonnites, so stay warm and quit bringing us down with your bourgeois hang ups.

[donpricetag]

I really hope the Inhumans are facing the same issues as mutants seeing as there is absolutely no way for the average person to differentiate between the two races. Mutants vs Inhumans doesn't really make sense. There should be a kind of unity to the public with some unsightly infighting behind closed doors that the two sides should only be able to really see. There shouldn't be public outcry over mutants but acceptance towards the Inhumans. It doesn't make sense at all, unless they start DNA scanning people and then branding a "M" on peoples faces. How can they be so sure he's a "mutie", or Jean for that matter. "You're one of 'them'". One of who?! Mutant, Inhuman, Neo, random alien?! How the @$%# do they know? They shouldn't. Plot hole?

It really would have made more sense for the mutants to exiled to their own pocket dimension/copy of earth where they are the only "powered" beings or subspecies on the planet. Might have been interesting... Wholly insulting, but interesting.

On another note, the whole "sterilization" of mutants is nonsense. The vast majority of mutants are born to normal human parents. If they had to rely on reproduction within their own ranks, it'd literally take dozens or hundreds of generations to see the amount of mutants we do. Impossible for the numbers during the height of Magneto's Genosha. If the mist blocks the effects of the X-gene in humans, mutants would cease to exist within a generation or so.

[dragonmp93]

I really hope the Inhumans are facing the same issues as mutants seeing as there is absolutely no way for the average person to differentiate between the two races. Mutants vs Inhumans doesn't really make sense. There should be a kind of unity to the public with some unsightly infighting behind closed doors that the two sides should only be able to really see. There shouldn't be public outcry over mutants but acceptance towards the Inhumans. It doesn't make sense at all, unless they start DNA scanning people and then branding a "M" on peoples faces. How can they be so sure he's a "mutie", or Jean for that matter. "You're one of 'them'". One of who?! Mutant, Inhuman, Neo, random alien?! How the @$%# do they know? They shouldn't. Plot hole?

It really would have made more sense for the mutants to exiled to their own pocket dimension/copy of earth where they are the only "powered" beings or subspecies on the planet. Might have been interesting... Wholly insulting, but interesting.

On another note, the whole "sterilization" of mutants is nonsense. The vast majority of mutants are born to normal human parents. If they had to rely on reproduction within their own ranks, it'd literally take dozens or hundreds of generations to see the amount of mutants we do. Impossible for the numbers during the height of Magneto's Genosha. If the mist blocks the effects of the X-gene in humans, mutants would cease to exist within a generation or so.

I think that's the normal humans have a sixth sense for that, or maybe they cant smell it.

[AJpyro]

I think that's the normal humans have a sixth sense for that, or maybe they cant smell it.

Actually its called Sublime.

[nx01a]

Actually its called Sublime.

You beat me to it, thanks. Perhaps the only thing that worked about the Sublime travesty was the irrational and often suicidal fear and hatred it caused humans to have for mutants.