ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
Agreed. Honestly, the fight scenes have been a total mess in this series. The X-men couldn't stop a mob of a few dozen Madrox dupes in the first issue and they've been ineffective in every battle since then. But suddenly, Jean and Storm can take down Apocalypse and Magneto? I'm going to handwave it that Apocalypse was weak from his imprisonment and Magneto was brainwashed and not fighting properly.
Anyway, if Armor complains about being stuck in AoA for 1 year, Jean should point out that she spent 13 years in a hellish future world. Did Scott and Jean complain that no one came to rescue them during the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix?
Thats called artistic perspective. They're trying to fit many people on the page. There's no indication Magneto was taken out. And there's still smoke and trees being broken in the background after Storm joins Jean so there's still a fight going on in the background when you see Omegas corpse tossed through a tree so yes Storm would leave the others to regroup with Jean
This suggests that none of the Horsemen were defeated. A Storm left to help Jean while the others held off the Horsemen which is why there's smoke in the background. Omega Red randomly gets thrown through a tree. And the missing X-Men aren't available to help with Apocalypse
Also note that Omega Red is disposed of by a background character before Apocalypse attacks so if the missing X-Men were free they would have helped with Apocalypse but they're occupied by something
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Armor wasn't complaining specifically about that - she kinda seems to have accepted that the X-men won't come for them.
The fact that Bishop suddenly DOES show up, alone, after a year, with no apparent way of getting them home, seems to be what gets her angry - It implies that the X-men COULD have come for them, but didn't.
She has no idea of the time difference.
Prior to that she seems to have written the X-men's absence off as a side effect of them being "Soldiers", and simply written off as lost.
While I think Armor's issue is very clear, that is she takes Bishop showing up alone as no one else caring, she has no real reason to think that is what it means. It is not unusual to only be able to send one person in, especially something that may have proven difficult like reaching whatever timeline/dimension they were sent to, and Bishop is a pretty big gun to send on a rescue mission. It is a problem the writer is at fault for because the reaction from Armor, while understandable, is not really supported by the facts, even from her perspective, as the reader would expect.
The writting problems with how Armor is presented here is even more deep - why is she suddenly the one who's all gung-ho about killing Nate, when she was the one defending him until this point.
Why is she the one who dismisses the idea of the X-men saving them when she was trying to convince Nate that his "nobody cares about anyone" attitude is wrong.
The other kids also make a similar switch from last issue to this one, but Armor gets more speaking time so her writing issues are more glaring.
I'm at least glad they addressed the fact that Armor's being lectured about how killing is wrong by BISHOP of all people is hilariously hypocritical - though they still make her look bitchy for pointing it out.
Seriously, I'm getting annoyed at the 3 writers thing.
So instead of complaining that the art and story aren't consistent and has left MASSIVE holes in the plot/story you're going to argue with each other over what you THINK happened off panel?
Why can't people blame the writers/artists for stuff like this?