Astonishing X-Men discussion (spoilers)

[Random]

When things go intangible are they weightless too? I'd think the gravity would slow it down a little.

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If anything Gravity will increase it. When it's intangible there's no friction to stop it. and when you make it tangible again it's still has the same force, unless it's not complete intangibility but partial in which case it would slow down, but a 10 mile long bullet would take alot more than the diameter of earth to slow it down safely enough to stop. Cause if it doesn't slow down and you suddenly make it tangible all the force with still act on Earth just from the inside and who knows how much that would **** up.

 

[Ninja4peace]

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If anything Gravity will increase it. When it's intangible there's no friction to stop it. and when you make it tangible again it's still has the same force, unless it's not complete intangibility but partial in which case it would slow down, but a 10 mile long bullet would take alot more than the diameter of earth to slow it down safely enough to stop. Cause if it doesn't slow down and you suddenly make it tangible all the force with still act on Earth just from the inside and who knows how much that would **** up.

good point.

Let's face it, we are discussing physics that obviously Whedon won't spend this much time wondering about.

good point.

 

[Ultimate Cap 4 President]

When things go intangible are they weightless too? I'd think the gravity would slow it down a little.

I'm thinking that it would be weightless. I mean kitty pride can walk on air so wouldn't that count as being weightless in a way?

 

[Vegetarot460]

Did anybody read the new issue of Uncanny? They elude to the fact that kitty dies in the giant sized book.

 

[Hibiki]

Did anybody read the new issue of Uncanny? They elude to the fact that kitty dies in the giant sized book.

yeh i did my research deducing that because she was the only name not in any titles for the next coming months that she'd be the one to kick it. sadly.

 

[Fredrik Martinsson]

Actually they said she was lost or that they had lost her. There is a difference.

 

[Hibiki]

Actually they said she was lost or that they had lost her. There is a difference.

i don't know because they even mention colossus in the new defenders title. and if messiah complex occurs after all this, then it's safe to assume logan, emma, armor, cyclops and beast are good to go. Was kitty even in Messiah complex?

EDIT: and then theres also skrull invasion which i haven't taken into account, but assuming they're all non-skrull, i'd say Kitty drew the short straw.

 

[E]

A few weeks ago Comixology had the Whedon Astonishing issues for 99 cents (except for the Giant Size issue which they greedily split up into two issues. Scumbags). I bought them and just finished re-reading them the other night.

I had forgotten how brilliant this was. EVERYTHING. Top to bottom, front to back. It's full of surprises and twists and has some of the best characterization I've ever read in a comic story.

I want to read it again.

Could kitty make the bullet go intangible?

Major, major props for this. Retroactive Post of the Day.

Making the bullet intangible is something I could have never even fathomed. Discussion on this dried up suddenly after we all gushed about the last couple issues, and we completely missed realizing this post was here.

 

[Captain Canuck]

I thought you didn't like sci-fi X-Men.

 

[E]

I thought you didn't like sci-fi X-Men.

Sci-Fi or not...I don't care as long as the story is good. Most of the time, X-Men is not good.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Okay, I thought I remembered you specifically saying you liked the X-Men as a metaphor for intolerance and prejudice and when it was more grounded in reality, and that you hated whenever it became more sci-fi with the shi'ar, and sentinels, etc.

But either way, I agree that Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men was fantastic.

 

[E]

Okay, I thought I remembered you specifically saying you liked the X-Men as a metaphor for intolerance and prejudice and when it was more grounded in reality, and that you hated whenever it became more sci-fi with the shi'ar, and sentinels, etc.

But either way, I agree that Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men was fantastic.

Metaphor for intolerance and prejudice (and racism) - yes.

I don't think I said I didn't like the sci-fi aspects. I said I hate the soap opera aspects. Where everyone is related and their fathers are space pirates and all that crap.

I also did say I hate the Sentinels, but because they are an idiotic idea. Government-created giant flying robots that can scan a person's DNA or whatever...it's an offensively stupid idea.

I don't mind sci-fi stuff at all. I don't think of Whedon's run as exceptionally sic-fi, though. Maybe it's just me...it seems exceptionally character-driven. Maybe more so than any other comic I've ever read. The personalities of the characters are amazingly strong and clear. This series could be a case study for aspiring writers in that regard.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Metaphor for intolerance and prejudice (and racism) - yes.

I don't think I said I didn't like the sci-fi aspects. I said I hate the soap opera aspects. Where everyone is related and their fathers are space pirates and all that crap.

I also did say I hate the Sentinels, but because they are an idiotic idea. Government-created giant flying robots that can scan a person's DNA or whatever...it's an offensively stupid idea.

Okay, maybe you said you didn't like the soap-opera feel of Chris Claremont's run on Uncanny AND you said you didn't like how unrealistic the sentinels are and I Put the two together b/c basically Claremont's entire run is a giant space opera minus a few parts. But whatever, I misunderstood.

I don't mind sci-fi stuff at all. I don't think of Whedon's run as exceptionally sic-fi, though. Maybe it's just me...it seems exceptionally character-driven. Maybe more so than any other comic I've ever read. The personalities of the characters are amazingly strong and clear. This series could be a case study for aspiring writers in that regard.

It was extremely character driven and it was amazingly done. But there was that whole thing about a planet of warmongering aliens firing a giant bullet at Earth too.

Anyway, I understand and agree with what you're saying.