Gemini
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he want's the double stuff
Messiah CompleX Discussion (Spoilers)
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That's not true - he sometimes mentions the book's weight.
thee great one
Master of TOG-fu.
I'm too lazy to type reviews like that.
Plus I suck at it.
Plus I suck at it.
McCheese
Well-Known Member
Wednesday my good chum.
Actually that means something entirely different.
And naughty.
I try.
:lol:
It's funny because it's true.
:lol:
thee great one
Master of TOG-fu.
You guys make me sad.
I suck at reviewing. No one reads it anyway.
And I've done actual reviews lots of time. But sometimes, how many different ways can you say you like a book.
Seriously.
Why do I bother?
I suck at reviewing. No one reads it anyway.
And I've done actual reviews lots of time. But sometimes, how many different ways can you say you like a book.
Seriously.
Why do I bother?
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Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
Cause you luv us!
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
Carey on X-Men #205 @ Newsarama
Newsarama: Looks like X-Men #205 is starting off 80 years in the future on Page 1—all of the history of the events taking place in the Marvel Universe seem to have been stricken from all the record books intentionally. Madrox and Layla are getting ready to infiltrate a mutant internment camp—is this the classic "Days of Futures Past" storyline becoming a reality?
Mike Carey: I'd rather not comment on that right now. We will be seeing more of this future timeline in the near future and we'll be seeing how it relates to our present. That's all I can really say at the moment.
NRAMA: The X-Men seem to be leading a rather aggressive attack on Pages 2-7 with the odds stacked 3 to 1 in the Marauders favor. Cyclops is pulling plays out of Sinister's playbook—so somehow—the numbers stacked up against the hedging X-Men seem fair. Care to elaborate on this proactive stance the X-Men are taking? Are the X-Men overextending themselves by taking to so many fronts?
MC: This fight in particular is a really tough fight and, as you find out, they don't come out on top—it pretty much takes everything they've got to get out of there with their lives. Cyclops made some clever moves, I think; both in terms of X-Men he chose and the back-up he provided with Emma acting as a psychic shield. Initially, this ploy gave the X-Men the advantage of surprise and allowed them to take Sinister and Exodus out of the fight—because the two of them alone have the power to squash any number of X-Men. I think maybe this was a situation where their only chance for success was for them to get in, strike fast, and get out again. As it turns out, their two goals were to rescue Rogue and find the baby. Well, they struck out on Rogue and only came away with a little more information about the baby—crucial information.
Newsarama: Looks like X-Men #205 is starting off 80 years in the future on Page 1—all of the history of the events taking place in the Marvel Universe seem to have been stricken from all the record books intentionally. Madrox and Layla are getting ready to infiltrate a mutant internment camp—is this the classic "Days of Futures Past" storyline becoming a reality?
Mike Carey: I'd rather not comment on that right now. We will be seeing more of this future timeline in the near future and we'll be seeing how it relates to our present. That's all I can really say at the moment.
NRAMA: The X-Men seem to be leading a rather aggressive attack on Pages 2-7 with the odds stacked 3 to 1 in the Marauders favor. Cyclops is pulling plays out of Sinister's playbook—so somehow—the numbers stacked up against the hedging X-Men seem fair. Care to elaborate on this proactive stance the X-Men are taking? Are the X-Men overextending themselves by taking to so many fronts?
MC: This fight in particular is a really tough fight and, as you find out, they don't come out on top—it pretty much takes everything they've got to get out of there with their lives. Cyclops made some clever moves, I think; both in terms of X-Men he chose and the back-up he provided with Emma acting as a psychic shield. Initially, this ploy gave the X-Men the advantage of surprise and allowed them to take Sinister and Exodus out of the fight—because the two of them alone have the power to squash any number of X-Men. I think maybe this was a situation where their only chance for success was for them to get in, strike fast, and get out again. As it turns out, their two goals were to rescue Rogue and find the baby. Well, they struck out on Rogue and only came away with a little more information about the baby—crucial information.
thee great one
Master of TOG-fu.
McCheese
Well-Known Member
STD Productions presents...
I have to rewrite a paper tonight so let's get to it. It's week 6 and we're back to Uncanny with Brubaker and Tan. The suicidal X-Men team that took on the Maraucolytes last issue are wounded and attempting to get back to the X-Mansion. Kurt still lives. For now. At the mansion the X-Men fight the sentinels. Emma is unconscious and the others aren't doing too well. On the other side of the mansion a large Indian seems to have escaped from the local reservation. Sitsinpoo is going to have to pick up his shifts at the casino. Sorry, had to get a few Indian jokes in there. He stabs a sentinel with a knife. Because the best way to take down a giant walking death machine is with a small knife. A space vampire who I have been informed is named Hepatitus growls at the robot. She appears to be naked. Back on the other side of the mansion Bishop and Cyclops are forced to fight the sentinel with optic blasts and guns. I don't like their chances without a pair of small knives. Nezhno from New Mutants plows out of the ruined house. He must be at full power here because the Hulk would only be about crotch high on him right now. He knocks over a sentinel. Inside the mansion Beast finds the Cuckoos are also mysteriously unconscious. Outside the fight rages on. The space vampire took the time to dress up like a really stupid looking pirate. So now she's a space vampire pirate who may or may not be sleeping with a renegade native. Man I hope she dies soon. Anyway the two of them team up to make one sentinel shoot another. Gee, never seen that before. Also wouldn't super advanced robots have it in their programming not to shoot each other in the face? Maybe wait a fraction of a second and take the shot when a miss won't destroy one of your own? No. I'm being silly. Back at the ruined Maraucolyte bunker Mystique and Sinister discuss the situation. Sinister is thrilled to have found out Cable is working on his own. Speaking of Cable he runs through some woods with the baby. Now we return to the X-Men as they continue to fight sentinels. Bobby rams the X-Jet into the back of one sentinels head. Now reason would tell you that a plane would explode if it rammed into a giant robot. Reason has no place in this story! X-23 jumps out of the unexploded plane and cuts up the sentinel. Side note: Julian appears to be alive and on his way to the medical ward. While X-23 chops away Cyclops has Dust go into the cockpit of one of them. Let's all take a moment to laugh at the first four letters of cockpit. Aaaaaand we're back. Iceman hops out of the jet and enters the fray. Beast is still inside the mansion and he now finds Cannonball with an unconscious Prof. X. He says the psychics are all down. I already knew that when I saw that the cuckoos and Emma were all down. Thank God they took the time to drive it home. Nezhno gets blasted. Bishop covers him. The team takes down a sentinel. Inside the cockpit (ha) Dust finds a robotical guy. She flips out and runs away. X-23 kills one of the roboticals as they leave their respective cockpits (hee, never gets old). The other one flies away. Issue ends with Wolverine's team coming home and him and Cyclops talk about how bad things are. Cyclops has decided to put together the All-Claws team. The newly formed X-Force, the worst X-concept in many years, departs to go kill Cable and retrieve the baby. Because finding him and talking to him would be silly.
Here I will take some time to address the new X-Force. I'm glad to see that the writers haven't decided to throw away years of continuity involving the X-Men going to great lengths to avoid killing people if at all possible because they thought it would be cool to see Wolverine and a gang of similarly abilitied X-characters killing people. Wait a second, that's exactly what they're doing. I'd like to send a very special screw you to Joe Queseda, Nick Lowe, and Axel Alonso for playing down to their fanbase. The 90's are dead and gone gentlemen. Try introducing series with interesting and/or intelligent premises rather than a series where the only draw is fitting as many knives, claws, and swords as you can on a cover page and promising lots of blood and gore inside. At least they don't have pouches.
The Breakdown
A massive step down from the last issue. Which is more of a statement on how good Carey is with the X-Men than how bad Brubaker is. It's not a bad issue on it's own, but I was really hoping to keep rolling with the same momentum as last issue and it just simply does not achieve that. The introduction of the godforsaken new X-Force isn't helping with my mood, but that's hardly Brubaker's fault. Tan does a real good job on pencils. The effort is almost wasted here.
3/5 Tafts
McCheese's Weekly Messiah Complex Review
I have to rewrite a paper tonight so let's get to it. It's week 6 and we're back to Uncanny with Brubaker and Tan. The suicidal X-Men team that took on the Maraucolytes last issue are wounded and attempting to get back to the X-Mansion. Kurt still lives. For now. At the mansion the X-Men fight the sentinels. Emma is unconscious and the others aren't doing too well. On the other side of the mansion a large Indian seems to have escaped from the local reservation. Sitsinpoo is going to have to pick up his shifts at the casino. Sorry, had to get a few Indian jokes in there. He stabs a sentinel with a knife. Because the best way to take down a giant walking death machine is with a small knife. A space vampire who I have been informed is named Hepatitus growls at the robot. She appears to be naked. Back on the other side of the mansion Bishop and Cyclops are forced to fight the sentinel with optic blasts and guns. I don't like their chances without a pair of small knives. Nezhno from New Mutants plows out of the ruined house. He must be at full power here because the Hulk would only be about crotch high on him right now. He knocks over a sentinel. Inside the mansion Beast finds the Cuckoos are also mysteriously unconscious. Outside the fight rages on. The space vampire took the time to dress up like a really stupid looking pirate. So now she's a space vampire pirate who may or may not be sleeping with a renegade native. Man I hope she dies soon. Anyway the two of them team up to make one sentinel shoot another. Gee, never seen that before. Also wouldn't super advanced robots have it in their programming not to shoot each other in the face? Maybe wait a fraction of a second and take the shot when a miss won't destroy one of your own? No. I'm being silly. Back at the ruined Maraucolyte bunker Mystique and Sinister discuss the situation. Sinister is thrilled to have found out Cable is working on his own. Speaking of Cable he runs through some woods with the baby. Now we return to the X-Men as they continue to fight sentinels. Bobby rams the X-Jet into the back of one sentinels head. Now reason would tell you that a plane would explode if it rammed into a giant robot. Reason has no place in this story! X-23 jumps out of the unexploded plane and cuts up the sentinel. Side note: Julian appears to be alive and on his way to the medical ward. While X-23 chops away Cyclops has Dust go into the cockpit of one of them. Let's all take a moment to laugh at the first four letters of cockpit. Aaaaaand we're back. Iceman hops out of the jet and enters the fray. Beast is still inside the mansion and he now finds Cannonball with an unconscious Prof. X. He says the psychics are all down. I already knew that when I saw that the cuckoos and Emma were all down. Thank God they took the time to drive it home. Nezhno gets blasted. Bishop covers him. The team takes down a sentinel. Inside the cockpit (ha) Dust finds a robotical guy. She flips out and runs away. X-23 kills one of the roboticals as they leave their respective cockpits (hee, never gets old). The other one flies away. Issue ends with Wolverine's team coming home and him and Cyclops talk about how bad things are. Cyclops has decided to put together the All-Claws team. The newly formed X-Force, the worst X-concept in many years, departs to go kill Cable and retrieve the baby. Because finding him and talking to him would be silly.
Here I will take some time to address the new X-Force. I'm glad to see that the writers haven't decided to throw away years of continuity involving the X-Men going to great lengths to avoid killing people if at all possible because they thought it would be cool to see Wolverine and a gang of similarly abilitied X-characters killing people. Wait a second, that's exactly what they're doing. I'd like to send a very special screw you to Joe Queseda, Nick Lowe, and Axel Alonso for playing down to their fanbase. The 90's are dead and gone gentlemen. Try introducing series with interesting and/or intelligent premises rather than a series where the only draw is fitting as many knives, claws, and swords as you can on a cover page and promising lots of blood and gore inside. At least they don't have pouches.
The Breakdown
A massive step down from the last issue. Which is more of a statement on how good Carey is with the X-Men than how bad Brubaker is. It's not a bad issue on it's own, but I was really hoping to keep rolling with the same momentum as last issue and it just simply does not achieve that. The introduction of the godforsaken new X-Force isn't helping with my mood, but that's hardly Brubaker's fault. Tan does a real good job on pencils. The effort is almost wasted here.
3/5 Tafts
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Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
I hate the concept of the new X Force before they even said who was on the team.
Rayne is so against murder, considering she's an Irish Catholic, that the fact she would be okay with this is pure bollocks.
Rayne is so against murder, considering she's an Irish Catholic, that the fact she would be okay with this is pure bollocks.
Random
Didn't **** any of those *****es
All claws team? Yep... that's retarded.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
I thought Uncanny was great. I enjoyed it a lot. Going after Cable? Awesome.
I don't hate the concept, but...
You're absoultely right about that.
McCheese
Well-Known Member
They were sold out of X-Factor by the time I made it to the shop Wednesday. So expect a double shot of McCheese's Weekly etc. next week.
Same Cheese time. Same Cheese channel.
Same Cheese time. Same Cheese channel.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
The Marvel previews book for March contains a MAJOR spoiler for the event.
Stupid Marvel...
Stupid Marvel...
Gemini
Well-Known Member
apparently the newest Ish of Wizard has some Post CompleX spoils pertaining to the states of some books
Uncanny will sort of focus on one or two core X characters every issue until #500 rolls around for a big surprise (in other words it will become filler)
Linkage
-The rest contain spoilers. Note added (Ice).
Uncanny will sort of focus on one or two core X characters every issue until #500 rolls around for a big surprise (in other words it will become filler)
Linkage
-The rest contain spoilers. Note added (Ice).
X-Factor will be in shambles and Rahne is being replaced by Darwin (wha?)
X-Men: Legacy is sort of like an embedded twelve issue miniseries, and it is said to have alot to do with Rogue and Gambit, and something to do with Magneto (i have no idea what this means)
and the character wolverine is hunting in his Jason Aaron arc is Mystique
X-Men: Legacy is sort of like an embedded twelve issue miniseries, and it is said to have alot to do with Rogue and Gambit, and something to do with Magneto (i have no idea what this means)
and the character wolverine is hunting in his Jason Aaron arc is Mystique
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thee great one
Master of TOG-fu.
The scenes with Layla in the future, being processed for the camp were very scary and disturbing.
The Madrox double now has the M tattoo on his eye.
Cable and the baby make there way to Forge for a time machine (no reason given yet), and is attacked by Bishop.
I wonder why?
The Madrox double now has the M tattoo on his eye.
Cable and the baby make there way to Forge for a time machine (no reason given yet), and is attacked by Bishop.
I wonder why?
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
My guess for Bishop being the traitor is he may possibly have similar reasons like Bishop, where maybe the baby will help solve problem for his future.
But that's just a guess of one possibility.
But that's just a guess of one possibility.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
I can't believe I didn't remember this before.
It's been mentioned in the comics (officially) that the mutant genes have been passed down to the children by the fathers.
It's gonna be interesting to see when the story of the parents come when it does. Wonder if there's something up with him.
It's been mentioned in the comics (officially) that the mutant genes have been passed down to the children by the fathers.
It's gonna be interesting to see when the story of the parents come when it does. Wonder if there's something up with him.
Gemini
Well-Known Member
That was just X2 wasn't it?
