X-Men Legacy 264 Thread *SPOILERS*

[rplass]

Chris, is Mimic the fellow standing next to Jeffries in that preview panel from Avengers Academy #29?

[Chris]

Chris, is Mimic the fellow standing next to Jeffries in that preview panel from Avengers Academy #29?

No. Looks like Sebastian Shaw to me. He recently joined the Generation Hope cast. And he's supposed to play a part in the Avengers Academy Avx arc.

[Chris]

If you'll recall, because Sebastian Shaw can't, Emma Frost gave him a mental "lobotomy" back in Uncanny X-Men 534. In Generation Hope #13, Cerebra detected Sebastian Shaw in Pakistan and Hope Summers mistook an amnesiac Shaw for a "new" mutant light and brought him back to Utopia to a not so thrilled Cyclops and a surprised Emma Frost.

[Flightpath07]

I'm sure Flightpath will be disappointed

I'm sure he will, too!

[Le Messor]

No. Looks like Sebastian Shaw to me. He recently joined the Generation Hope cast.

Really? More villains and heroes going back and forth like it doesn't matter?

*sigh*.

At least the reasoning you give below works.

- Le Messor
"If you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs - you won't have anyone to talk to."
~ Mark T. Shirey

[Flightpath07]

Really? More villains and heroes going back and forth like it doesn't matter?

*sigh*.

At least the reasoning you give below works.

- Le Messor
"If you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs - you won't have anyone to talk to."
~ Mark T. Shirey

Mik, I think that was basically what Schism was all about; drawing sides, but doing it in unusual ways, thereby finding ways of using characters in different settings and around different groups of supporting charcaters than one would normally have found in X-books.

Personally, I expect most of it to go back to the way it was, at some point in the near future.

[Le Messor]

Mik, I think that was basically what Schism was all about; drawing sides, but doing it in unusual ways, thereby finding ways of using characters in different settings and around different groups of supporting charcaters than one would normally have found in X-books.

Hmm... Maybe, but I got tired a long time ago of the way people kept switching sides.
It's one of the reasons I dropped FF after the first twelve or so issues; it was about a group of villains trying to kill Reed Richards, and we're supposed to side with the villains.

Really.

After a while, it just comes across that the creators don't care - or don't want us to - whose side anybody is on. Heroism? Villainy? It's all the same, isn't it?
That's one of the ideas they parodied in Kingdom Come.

- Le Messor
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
~ Yogi Berra (attrib)

[Flightpath07]

Hmm... Maybe, but I got tired a long time ago of the way people kept switching sides.
It's one of the reasons I dropped FF after the first twelve or so issues; it was about a group of villains trying to kill Reed Richards, and we're supposed to side with the villains.

Really.

After a while, it just comes across that the creators don't care - or don't want us to - whose side anybody is on. Heroism? Villainy? It's all the same, isn't it?
That's one of the ideas they parodied in Kingdom Come.

- Le Messor
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
~ Yogi Berra (attrib)

Can't say as how I disagree with you.

'Course, your FF reference is just drawing blank looks from me. So is 'Kingdom Come'.

On a good note, i DO know who Yogi Berra is! Does he still live in Jellystone Park?

[Le Messor]

Can't say as how I disagree with you.

You can if you want to! Don't let them stop you!

'Course, your FF reference is just drawing blank looks from me. So is 'Kingdom Come'.

FF is a spin-off of Fantastic Four. It was the first comic I tried in my quest to find something current that was worth reading.
(FF is the full title, btw.)

Do you not know what Kingdom Come is? Or are you asking about how I'm tying that parody to that comic.

On a good note, i DO know who Yogi Berra is! Does he still live in Jellystone Park?

Wrong Berra.

- Le Messor
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

[Chris]

Personally, I expect most of it to go back to the way it was, at some point in the near future.

Me too. I expect Shaw to regain his memory really soon. Cyclops must have been drunk to trust Sebastian Shaw around any young red heads shooting off phoenix flames.

[Flightpath07]

You can if you want to! Don't let them stop you!

Them who? if there is more than one of them, and they are bigger than me, I am using my mutant power to 'scream like a little girl and run for miles' !

FF is a spin-off of Fantastic Four. It was the first comic I tried in my quest to find something current that was worth reading.
(FF is the full title, btw.)

Heard of it, but never read it. That's the Future Foundation with Spideyman, right? Yeah, never read it. Incidentally, did i read somewheres that Johnny Storm is already alive again?

Do you not know what Kingdom Come is? Or are you asking about how I'm tying that parody to that comic.

Um...the first one, mainly. Don't know what it is, too lazy to look it up.

Wrong Berra.

- Le Messor
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

"It's because I'm smarter than the average bear." - Yogi Bear

[Le Messor]

Heard of it, but never read it. That's the Future Foundation with Spideyman, right? Yeah, never read it. Incidentally, did i read somewheres that Johnny Storm is already alive again?

It is. I don't know what you personally may or may not have read, but me, I've lost track of who's dead right now. (I'm about two months behind on FF; I'll pick up the next two because I ordered them from my LCS, but that's all.)

Do you not know what Kingdom Come is?

Um...the first one, mainly. Don't know what it is, too lazy to look it up.

Kingdom Come is a Kurt Busiek / Alex Ross mini series by DC in, what, the mid-late 90's? It's largely about parodying the anti-heroes of the day, and it generally considered a classic comic book work.
Unlike a lot of classic comic book works, I thoroughly enjoy it.
It's a sort of dystopian future Elseworlds, in which Cable Magog has led Superman into retirement, which makes most of the classics retire.
It's really good.

- Le Messor
"If you choose not to live with reality, reality will come and live with you."
~ jan@bagend.atl.ga.us

[Chris]

Saw the Astonishing X-Men 50 wedding comments over on the home page, which btw were quite funny, and decided to add more spoilers about Michael Pointer.

If you read X-Men Legacy 265, Michael Pointer definetely won't be showing up at Northstar and Kyle's wedding (if it is their wedding which I'm sure it is.) Unless Beast comes up with a fast cure for Pointer, right now Pointer is more suited for funerals.

Pointer didn't go boom like so many people were hoping for. Rachel used her telepathic powers to put Pointer in a coma to reduce his brain wave activities (I didn't know he had so many) so all the extra energy will process naturally in his body over time instead of exploding at once. Then the X-Men sealed his comatose body in a statis tube underneath the school. I'm sure the X-Men's insurance premiums just went up again after this.

[-K-M-]

Out of site, out of mind. Don't care much for the chracter, so meh!

It is an interesting way to explain a character going into "limbo-status" rather then not just appearing and us guessing what happened. Now we know....and knowing is half the battle.

[Le Messor]

Now we know....and knowing is half the battle.

The other half is violence!

Then the X-Men sealed his comatose body in a statis tube underneath the school.

So they literally buried him alive?
Why, when I get so sick of heroes acting unheroic, does that just make me laugh?

- Le Messor
"What's the fun of burying somebody if they're already dead?"
~ The Master, Buffy The Vampire Slayer