Comics "NECROSHA" - The Legacy/New Mutants/X-Force Crossover

[Colossal Spoons]

Agreed

 

[Manic]

Same here. I would love to see her back in the X fold. I would love to see at least a mini reuniting her with Prodigy, Elixir, Hellion, Surge and throw in X-23 for drama

Laura would try to chop Sofia's head off just for getting too close to Julian.

 

[El Bastardo]

Looove his Sunspot

Spoooooooooooooooooooons!

 

[Havok83]

Laura would try to chop Sofia's head off just for getting too close to Julian.

only if Yost and Kyle were writing...lol. At least Elixir would be around to fix her up if that happened

 

[mightiest_mortal]

While underwhelmed at nearly everything marvel had to offer at SDCC, Necrosha at least looks interesting.

Considering how well the virus seems to work at bringing people back to life over in X-Force, i wonder if many writers will see this as the perfect oportunity to bring back any and all dead characters that they like.


*please bring back Maggott please bring back Maggott*

 

[Manic]

It's a shame Shadowcat is stuck in deep space, because I'd like to see her deal with the death of her father. I don't know which would make for more dramatic storytelling: Mr. Pryde coming back from the dead, or Kitty watching as everyone but her father comes back from the dead.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Kitty can take her time coming back from her space cruise

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Kitty can take her time coming back from her space cruise

But Colossus is wonley and his sister is a psychotic *****.

 

[UraniaChang]

She should have died by now, right?

No food, water, and the oxygen should have limited supply, of course, in Marvel reality, she probably got picked up by some aliens/tourists already.

 

[Manic]

Can't Kitty survive indefinitely in a phase state? As long as she keeps that giant bullet passing through everything, she should be fine.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

But Colossus is wonley and his sister is a psychotic *****.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Magik since her return. Too much sass.

 

[UraniaChang]

But doesn't she get tired after being in her phase mode for too long?

 

[Manic]

But doesn't she get tired after being in her phase mode for too long?

According to Chris "half of my characters can shatter mountains" Claremont, Kitty's default state is phased, and it takes minimal concentration for her to stay solid.

 

[UraniaChang]

What a boring trick.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Wow

 

[UraniaChang]

It is boring, not the "characters can shatter mountains" part, lots of mutants can do that, but the when I'm in the mode, I can survive for as long as I've got a blade of grass-like will, regardless the circumstances.

That's a lazy way to write stories, making characters convenient, especially from a writer like Claremont.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I'm glad they banished his ass to X-Men Forever

 

[Specter313]

Kiel Phegley: The other hot topic that's been burning up the boards is the X-Universe, particularly talk of older characters getting resurrected in the upcoming "Necrosha" storyline. TuringMachine asked something that surprised me in its specificity to modern X-stories. He said, "Hey Joe, the 'Endangered Species' storyline that ran in the back of the X-books two years ago established that M-Day not only affected 90% of the living mutant population, but expunged the X-gene from (presumably 90%) of mutants already dead before M-Day (e.g. Genosha) as well. Though naturally all the details of ‘Necrosha’ have yet to be released, interviews and publicity material seem to indicate that Selene (or whoever) will be 'resurrecting' -- and is in fact specifically targeting -- deceased mutants. Shouldn't almost all the resurrected mutants be powerless? Even with the Transmode Virus, Wanda retroactively altered their DNA?"

Joe Quesada: Well, TuringMachine, you have to remember that there were 16,000,000 mutants living on Genosha when the giant sentinels destroyed it. Even with “House of M,” there are approximately 1,600,000 dead mutants with powers intact.

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22645



Hey, Joe? If that were the case, there would be a lot more than roughly 200 mutants still powered that were still alive.

 

[Manic]

Specter say what?

 

[Specter313]

It's like they're even retconning the depowering. Like in response to people saying there's too few mutants left for only 10% of the mutant population to still be powered, his response is basically, "Oh, all those other mutants who kept their powers are dead."

Easily one of Q's dumbest ideas of his reign.

 

[Manic]

It still doesn't explain why only about 200 mutants are alive in alternate universes as well. Those 1.6million mutants can't be dead in every reality. So... that's a pretty sorry excuse for a backtrack on Joe's part.

So yeah, it's incredibly dumb. Not as dumb an idea as M-Day in the first place, though.

 

[Specter313]

It's showing more and more that the whole depowering thing was very poorly planned, if it was planned out at all. It's like Joe just called all the X-writers in and said "We're making it so there's only less than 200 mutants left. Figure it out." And left the room.

 

[Manic]

"Do you think he meant 2,000 or 2,000,000"
?
"The man said 200. Let's do 200."

"Okay, but let's make it 198. I have an acronym I just thought up that we can attach to giant robots."

 

[UraniaChang]

I thought it was because they created too many of them and most of the mutants weren't important enough to make a lasting existence, so they came up with M Day to fix the problem, and found out that the majority of those when were left with powers were even more useless, the vicious cycle begins with no way to stop it.

 

[Manic]

The problem is that the X-Men have always been proponents of equal rights for all mutants, and Xavier has made a habit for years of finding and helping mutants whose powers just emerged. Inbetween fighting the planetary threats and time travel stories, that's what the X-Men have always done. Those fights for their rights have taken many forms, from fighting off sentinels to stopping anti-human groups like the numerous Brotherhoods from escalating tensions to the point of an all-out race war.

When you can fit every remaining mutant on Earth inside of a single restaurant (also try: 4 elevators, one house party, or the first floor of a small-to-medium sized hospital), you're not going back to your roots. You're looking extinction in the face, and hopelessly screaming at the darkness. Aside from "keep mutants in one place for safety" and "keep mutants scattered around so they can't be taken out at once," there is nothing else that can be done for the mutant race in an X-Men story.

M-Day effectively wrote the entire X-Men franchise into a corner. It was only a matter of time before the people in charge realized this. Their only hope was to magically find a way to increase the number of mutants on Earth. I thought they were going to flat-out reverse M-Day with Hope Summers/The Messiah or whenever they eventually bring the real Scarlet Witch back, but it looks like they couldn't wait that long, and have decided to resurrect over one million dead mutants instead.

Maybe next time Bendis, Quesada, and the X-Editor* get together to decide the fate of the X-Franchise, they should think about the long term effects of their actions. You know, plan out more than just "the next year worth of stories," and think about how they can move things forward after that first year.



*The X-Editor at the time of House of M/Decimation was Mike Marts. Thankfully, he left Marvel to work for DC (doing such high quality work as Countdown), and was replaced by Axel Alonso.