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Comics One NATION, under X....
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Haha, no. On the cover of Nation X #1
If you can count a cooking apron as a costume.
Haha, no. On the cover of Nation X #1
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Just looks like the last one he's been wearing with a recoloring. That or since all the colors are muted, they just toned his down.
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im really enjoying the direction X-Men is going right now, and im probably gonna pick this series up... but this seems like alot of minis. couldn't they slow down in Uncanny and incorporate this stuff in the book and save us all $3-4?
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nope bc Fraction would rather bore us on a monthly basis. I bet the Nation X stuff will be more interesting here than in UXM
In that pic Beast has five fingers instead of four. And the Liefeld-like-feet (or lack of feet) is very disturbing. It looks like he just got lazy with Nightcrawler's foot and that Cuckoo's feet look odd. Is she flying or something?
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STORY BY James Asmus, Scott Snyder, Simon Spurrier
ART BY David Lopez, Stephen Thompson
COVER BY Dustin Weaver
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
COVER PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE DATE: Wed, December 9th, 2009
A mutant nation has been created on UTOPIA, off the coast of California. But what does that mean to the X-Men? Dont miss the series that delves into the lives and minds of your favorite X-Characters. This issue stars Colossus, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and others!
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I like the original coloring for the cover better.
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They can both glitter...
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Allred should find a new line of work. Drawing comics is NOT working.
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great first issue. this is what has been missing from the Uncanny title. my favorite stories were Nightcrawler and Logan, and Bobby. best conversation in X-Men history:
Logan: "I got one. Psylocke or Domino?"
Nightcrawler: "British or Japanese Psylocke?"
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Logan: "I got one. Psylocke or Domino?"
Nightcrawler: "British or Japanese Psylocke?"
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I smell Scogan in this issue~t:
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It's Prodigy! I was wondering if he moved to Utopia. Hell, I was wondering if he was even in San Francisco.
I loved the end of Iceman's story. Carefree jokester characters are always implied to be the most glib, and it's interesting to see that Iceman has no hope for the future despite being the one who has to comfort everyone. Also, it's nice just to see Bobby do something other than stand in the background or whoosh by on an ice slide during action scenes.
I loved the end of Iceman's story. Carefree jokester characters are always implied to be the most glib, and it's interesting to see that Iceman has no hope for the future despite being the one who has to comfort everyone. Also, it's nice just to see Bobby do something other than stand in the background or whoosh by on an ice slide during action scenes.
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He was confirmed to be there soon after they moved as he was apart of the X-men in the Secret Invasion tie in. I thnk he showed up once or twice elsewhere since then
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I thoroughly enjoyed this 1st issue. I'm really hating Illyana though, ice cold *****
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The Secret Invasion tie-in doesn't count, though. During that storyline, they said they were calling in X-Men and allies from all over to help them fight. That's why Northstar and Aurora were both there to fight during Secret Invasion, but Northstar got recruited alone later in Uncanny X-Men. Prodigy could've easily been teleported from Chicago to SF just to help out.
I don't remember seeing him after that at all. I didn't even see him during Utopia, and everyone got some background action in that story.
I don't remember seeing him after that at all. I didn't even see him during Utopia, and everyone got some background action in that story.
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I suppose for a kid who can learn everything to just sit in a class full of normal children really isn't that tempting.
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His learning powers don't work anymore, though. He remembers everything he learned previously, but he has to learn normally now. Not that he needs to, of course; he has the combined education of every non-psychic X-man and teacher he's ever met before M-Day.
Still, I figured Prodigy would've been in college by now. He was taking some college courses back when Dani recruited him to Xavier's school. When the X-Men moved to SF, they didn't say anything about Graymalkin Industries being an accredited institute, so he would've had to have gone to a college if he didn't want his studying to be purely recreational.
Still, I figured Prodigy would've been in college by now. He was taking some college courses back when Dani recruited him to Xavier's school. When the X-Men moved to SF, they didn't say anything about Graymalkin Industries being an accredited institute, so he would've had to have gone to a college if he didn't want his studying to be purely recreational.
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podmark asked about backups over in the X-Universe, saying, "In regards to backup stories has there been any consideration in giving Uncanny X-Men a regular backup feature? The X-books have such a huge cast right now (which I like BTW) that lots of characters get pretty light screen time and for a while I've been thinking that a regular backup focusing on different characters or plot points that didn't fit into an arc might be a good idea. Could be done in place or in tandem with the semi regular anthology minis we've been getting like 'Nation X' and 'Manifest Destiny?'"
The idea of backups is a good idea, podmark, and the X-Men group is considering that at the moment. It just depends on the story and the characters that we feel fit well with respect to being backups. But if you're talking about a monthly X-title that wraps up loose ends or visits characters we haven't seen in a while – it's not something we're looking to do at the moment, as it takes a solid hook to try to make something like that sell. Backups that allow us to keep in touch with the more tangential characters and storylines within the X-verse are a more feasible option for us right now.
With such a big cast populating "Uncanny" and the other books these days, how different is the X-Franchise today from when there were so many mutants before "House of M" paired down the mutant population? Have those changes held?
I think they've absolutely held, and a lot of the stories we're telling today we wouldn't have been able to tell without "House of M." It's not so much about how many particular X-Men characters appear on a page. It's more about what's going on tonally in the world of X-Men where they're supposed to be a minority – part of a downtrodden race who is feared and loathed. That particular core metaphor at the heart of X-Men starts to resonate less and less when you bump into mutants around every corner of the Marvel Universe.
There was a time when it felt like, as a reader, you were bumping into mutants everywhere, in every Marvel book. It felt like there were fewer normal people than there were mutants in the world. I mean, I get it, the X franchise is huge, and the temptation is to create more and more mutant characters, but at the end of the day, you still want to create the feeling that they are a small minority, a blip on the screen of the world populace. It's tough to tell stories about what is supposedly an endangered species when they keep popping up everywhere.
The idea was to whittle it down so that the core metaphor, which has always been perfect from the day it was created, could work properly again. Once in place, it allows us to tell stories that put the cast within its own ticking evolutionary clock. So, regardless of whether you see one or ten mutants within an issue, or even a page, tonally the world has been reset to make the reader (again, if we've done our job right) feel like these mutants are scarce and truly struggling for survival. They are still a very small minority and have to watch each others' backs. That's what we wanted to get to, and I think it still stands. If anything, I think Axel and his group have managed to amplify that feeling even more.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24028
The idea of backups is a good idea, podmark, and the X-Men group is considering that at the moment. It just depends on the story and the characters that we feel fit well with respect to being backups. But if you're talking about a monthly X-title that wraps up loose ends or visits characters we haven't seen in a while – it's not something we're looking to do at the moment, as it takes a solid hook to try to make something like that sell. Backups that allow us to keep in touch with the more tangential characters and storylines within the X-verse are a more feasible option for us right now.
With such a big cast populating "Uncanny" and the other books these days, how different is the X-Franchise today from when there were so many mutants before "House of M" paired down the mutant population? Have those changes held?
I think they've absolutely held, and a lot of the stories we're telling today we wouldn't have been able to tell without "House of M." It's not so much about how many particular X-Men characters appear on a page. It's more about what's going on tonally in the world of X-Men where they're supposed to be a minority – part of a downtrodden race who is feared and loathed. That particular core metaphor at the heart of X-Men starts to resonate less and less when you bump into mutants around every corner of the Marvel Universe.
There was a time when it felt like, as a reader, you were bumping into mutants everywhere, in every Marvel book. It felt like there were fewer normal people than there were mutants in the world. I mean, I get it, the X franchise is huge, and the temptation is to create more and more mutant characters, but at the end of the day, you still want to create the feeling that they are a small minority, a blip on the screen of the world populace. It's tough to tell stories about what is supposedly an endangered species when they keep popping up everywhere.
The idea was to whittle it down so that the core metaphor, which has always been perfect from the day it was created, could work properly again. Once in place, it allows us to tell stories that put the cast within its own ticking evolutionary clock. So, regardless of whether you see one or ten mutants within an issue, or even a page, tonally the world has been reset to make the reader (again, if we've done our job right) feel like these mutants are scarce and truly struggling for survival. They are still a very small minority and have to watch each others' backs. That's what we wanted to get to, and I think it still stands. If anything, I think Axel and his group have managed to amplify that feeling even more.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=24028
