Comics The '07 X-Event: Endangered Species, Messiah Complex, & Disassembled

[Canemacar]

So what does the page belong to? The MC one-shot?

 

[Slant]

Nobody knows

Take this cover Marvel released to us exclusively today. They wouldn't tell us what title it's from, what it means or anything beyond the fact that it's somehow related to the event.

 

[Canemacar]

Well thats just stupid; they go on and spoil countless storylines with solicits all the time, but refuse to mention where a single group-shot goes?

 

[El Bastardo]

That's a freaking awesome piece of art. I like.

 

[OutcryX]

Probably the whole 'her being a P.O.W. and not doing much' angle, actually.

Oh, and Cyke, Hank and 'Ro (sort of?) being upfront and center? Roxor.

Kitty's there....*hold vomit in mouth*

 

[UraniaChang]

Kitty? Where?

And I would rather swap Storm for Rogue, but that's not going to happen.

 

[Specter313]

Kitty's between Storm and Cyclops.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Kitty's between Storm and Cyclops.

So very very very wrong for her to be that close to the pic's center.

But, bah, she's dying. Let's humor Marvel and let them think we believe her being there means jacks**t for AXM.

And just for the record, is it me or does Cyke has about the lamest posture in that pic? t:

Everyone's looking either badass or inexplicably nice ('Ro and Kitty) while he's, huh... brooding/looking tortured while stretching his neck or something?

Now, don't get me wrong, him acting serious/brooding/tortured while everyone else is having *fun* playing super-hero is in character, but it just looks funny in that pic.

 

[masterj]

Is it Armour in the top corner next to Warpath? If so, then who dies in Astonishing?

 

[Canemacar]

Is it Armour in the top corner next to Warpath? If so, then who dies in Astonishing?

Im thinking Kitty. Whedon has a sort of fetish for killing off his favorite characters.

 

[masterj]

Kittys on the picture too though, as is all the cast fo Astonishing. Does this mean Lockheed dies? That's weak.

 

[iamlegend]

So any ideas on why the focus has been drawn to characters that are existing outside of their time/dimension/universe, etc?

Bishop, Cable, Sugar Man, the other Beast, The Witness...

 

[masterj]

Knowledge of the future maybe or alternate dimensions that may be relevant to what sinsiter has planned.

 

[The Englishman]

http://media.comics.ign.com/media/944/944221/img_4847369.html

Whats Bull**** about the picture is the position of Iceman, right at the back stuck in the corner so that you can hardley see him as per usual!!

 

[hammy]

Whats Bull**** about the picture is the position of Iceman, right at the back stuck in the corner so that you can hardley see him as per usual!!

 

[The Englishman]

Are you trying to make me feel better Casey??....

 

[hammy]

Yes. I could tell from the asterisks, explanation points and mad face, you were unhappy.

 

[OutcryX]

but hey...bishop looks damn good. best he has in a long time. i like that hair cut on him

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Whats Bull**** about the picture is the position of Iceman, right at the back stuck in the corner so that you can hardley see him as per usual!!

Bah, Beast was hidden by Bishop's (of all people!!???) on #200's cover.

Suck it up, soldier.

 

[Canemacar]

It was Mystique who hid Beast; her forearm.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Just checked it out. You're right. Bishop is next to Beast.

Oh well. The 'suck it up' comment still applies.

 

[Valechan]

Wouldn't it be REALLY FUNNY if Torn/Unstoppable were to happen AFTER Messiah Complex and Cyclops gets to die in that story instead of Pryde??? For all we know, after this pic... it could be

 

[Havok83]

damn, Hepzibah is really prominent on that cover.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Wouldn't it be REALLY FUNNY if Torn/Unstoppable were to happen AFTER Messiah Complex and Cyclops gets to die in that story instead of Pryde??? For all we know, after this pic... it could be

I really don't know how to put it simplier than this:

Torn/Unstoppable was pitched about, what, TWO years ago?? Also, it was written before the f****n MC Summit even took place in january. It also obviously was meant to be released prior to MC.

Whether they decide put it before or after MC won't change the fact that the story's already written and that the writers/editors knew which character they could use when they planned ES and MC. Due to their respective roles in ES/MC, Hank and Cyke are the safest of the bunch from a narrative point of view. That's pretty much it.

And just for the record, do you realize that if Unstoppable or the Annual/whatever is pushed back after MC, that means Cyke is even *safer* in MC?

Would also mean that Beast won't stray during MC, come to think of it. Oh well.

 

[Mother_Askani]

Wouldn't it be REALLY FUNNY if Torn/Unstoppable were to happen AFTER Messiah Complex and Cyclops gets to die in that story instead of Pryde??? For all we know, after this pic... it could be

If Torn/Unstoppable is after Messiah Complex, then Armor wouldn't be a member of the Astonishing team or wearing that uniform. She'd simply be an underclassman at the school and completely uninvolved in anything, rather than appearing on a cover.