Comics X-Men Endangered Species #1 (Slight Spoiler)

[HandOfFate]

From Jedispyder,
So the person that died, as revealed in interviews, is....a nobody. Someone created specifically for this event, someone we never even see. We see the casket, but we don't see the person. And they died by getting hit by a car in a busy intersection (Cessily wanted to bring the kid back to life to slap him for dying so stupidly).

According to Bishop the funeral had 1/10th of the mutant population, mostly X-Men/X-Factor. We did get a guest appearance by Sebastion Shaw, who used an image inducer to appear as an old man so no one would suspect him. When questions by Prof X, he swears he was there for no ulterior motive, but wouldn't reveal if he knew the kid or not.

Beast and Maddrox have a discussion on why they can't just repopulate the mutant race, with Jamie creating duplicates of himself saying they have enough males. Beast says when a population is this low there is no safe to repopulate, that there would not be enough new genetic material. Beast decides he's going to need to do some investigation on whats going on (which will occur in all the back-up stories for the next several months).

Scott and Emma have a confrontation with the boy's parents. They think they're there solely to pay respect to the a mutant statistic, not to a human being. Scott urges otherwise, saying that no matter when one of a group dies people want to pay respect, but the father won't budge on his stance. Emma wants to give him a migraine basically as revenge, but Scott won't let her.

Scott talks to Logan, telling him that a year ago he tried to get the kid to come to the Xavier Institute but the kid wouldn't budge. It was at the time when open registration was occuring (making me think it was during Morrison's run, but probably not since its rarely reference). When the kid refused Scott just moved on.

I found the book to be really cool, it's a nice setup.

A couple of things that caught my eye

I wasn't really sure what was going on with the Wolverine and the time jumps.

I loved the part with Jamie making copies of himself to help repopulate the mutant gene pool.t:

The part with Cyke using his optic blast to make it rain was odd to say the least. I'll talk about that more in Cyke's thread.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Will wait till I get my hands on the thing, but, hum... lashing out at the sky in a fit of pique???

Cyke hasn't done something of sort while having to deal with worse situations about, what, 100+ times???

And somehow I get the feeling I'll roll my eyes at the conversation between Chuck and Shaw.

 

[Specter313]

No offense, but this is what the X-event thread is for, guys.

 

[javon]

I'm getting my copy tommorow...if it's any left.

 

[HandOfFate]

No offense, but this is what the X-event thread is for, guys.

If Lightning Strykez reading this, he can move it, if he likes.t:

I didn't really think about the other thread when I made this one.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Technically, the issue is a one-shot vaguely setting up the theme of the big event. Specific thread just to get it out of the way is no big deal, really.

 

[javon]

Well in that case, I can go ahead with my previous question: Will it be a mixture of different teams into one book? For example: Will X-factor be in X-men, or in Uncanny? If it's a dumb question (which I'm a bit known for), then excuse it t:

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

I had the impression most teams would say in their books besides the Astonishing crew which will be all over. Well, Cyke and Wolvie anyway.

 

[javon]

^I had that impression as well.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

On a completely unrelated note...

Damn you, Cassaday.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

Finally got my hands on the thing.

A good read. Definitely thumbs up.

That, and OMG, an X-book written by Carey that didn't scream "I'm a fanboy and will make any team work!!! My crew ROXOR!!!" Refreshing change of pace, really.

 

[javon]

^

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

...??

The book not screaming fanboy is a *good* thing. t:

 

[HandOfFate]

I like it. Jamie part was my favorite.t:

 

[UraniaChang]

Beast and Maddrox have a discussion on why they can't just repopulate the mutant race, with Jamie creating duplicates of himself saying they have enough males.

...repopulating a race needs enough females, besides, Jamie's duplicates don't count.

But as an introduction, this one-shot is not bad.

 

[OutcryX]

Jamie should learn how to make female dupes of himself...now that would be power control....i also wonder if that would count as *********ion?

 

[Havok83]

are you kidding me? ES is going to be 17 parts? I cant take that much Beast. The guy is boring.

 

[Snikt 6]

^But it is only the short stories after those issues. Im not that big of a Beast fan myself....but the story intrigues me. Some of the trailers talk about a 'Messiah Complex' - guess thats what Beast will get.

 

[ragingdemon155]

This was the first X-men related comic that I had picked up in like years. This whole "Endangered Species" storyline captured my attention so I decided to hop on board.

The issue itself was pretty good. Was a bit confused that I didn't know who the mutant was that died...but I'm hearing in this thread that its just a character created for this specific storyline.

 

[Havok83]

^But it is only the short stories after those issues. Im not that big of a Beast fan myself....but the story intrigues me. Some of the trailers talk about a 'Messiah Complex' - guess thats what Beast will get.

ES doesnt intrigue me since its all about Beast. I thought ES was the name of the fall crossover but its since be revealed that its only a prelude to it. Cant wait till MC though

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

^But it is only the short stories after those issues. Im not that big of a Beast fan myself....but the story intrigues me. Some of the trailers talk about a 'Messiah Complex' - guess thats what Beast will get.

Seems like Blue will be getting way over his head. My money's on him getting the Messiah Complex.

And yes, him not being on any of the promo pics with the good guys might've tipped the balance.

 

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

ES doesnt intrigue me since its all about Beast. I thought ES was the name of the fall crossover but its since be revealed that its only a prelude to it. Cant wait till MC though

Picked up the one-shot, but seriously can't say I'm tempted to buy every x-issues in the next couple of months for those 8 pages. Adjectiveless & AXM will do just fine, thank you.

Oh, what the hell, I'm not even sure I'll pick up the TPB.

 

[UraniaChang]

ES doesnt intrigue me since its all about Beast.

Beast doesn't have as a strong character as other characters, nor does he have an awesome power to capture people's eyes, but you still have to give him some material to run since he's one of those characters who have a long history, and he hasn't been the focus in 616 for a long time. Besides, maybe the writers will do a good job to capture his character in following issues, who knows.

 

[Havok83]

Beast doesn't have as a strong character as other characters, nor does he have an awesome power to capture people's eyes, but you still have to give him some material to run since he's one of those characters who have a long history, and he hasn't been the focus in 616 for a long time. Besides, maybe the writers will do a good job to capture his character in following issues, who knows.

I just think Beast is one of the MOST boring X-men out there. He's alright in a team setting but solo, Ive always found his adventures to be sleep inducing. He's just not that interesting

 

[Nature's Rising]

Yes Jamie with the X-men! YAHOO!!!

And it's about time some genius addresses this whole repopulation thing. Someone should step up and save the endangered species.