Young X-Men

[PhotoJones]

I'm more interested in Scott's part in it than anything else. Is this actually another facet of a major character shift where Scott abandons Xavier's dream because "it died with him" and goes more militant?

I don't think so. I think his role will be to pop up in the first issue and give them their mission. It might have to do with his reasoning for letting them fight in X-Men #207. The X-Men's enemy's know the X-Men and have fought them numerous times, but the Young X-Men have some sort of advantage because they're new and unknown, or somesuch nonsense.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, but why's he hunting down and eliminating enemies all of a sudden? And, really, when's the last we even heard a peep out of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, of all people? He's apparently more proactive just by the nature of the YXM's premise, and greater proactiveness = more militancy by definition.

 

[PhotoJones]

That's quite a stretch, but whatever.

Maybe he's just tired of rebuilding the mansion every 5 minutes.

 

[Darthphere]

greater proactiveness = more militancy by definition.

Um, no.

 

[PhotoJones]

Hence:

That's quite a stretch, but whatever.

 

[Specter313]

Yeah, I don't get that. Did Blindfold suddenly grow eyes, 'cause the only one who looks like her on that cover is that far-too-active girl with goggles.

Um, those aren't goggles. That's a, wait for it, Blindfold! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Dang, you're right. They looked like goggles to me because of the lines where her eyes should be, but those are just impressions from her eyes underneath now that I look at it more closely.

 

[PhotoJones]

At any rate, it's lame. Why is she doing physical stuff, anyway? I thought she just sort of stood around and spouted cryptic nonsense?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, like I said, she's way too active. Unless that crap she was babbling about in MC was about her being reborn as a more coherent person.

 

[PhotoJones]

Young X-Men =

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Sounds like it so far.

 

[PhotoJones]

The only saving grace is going to be Paquette's art. I've seen him do great work and I've seen him do piss-poor work.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Guggenheim on the book is enough for me to give it a try. While I didn't care for his Blade, I really enjoyed his runs on Wolverine and the Flash: The Fastest Man Alive and I'm really looking forward to his being involved with the Amazing Spider-Man.

 

[PhotoJones]

Guggenheim is the anti-Bendis. His ideas are generally lame but the execution is generally good.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Guggenheim is the anti-Bendis. His ideas are generally lame but the execution is generally good.

I'd agree. His ideas like Lazaer, having the Rogues kill Bart Allen, and Damage Control being responsible for the Civil War may come off stupid on paper. But they came off really great. That's why I really enjoy him and am looking forward to Young X-Men.

I just hope that he won't forget about the other X-students like Armor, Surge, Elixir, and the others.

Plus the man depowered Wolverine a bit to the point where he no longer can survive an explosion and he's just a skeleton.

 

[Darthphere]

Young X-Men will be a top 20 book.

X-Force won't be.

Which one looks better?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It wasn't Guggenheim's idea for the Rogues to kill Bart Allen.

 

[PhotoJones]

Young X-Men will be a top 20 book.

X-Force won't be.

Which one looks better?

X-Force will totally be a top 20 book. It's got Wolverine AND X-23.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Crain's art tends to sell well, too.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, and it looks pretty good in the preview pages. I'm sure this will land somewhere in the top 10.

 

[supermarvelman]

How can they have new characters? No more mutants remember?

Not all mutants where part of the Institute, look at some of the mutants that predator X killked.

 

[Anubis]

NO MORE MUTANTS! There's like a little over 300 left, and most are accounted for. Now suddenly, out of the blue, we get three to four new guys showing up out of nowhere, with no training, and Cyke is gonna sick them on a new Brotherhood? Not saying it's implausible, just stupid.

 

[supermarvelman]

Yeah, but why's he hunting down and eliminating enemies all of a sudden? And, really, when's the last we even heard a peep out of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, of all people? He's apparently more proactive just by the nature of the YXM's premise, and greater proactiveness = more militancy by definition.

Yea not one peep, but this will be the peep, let things happen before your like "this is so dumb, when was the last time the brotherhood did ****", that kinda of attitude is what makes characters end up in limbo. What the hell have more than half the marauders been up to in the last 10 years? Jack ****, but Messaih Complex was still awesome and one of the best if not the best comic book cross-over event in years maybe even decades.

Also where the hell where the brotherhood when all this baby stuff was going on, you figure they would be all up in that business, but thay werent, why is that? Yes most members of the brotherhood are either dead, depowered, or on the marauders. But as long as Magneto is around, some form of the brotherhood exists, and my guess is that we will find out that the brotherhood have made some peeps that have gone unnoticed with all the messaih complex stuff going on, not to mention the Breakworld stuff, Civil War, WWH, constant attacks on the school by the Purifiers, Belasco, a couple dozen dead students, dont forget Shadowcats possible death as well. There is plenty of reason to believe that the Brotherhood have been up to something that has gone unseen.

 

[supermarvelman]

NO MORE MUTANTS! There's like a little over 300 left, and most are accounted for. Now suddenly, out of the blue, we get three to four new guys showing up out of nowhere, with no training, and Cyke is gonna sick them on a new Brotherhood? Not saying it's implausible, just stupid.

actually about 1/3 of them arent accounted for.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yea not one peep, but this will be the peep, let things happen before your like "this is so dumb, when was the last time the brotherhood did ****", that kinda of attitude is what makes characters end up in limbo. What the hell have more than half the marauders been up to in the last 10 years? Jack ****, but Messaih Complex was still awesome and one of the best if not the best comic book cross-over event in years maybe even decades.

It's somehow my fault that the Brotherhood hasn't been seen nor heard from in years? Make your posts make sense, man!