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New X-Men #148

 
  

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Quireboy
23:03 / 27.07.03
Here's the trail for NXM148 from Popcultureshock. They have the cover if anyone wants to grab it.

Planet X: pt. 3

The shocking mystery threat revealed in NXM146 continues to take its toll on Prof Xavier and the X-Men. With the team broken and disbanded, are their chances for survival dwindling.
 
 
Mike-O
02:56 / 28.07.03
Cover's decent at best, if u ask me, chaps.
 
 
Axel Lambert
13:27 / 31.08.03
 
 
Krug
14:48 / 08.10.03
Bump!
 
 
houdini
17:14 / 08.10.03

This link should take you to the first 4 preview pages. (Assuming I've sussed out tagging correctly....)

This is prolly going to get me burned as a heretic, but does anyone else think that Jimenez is channeling Byrne in this arc? I felt it really strongly in 146 and in this issue it's back again with the way he draws Logan. I have to say I think this is a good thing in that I'm remembering the Byrne that first really made the X-Men a great-looking book and built up the fanbase. PJ's Wolvie looks like he could be crawling out of a storm drain beneath the Hellfire Club, ready to kick ass.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
17:48 / 08.10.03
Well, looks like Mags didn't have a direct connection to Weapon Plus after all. And thank goodness for that.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
19:09 / 08.10.03
Yeah, but doesn't anyone find the alternative (Wolverine fights in space, crashes into space station which just appears from nowhere, flies towards the sun in little or no time at all) just a tad worse?

Looks like Jean and Wolvie are going to make out some.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
19:13 / 08.10.03
Also dig the amazing disappering beard. Must be his mutant power.
 
 
FinderWolf
19:43 / 08.10.03
I think it's less Byrne and more Neal Adams, who's one of Byrne's MAJOR influences.

This looks cool. Thanks for posting the link to the preview!
 
 
Spaniel
09:16 / 09.10.03
I have to say, the asteroid heading for the sun thing really taxes my suspension of disbelief. I mean, I know I sound like a dork, but it should take fucking months, if not years, for Jean and Logan to get there.

Okay, so the set-up has oodles of dramatic potential - it drips with sexual tension, and typically Morrisonian sci-fi craziness. And don't we all expect the Phoenix to come blazing out of the sun-as-catalyst?

But... pedantic as I may sound, I find it hard to enjoy all the coolness when the writer has thrown self-evident facts out the window. I find Morrison irritatingly glib sometimes.
 
 
Rawk'n'Roll
09:32 / 09.10.03
Fourth page here.
 
 
_Boboss
09:33 / 09.10.03
nahh rubbish maggie's blatantly given them a massive push with his new head and they're going fast as assholes is all
 
 
_Boboss
09:37 / 09.10.03
plus what's this now, like four issues in six or seven weeks? fucking brilliant, and again: fast as assholes.

definitely spelling it the american way for the rest of the week at least.
 
 
Ganesh
09:40 / 09.10.03
That fiction suit's taking on a life of its own; someone else is gonna become a Xornvestite...
 
 
Spaniel
09:52 / 09.10.03
The whole he's given them a push thing did occur to me. Look, Chaoslundgren69arise, I know you don't need Morrison to go over this ground, you love filling in the blanks, but me, well, I like to be told stories - no bits left out.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
10:04 / 09.10.03
It takes light from the sun around 8 minuites to reach earth.

They've been travelling for a day or more, and are going to reach the sun in another day.

Anyone care to do the math of how fast they're going? I'm tired.
 
 
Rawk'n'Roll
10:28 / 09.10.03
Um... very fast?
 
 
Quireboy
10:36 / 09.10.03
The art - or inks anyway - look better than in 147.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
10:56 / 09.10.03
re: suspension of disbelief

It's a hyper-dramatic old school superhero comic. It's supposed to be this way. It's fun.

I like Ernst. She's such a sweet little girl.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:51 / 09.10.03
Hmmm - when I read Ernst's confusion in #147 I thought it was mostly having a cruel laugh at readers who were slow to accept that there was never really a Xorn. But something about that page - in addition to twisting the knife, because it's so sad, and so sweet how she misses her favourite teacher - screams 'foreshadowing' to me. I'm allowing for the possibility that the Xorn Identity may end up biting Erik on the ass (and with all the Kick he's doing, he's ripe for a breakdown) - especially when you look at the cover for #149. I wonder.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:59 / 09.10.03
Flux: There's a difference between "fun" and stupid. This doesn't seem to follow the very "realistic" internal logic built up in the strip so far: if this was out and out space opera I could buy it.

I also find the fact Mags built a perfect replica of his old hideout in the hope that some X-Men might just drop in incredibly contrived and stupid.

I reckon Kick will trigger Mag's second mutation: A star for a brain.
 
 
FinderWolf
14:05 / 09.10.03
THERE IS NO DANA ONLY ZOOL!!!
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
14:10 / 09.10.03
I don't think he built a replica. I think it's the same old Asteroid M that's been around forever now. That's the implication, anyway. It's nothing so complex.

I see your point, but I think now that we're at the end, we have enough perspective on the series that we can see that every storyline has had its own vibe, and was something of a homage to a genre convention. Murder was the tv mystery, Riot was the school story pastiche, Assualt was the 90s action comic, E Is For Extinction was the blockbuster movie. Planet X is the old school superhero melodrama, and given the circumstances of the story and the artist who is drawing the story, having Logan and Jean trapped on a space station about to crash into the sun actually makes a lot of sense. It's over the top and romantic. It's perfect, really.

I don't think Magneto will have a secondary mutation, but I do think that the chances of him being psychically convinced that he is Xorn again will be a likely part of the conclusion.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
14:18 / 09.10.03
And I think it's perfectly clear from Wolvie's script that this is Asteroid M 3. And sod all this "genre homage" cop out stuff, if something doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Begining to feel very let down by this arc.
 
 
Quireboy
11:15 / 10.10.03
I think you might be right about that Flyboy - Magneto could well be forced to be a 'Xornsvestite'.

Having finally read NXM147 - and from what I've seen of 151 - I wonder whether Magneto is an unwitting pawn in a bigger gameplan by whoever is behind Weapon Plus/the U-Men - Dr Sublime. I wonder this because the Wizard preview shows a Fantomex-look-alike with a U-Men logo on his chest leading the Nightcrawler hybrids.

And it looks like Jean's about to go fully Phoenix soon. Wonder if there's any truth in the rumour about Wolverine offering Jean some of his flesh to sustain her.
 
 
Ganesh
11:32 / 10.10.03
Which portion of his flesh, I wonder...?
 
 
Quireboy
11:55 / 10.10.03
A large portion, phnar, phnar...
 
 
The Falcon
16:59 / 10.10.03
I hope someone makes an upsettingly glib crack about going out for dinner.
 
 
FinderWolf
17:39 / 10.10.03
Did anyone get my Ghostbusters reference as it relates to the preview pages?
 
 
makeitbleed
17:51 / 10.10.03
Yup. Funny. One of the reasons Barbelith comic discussions are much. much better than comicon, newsarama, and the rest.

That plus all the smart stuff (special class=original x-men, etc.) which doesn't always pan out, but makes the reading more interesting.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
17:57 / 10.10.03
I got the reference, but I missed any one of the following:

a) Jean in a sheer silk orange dress that makes young Benjamin Birdie wonder what's going on under his pants for the very first time.

b) Logan playing two notes repeatedly on the lone piano on Asteroid M, quipping, "Magneto hates it when I do this. That's right, Lensherr! James Logan is in town!"

c) Weapon XV asking Logan how long they have before the reach the sun and Jean standing behind the genetically engineered horror, surreptitiously miming "24" with her hands.

d) Jean asking Logan for some popcorn and when Logan replies, "Yes, have some," Weapon XV repeating, "Yes, have some."
 
 
FinderWolf
18:59 / 10.10.03
makeitbleed, I couldn't agree more. I have seriously gone back and re-read posts that made me laugh my ass off, as I just did with the entire 1602 thread. Quireboy's phonetic "phnar phnar" sniggering was great on this thread, as well as countless other comedy gold mentions. For some reason I love it when Brits spell out the lustful sniggering "ffwarrr!" as Eric Idle says after 'nudge nudge, wink wink'.

And to keep this on thread, BioK9's unceasing obsession with Xorneto's chains has kept me in stiches for the last few issues of NXM.

Although Benjamin Birdie, I'm ashamed to say I didn't get any of your references - and I'm a huge movie buff! (if they are movie references, I guess) Oh wait a minute - b) is from Ghostbusters, so they all must be from Ghostbusters, right?
 
 
The Falcon
19:02 / 10.10.03
I like d) the best.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
19:17 / 10.10.03
They are all indeed from the fabulous GB, with c) being my favorite moment in the movie. It's when Peter is haggling with the Hotel Owner about the price of the Ghost Containment and Egon is signaling Peter the prices with his hands on the spot, pretending he's scratching his nose. That brief moment just kills me.

And I just realized that the Ghostbusters reference was referencing Page 5, which I forgot was on here. Nice one.
 
 
FinderWolf
20:48 / 10.10.03
"That's a looovely singing voice you have there, Xorny..."
 
  

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