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New X-Men #147

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17:10 / 24.09.03

King Magneto graces the cover clothed in his royal reds once again shirking all that is Xorn except for his Metal Skull helmet.

17:16 / 24.09.03

Where have you seen this? Any links/images?

Keith, like a scientist

17:27 / 24.09.03

Popcultureshock.

17:33 / 24.09.03

Yep I found it...

Very nice it is too.

GM has me VERY scared of Eric now.

Matthew Fluxington

18:15 / 24.09.03

Well, that's not at all what I expected from the next issue. This should be really interesting.

I was really expecting it to just be an immediate extension of the previous issue.

18:18 / 24.09.03

Popcultureshock scans aren't always from the very beginning of the book. Don't forget the "Previously..." page may add more info aswell.

18:18 / 24.09.03

Just wait until what you see Mags did with the " Special Class". All I can say is "Kill the Flatscan!!"

19:29 / 24.09.03

actually, when i do preview scans, i always do the first four pages (not counting the "previously" page like rawkus said)

if we have something other than the first four pages, it's because i didn't *scan* and that's just what the publisher sent digitally...

19:31 / 24.09.03

One thing that has me puzzled... where is Magneto?

What building or structure is big enough to look out at Manhattan like that... is this a Danger Room scenario? His mindscape? Are these words from the future?

giggle

Keith, like a scientist

19:56 / 24.09.03

what i'm curious about is that magneto is back in his costume... but that there is a cover for a later issue with the Xorn outfit on it.

those 4 pages must be in magneto's mind.

20:34 / 24.09.03

Or maybe Xavier's while suspended in a clear green matrixybath...hehehehe

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

20:37 / 24.09.03

I don't think they're by necessity in his mind. All the X-Men, save Xavier, can easily be considered dead or at least severely out of comission to Erik. What exactly the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and the rest of the X-Peeps are/were up to, one can only guess. But the shattered skyline on the cover of 150 could easily be a post 10/1 Manhattan. With Promethea #27 and now this book, walking to work in Manhattan has just gotten a lot more unsettling.

It's nice to see, though, that the main Erik can still kick the Ultimate Version's ass completely. If this is for real, and I'm betting it is, then I can't wait to see the X-Men winding their way through a Manhattan that's a cross between Inferno and the New Tokyo Empire.

These pages also seem to point decidedly against the notion that Erik had anything to do with Genosha. In fact, his memorial issue can now be seen as a bit of a warning. "You humans have really asked for it this time. I'm serious."

I'm going to go stare at those pages some more.

Matthew Fluxington

21:55 / 24.09.03

I think there is a good possibility that this may be taking place inside of Magneto's mind, because after all, at the end of the last issue we have Magneto standing before Xavier without his helmet, defenseless against psychic attack. If Xavier was even slightly sensible, he would have immediately launched a psychic strike on Magneto, or at least incapicated him and found out what on earth had been going on. But when has Charles Xavier acted sensibly during Grant Morrison's run on this book? And this is meant to be dramatic, of course.

I do recall reading that the Marvel Universe is to be destroyed at the end of this storyline. Things may really be happening, as it were.

Twig the Wonder Kid

22:40 / 24.09.03

that preview looks like The Authority.

or does everything look like The Authority now?

00:36 / 25.09.03

Ever think maybe Martha was fucking with X? And that's why Xavier didn't do shit to Magnus? It's possible. Anyway this issue looks STUNNING. Gaaaaaaaaaaad Damn.

06:12 / 25.09.03

Here's the fith page.

Magneto is sounding slightly like Quentin: "Erik is the name our oppressors gave me!"

Petulant child anyone?
Esme looks kinda hot in her... um... European Fashion week knock off.
And the special class look all brooding in the background. Is that Beak with the goggles?

06:21 / 25.09.03

Nevermind... I've just realised its Toad...

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:03 / 25.09.03

There was probably never a building in Manhattan like the one Magneto is in - until he built it in two minutes flat, out of bits of all the other buildings he's torn down...

The effect of having New York come to pieces effortlessly outside the window is amazing. Like trees blowing in the wind and losing leaves - quiet, almost calm. It's all so *easy*, and I like the fact that Erik can't quite believe it either.

Bad Girl Esme (complete with EVIL! eye shadow): cliched but fun. I hope we get lots of snarky banter between her and the old man. I get the feeling Morrison may have enjoyed the Magneto/Mystique interplay in X2 as much as I did...

08:29 / 25.09.03

Esme really needs to eat some food...

12:30 / 25.09.03

What's that about he took away his legs? Back to the good ol' wheelchair then? And Prof.X never noticed he was a marionette?

Matthew Fluxington

12:51 / 25.09.03

What exactly the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and the rest of the X-Peeps are/were up to, one can only guess.

Well, if this is fact a reality that will be entirely wiped out by the Phoenix later on, we can assume that Magneto killed off all of those other superheroes. It is well within his capabilities to kill all of those people (well, except for maybe Thor), regardless of what Avengers fanboys may believe. I can't think of any rational reason why it wouldn't be extremely easy for Magneto to kill people like Captain America and Iron Man with a mininum of effort. I mean, he could just squeeze Iron Man to pulp with his own armor, and behead Captain American with his own shield!

13:52 / 25.09.03

You haven't been reading NXM, Sebastian? Mags disguised as Xorn 'healed' Xavier's spine with nanosentinels, then took them away when he revealed himself to be Mags.

This looks really really cool. I'm very psyched for next week. Thanks for the fifth page link!!

16:05 / 25.09.03

16:46 / 25.09.03

Well that explains why there's been no previews of the cover!

Seems Esme's well on the way to becoming White Queen MkII.

20:43 / 25.09.03

Just a thought. Why is Xorn's helmet floating around? Why does Magneto keep it? I think that there is a part of the Xorn persona still in Mags. Isn't it a part of Chaos Magic that you have to fully act the part of the mage in order to get it work. Mags pulled of a great charade, perhaps a part of him is pacifistic and it will come back to work against him later on at a critical moment.

20:47 / 25.09.03

Thanks HunterWolf, I am getting the 2nd HC these days, and no, I dropped the individual issues by the time the first year concluded and I was a bit dissapointed, and they also became very expensive here in the country.

20:52 / 25.09.03

Mags disguised as Xorn 'healed' Xavier's spine with nanosentinels, then took them away when he revealed himself to be Mags.

Okay, just read that twice. Another example of the typical display of nerd-fringe science that has given the medium a dubious fame.

I can digest he was healed with nano-sentinel-tech, but whydafuck would he fall to the floor once the sentinels are removed if the spine is okay?

Matthew Fluxington

21:01 / 25.09.03

Why is Xorn's helmet floating around? Why does Magneto keep it?

Um, to remind the reader that he was Xorn?

Maybe he thinks it is pretty.

21:05 / 25.09.03

Sebastian, that's why he said "healed" in scare quotes. Because his spine WASN'T okay.

00:12 / 26.09.03

>>>Just a thought. Why is Xorn's helmet floating around? Why does Magneto keep it?<<<

Mmmm, I think it's just for a bit of visual iconography. Drama. Nothing more to it than that.

Unless at the last minute the Xorn helmet is revealed to be SENTIENT and KILLS MAGNETO!

Murray Hamhandler

02:03 / 26.09.03

Re: reasons for the retention of the Xorn helmet

Man, I'm not taking anything for granted in this damn series anymore. For instance: Sublime's been laying low as the crippled lead singer of Liquid Diamond Lipstick for months now. I know it.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:52 / 26.09.03

He keeps the helmet around because he's a smug fuck. It's that simple.

08:08 / 26.09.03

no - magneto is gonna take his helmet of and then his face and turn out to be apocalypse - an then he'll take off his head to reveal he's head to reveal he is scott summers... and then...and then...

12:20 / 26.09.03

Sebastian, that's why he said "healed" in scare quotes. Because his spine WASN'T okay.

Oh m'GAHWD...

20:42 / 26.09.03

My comic shop guy sold me his preview copy after work today. I've already read it twice. Oh, yes.

Who wants to be my friend?

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