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Astonishing X-Men #9

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I'm Rick Jones, bitch

00:13 / 13.03.05

The Story:
Danger takes on a whole new meaning as the Astonishing X-Men are forced to confront a reality they never thought possible.
In Stores: 03-30-2005

Billuccho!

01:36 / 13.03.05

So the skulls could be all the kids trapped in the Danger Room, or all the poor doomed mooks from Breakworld; either way, looks like it's Kitty's fault.

I love the blue sky.

That's a lot of skulls!

Rawk'n'Roll

10:44 / 13.03.05

Poor Kitty, always being lumped with the days of future past holocaust schtick.

matsya

22:30 / 14.03.05

they're Isz! Just like in The Maxx!

m.

FinderWolf

18:28 / 18.03.05

Marvel has the cover up for #12 (why did they skip lots of covers - ie.. from 9 through 11, I wonder?) - it's got the X-Men with their backs turned on none other than...Professor X!!! Will he return in Joss' final issues? Find out, true believers, in 4 months!

LDones

07:05 / 20.03.05

Cover reminds me of Quitely, design-wise. Lines on Kitty, if not the skulls in the fore.

Imagine Danger Room might be projecting genocidal images to cause heebie-jeebies.

I predict... Danger Room being able to project silliness beyond its walls by end of arc!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

13:45 / 20.03.05

Prof X's been announced as returning in issue #10 for ages.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:46 / 20.03.05

The thing I can't help thinking when I look at that cover is: how many holographic 'lives' have been taken in the Danger Room by the X-Men during training exercises, and what if as far as the Danger Room is concerned, those were all real people?

FinderWolf

17:40 / 20.03.05

I was just looking at #8 and thought it was funny how the half-Sentinel's "DESTROY" echoed Grant Morrison's nice Sentinel from Here Comes Tomorrow...

and Cassaday draws one cool-looking, spooky Sentinel...

FinderWolf

20:29 / 28.03.05

*bump* out in 2, count 'em, 2 days.

bio k9

02:27 / 29.03.05

OUT IN ONE DAY! COUNT IT! ONE!

OMFGIJCIMP!

Rawk'n'Roll

19:21 / 29.03.05

Popcultureshock preview.

"...And the only thing it has ever known is violence."

This is more like it... classic Whedon.

admiral sausage

19:40 / 29.03.05

That last page of the preview was a bit Hieronymus bosch. Which is a good thing !

I havent enjoyed an X comic this much since I was a kid. I think I like this even more than Morrisons run, is saying that going to get me shot ?

charrellz

04:12 / 30.03.05

"the only thing it has ever known is violence."

Please tell me they get out of this one by taking picnics in the Danger Room to teach it new ways of behaving. On a more serious note: I wish I had the money to pick this up, it looks great.

Triplets

08:35 / 30.03.05

Like The Ultimates 2 I'm getting the trade but this looks top. A hell dimension! Right inside Mansion-X!

P'raps the Danger Room becomes the Breakworld? It LOOKS Darwinny/Nietschy enough

Spaniel

16:15 / 30.03.05

Interesting idea about the Breakworld, Trip.
Whilst I'm not sure that's what Whedon's got planned, the Danger Room becoming a land/world/universe is fun, fun, fun.

FinderWolf

16:39 / 30.03.05

I second that emotion.

Mike-O

22:32 / 30.03.05

Anyone read this yet?

SPOILERZZZZZ:

Thoughts on the final design of the "personafied" D-R?

Mr Tricks

23:16 / 30.03.05

I liked this issue.

Wolvie's sounding a bit sentimental. Kitty seems to tear a page from Scott's book; talking to the enemy and all.

And that new "design" reminded me of a sort of combo of various X-men the DR must well have seen over the years. Makes me wonder about how she might relate to Emma Frost ala that conversation during the end of "GIFTED."

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

23:28 / 30.03.05

I thought the design was quite Shi'ar, which makes sense.

Pooky Is Just My Pornstar Name

03:46 / 31.03.05

The DR personified reminds me of a feminized, mechanized version of the alien from the Predator movies. Check out this link and compare.

FinderWolf

12:27 / 31.03.05

I wonder why it had to be a female characterization...[for the DR]?

So does this mean that the catty female voice that was giving Emma a hard time telepathically last issue was the sarcastic 'female' DR? The DR's dialogue in this issue didn't have that catty quality.

Quimper

16:39 / 31.03.05

Ahhh. Ol' girl reminds me of our dear forgotten E.V.A.

captain piss

18:55 / 01.04.05

Via ABC Warriors and Jocasta.

Liked the fact that the danger room's a girl.

Anyway, fantastic stuff. Really mental and breakneck. As always, makes me very, very happy indeed. I don't know if I prefer it to Grant's run - though it's certainly less patchy and a million miles more coherent - but I do really fucking like it.

This Sunday

19:38 / 01.04.05

Just chiming in to say, while Astonishing is fun, I'm not finding any reason to revisit the material. Morrison's NXM I could reread and get new stuff, Ellis' Transmet I can reread and still enjoy and chuckle to myself, Warren's Gen 13 (self-referential wit, re-gaying, and drunken nudity - I am too easy to please) works just as well for me when I read it earlier today as it did back when it was published.
Astonishing, while fun, is like the recent DC Hawkman series, in that, while enjoyable as it's released, I can't get back into it once it's gone and done. It's 'The Day After Tomorrow' as opposed to, I dunno, 'Masked and Anonymous' and that's kinda depressing for me to admit.

By the end of year one I may well wish I'd never typed this, though. I mean, I don't really like Watchmen or Promethea, either, so my taste is off, surely.

The Falcon

14:25 / 02.04.05

Nah, this is alright, but it's not a patch on Warren's Gen13.

Haus of Mystery

10:44 / 04.04.05

Anyone else think the reasoning behind the Danger Room's evil trip was a bit shaky? Good issue and all (in particular cassady's art) but it was a bit "ehhh.." really.

Triplets

11:39 / 04.04.05

It was all a bit Willow throws down verbally with the Big Bad. Nowt wrong with that tho'.

Should be lots of head punching next ish for you, Mac'.

Gary Lactus

19:31 / 05.04.05

MacGuyver: "Good issue and all (in particular cassady's art) but it was a bit "ehhh.." really. "

Comments like these really coat me off. Wing was a mutant cut down before his time. Clearly MacGuyver is a heartless hater with an empathy for mutant kind so low that it borders on hate.

Some of my best mates are mutants!

You make me sick.

Spaniel

19:33 / 05.04.05

Oh, fuck off.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

19:40 / 05.04.05

That robot at the end was fucking rubbish - Cassady can draw people and organic things well, but his techknowlegy is absolute shite!

Rawk'n'Roll

19:48 / 05.04.05

It reminded me of good Igor Kordey picture...

Spaniel

19:50 / 05.04.05

Did it really bother you *that* much? Weird.

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