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Astonishing X-Men Year Two

 
  

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Triplets
10:02 / 23.06.06
I thought I remembered something about Kitty having to hold her breath while phasing?

BUT IT WAS COOL
 
 
Shrug
10:17 / 23.06.06
*shrugs*
Yes, it probably was. I really was only looking for confirmation if this was the case previously (i.e. not a fatbeard rage fit because someone messed with my precioussss continuity).
 
 
Spaniel
18:49 / 25.06.06
Don't have too much to add. Whedon was firing on all cylinders this ish and it was great. Such a shame this book is always so delayed.

Thoughts:

I still say the mole is Lockheed.

I like that idea.

The moose has my scent again, O!

Laugh? I actually pooed.

Hisako and her manga action suit power rock hard.
 
 
LDones
23:44 / 25.06.06
The book's actually right on schedule now - starting with issue 13 it's been officially bi-monthly, and it's been keeping it for the 3 issues so far.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
01:44 / 26.06.06
I must be the only one who really REALLY hated this issue. Whedon's stories have always felt like a love affair with the Claremont/Byrne issues, but this one read like a Fan-fic re-write with Kitty as the "Mary Sue", and Colossus losing his memory and sense so that he could be defeated easily.

Nostalgia in the place of storytelling is one of the reasons mainbstream super-hero comics are so boring to me anymore.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:05 / 21.08.06
From Newsarama, this is the cover to issue #19, the first part of Whedon's final arc, 'Unstoppable', which apparently sees the X-Men heading off to protect the Earth from the Breakworld. Things to note: a) Emma seems to still be on the team, b) either Scott isn't, or he's got a new outfit and no longer wears the visor...
 
 
Mario
11:02 / 21.08.06
The hair color is right. And I don't believe there are any other members in AstX-Men. But it's hard to tell.
 
 
The Falcon
15:29 / 21.08.06
Yeah, it looks like the New X uniform. Hmm.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
16:52 / 21.08.06
Although do remember that they put out false info about Phoenix coming back and a cover that didn't have Colossus in it, so this may not be accurate. Still, I'm staying for this current story to finish and then I'll probably drop the title.
 
 
Quimper
17:04 / 23.08.06
Perfection has been revealed. Saw it coming a mile away.

Destroyer of Breakworld also revealed. Didn't see it coming at all.

Emma's bloody nose, revealed by Kitty.

More hilarious Logan-as-genderless-British-child dialogue.

Blindfold and Hisako just keep getting better IMHO.
 
 
Mark Parsons
05:47 / 24.08.06
I want Whedon & Cassidy to do a SWORD mini or maxi or whatever they have the time for. I like ASTONISHING v much, but am hugely digging the green haired woman and all the coolness SWORD suggests.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:33 / 24.08.06
It's funny, lots of people seem to think Logan has been "turned into a little girl" or a genderless child. In fact - and I know that you have to be aware of 'Origin' to get this and that's not necessarily a good thing - he's just been reverted to being who he was as a kid: James Howlett, a sickly, pampered mother's boy. Cassandra Nova says as much - "a frightened little boy who thought he was a beast", I think it is - and I quite like the idea that that child is always somewhere inside the big bad Wolverine, however deep he's buried.
 
 
FinderWolf
13:20 / 24.08.06
yep, I was thinking the same thing when I read it...from his embarrassed confessions of nocturnal emissions to his Dickensian speech, even identifying himself as a "Howlett," it's total Wolverine: Origin stuff.

The Destroyer: didn't see that coming at all, either.

So are we to then assume that all the 'others' in the 'new' Hellfire Club are just facets of Emma's personality, and not really there at all...?
 
 
Triplets
14:39 / 24.08.06
Can someone PM me with who Perfection and Le Destroyer turned out to be, pleez?
 
 
rabideyemovement
14:58 / 24.08.06
They have to be the real Hellfire Club, seeing as how each demonstrated their proper set of powers. I'm just curious what's up with the purple cloaked one.. Is that really her, or could that be Courtney Ross?
And yes, Wolvie is channeling cowardly young James Howlett, of whom you get a double dose of this week if you picked up Exiles.

So does anyone know what's inside that armored cocoon?
 
 
FinderWolf
18:34 / 24.08.06
The cocoon is a new development - I really haven't the slightest idea or guess what's in there. Anyone else?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
18:49 / 24.08.06
A sassy teenage girl with some cool 'tudes, who may just have the power to save humanity?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:50 / 24.08.06
At a guess, inside the cocoon is the real Cassandra Nova. Maybe the flashback we saw at the beginning of the first issue of this first arc was real, and Nova implanted something in Emma's head that would make her splinter into these people (Shaw and NegasonicTW both having obvious symbolic value for Emma).

Contrary to what rabideyemovement says, only Shaw has appeared to demonstrate any power that Emma couldn't easily duplicate herself. And even that could have all been inside Peter's head, I guess (notice how Shaw gets in the room without anybody noticing?).
 
 
rabideyemovement
20:10 / 24.08.06
You're right about that... It could be Emma herself working at the behest of a comatose Cassie Nova, and that would make quite a bit of sense really. I'm really down for whatever (provided there's no Phoenix inside the cocoon).
 
 
The Falcon
20:47 / 24.08.06
Right on, Fly. That was about the only thing I could guess would be in the coccoon - Cassandra does after all have two bodies, her original (last seen dying of CJD and assorted) and the fake Emma + the cuckoos whipped up that later became Ernst (Stuff + Mummudrai.) Which one she's walking about in at present, I dunno, but this is maybe Ernst's bed or something.

Like the manifestations theory, which I'd not got near to, but seems to make perfect sense and would certainly do so structurally over the arc, what with the prologue and everything.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:45 / 25.08.06
Ah ha, and The White Queen is both an idea of a "perfect" version of Emma, and the horrible memory from Kitty's past that's being used to intimidate her. Ahhh.
 
 
the credible hulk
15:41 / 26.08.06
So.. how is Kitty able to punch somebody while she's phased?
 
 
Mario
18:43 / 26.08.06
She phases only part of her body. It shouldn't work, but it does.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
13:06 / 27.08.06
Kitty's has had remarkable control of her powers for a good long time. Phasing only parts of her body, or any other body, is something she can do quite easily.
 
 
the credible hulk
23:38 / 27.08.06
Oh, okay. I had always thought of it as an "all-or-nothing" kind of power.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
13:33 / 28.08.06
I think it was somewhere around the time Excalibur started, when her natural state was phased, that she became able to phase only parts of her body.
 
 
Quimper
19:44 / 20.09.06
Oh glory be! A thrill a minute. So many joyful parts. I look forward to a big wank session with you all in due time.
 
 
the credible hulk
03:01 / 21.09.06
Oh my fucking god.




The mole!
 
 
doyoufeelloved
14:46 / 21.09.06
I saw the mole coming from a mile away, actually, though that doesn't make it any less entertaining.

Also, three cheers to the folks here who figured out the Cassandra Nova angle, because I wouldn't have on my own, but once it was mentioned here it made perfect sense.

CYCLOPS WITH A GUN, NINJA! This should be good. He's Cable's daddy after all!
 
 
Eskay Uno
03:53 / 24.09.06
I'm a bit confused by what happened this issue. In GM's run, wasn't Cassie Nova trapped in that shape-shifting Shi'ar character and then transformed into the remedial student named Ernst? Remember? The little girl who looks like your granny? What the hell happened to her?
 
 
Mario
12:28 / 24.09.06
The Ernst angle has been retconned away, it seems. Instead, Stuff was locked into that box. Were I to guess, I'd say that the events of House of M/Decimation (specifically, Xavier's depowering) allowed Nova to break out of her telepathic prison, and start influencing folks.
 
 
rabideyemovement
14:58 / 24.09.06
Re: Cyclops with a gun:
Has Cyclops been depowered, or can he now control his powers without the visor?
 
 
Mario
17:17 / 24.09.06
We don't know yet. But whichever it is won't be resolved by the end of the arc, based on various covers.
 
 
FinderWolf
23:30 / 30.09.06
It looks like when Emma made him go catatonic, it [presumably temporarily] led to him either gaining full control over them or losing them entirely, which brought out the gun-toting Dirty Harry in out boy Scottie.

>> He's Cable's daddy after all!

LOL. Nice one!
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
20:30 / 08.10.06
Is anyone hoping this horribly long drawn out arc is Whedon sorting out the whole continuity mistake of Cassandra Nova coming back after Morrison finished writing X-Men? No, I don't either. One more issue to go and then I'm out.
 
  

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