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Yes. That was nice.
Yep, Scott's in freefall and he can't rely on his past to save him.
Morrison hits it dead on when he points out that Jean has long since ceased to be the interesting ingredient in their relationship. Writers have spent the last 20 years unpacking Marvel Girl's big, scary emotions...and, look, it's Scott relegated to silent brooding in the corner... Underneath the job and the one pointed stoicism, what the fuck's going on in there? "Volcanos" indeed. I'm beginning to think Scott should knock his marriage on the head (at least for a little while) and get out there and live a little.
There's something breathtaking about that last panel. Yeah....why the fuck not? get out of that stiff uniform "cyclops" and play with fucking fire.
And then there's Hank and Grant taking the polymorphous self not only beyond the limited definitions imposed by gender, but way out there....beyond "species". Beast's a scientist and he's experimenting in the alembic of himself and that's great. I want to see him fuck Man-Thing. He's decided to embrace change, embrace the alien (he may as well, it's been thrust upoun him..."the legs he runs with" and all that...). Such a cool turning point for Hank: post Cassandra he's made up his mind to LIVE and, by god, it's all so good...a great opportunity - he's not doing the whiny Thingvictim routine anymore and he's gonna learn to play them drums!
I just love the way Grant's younger readers are having all this difference aimed, cocked and fired at them every month: black angels snogging eaglemen! And isn't this what the X Men should have always been? Revolting, different, difficult, strange....uncanny?
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