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What a great issue. Spoilers ahoy.
* I really love how on the final page of the issue, the "New X-Men" title is finally made literal.
* Piece of dialogue that I really hate: "Cool? SUPER ZEITGEIST! I AM that blackbird! Glam! Industrial! Clockwork Orange! Next level, Quentin -- you score!". Is Tattoo a parody of Barbelith's own Rage? Or is she just really annoying?
* Piece of dialogue that I really loved: Logan's comments about what to do with Quentin, but especially this funny bit - "I don't need telepathy or a psychology degree. I WATCH people. I STALK 'em...." I really like the way that Morrison writes Logan - I think lesser writers would have had him side with Scott and Emma, but of course he wouldn't. Logan is older and wiser, and considerably more laid back and tolerant of mischief. I like that Morrison writes Logan as being more confident than cocky.
* Is anyone suspicious of why Henry is so aloof in the psychic conferance, standing on the outside, saying very little, looking off into the distance on the cover? Any theories on that? Surely, this must be foreshadowing?
* Ah, Emma tried Kick in the name of science. What a great character touch, of course she would. Like Logan, I think Emma is written very well by Morrison - I think he really has a good understanding of who that character is.
* I love Xorn in the hippie-teacher role. He's such a likeable guy, but it's pretty fun to wince along with special class when he says things like "Without us, this is only a place. With us, it becomes an ADVENTURE." I wonder what Xorn would have said about Quentin.
* Any guesses on who is stalking Xorn and his students? I'm ready to be surprised on that one, I don't have any good guess. Probably humans, I bet.
* Hey, it looks like Beak and Angel really have made a love connection! Way to go, Barnell.
* Though it makes perfect sense that drugs would be part of Quentin et al's rebellion, I'm not particularly comfortable with how it may be the cause of it. There's a strong anti-drug feeling in this comic that I find very peculiar coming from Grant Morrison. Why couldn't Quentin and his pals just be brilliant and challenging and dangerous without Kick?
* I *heart* Quentin Quire. Who needs to write more Magneto stories when you've got a crazy theorybitch punk with a Magneto Was Right t-shirt to take up the fight for the old man? His Omega Gang may not be the New X-Men, but they are most certainly the New Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants. New X-Men is way better when there's a villain, eh?
* Is it just me, or does that guy in the group of humans who Quire and his pals attack look a lot like Quitely's older version of Jack Frost from Invisibles Vol 3 #1? And Quire does resemble Reynard. |
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