That''s not surprising, given how even after Celestial blood, literal Celestial meddling after they discovered one died and bathed the planet in its blood, and the Kree coming down and trying to act like the Celestials, there's very little superhuman development on Earth. A handful of Inhumans, a handful of Eternals, a smattering of humans who got powers from radiation and super steroids, and a bunch of mutants that really only became noticeable in population within the last 100 years.
My expectation is that it will pick up more of an ongoing team vibe after the Hellfire Gala/new team unveil. That, or I hope Hickman writes a New X-Men ongoing from then on, lol
I know, and what I'm saying that it's actually relatively few who actually develop superpowers. Those people that do only do so because of the genetic meddling that created the Eternals, Inhumans, and mutants. And it's so few because they're essentially waste byproducts for a lack of a better analogy; it's not consistent without genetic meddling or time dilated evolution.
How? If this weren't the case, shit like MGH would have long lasting effects given that it's literally mutating the users to give them superpowers. Yes, you can say that it's engineered to only be temporary because it's a drug, but random drugs give characters super powers all the time. If powers had a high attach rate, there'd be more super powered weapons.
Of course the experiments exist, but the experiments are numerous and it's been shown countless times across Marvel books from the X-Men all the way to Spider-Man that there's a lot of volatility. Experimented humans either don't develop properly or they die prematurely. If they're lucky, the powers end up proving temporary, like some longer lasting MGH. Every time they go out to make a superhuman, there's a bunch of failures before a success. Hence "low attach rate."
Atlantis sank and survivors used magic to adapt to their environment and eventually evolved to survive without magic.
Every regular human on Earth radiated by gamma isn't going to develop a Green Door even if they got powers, like the old lady who got psychic abilities and developed cancer at the same time.
The World isn't unique to this iteration of the timeline, so they were using World domes and time dilation to speed the process. And even then, it took centuries to fully saturate the planet and supplant humanity.
Is that what happened? I fell off of the Old Man Logan stuff.
Yeah he had one of his hands cut off with something that could cut through adamantium. He then spent the rest of the series with one hand with bone claws and the other with adamantium.
Hickman created a story telling machine so he didn't have to produce a linear story in the X-Men book. Since I'm reading all the X titles at the moment, I'm fine with that since it produces great issues like the one from this month or the one where Prof/Mags/-🅰- go to Davos.
This summer during the Hellfire Saga event. Not expecting to be another 22 issues thing but we don't have much info about it. Maybe it'll end up being a battle royale thing lol.
Agreed. I see people getting through HoXPoX and then continuing just with X-Men, then feeling super dissatisfied. It's occupying the same historical slot as the core title, but it's more of a series of pitches for future storylines.
I see it as them hitting their peak sooner. No one is going to grow beyond their limits, but they don't have to wait decades to achieve max power, either.
my guess is its actually gonna be 3 issues with each being the PoV of one of them, would be lame for the other two to be kinda sidelined like that.
I guess the Omegas are the ones we need to keep our eyes on, then, since HoX established that they have no known upper limit.
Ah! That was actually my first idea after reading #18 but it made me go back to #5 and its single data page talks about Synch sooo... But we'll see. And I'd like Darwing to get some of the spotlight too.
Thanks ! I really thought we were going to have a presentation by the end of March.
The shift between him with Maddy to see him making out with a robot was hilarous.
I hope Arcade gets fucked because MASTERMIND MIGHT AS WELL MAKE YOU IMAGINE THAT YOUR GOON IS REPLYING TO YOU YAH DUMBASS!!!
Id skipp fallen Angels if I were you. All of this is also collected in books named Dawn of X.
Up until X of Swords starts you can definitely read X-Men stand alone, mind.
Well maybe not huge to the overall plot I was a little annoyed at missing both
