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[dorksidefiker]

One page from Nation X #2, "Wish You Were Here", words by CB Cebulski and Jim McCann, art by Mike Choi and Sonia Oback.

Also my first post on new S_D. Fitting that is has Anole






Suggested Tags: creator: cb cebulski, creator: jim mccann, creator: mike choi, creator: sonia oback, character: anole/victor borkowki, character: dust/sooraya qadir, character: jubilee/jubilation lee, character: trance/hope abbot, character: loa/alani ryan, character: rockslide/santo vaccarro

Comments

[suzene]

They should know better, but the X-Men's set-up always made their claim that their ultimate goal was human-mutant coexistence seem pretty iffy. Now that they've declared that ideal dead and gone to outright isolationism, it really didn't surprise me that some of the islanders -- especially the kids, who've been pretty badly served by both the X-Men and their families -- weren't even paying the idea lip-service. Didn't mean that I didn't want someone to put Hellion through a wall for calling Kyle "Northstar's 'normal'", but I didn't really think it was out of place.

[kainnived.livejournal.com]

Yeah and that annoys me. Here's the thing I know a lot of kids have problems with their parents and the X-Men, and the Xavier Academy are an escapist fantasy not only for those that feel separate but also those that would love to get away from opressive parents... but I had a good relationship with my parents... and the complete lack of 'human' parents that loved and supported their mutant children bothered me.

I mean there were a handful but they always were just fluff backstory. None made an effort to move to Manchester, New York to keep their families together while their child attended the institiute. No teacher parents with a mutant kid tried to become teachers at the school (I mean do you really need one of the x-men to teach College Algebra?).

The school has always been segregated, isolationist, and militant... it always bothered me, and now things like this and the Northstar story are not just bugging me but moving into the straight up dislike (I wont say hate... at this point I don't care enough about the X-books to hate).

Magneto was right in Nation X #1, he won, the dream of peaceful mutant/human co-existance is dead. The X-Men are just as much to blame given their policies and attitude.

Still I have some hope, I mean most of the New X-Men were happy to see Jubilee, Northstar wants so badly to make his relationship work. Maybe things will get better... maybe.

[suzene]

Victor had loving, supportive parents, but going to Xavier's and its headmaster's disregard for the actual welfare of the kids when they're not strapped into body armor seems to have pretty much cost him the ability to relate to a "normal" life, unfortunately.

Yeah, it seems like Northstar's the only character with any positive connections out in the world beyond the mutant ghetto, and I was happy to see that he's going to be holding on to that, no matter how much of a dick Cyclops decides to be about the matter.