scans_daily: The Marshalling of the Forces

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@ 2010-03-31 10:49 pm UTC

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creator: chris yost, creator: craig kyle, creator: david finch, event: second coming, group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics

The Marshalling of the Forces

Four pages from X-Men: Second Coming #1.

Cable and Hope arrive back in the present; however, Cable beams them into Westchester, where the X-Men no longer are, as opposed to Utopia. Enemy forces get there first, sending him on the run, and the X-Men rapidly deploy to rescue him. I posted this scene because I like its depiction of Cyclops' strategy (most of the time, leadership in these sorts of stories is just leading the charge):

The "alpha roster" intercepts and neutralizes the Sapien League guys on Hope and Cable's tail, but Cable and Hope don't know that; however, tension comes to a head because all the X-Force-related characters know the villains behind this plot, and the regular X-Men don't. Nightcrawler and Psylocke demand to know what's going on (Nightcrawler also objects to Laura stabbing one of the Sapien guys through the head).

Speaking of the villains, they all give the disposition of their troops:

If "Messiah Complex" was, in the end, mostly about mutants fighting mutants over control of the messiah baby (X-Men vs. Mr. Sinister), this is clearly mutants vs. humans for the survival of the race, with essentially every significant human villain from the franchise's history on hand for the occasion (it's also worth noting that, from the looks of it, the essential link between these two crossovers was X-Force, since that's where all these guys came from).

This issue is David Finch's last Marvel work for a while, having decided on a sojourn at DC; I was never a big fan of his work (his faces always looked weird to me, especially the noses), but this issue was better than I expected.

group: x-men, creator: chris yost, creator: craig kyle, creator: david finch, event: second coming, publisher: marvel comics

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	no subject silverzeo 2010-04-01 03:24 am UTC (link)
	We should TOTALLY listen to the machine man in a Jesus pose. You think this was one of the first changes that Obama would make. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject akodo_rokku 2010-04-01 03:28 am UTC (link)
	Bastion resurrected them all by T-O virus -- they couldn't disobey him if they wanted to. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

Still...

roguefankc
2010-04-01 04:24 am UTC (link)

You'd think one of these chumps would realize that since working with Bastion in the first round didn't work out well, this would hardly be much different.

If anything, I'm expecting the four to attempt to try to break free from Bastion's control. Or is it partly that between the rock (i.e. mutantkind gaining numbers) and the hard place (i.e working under the service of a killer robot), they'd choose the "hard place"?

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	no subject foxhack 2010-04-01 04:08 am UTC (link)
	Hey, it's Easter, doncha know! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject arkyramone 2010-04-01 03:49 am UTC (link)
	Something I’ve been wondering wasn’t Hodge immortal, and or already connected to the phalanx? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject crinos 2010-04-01 05:22 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, last time I saw Hodge (actually the first time), h e was some head in a tentacle mass and Cable was trying to tear him a new one as Wolverine lay dying. (Seriously, one of my first X men comics was in the middle of X-tinction agenda, and I had no idea what the fuck was going on, at all). (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2010-04-01 09:02 am UTC (link)
	The deal he made with Nastirh (IIRC) was that he would be immortal, then he became part of the Phalanx and "died" when that collapsed leaving only Douglock in one piece. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject proteus_lives 2010-04-01 04:27 am UTC (link)
	It's Sentinel-Jesus! (Reply to this)

	no subject nightauditguy 2010-04-01 05:12 am UTC (link)
	The Right, that's a group I haven't heard of in awhile. Then again, I haven't really been keeping up with the X-books aside from the occasional mega crossover event. (Reply to this)

	no subject arilou_skiff 2010-04-01 10:14 am UTC (link)
	Wait, 40 armoured divisions? Holy crap, that's almost half a million men! Someone has a lot more goons than the others! (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

	no subject zemo 2010-04-01 10:54 am UTC (link)
	Alternatively, the writer didn't research and doesn't know what a division is >_> And even if they did, half a million men? China has the largest standing army with one million soldiers. I think it would be very hard to hide an army of that siz inside the US. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject arilou_skiff 2010-04-01 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I expect they used division simply as a term for "unit". Rather than the humongous amount of people it actually implies... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject wizardru 2010-04-01 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I'm gonna go with that one. They have PLOT DEVICE number of men. That equals enough to have punchables for our heroes and allow the plot to move forward, presumably by having an overwhelming force when the plot requires and then run out, again when the plot desires. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject arilou_skiff 2010-04-01 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	It's actually even crazier than that. Apparently the US armed forces currently consists of about 25 divisions. The indian one is 37. That means, the right commands the second-largest army in the world, second only to the chinese. That's kind of silly. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject protogarrett 2010-04-01 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	It's in Homestead Militia Terms. Like how the Catholic League is one pissed off guy with a computer, or Westboro Baptist Church's "christian legion" is like, 30 people. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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arilou_skiff
2010-04-01 02:48 pm UTC (link)

No no no. The Catholic League consisted of:

Duke of Bavaria
Archbishop-Elector of Mainz
Archbishop-Elector of Cologne
Archbishop-Elector of Trier
Prince-Bishop of Konstanz
Prince-Bishop of Augsburg
Prince-Bishop of Passau
Bishop of Würzburg
Bishop of Worms
Prince-Bishop of Strassburg
Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
Prince-Bishop of Speyer
Prince-Provost of Ellwangen
Prince- Provost of Kempten

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	no subject comicoz 2010-04-01 03:51 pm UTC (link)
	While I appreciate Cyclops being Mr. Strategy since Prof X is gone, I cannot take this type of planning seriously anymore. I end up thinking about the HISHE trailer for "Ocean's 40" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3sV4k-mNa0 (Reply to this)

	no subject ultimatecharm 2010-04-01 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, wasn't Creed assassinated by Mystique years ago? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject colonel_green 2010-04-01 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. All of the humans shown here were resurrected by Bastion using Phalanx tech. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject lamashtar 2010-04-02 03:34 am UTC (link)
	I wonder if Illyana is going to join Team Stabbity. Maybe Psylocke too! That way her and Warren can have more in common.. (Reply to this)

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