scans_daily: Bad Futures

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@ 2010-05-26 03:36 pm UTC

Bad Futures

Four scans apiece from X-Force #27, Part 9 of "Second Coming", and Wolverine: Weapon X #13.

As "Second Coming" continues, Bastion has sealed San Francisco in a giant impenetrable sphere, and is preparing to flood the area with an army of Nimrod super-sentinels from the future that numbers at least 170,000+ (Domino: "I'm not mathmetician, but that seems bad."). The X-Men's senior officers debate what to do next:

Meanwhile, everybody else goes out to prepare to face the invasion and to help move people out of the city and into the Atlantean underwater complex.

X-Force reunites for one last, glorious suicide mission.

The transporter is only one-way, so Cyclops bitterly notes that he's probably sent them all to their deaths, even if they succeed (one imagines they'll end up taking the sentinels' portal back).

Elsewhere, Wolverine: Weapon X's final pre-relaunch arc continues, as Logan, New Cap, and a psychic woman wearing a hoodie go up against an army of Deathloks sent from the evil, Roxxon-run future (presumably a different one). The story is fine, but the character interaction sparkles:

He's one of Miranda's resistance members in the future.

Also, need more Aaron-written Spider-Man.

Miranda gives Steve the names of the remaining targets from the future, and he has them removed to the Baxter Building under heavy guard. Logan, New Cap, Miranda, and l'il Wakowski take the Deathlok body and head to go visit the man who will create the Deathloks in the future:

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big_daddy_d
2010-05-26 11:02 pm UTC (link)

Ok throughout all of this..one thing that bothered and annoyed me is how everyine is reacting about X-Force..last I checked..X-Men have killed before and the particular members of X-Force aren't new to missions that involve assassination and people didn't seem bothered by it.. so yea. Really annoyed about it here. It's like.."dude is it really that much of a shock that a group of killers are paired together and doing what they do best? Is it that wrong for Scott to take advantage of this and thus take the fight to particularly dangerous foes?"

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	Re: One complaint. icon_uk 2010-05-26 11:28 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say that there's a difference between having members who have killed, and the leader of the X-Men forming a secret (even from the other X-Men) dedicated, pro-active assassination squad. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	Re: One complaint. colonel_green 2010-05-27 12:53 am UTC (link)
	They haven't assassinated anybody. Every single mission they've been on has been about stopping an active threat who had already initiated an evil plan. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	Re: One complaint. icon_uk 2010-05-27 10:16 am UTC (link)
	Which the X-Men are not AFAIK sanctioned or authorised to deal with, and certainly not to initiate summary executions. They want to deal with that sort of thing, ally with SHIELD, otherwise they're no different from the Punisher. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	Re: One complaint. colonel_green 2010-05-27 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	The X-Men are on the wrong side of the law, pretty much always have been. Particularly once Osborn took over. Everything they've done has been in entirely legitimate self-defence. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	Re: One complaint. auggie18 2010-05-27 06:35 pm UTC (link)
	One of the cardinal rules of the old X-men was "X-men don't kill." It got broken a few times and some people, particularly Wolverine, were massive hypocrites when confronting people about it (he stabbed Rachel Summers to death to stop her from killing a vampire), but I feel like it is supposed to be a general rule. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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