scans_daily: Something I flailed over way too much this week

Kingston C. Rockwell (

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@ 2011-03-17 08:55 pm UTC

Entry tags:

char: beast/hank mccoy, char: hope summers, creator: jamie mckelvie, creator: kieron gillen, publisher: marvel comics, title: generation hope

Something I flailed over way too much this week

Team Phonogram reunites for this issue, with Hope and crew having a quiet day on Utopia. Towards the end, she gets a letter.

Haaaank ;_;

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	no subject nezchan 2011-03-18 01:06 am UTC (link)
	Hank just doesn't do concise, does he? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject kingrockwell 2011-03-18 01:10 am UTC (link)
	I would dare posit that he may not entirely understand the purpose of the word! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

	no subject nezchan 2011-03-18 01:22 am UTC (link)
	The real Hank would have taken at least three paragraphs to say that. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

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	no subject fifthie 2011-03-18 09:57 am UTC (link)
	TBH I don't think this is at all a case where his verbal style reads as gratuitous; it's used to pretty good rhetorical effect. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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	no subject mullon 2011-03-18 01:44 am UTC (link)
	I haven't paid attention of X-Men in a while. Is Hope a Mary Sue? She's sounds like a Mary Sue. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 35 comments) (Show 35 comments)

	no subject salinea 2011-03-18 01:52 am UTC (link)
	it's hard to judge whether a character is a Mary Sue when the only thing she say on the scan is "huh". (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 29 comments) (Show 29 comments)

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	no subject kingrockwell 2011-03-18 02:06 am UTC (link)
	man if i never hear the phrase "mary sue" again it'll be too soon (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

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	no subject stolisomancer 2011-03-18 03:58 am UTC (link)
	No, and it's foolish that you feel the need to ask. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject schala_kid 2011-03-18 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	No because she's not loved by everyone and she isn't exactly portrayed as perfect either. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject long_silence 2011-03-18 02:29 am UTC (link)
	Yeah pretty much everyone should leave the damn island. BTW I thought the whole point of Utopia was that it was own country, why does that envelope say it's in the USA? Do they pay taxes? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject warpedhand 2011-03-18 02:31 am UTC (link)
	You expect Marvel to actually consider the in story ramifications of their world changing events? Why would they do that when they can simply write the same half-dozen or so X-men stories over and over and over again? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject stolisomancer 2011-03-18 04:00 am UTC (link)
	It's off the coast of San Francisco and they routinely have mail/supply runs to the U.S. Most of its administrators are Americans. Its legal status is somewhat murky. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject silverzeo 2011-03-18 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Hope is already getting told apart from two seprate people who share the same goals..... (Reply to this)

	no subject tsunamiwombat 2011-03-18 05:45 am UTC (link)
	So what exactly is Utopia's terrible secret, besides being effectivly a sequestering camp for mutants. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject stolisomancer 2011-03-18 05:59 am UTC (link)
	Hank thinks Scott is, in the best-case scenario, headed straight for a nervous breakdown, and in the worst-case scenario, getting ready to go full-blown Magneto-style loony. It was a long-running subplot in Fraction's Uncanny. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject minervasolo.livejournal.com 2011-03-18 08:10 am UTC (link)
	I really wish someone at Marvel would pick up on the fact that Utopia means 'no place', not 'good place' (that would be Eutopia). It's like, dare I say it, none of them have ever actually read the original text! Hank at least ought to know that. Saying a "utopia called 'Utopia'" misses the opportunity for a rather cynical pun. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject jjgalahad 2011-03-18 08:47 am UTC (link)
	Fraction actually had somebody - Dr. Nemesis, I think - comment on it the minute the kids arrived, just to be cynical. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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	no subject icon_uk 2011-03-18 08:12 am UTC (link)
	Hmm, unfortunately, Hank's one word summation is TOO concise to be useful. He could mean "Get the hell out of Dodge before the shit starts flying", "For your own good get out of there and become your own person" or "Just go away" (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 13 comments) (Show 13 comments)

	no subject fifthie 2011-03-18 09:56 am UTC (link)
	I think one and two are both pretty strongly indicated! And three both wouldn't be in keeping with the tone of the rest of the letter and, also, I'm not sure how it applies since you can't really tell someone to "go away" from a place you, yourself, aren't at! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Expand) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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rallamajoop
2011-03-18 10:29 am UTC (link)

It's also rather too concise to give her any concrete reason why she should accept the advice of someone she's never met, where she should go that has any chance of being safer (VERY IMPORTANT when you consider that Hope's newly arrived in this century and everyone she has any reason to trust lives on Utopia), or how she can be sure she's not inadvertently bringing this mysterious 'hidden danger' with her when she leaves. It's a very nicely written letter going purely from dramatic effect, but in terms of conveying practical advice it's about on the level of your average mystical prophecy.

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	no subject leoboiko 2011-03-18 01:19 pm UTC (link)
	I don’t like X-men and friends, but I have to admit this was some pretty good visual storytelling. Love the buildup-and-delivery of the “Leave.” shown outside boxes. (Reply to this)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-03-18 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Another thing is that it suggests that Hank has NO faith in any of his friends or colleagues or even just the "very many good people" to stop the "hidden" dangers (eg Cyclops), which is just plain bloody depressing of him. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject kingrockwell 2011-03-19 07:37 am UTC (link)
	well i mean the guy left for a reason after all (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject pyynk 2011-03-19 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	If Jamie McKelvie were somehow able to draw everything forever, I would have absolutely no complaints. (Reply to this)

	no subject crabby_lioness 2011-03-19 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you Jamie McKelvie, for introducing civilian clothes to Utopia. (Reply to this)

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