X-men #16 preview

[sherkahn]

CosmicBookNews has the preview.



Look at that cover. Check it out, at least.

'Nuff said.






All we need is kidLoki and we have a set. Oh, I can't wait to hear Erik and Victor have a chat.
No, really, a chat.

And Emma, that's a big list, with Tony and Namor on it.

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

sorry, i have always found it hard that the FF can stand back and let stuff happen to Mutants when there SON (at least at present, often times in the past) is a Mutant too,....

[rordulum]

Yeah, I've had a hard time simply accepting that supposedly good men like Reed Richards and Steve Rogers can be aware of all the good the X-Men have done, and how important they are, yet still say nothing whatsoever in defence of them when... say... William Stryker is leading crusades to kill them.

Just a teeny, tiny bugbear.

[shadowpsykie]

Yeah I KNOW! (though in Steve's defence, now that he is in charge of the planet he seems to be doing more to help them)

But yeah. Reed is too... ugh whats the term... not snobby... elitist...? that's not right either... his intellect makes things like that seem Trivial to him.

as messed up as that world was i LIKED and admired Age of X Reed (Sue was the one that disappointed me) for hiding and protecting mutants

[shadowpsykie]

Nicky Fury: I'm sorry Scott, but ever since Stryker became a Reverend We can't touch him without infinging on his rights.

Scott: What about OUR rights?

Nick: He handed out Crosses....

Scott: Yes, GIANT BURNING crosses that he then used to CRUCIFY OUR STUDENTS!

[akodo_rokku]

Steve has actually been shown speaking out for mutants in recent years, at least.

[paultmd]

That's more a problem of the shared universe in general. Writers are constantly coming up with reasons to keep other characters out of certain situations, assuming they even care enough to write that(and often I can't blame them for not bothering as it gets in the way of the story they want to tell).

It becomes a bit of a deus ex machina if every time somebody wants to kill you you can call up Steve Rogers to have three teams of Avengers, the FF, and the combined firepower of a heli-carrier worth of SHIELD agents to take care of the terrorists you're facing.

It's the other side of the sword. If you want the good of being able to team up this guy and that guy then sometimes you feel like you have to explain why they're not teaming up this time.

[glimmung]

I would love to have a helicarrier and the secret avengers show up at some anti-mutant blowup. Just kinda hover there menacingly.

[schala_kid]

This also the X-Men are somewhat treated as being in their own little world, when they have events usually all of the Marvel Universe is excluded and when the whole Marvel Universe has an event the X-Men (with the exception of Wolverine) don't participate or play a very minor role.

Only recently did we have the X-Men and the other characters interact in a more significant way, with Steve vouching for Scott and the mutant race (and teaming up with him and Hope in the negative zone mini), not to mention Namor joining up with the X-Men.

Weird you should say that...

[steverodgers5]

I was just reading the recently released trade of the whole 'Captain America No More' storyline from the late 80es, (A nice benefit of the film is that they finally released this in all it's glory!) And in it Steve as the Captain, is observing the fall out of the Inferno storlyine in Manhatten and lamenting how it's always the mutants who get bad press. He starts thinking about how he should maybe have some more mutants on the Avengers to maybe help bolster public support for them.

But then of course he gets sidetracked..For about 20 years! ;)

Re: Weird you should say that...

[sherkahn]

Pietro was never a good example, and neither was Wanda.

Re: Weird you should say that...

[steverodgers5]

Wanda wasn't too bad until Bendis ruined her in the disassembled storyline.
But yeah, Pietro was always all over the place. Love how he tried to explain his most recent turn bad escapades on 'it was a skrull-honest!'
Maybe Cyclops should have tried that as well, For some of the bone headed moves he's made over the years!