When Cyclops was badass

[angelophile.insanejournal.com]

Some people seem to be under the impression that Cyclops never kicked ass until Joss Whedon got hold of him. I refute that. Hey, even Ultimate Cyclops has been known to have moments of sheer badassery. For example, this. Betrayed in the Savage Land, Wolverine dropped him to his death from a clifftop to remove him from the equation and go all Claudius with Jean.

Thankfully Scott's not quite that easy to dispose of.

From Ultimate X-men #29.

Of course, Scott's sheer stubborness means he survives long enough to be rescued. When he finally rejoins the X-men, Wolverine wastes time with the alpha male posturing and an epic battle between the two ensues.



Okay, maybe not so epic.

Like I said - Badass.

Comments

[smirnoffmule.insanejournal.com]

That was rather awesome. I love the last image - flattened Wolverine. VAM to you, sir!

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

So you've been reading /co/, too, anonymous.

[angelophile.insanejournal.com]

Reading whatnow?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

The sub-board /co/ (comics & cartoons) on the imageboard 4chan (http://4chan.org) had a Cyclops appreciation thread yesterday.

/co/ is just about the only board on 4chan worth reading on occasion.

[angelophile.insanejournal.com]

Ah. Coincidence then. I've never been on 4chan.

[kali921.insanejournal.com]

Ah, I remember when wal_lace posted this sequence on S_D 1.0. Honestly, I think this sequence is one of my favorite things from the Ultimateverse. Eating centipedes? HARDCORE, Mr. Summers.

We do need more Scott love in S_D.

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

This is a great example of how the sloppiness of Millar's work frustrates me to no end. It's mostly great writing, but unless mutants need a lot, lot less water than regular humans, you won't be able to survive solely on the moisture from eating bugs for twenty-six days, especially if you're injured. Kangaroo rats that have adapted to life in the desert, maybe; people, not so much. Millar could have stuck a teensy little spring at the bottom of that hole so easily.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

If you lived twenty six days after getting your arm bent around yourself like that wouldn't some healing be done leaving it stuck that way?

[ashtoreth.insanejournal.com]

He also doesn't eat enough fast enough to survive on the diet. I put it down to the Savage Land island being magic or something, and that was why the machine mutated too.

..Wasn't there a story The Hidden Years about a savage land area where people just didn't die?

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

I assume it was three or four days max before he got rescued, Cyclops was just hallucinating or forgot how to count.

[freeman333.insanejournal.com]

That line about "when I get out of here I'm going to eat these things all the time" always struck me as extremely humorous.

(Does anyone actually know if there was ever a scene of Cyclops eating centipedes after this storyline? Because that would be awesome.

[lonewolf23k.insanejournal.com]

616 Cyclops, at around the same time, had a mini-series in which he was even MORE badass. Shame I don't own any of those issues though.

[angelophile.insanejournal.com]

Was that the BKV Icons series? I have it somewhere. I'll dig it out at some point.

[stillawkward.insanejournal.com]

Thansk for sharing. That was fucking hardcore.