X-Club #5

[sherkahn]

Continuing the "Did the Earth move for you." motif, the Science team of the X-Men resolve this conflict.... with a few different versions of Duex Ex Machina saving the day.

But again, you're not here for that. you are here for THIS!

Make mine MARVEL!

Edit: (Honestly, I swear this is written just for S_D in mind.)







that sound.. it came from your crotch!

*BONUS*
New icon.

WTF?

Because Magneto can see the electromagnetic chemistry these two are generating that the others cannot.

Comments

[abriel]

I'm sorry, but...

This whole project was about breaking barriers....how do you do that when it's run by isolationist machines


That's really rich coming from the guy who took all the mutants left in the world, with some exceptions, and put them all on an island that's all segregated off from the rest of the world.

Maybe things are changing...I haven't read the X-Men in years because I disagreed vehemently with the direction the books were going in (and I refuse to pay for anything drawn by Greg Land) but...that just seems wrong to me. Feel free to say I need to read up more although the little bit of the X-Men I have seen, with some exceptions, has left a bad taste in my mouth.

[sherkahn]

Make sure it's not the calamari...

*ducks*

[icon_uk]

Scott being isolationist with mutants is pretty much the sole defence mutants have these days. This was supposed to be a groundbreaking project showing that mutants weren't completely isolationists, and they and humans might still work together to achieve great things, and in the middle of the press conference (rather than, say, 10 minutes before) he's being cockblocked in that goal by sentient hardware (one wonders what Warlock thinks)

[abriel]

Scott being isolationist with mutants is pretty much the sole defence mutants


Yeah, I have to respectfully disagree but I'll just leave it at that.

[spacebetween]

Unfortunately I have disagree with that as being a wise defence move. All they need is for a large number of Sentinels or some destructive device to go off, and aside from those not on Utopia, mutants wouldn't exist anymore. They were lucky to get away with it in Schism.

Being isolated on Utopia that just gives anti-mutant groups better reasons to use heavier weapons as they don't have to worry about normal human causalities. Mind you they have to worry about pissed off Altanteans by attacking Utopia in that fashion.

Should they abandon Utopia? No, but they should have a handful of places to live. Still I give Cyclops kudos for the press conference.

[icon_uk]

Should they abandon Utopia? No, but they should have a handful of places to live.

If they do that, they also drastically limit each of those locations ability to survive a Sentinel assault, since their powers are split too. That's always been my problem with Wolverine's stance in Schism. Scott's argument works, Logan's does not.

Putting all your eggs in one basket works, if you take good care of a good quality basket. The alternative is scattering them across the floor to get stepped on.

[spacebetween]

There are advantages and disadvantages to both ideas I will agree. I still think the all eggs in one basket is a bad idea. As Genosha itself showed what happens to an isolated island full of mutants when a full scale assault takes place. I agree united they can stand against a large assault force, but realistically they will take causalities with each attack especially if someone decides to split and stagger an attack.

Also the fact that they are isolated from baseline humans means if someone really to wipe them out, they can do so without worry of damage spreading to outlaying areas. I really surprised that they a huge group of Sentinels haven't been sent to the island.

While dividing forces to different areas weakens your strength across the board, it does increase the chances of survival precisely because everything is not in one area and if the enemy does attack they have coordinate and plan otherwise alerting the other groups and giving them time to prepare or scatter as needed. I'm not saying they should have 10-15 bases. With how it is now is actually a sound idea

[terrykun]

Not entirely isolated. It's been made a pretty regular thing for the X-Men to go on patrol in Frisco and such.

[icon_uk]

And we have the New Mutants living in San Francisco too.

[lencannon]

X-Men titles and Avengers Academy are just about the only mainstream books I'm reading right now. Not because I'm soooo indie, I just can't read DC after the reboot and they're the Marvel books that are really great right now imo.

Uncanny X-Force and Wolverine and the X-Men are the best, but Uncanny is a close third.

There's only one issue out but Marjorie Liu's Astonishing will probably turn out to be great too.