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scans_dailyWhy? Because someone in the MU has finally said what I've been saying for years now, and I didn't get to write it! AND...well, I'll post the scans. 5-ish pages from #10, 7-ish from #11.
In previous issues, David has been trying to be a "Proactive" mutant taking out threats before the "Reactive" X-Men get to them. This hasn't exactly worked out great, earning him the attention of Abigail Brand and S.W.O.R.D. and making him fall out with his sorta-girlfriend, Blindfold. Also, inside the "Prison Complex" of his inner psyche, his various personalities have been preyed upon by a malevolent demon that looks exactly like his dad, Charlie Xavier, with bright golden skin.
Consulting this apparition, who has absorbed (among other things) his precognitive ability, he discovers that his distant future holds nothing but darkness: becoming a disgusting gigantic horror-beast made of millions of mutant minds stitched together, with only poor Blindfold able to destroy it.
To prevent this future, David decides to visit the San Francisco Institute of Bio-Social Studies.
Marcus Glove has been unlucky enough to be at ground zero for nearly every giant disaster caused by Mutants in the past few years. He was on the sidelines when Magik brought hell to New York (what exactly is the benefit of having Magik around, again?); lost his leg and wife when someone tried to start a second sun in Central Park (Onslaught?); had an arm and an eye taken away by falling shrapnel from a sentinel in Alaska; and believing San Francisco to be free of Mutant danger, moved there just in time to lose the rest of his limbs.
Marcus is perfectly aware of David, his powers and his newfound mission - and David is becoming psychically acquainted with Dr. Glove, just well enough to find that there's no malevolent threat bubbling under the surface. He's not aching for vengeance or driven by a need to "cleanse" the world. He's perfectly innocent.
(Also, visually, he reminds me of Mason Verger, of Thomas Harris' book "Hannibal". Especially with that one lens-focused eye. No idea if that's deliberate or not.)
"Something has to be done." Dr. Glove's rallying cry. So, in response to the encroaching threat of Mutants, Glove's organisation has put together X-Cise, aka "The Happy Host": a drug said to be the ultimate cure for a person afflicted with Mutant abilities. Really, all it does is impair cognitive ability; the user not only loses their ability to use their own mutant powers, but becomes a lobotomised invalid. As Glove says, it's little more than clinical brain damage.
And in #11, we get to the bit that simultaneously delights me and frustrates me (mostly because I didn't get to write it)...
David's still looking for a "Big Bad". We see the drug being used on a nervous young man named Clement, who then reverts to an incontinent child-like state. Again, David finds no trace of foul play; Clement volunteered for the treatment of his own free will.
But when he begins to scan "Darwin's Martyrs" for treachery, they collapse, and this is what emerges from their heads...
(Note: when David encountered this red demon before on a date with Ruth, the mysterious Golden Charlie Xavier in his head defeated it - and said that he knew it "like the back of my head".) The Demon warns off David, telling him to take responsibility for his powers and "Be A Man". Thankfully, our boy isn't stupid; sticking to his mantra "I Rule Me", he still demands the pill.
Alas, even when there's some actually sensible and well-meaning scientists in the Marvel U., AND at least one who actually understands how evolution and genetics work...they're controlled by a Nazi Mastermind.
(Luckily, Ruth was watching earlier, and she's putting together a reluctant team to come and hopefully mess up Dave's attempt at de-powering.)
In retrospect, it actually makes the cover to #11 a fantastic visual joke. I'll say this for the Red Skull, though: Nazi or not, he is *very* good at playing hide-and-seek. This is, what, the third or fourth beloved public figure he's impersonated in the modern day?
In previous issues, David has been trying to be a "Proactive" mutant taking out threats before the "Reactive" X-Men get to them. This hasn't exactly worked out great, earning him the attention of Abigail Brand and S.W.O.R.D. and making him fall out with his sorta-girlfriend, Blindfold. Also, inside the "Prison Complex" of his inner psyche, his various personalities have been preyed upon by a malevolent demon that looks exactly like his dad, Charlie Xavier, with bright golden skin.
Consulting this apparition, who has absorbed (among other things) his precognitive ability, he discovers that his distant future holds nothing but darkness: becoming a disgusting gigantic horror-beast made of millions of mutant minds stitched together, with only poor Blindfold able to destroy it.
To prevent this future, David decides to visit the San Francisco Institute of Bio-Social Studies.
Marcus Glove has been unlucky enough to be at ground zero for nearly every giant disaster caused by Mutants in the past few years. He was on the sidelines when Magik brought hell to New York (what exactly is the benefit of having Magik around, again?); lost his leg and wife when someone tried to start a second sun in Central Park (Onslaught?); had an arm and an eye taken away by falling shrapnel from a sentinel in Alaska; and believing San Francisco to be free of Mutant danger, moved there just in time to lose the rest of his limbs.
Marcus is perfectly aware of David, his powers and his newfound mission - and David is becoming psychically acquainted with Dr. Glove, just well enough to find that there's no malevolent threat bubbling under the surface. He's not aching for vengeance or driven by a need to "cleanse" the world. He's perfectly innocent.
(Also, visually, he reminds me of Mason Verger, of Thomas Harris' book "Hannibal". Especially with that one lens-focused eye. No idea if that's deliberate or not.)
"Something has to be done." Dr. Glove's rallying cry. So, in response to the encroaching threat of Mutants, Glove's organisation has put together X-Cise, aka "The Happy Host": a drug said to be the ultimate cure for a person afflicted with Mutant abilities. Really, all it does is impair cognitive ability; the user not only loses their ability to use their own mutant powers, but becomes a lobotomised invalid. As Glove says, it's little more than clinical brain damage.
And in #11, we get to the bit that simultaneously delights me and frustrates me (mostly because I didn't get to write it)...
David's still looking for a "Big Bad". We see the drug being used on a nervous young man named Clement, who then reverts to an incontinent child-like state. Again, David finds no trace of foul play; Clement volunteered for the treatment of his own free will.
But when he begins to scan "Darwin's Martyrs" for treachery, they collapse, and this is what emerges from their heads...
(Note: when David encountered this red demon before on a date with Ruth, the mysterious Golden Charlie Xavier in his head defeated it - and said that he knew it "like the back of my head".) The Demon warns off David, telling him to take responsibility for his powers and "Be A Man". Thankfully, our boy isn't stupid; sticking to his mantra "I Rule Me", he still demands the pill.
Alas, even when there's some actually sensible and well-meaning scientists in the Marvel U., AND at least one who actually understands how evolution and genetics work...they're controlled by a Nazi Mastermind.
(Luckily, Ruth was watching earlier, and she's putting together a reluctant team to come and hopefully mess up Dave's attempt at de-powering.)
In retrospect, it actually makes the cover to #11 a fantastic visual joke. I'll say this for the Red Skull, though: Nazi or not, he is *very* good at playing hide-and-seek. This is, what, the third or fourth beloved public figure he's impersonated in the modern day?
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Date: 2013-06-08 01:31 am (UTC)