All-New X-Men #17

[flint_marko]

During the battle, Bobby leaves and finds his boyfriend Romeo.

Comments

[locuatico]

I have to be honest, i am pretty fond of characters being like "screw this, let's get out of here" to big comic events.

[scorntx]

It seems to be getting more and more commonplace.
Funny that...

[q99]

That bit makes sense at least :)

[arilou_skiff]

Ben Grimm sitting out Civil War in Paris remains the best.

[pyrrhocorax]

I’m so glad Bobby found love with his identical twin who even mimics his facial expressions~

[wizardru]

Is Romeo the Inhuman with emotion manipulation powers? Is this possibly coding that Romeo is controlling Bobby here or just an art choice meant to show their together on this?

[starwolf_oakley]

If Bendis was writing this, someone would have shouted "What would you have me DO?!"

[byc]

1: What would you have me do?
2: Do?
1: Yeah do.
2: What to do...
1: So you have nothing.
2: I'm thinking.
1: Thinking?
2: Thinking...

I was really hoping a page of dialogue with the same art.

Is there a term for that? Bendising?

[zachbeacon]

One of the starcrossed lovers is named Romeo? A bit on the nose, Hopeless.

[burkeonthesly]

You're talking to a guy who writes overwrought tragedy, whose last name is Hopeless. Were you expecting subtlety?

[thehood]

Except they aren't starcrossed, they get along well and they just said fuck it and left the fighting.

[xammax]

Wow way to every stupid teenager ever.

"Sure I'll betray the only family I know and my entire species because you're cute and bought a smoothie once. Plus the making out is cool."

Which honestly yeah. I mean Bobby is like... 15(?) here. So that actually makes 100% sense.

Also just so we can continue to enforce this. Cyclops was right.

[tugrul]

Cyclops was right! ✊

[icon_uk]

Thing to bear in mind is that Romeo is an empathic manipulator, he could basically make Bobby feel what he wants him to feel and Bobby possibly wouldn't know it was happening.

[q99]

"Crazy old Cyclops destroyed the other cloud."

Seriously, what is crazy about that? People were even less prepared to deal with the clouds then- that move probably saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives and killed *no-one*.

And how it that the narrative people in-universe latched onto? Almost no mutant, and few humans, should find that crazy.

[lucean]

I continue to struggle with that argument. Bobby is literally throwing words about the cornerstones of their culture which the Inhumans, through active intent, released on the world and is now brutally killing mutants.

What is difficult with this? Why is what 'Cyclops' did so controversial? At what point did MU decide Inhuman cultural artifact is worth more than mutant lives?

Someone upthread already mentioned Romeo's powerset.

[7dialsmystery]

Romeo is a InHuman that can manipulate people's emotions. Medusa has been painting the InHumans as victims of Mutant terrorists (despite the whole death cloud floating around killing people in hordes ). I have a feeling Bobby and the rest of the world are being played by Medusa. Kind of like Captain America got his brain fiddled with and thinks Hydra is the best thing since sliced bread.

[shadowpsykie]

I would have loved for Romeo to actually say "No your side is right? we should take out the MURDER CLOUD!"

[icon_uk]

Sorry, for a moment i read that as "we should make out on the MURDER CLOUD!" and wasn't quite sure how that would work.

[balbanes]

Just joining everyone else in saying Cyclops was right.

I like my culture as much as anyone, but if the choices were between 1) my culture and 2) thousands or millions of people dying, then so long culture. We could just adopt or create another culture in its place. Hell, we did that very thing a few hundred years ago. Would be cool to do that instead of a genocide rather than because of one. :/

[mizerous]

Cyclops was right!

[war_120389]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the only reason the Inhumans are so fierce in protecting the terrigen cloud is because the terrigen crystals are in short supply because of Black Bolt's fuck up during Infinity.

I know everyone here hates the Inhumans and all but I think the Inhumans are just as much victims as the mutants because of again Black Bolt's fuck up.

[balbanes]

I agree that the Inhumans (minus Black Bolt) are just as innocent as mutants for the "terrigen cloud" scenario. But I disagree that they're just as much victims as mutants. Because dying is much much much worse than not having powers.

I don't have powers, just like an Inhuman without terrigen. I consider myself waaaay better off than a dead guy. In fact, trying to stay "not dead" for as long as possible is one of my driving motivations. :/

Or think of it another way: being willing to kill thousands/millions of people to get power is the motivation of just about every villain in the history of ever. How is letting thousands/millions of people die-- or worse yet, preventing them from saving themselves-- any different?

[sarahnewlin]

Forced love interest named Romeo.

Real smooth there...

[thehood]

Well they just said fuck it and left, that's better than what i was expecting.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Why do they keep throwing Strong Guy into the random crowd scenes? The last time he was seen, he freakin' killed Rahne's son, and as far as the X-Men know/knew was ruling hell.

[scorntx]

Oh, like anyone bothered to read X-Factor.

[thehood]

Eh, i don't see the problem.

I'd say Young Iceman and Romeo are the smart ones, just saying "screw it" and avoiding another dumb and pointless hero vs hero event.

[flint_marko]

There's this, for starters.



Cyclops is a monster for getting rid of the Inhumans' cloud, because their culture is more important than mutants not dying a slow and painful death.

[tigerkaya]

Looking at both sides. Nope stil can't seem to give a shit. Looking forward to that aftermath with Inhumans in space and X-men, oh right still can't seem to muster any care for them so screw em.

[flint_marko]

I'm looking forward to the Inhumans in space too!