X-Men #14 (2020) - "X of Swords, Chapter 12"

[laughing_tree]

Oh, I think the X-Men is about finding the family that you never knew you had. One that accepts you for who you are, who loves you at your best and worst, and who shares your dreams for what the world can be. You know, everybody wants to love somebody, everyone wants to be loved, and it's pretty great when you find both. Especially if you're, say, a weirdo mutant with eyeballs covering your whole body. -- Jonathan Hickman

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[deh_tommy]

“One that accepts you for who you are*, who loves you at your best and worst**, and who shares your dreams for what the world can be.***”

*Unless you’re a clone or a copy

**Unless you’re not a mutant or a filthy pretender

***Unless they don’t (but pretty much every X-person shares the same opinion and thoughts nowadays so maybe)

[lordultimus]

It feels like they took away Apocalypse's personality and gave it to Genesis to make him look more sympathetic.

[cainofdreaming]

It must be weird for him, having his clone share the name of his wife.

[lordultimus]

Well, Evan's dead, so...

[cainofdreaming]

I thought I saw him in some of the crowd scenes on the island...

[lordultimus]

https://aiptcomics.com/2020/11/16/x-men-monday-83-x-of-swords-weeks-8-and-9/

AIPT: This next question people actually ask a lot. X-Fan Grey asked where is Evan Sabah Nur?

Jordan: He’s dead. Yeah, he is. He died in the Age of X-Man, unfortunately, and he really did die. And he hasn’t been back since then. So it’s very sad. Apocalypse killed his own son. Can’t trust that guy.

[silverhammerman]

This is the issue with the recycled art, right? Easily the most egregious aspect of Marvel extending this event.

I noted this last time as well, but this feels a lot like the Moira X retcon in terms of how it recontextualizes Apocalypse as the failed follower of a more pragmatic and worldly woman, just was done with Professor X. Hickman has been playing that particular plotline out with painstaking slowness, but if something were to be made of that parallel it could be very interesting.

Gotta say though, I'm a little disappointed that Genesis just looks like a regular woman, rather than being as monster-y and strange as Apocalypse. X of Swords hasn't really shied away from having interesting designs for female characters, so Genesis' is sort of conspicuously weak.

[scorntx]

In fairness, Apocybear's monstrousness is partially because he's loaded up with Celestial tech.
Or was.
That's probably been retconned out by now.

(Not the being slightly blue. That's all En.)