X-Factor #7: Scientia Vincere Tenebras

[superboyprime]

"Jean-Paul is canonically anti-establishment and proud of his identity as a gay mutant, so coming out of AOXM would have very clear implications on his emotional state. He’s angry and traumatized and has always been an agitator who pushes against the establishment. Asks a lot of questions. Instigates. So tracking down missing mutants is a righteous and natural fit for him, now." - Leah Williams

Comments

[themajesticmoose]

See I hated Rosenberg's absolute garbage run but I don't see the whole resurrection thing as having anything to do with that crap. In fact I see it as a direct response to it. Rosenberg's depressing badly written OOC crapfest was characterised by him just killing off yet more characters every issue in stupid pointless ways

Hickman however corrected this garbage by introducing a system by which every pointless death was undone. All the miserable grimdark crap of Rosenberg's run was erased, much as his pathetic and nauseating characterisations of many of the characters he tried to ruin in his run were ignored/erased as well

[phantomfo]

Except for the precogs. :(

[beyondthefringe]

This is one occasion on which I agree with you. Rosenberg's run was easily one of my least favorite runs of any X-related series ever, and that includes the Chuck Austen years. Anything which reversed that had to be an improvement on sheer principle, and it's a nice bonus that the resurrection protocols have given us back so many other wonderful toys that were broken and discarded over the years.

Hopefully, by the time Hickman's done and the resurrection protocols are inevitably broken, we'll be left with a full roster of revived and repowered characters and editorial will keep subsequent writers from being too bloodthirsty.

[laughing_tree]

I think it's pretty clear that Rosenberg killed so many characters -because- he knew about the upcoming ressurections-for-all.

[themajesticmoose]

I wouldn't give him that much credit personally given what garbage his writing was in general even beyond the pointless deaths

[laughing_tree]

No, he's outright confirmed it. And Dani Moonstar has a line in his last issue about how she mystically senses those who died will somehow return.

[themajesticmoose]

Did not know that. Though it still doesn't make anything about his run good.

[themajesticmoose]

I mean I'm hoping this new status quo sticks around for good long after Hickman is gone. The X-books are finally interesting again and I don't want things to revert to the Xavier School and them wasting their time "Protecting a world that hates and fears them" and all of that nonsense. I want the new, more interesting and more fun set up we've got going here to persist and for them to keep doing new and cool things with it

And yeah I genuinely hated every single thing about Rosenberg's run from the way he wrote the characters to the moronic plot to the depressing misery fest that was every issues indidividual story. It's so good to see mutantkind standing up for themselves and getting what they're owed in this new status quo especially after that nonsense where the X-men were cowering in a basement and acting as lapdogs for a bunch of human losers like the AVENGERS of all people (God I hate the Avengers)

[deh_tommy]

Meh, there was a lot wrong with the book but I think that last point is more of a personal issue than one with the book.