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My rule for Arakko is that it's a lot more complicated than you think. The Arakkii aren't some monolith of maniacs, they're a people -- with all the nuance and variation that implies -- who were at war for thousands of years, which was bad, and eventually lost that war, which was worse. -- Al Ewing
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Date: 2022-07-27 08:07 am (UTC)EDIT: On top of that, that quote is from an interview published mid-January. We're at the end of July. So... yeah.
(Spoilers in Rot13)
Date: 2022-07-27 09:12 am (UTC)Which means that this issue serves some interesting additional purposes: ol haqreyvavat gung gur Nenxxb zhgnagf ner gbgnyyl bccbfrq gb orvat erfheerpgrq, Rjvat yraqf Tvyyra'f jevgvat qrpvfvba fbzr jrvtug. Gubfr Nenxxvv ner rvgure tbar sbe tbbq, be gur Xenxbnaf ner nobhg gb ivbyngr gurve crefbany nhgbabzl va oevatvat gurz onpx.
Which ALSO creates a more convenient writing situation: vg'f irel qvssvphyg gb jevgr n tvtnagvp pvivyvfngvba, zbabyvgu be ab; sne rnfvre gb jevgr gur frireryl erqhprq fheivibef bs na raqnatrerq fcrpvrf. It was the status quo for the X-Men for years and years previous, and I trust Ewing could make it interesting here.
Re: (Spoilers in Rot13)
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Date: 2022-07-27 10:03 pm (UTC)Asking how it affects Joe Krakoa is a bit like asking how something in THOR affects AVENGERS. The answer is sometimes going to be "It doesn't, because it's not an AVENGERS story."
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Date: 2022-07-27 11:07 am (UTC)Pbzr gb guvax bs vg, jnfa'g gur Nftneq va Bxynubzn nyfb qrfgeblrq, yvxr, gjvpr?
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Date: 2022-07-27 10:19 am (UTC)Naw, buddy. You and Ororo are here forever.
Unless, of course, some sort of weird and hideously ironic thing were to occur mere days after you'd said that.
And goodness, but what are the chances of that.
There is a bit in that scene with Storm and the diplomats that has another wrinkle:
Of the people in that room, Hulkling and Oracle are the only two who haven't in some way died and come back to life before.
(And even Oracle's a fuzzy case. Don't the Shi'ar Imperial Guard sometimes use clone replacements? Certainly, that's not the Oracle who first appeared back in the 70s.)
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Date: 2022-07-27 02:12 pm (UTC)All the good names are taken.
(He could try "Gravestone", I suppose...)
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Date: 2022-07-27 05:49 pm (UTC)Also, that's some pretty serious consideration of the meaning of life and death for someone who was a mute child pretty recently and I think is just months old.
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Date: 2022-07-27 01:02 pm (UTC)Also only Al Ewing could outsmart one of Hickman's dumb meta-mutant concepts like "my mutant power is that I simply cannot be beaten in any contest. Nope. Can't be beaten."
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Date: 2022-07-27 02:56 pm (UTC)In all seriousness, since we don’t have dedicated spoiler tags, someone suggested we mask our spoilers using the Rot13 cipher and it’s just kind of stuck since then.
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Date: 2022-07-27 06:07 pm (UTC)We all know that no X-writer would take the risk to kill Storm (they'd better delete all social media if they did), and that if Magneto dies, he'll come back like he always does, resurrection protocols or not.
Meanwhile they keep Santo dead, even though the Scarlet Witch made it possibe or every mutant ever to come back. That's just mean, at this point.
The X-Books are more exciting than ever. They brought back a lot of loved characters. They are trying a lot of new things and offer us the craziest line-ups, far from the boring X-Men Blue or Gold.
And yet the characters who matter, those who get to be heavily featured in the events (and not as redshirts) are more or less the sames as usual. And yet the first mutant to die "for real" had to be one of the X-kids. They could have killed, I don't know, Kamikaze or Sugarman, or created a new character for that purpose, but no: they had to remind us that no matter what, the New X-Men are still redshirts.
I know I'm overdramatizing this. It's just a fictionnal character and maybe they'll actually bring him back.
But the fact it's a "maybe" and not a "when" ("when" is for the old guard) spoils my reading pleasure.
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Date: 2022-07-27 08:33 pm (UTC)Rockslide serves the purpose of being recognizable but expendable, which are traits shared by far too many of the younger generations. At the end of the day, despite his semi-longevity as a character and an ensemble member of several books, he's still no headliner. It could just as easily have been one of the dozens of others who populate the school's newer classes.
And of course with Gambit "dead" we'll see if they're willing to Otherworld-kill one of the big names or if there's a way to cheat it...
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Date: 2022-07-27 09:22 pm (UTC)Perhaps that's why Otherworld resurrections get messed up. The Five are somehow putting people's souls back in their bodies - Rockslide and Gorgon are still alive elsewhere and the Five pulled an alternate instead.