(The Story So Far: We are Secret Empire now and will be for at least one more issue, so buckle up. The young X-Men + bearded sniktbub Jimmy Hudson have been revolutionarily freeing political prisoners from psychic re-education camps in New Tian, but then they were attacked by an extremely weird strike force and taken prisoner! The recap page says that Jean and Jimmy are "presumed dead" which 1) I did not catch at all in the last issue and 2) surejan.gif.)
Secret Empire tie-in #2. Like last issue, this one had some stuff that leaves me scratching my head, which I assume people following the main title might at least have better ideas about. To wit: Why does Magneto have a red skull in a box? Emma is always Emma but why is she SO EVIL? Ditto for Havok (this is like the second or third time in this arc he's told the young X-Men that he is ready and willing to murder them for resisting Hydra, and I don't like it D:).
I still don't really care about Briar Raleigh, and because I'm familiar with Alex's track record with redheaded women, their whole scene had a foreboding "ugh" vibe hanging over it. And Emma's yandere mustache-twirling evilness toward Scott is so ridiculously over-the-top that it kind of stops making any sense. So much noooope in the shipping department over here! But on the positive side of things, I appreciate that Bunn didn't turn the "Jean and Jimmy are alone together in the woods together" scene into a shipportunity. I am so worried Jimmy joining the team is destined to go that direction because of that tired Jean/Scott/Logan triangle trope, and I'm just glad it hasn't yet.
I am completely okay with the Blackbird turning out to be Danger disguised as a Transformer! The scene with the classic X-Men leaping down from the sky to do battle against the Hellfire goons was great, I enjoyed that art and the wtf reactions from Jean and Jimmy as well as the goons.
I also really appreciated that the "secondary mutations" stuff from the last issue came up again and Hank is thinking about what that means. I think we'll get some kind of explanation -- Wolfsbane's new duplication ability and Toad's fiery tongue, etc., are just too out there to be explained by random secondary mutation.
Finally, that last panel! LORNA. THANK YOU. I am sometimes a Lorna fangirl because she can be so interesting in certain situations, and her busting down a wall in the grand old X-Factor tradition to confront Alex about being such an evil dick was top-notch. So now we have Magneto's team of young X-Men, plus Magneto's girlfriend/whatever she is, plus Magneto's daughter, all being rebellious in New Tian... and Magneto sitting pretty in his mansion with his robot butler being all "I promised not to interfere with Hydra or New Tian..." lol, why the heck does anybody ever trust Magneto to keep a promise??
Only one more SE issue and then back to whatever we were talking about before this stupid event! I am so ready.
X-Men: Blue #8
Secret Empire tie-in #2. Like last issue, this one had some stuff that leaves me scratching my head, which I assume people following the main title might at least have better ideas about. To wit: Why does Magneto have a red skull in a box? Emma is always Emma but why is she SO EVIL? Ditto for Havok (this is like the second or third time in this arc he's told the young X-Men that he is ready and willing to murder them for resisting Hydra, and I don't like it D:).
I still don't really care about Briar Raleigh, and because I'm familiar with Alex's track record with redheaded women, their whole scene had a foreboding "ugh" vibe hanging over it. And Emma's yandere mustache-twirling evilness toward Scott is so ridiculously over-the-top that it kind of stops making any sense. So much noooope in the shipping department over here! But on the positive side of things, I appreciate that Bunn didn't turn the "Jean and Jimmy are alone together in the woods together" scene into a shipportunity. I am so worried Jimmy joining the team is destined to go that direction because of that tired Jean/Scott/Logan triangle trope, and I'm just glad it hasn't yet.
I am completely okay with the Blackbird turning out to be Danger disguised as a Transformer! The scene with the classic X-Men leaping down from the sky to do battle against the Hellfire goons was great, I enjoyed that art and the wtf reactions from Jean and Jimmy as well as the goons.
I also really appreciated that the "secondary mutations" stuff from the last issue came up again and Hank is thinking about what that means. I think we'll get some kind of explanation -- Wolfsbane's new duplication ability and Toad's fiery tongue, etc., are just too out there to be explained by random secondary mutation.
Finally, that last panel! LORNA. THANK YOU. I am sometimes a Lorna fangirl because she can be so interesting in certain situations, and her busting down a wall in the grand old X-Factor tradition to confront Alex about being such an evil dick was top-notch. So now we have Magneto's team of young X-Men, plus Magneto's girlfriend/whatever she is, plus Magneto's daughter, all being rebellious in New Tian... and Magneto sitting pretty in his mansion with his robot butler being all "I promised not to interfere with Hydra or New Tian..." lol, why the heck does anybody ever trust Magneto to keep a promise??
Only one more SE issue and then back to whatever we were talking about before this stupid event! I am so ready.