New Mutants, Blue, X-23, Hunt for Wolverine, X-verse's DP, mutants in Runaways... so much happening this week! Now, let's react to 0-DAY reactions for this book...

Extermination 002 (of 5)



Didn't happen. Mostly the same as premiere and yet it was entertaining enough. Waiting half a decade to wipe out the O5 adds to the excitement.



To each his own. It was sweet with Cyke here.



Welcome continuity nod to X-Red. Speaking of continuity... Calvin Rankin?! WEHT him before this? Something decades ago, he came back to life after his death in Hulk, right?



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Morbid and baffling change from Bobby's capture. He's ironically using Apoc's methods! BV-wings are THAT easy to remove? It's prob harder to remove Young Iceman's upgrades? Maybe he mindmushed him to remove his iceclones upgrade?



Hmm...






Hope not.



My question is who is that cute little french mutant caring for OML's hand?



Ahh, timetravel tales... A good bit was actually and pertinently footnoting that time Present Cyke disappeared when Past Cyke died for a minute.



Hmm... What's XMB think about this...



Yeah, that was a very effectively exciting image to end the ish. (Not a fan of unkillable Ahab either.)



Uh oh. (Though obviously it won't come to that.)



Ahh, might hafta check out last week's need-to-go-home ish afterall.



Naw, just rip off the bandage.



Disagree, this example was a good call. Cautious and offered creatively contained quartet of adventures. Of course, it didn't go that way.



Old news regarding O5.






Ahab's control. My question is 'how' do Rachel's hound marks return simply in his presence?












Heh. Kitty has more sway than Karma.



Will she have more say than "Brit" Betsy?






Typical opening act of any Hollywood action movie. Plus, she was recently mentally compromised.






Heh. On one hand it was weird to see the gimmick gathering with recent Kitty meetings only including senior staff to confab for dire situations.



Another bad call.



Naw, liked this coloring effort.

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Jean's always sexy. It's a universal law... might apply to all comic redheads.



Not sure why he's a target. I thought Cable was targeting time displaced mutants.



Whom?



Seems that young Cable is trying to fix time. The BV wings don't seem especially difficult to remove. What upgrades does young Iceman have? None that I can think of... unless you consider gay an upgrade.



Not sure if we'll be getting rid of the teen O5 (I hope!), but there's no suggestion we're gaining anyone.



Don't even know what Angel's upgrade entailed. All of the other BV upgrades just faded.



Hope so. I hope this story ends with Old Cable killing Young Cable. Yay paradox!



She's the girl they rescued last issue-- the monochromatic boy and girl with no memories that spoke French. 'Member? I asked if they were real French or Fantomex French.



I think... the old Marvel Method: all time travel creates infinite numbers of alternate realities, except when it doesn't.



Old Moan Logan IS an Ahab Hound!!! Notice he has the facial markings. This is what the little girl was talking to OML about. She noticed he was wounded (likely the hound infection).



Hopefully, this time he's put down before too much killing.



That's just sicko.



And I was thinking it was horribly anemic.



Agreed.



Yup.



No. Lighting. The midriff is green.



It's established fact that Rachel can alter her DNA at will. She turned herself into a dino-person just by thinking it.

Anyway, I think the hound marks are like the Shi'ar phoenix tattoo she got and are imprinted on her DNA. His proximity is like a disease flareup.



If you notice, the only people invited to this meeting were people connected to Cable (and some random students). This wasn't a meeting of important X-People. It was just: "Hey, Cable just got killed. Notify his peeps."



He's her master. She's his prime slave. A lot of psych reasons.



On the other hand, certain groups might be less willing to attack because of civilian casualties.

Anyway, I'm still enjoying this so far. I enjoyed all of the X-Books this week... well, not that Grand Design one.

MJ, Marlo, Patsy, yup. Who else? Older Jean, up 'til her 2nd death, sure. As long as artists don't randomly add and/or dump freckles differently panel to panel. But Jeen has been mishandled since coming here and a flawed character can be a turn off. She has had sweet and cute moments and that may have gotten her there eventually.



Maybe his brief membership status is a factor. But the fact that he's around and mundanely shopping in a grocery store felt like an glaring untold backstory in itself.



The thread droned on to reveal the suspect was Older Cyke. And speculations against that theory.



The mastery over his ice-powers and ability to create ice-clones will be hard to undo if that is in Young Cable's plan. Hence, the mindmushing suggestion.



That supercitizen Hala still gots hers, right? But yeah, wasn't it stated that everyone else's faded. Definitely, Marvel stumbled and fumbled that Event affects moving forward.



The paradox would be neat enough. Old could disappear (forever) with the killing of his Young self (as footnoted). This concept must have been done with Kang/Immortus or some other big time medium character, eh?



*nods*



Checks last issue when he could've been injured/infected... was it a psi-infection manifesting?...
P.S. Oops, sorry, missed censoring that one f-bomb feel free to edit out.



"Emma or resurrected Jean preying on Youngclops" may be a bit intensely phrased but many posters probably predicted dynamics of various intents developing between them as a storyplot. Of course, none of that happened. More or less just one cordial PC "How d'you do, Lil Tyke".



That's wack. Did not know that. Don't like it. But then again, hate Storm's, Danvers, et al. ability to mentally transform their clothes into costumes.



Hmm... that makes it sound more reasonable.



No Deadpool's Allowed club. Oooh, so that ain't a poorly drawn Honey Badger looking at Kurt. Very odd(ie.dumb) to include the French tots. And why cramp in a tiny office when Kitty knows they have nice big classrooms for confabs like in Hunt for Wolverine this week.



Kitty must have pulled in some HUGE NYC FAVORS somewhere 'cuz that definitely doesn't seem her call to make.



Oh yeah, forgot to list Grand Design too! Nice catch. Will probably end up reading same day as Ve'Nam #1... which is not anytime soon. (Unless someone has convincingly good things to say about either.)

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A few more thoughts/questions -

This dialogue from Cyclops was poignant: "...and now here we are in the future, where we should have already made a difference... and nothing's changed. We're still fighting...."

Adult Warren has regular bird wings again? I like it!

Kitty's plan was smart. So then Cyclops ruins it by running out into the rain by himself.

Cyclops shouldn't have had to run into the woods in order to get close enough to zap Young Cable. But I love how the artist depicts the optic blast as all hell breaking loose.

Has it really been the O5's choice to stay in the present day? I thought they were stranded here.

"Bodyslide by two" is one of my favorite things to read in a comic.

Jean wants to go with the old X-Force crew. Do you think she just likes them better? Or is it a strategic choice? I'm guessing she thinks they'll do a better job of predicting Young Nate's plan of attack.

I wonder if Young Cable can make Young Warren's bird wings grow back.

Does Young Hank have any chance at all against Hound Logan? I'm thinking he needs to run. But even that seems problematic since he'll have to carry Rachel. I think his best bet - if he can manage it - is to go upward. To climb. Wolvie can climb too but not as well as Hank, I don't think.

Rachel
Jean clones obviously
Firestar
Bethany Cabe
Beverly Switzler (maybe the hottest of them all)
Colleen Wing
Medusa
Crystal (strawberry blonde)
Delphyne Gorgon (in her human form)
Elsa Bloodstone
Frankie Raye (naw... hottest! literally)
Vindicator
Hope Summers
Julia Carpenter (another strawberry)
Lyra (red hair + green skin = swoony Black Guardian)
Julie Power's pretty cute (another strawberry)
Tarot (Hellions)
Marlo Chandler
Mystique (another swoony sitch)
Transonic (blue Generation Hope girl -- swoon)
Mera of Atlantis (yay swoon *glubglub*)
Rahne's kinda cute sometimes
Siryn
Sharon Ventura... until She-Thing
Satana sometimes (when she's hottest, imo)
There was a Kree with red hair...

And Red Sonja...

And probably many, many more...



When last we saw him, he flew off with Omega to live a normal-ish life.



Not really sure how skillful he's become.



Hala was not upgraded by the Black Vortex. She has no special abilities beyond what normal Kree have.



Old Moan Logan wasn't around in the previous issue.



These French kids are obviously important to the plot. We just don't know why yet.

There's one person in the group that I don't know who she is. She sitting behind the desk next to Rachel and says, "Now that we're all here let's get started." She looks sort of like Kitty (same face and hair), but Kitty is standing on the other side of the desk.

Well equating 'sexy' character to your list...
Besides MJ, Marlo, Patsy, definitely agree with:

Bethany Cabe
Beverly Switzler
Medusa (d'oh! of course)
Frankie Raye (pre-Nova)
Satana sometimes
Red Sonja (even post-Marvel)

Mera is a great non-Marvel mention. And if you include Red Sonja, there's also Red Sophia and Red Monika. Just waiting for a Marvel crossover with Jessica Rabbit.

Black Widow (when hair is longer - although black hair is swoony on her too)
Thundra (when she's not in smash mode)
Tigra (when it's red not brown - rrroww!)
Shamrock (at times)
Gamora (Zoe Saldana version)

We debated the colour of Wanda's hair before and maybe compromised on "Auburn" more often than not and should be included with some of those shades of red you listed. Definitely Shanna the She-Devil too if she is a 'strawberry'. Amora posing as a redhead on Wonder Man #2 cover ain't too shabby either.

Thanks for the correction. For some reason thought there was one remaining alien character that retained the power.

Which makes his apparent possession all the more... baffling.

An impatient Armor? Also, rechecking that panel inspired my newest banner submission.

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Not sure why I wrote Mera. I meant Dorma.



Nah. Hala is a post-Secret Wars creation.

There was the guardian of the Black Vortex, Gara. Maybe you're thinking about her.

Ronan may or may not have the upgrade, but other than Angel, he's the only remaining upgraded one besides Angel (maybe you mean him). It really doesn't seem like he's still upgraded though. Gamora, Thane, Kitty, and Czar-Doon the Badoon all faded. Adult Beast, Teen Cyclops, Teen Iceman, and Groot all willingly gave back the power.



Not really that baffling. Regardless, the girl was calling attention to his injury, which is likely the point of infection.



That's it! She has the X medallion on her neck/chest. Thanks.

But is Armor normally that assertive?

I think the character is Armor, yes, but I also think the dialogue balloon is pointing at the wrong character. It ought to be pointing at Kitty.

Well, yes. See Astonishing X-Men. He "hulks out" with his metal wings.



Because he's a whiny little cry baby. WAH! Why are even his teen friends following him? He's acting hysterical, and I want Teen Jean to smack him "classic Hollywood" style.



Eh. I'd assume he couldn't even tell which tree Cable was behind until that particular place.



They went back once (X-Men Blue #18-20). They chose to come back to the future. Their logic was that the timeline needed to be fixed and would still be messed up if they had stayed. However, that logic fails because the longer they're away the more screw up it gets.



Mayhap the best thing Liefeld ever created.



Maybe a dig at the others, who she mostly doesn't like much, I think.



I'm betting they'll probably do that on their own.



Young Hank has magic. Who knows.

It seems more like something Kitty would say. Maybe the letterer messed up and that was supposed to be for Kitty.

Still, that was definitely Armor back there.

My guess is that Cable is trying to reset the O5 to their original setting, so he can then send them back to their proper time and thus restore the time line.

In order to accomplish this with Warren, since he now has those black vortex wings, he's going to cut off Calvin's wings and attach them to Warren. That's why we see Cable cutting off the black vortex wings.

Explains so much. Thanks!

Looking back at Hunt For Wolverine Dead Ends #1 https://www.comicboards.com/php/show.php?msg=ironman-2018090101465346 and that different POV image of "Lil Miss Ponytail", "Mademoiselle Medusa-lite"?, the French mutant girl will probably be like Rapunzel in the GREAT Disney film version. Able to manipulate (ie.lug around) her hair as easily as Ghost Rider does his chain, eh? My copyright submission would be "Lady Locks" (especially when she's older).

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I'm not sure why you would think that's the same girl. It's not.

D'oh. Saw long braided ponytail (thought the skintone thing might've been a coloring error) and unnamed boy next to her (didnt see his extra arms) and gave Marvel too much credit for continuity and it was clearly my bad...
[Used it as excuse to post my Lady Locks codename too. Guess it's good for EITHER girl now? ]

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