Dead X-Men #1 - "Earth Intruders" (2024)
written by Steve Foxe
art by Jonas Scharf, Bernard Chang, Vicenzo Carratu, & Frank Martin
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*SECRET INVASION FINALE SPOILERS*
I just finished Home, and I have some thoughts:
Rhodey was in a hospital gown when he got out of the pod! I swear to all that is holy, if they have him been replaced by a skrull after his injury in Civil War, I will march on Disney headquarters! That would cheapen Tony's death, funeral, and Rhodey's amazing conversation with Sam in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I said I'd freak out if they made the swap previous to FATWS, and I meant it!
Gravik's human face was a man he killed, so I'm assuming the same is true for G'iah. If she is indeed going to be Abigail Brand as leaks have suggested (meaning Abigail Brand is dead), I'm going to be mad! Like legitimately disappointed. Brand is one of my favorite parts of the Astonishing X-Men comics run. I ship her and Beast so hard.
When was Everett Ross swapped? It has to have been after Black Panther because he would've reverted to his skrull form after being shot and/or Shuri would've noticed while healing him. Has a skrull infiltrated Wakandan leadership?! How many? For how long? Because that's BAD. Imagine the havoc skrulls could wreak with Wakanda's resources.
The CGI in this was pretty good. Especially compared to other recent Disney+ titles. That being said, I hate a lot of how they used it. Giving G'iah a huge Drax arm?! Bad choices in multiple ways: A.) the big Drax arm looked so weird as did other things. B.) do they think Marvel fans are too stupid to get what they were doing if they didn't make her arm huge? They should've kept Emilia's arm the same size, only given her Drax's tattoos and skin color at most. We would've understood. C.) the clothing changed too! How does that make sense?
Is Gravik really dead, though? Is Raava? We don't know if Raava has super skrull powers, but Gravik had like EVERYTHING. That seems like it should make him pretty invincible.
How did people not clock how off Rhodey was? There was like an enormous change in his personality. Raava was a jerk!
So, Fury and Sonya only tranqed those secret service members at the hospital. That wouldn't automatically make them revert, right, or every skrull would be outed when they fell asleep. If all those guards were humans, they were legitimately the worst security detail ever. That one guy literally listened to SkrullRhodey pretty much out herself and did nothing. He didn't even warn the president Rhodey was acting uncharacteristically. Every member of White House personale will have to be tested somehow. Maybe check for purple blood?
I really thought Ritson would die at the end. I guess he's just awful (which is unsurprising). I'm glad he won't be president much longer, as Harrison Ford is taking over the role of President Thaddeus Ross in Captain America: Brave New World. That being said, part of me worries that President Ross might be even worse than Ritson.
I kind of loved Varra and Fury's ending. It redeemed the awful, "I guess we'll never know moment."
****EDIT:**** I didn't think about this at the time, but I saw someone else bring it up. G'iah has Captain Marvel powers now! Doesn't that mean she should be caught up in the entanglement mess Captain Marvel, Photon, and Miss Marvel are dealing with in The Marvels?! That's an ENORMOUS plot hole. Not to mention, G'iah is ridiculously overpowered now. People complain about how powerful Superman is, and G'iah is so much worse.
I enjoyed Secret Invasion, even if it wasn't the best Disney+ show. The comics are still WAY better. Regardless, I'm looking forward to The Marvels even more now.
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Just when the two groups try to discuss about the fate of the universe and Mutantkind in the Space Bad Future AU, they get attacked by none other than Orbis Stellaris and his Phalanx army. Since Prodigy is screaming in pain from absorbing more information, the formerly-dead X-Men are in the middle of the crossfire. Fortunately, the other allies have turned up to help Abigail's X-Men and the Formerly-Dead X-Men. These allies are the new AU Starjammers who consist of Sunspot, Juggernaut, Lockheed, Hepzibah, Mercury, Carol Danvers and the new Smasher who is the son of Cannonball and Izzy Kane. While the mutants fight off the Phalanx, the M'kraan Crystal shatters and the shard embeds itself on Prodigy's chest. Geez...This guy is too unlucky.... Then, the Formerly-Dead X-Men are approached by a mysterious figure. Cannonball takes down the mysterious figure who turns to be...Moira MacTaggert. AU Moira is a cyborg and she's a spiteful woman. Prodigy immediately absorbs everything from her mind saying he got it, a full map of Moira's past, all of it, as Dazzler helps him to his feet. "And not just her tenth life… we can go anywhere. Anywhere. We could stop the Dominion before it's born." They run and jump into a newly opened portal, leaving the timeline.
Dead X-Men #1, 2024
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Abigail's side of this is both really sad and really fucking funny. Imagine having a boyfriend who you've kind of drifted apart from because you're busy in space essentially 24/7 and he's spending time in a high school/new ethnostate and you're not a couple in the way that you used to be but sometimes you see each other and you love the monsterous, evil side of him as much as you did the kind side that was your opposite, but even now he doesn't have the edge you do so you keep some distance all the same and then he goes fully off the deep end in a plant suit and you've thrown some guy out of an air lock and it's whatever and next thing you learned is that they cloned your boyfriend from before you ever met him and your actual boyfriend blew himself up with a black hole nuke gun in order to save his best friend who you've never met and now the clone and that guy are living together in California and the only things you know about this guy is that he is a pacifist (you are a war criminal) and he co-starred in the fourth Arkon film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and that's the most commercial success he's ever had. I would become the fucking Joker.
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Every time I read this comic, I get something new out of it - for one, I just noticed that Hank and Sydren are clearly sharing eye contact in that first panel, and Sydren is gesturing like, dude idk, as if he's hoping to warn Hank or get his help dealing with Abigail running around like a blue arsed fly (or would that be green arsed fly?).
The fact that Abigail appears to be steering her entire body by the power of her strong, heroic jaw is just something to behold, tbh.
Also, I'd just like it to be noted that Hank's characterisation here is adorable and heartbreaking in equal measure, because this is what he wants to be like all the time. He wants to be sweet and soft and kind and affectionate, he doesn't believe in cruelty or misery, and even though Abigail claims not to have time for him at the moment, how does he react?
He reacts with pouty and cute little whininess. He doesn't get his back up, he doesn't get snippy, he gets cute. You will never see him get like this around the X-Men, this is something he only tends to do around his romantic partners, because he's comfortable. He's almost constantly performing, over-exaggerating in some way - usually, it's his intelligence, but here, he's over-exaggerating his 'I'm just a poor Hank in need of love' routine. He's just cute, okay?
Something to note is that he also tends to act this playful and 'pay attention to meeee' around Wonder Man, too . . .
S.W.O.R.D vol. 1, issue #1 (2009).
Written by Kieron Gillen, pencils by Steven Sanders.
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