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This is what the soliciation says:
ALL-NEW X-MEN #15
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • DAVID LAFUENTE (A)
Cover by STUART IMMONEN
• Love is in the air!
• Cyclops heart and future start to fade before his eyes.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
So basically, it amounts to Bendis torturing O5 Cyclops. All those years of him banging Emma Frost and karma has to come back to fuck with him at some point. That said, this is the kind of shit I worried about when All New X-men was announced. By fucking with the time stream, Bendis could continue the trend of writers having utter disdain for established relationships like Cyclops/Jean or Peter/Mary Jane. Throwing two characters together like this isn't just wrong. It's the kind of shit that makes you think less of people, both fictional and otherwise. Beast knows Jean is in a fucked up place and he knows outright that Cyclops loves her. Hooking up with Jean would be a dick move on par with fucking up the space time continuum. Not only that, he was the same asshole yelling at Cyclops in the first issue of All New X-men.
In addition, this issue is supposed to be the issue where O5 Jean finally confronts Rachel Grey according to Bendis. We don't know what that meeting will entail, but given how shit like this has been avoided it would be pretty fucked up if it got glossed over. However, Marvel has a talent for glossing over shit that boarders insanity so I wouldn't put anything past them.
Maybe these are just my own fucked up tastes, but this kiss along with an issue dedicated to breaking Cyclops's heart sounds like the kind of shit that would undo all the good that All New X-men has done under Bendis since it began. And that would be a fucking tragedy on the level of the Hindenburg. I can only take some comfort in the knowledge that covers can often be deceptive.
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I really, really, really hope this is one of those misleading covers just to get people to check out the comic... or quickly turn around and head the opposite direction. Like you, I have nothing against Beast. Jean Grey is my favorite character. But pairing these two together? BLAH!! However, Rachel meeting Jean should prove to be interesting if it does indeed happen.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too. Bendis has done such great work building the drama between Cyclops and Jean. This would be a fucked up way to throw it all out of wack the way Chris Claremont did. And his book got canceled.
DeleteI have a feeling that it may be mystique masquerading as jean. Mystique pretends to be jean, who makes a move on hank and Scott sees it. I even think they will have the cliché of Scott watching what is going only to have the real jean walk behind him and he not even realizes she is there. This could cause problems between Scott and hank and would seem to play into whatever plans Mystique has for Scott and the 05. The other option may be that Lady Mastermind creates the illusion of hank and jean together to mess with Scott and make him more of an outsider to the rest of the school and the 05.
ReplyDeleteI never actually contemplated that. It would be pretty damn awesome if this was something that Mystique and Mastermind concocted. It would make sense since Mastermind is going to show up in the next couple of issues. But that's just it. It may make too much sense. And we all know that Marvel doesn't do that.
Deleteoh god, i´m going to have nightamres
ReplyDeleteIt's nothing an excessive dose of alcohol can't help!
Deletejack
To think I was getting upset at the notion of Jean and Quentin Quire. I thought I was past this pairing in Claremont's god awful fanfic BS with X-Men Forever. I'd say that its gonna be genuine. Its probably genuine, as this pairing would highly irritate me, and I've established that if it irritates me, the universe likes it. I really hope the above theories are true. I enjoy drama, but there has been an underlying current of "Lets whack Retro Cyke in the emotional junk with a whiffle bat."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I get that feeling too. If it irritates fans, Marvel does it because for some reason irritated fans still buy their shit. Just look at the sales of Superior Spider-Man for proof. I can only hope that given the horrible reception and early cancelation of X-men Forever, Bendis won't go as far as Claremont goes. But as always, I hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
DeleteJack
Jeans is my fave character right now. And im definitely enjoying bendis work in all new x-men - all the drama and character development! All i want is see jeen apart from scott... if they get together again, they will be that couple everyone loves to hate.
ReplyDeleteWell Jean and Cyclops have been apart for a long time. And they're teenagers here. Them getting together is a lot more complicated now. But just wanting to see Jean Grey apart from Cyclops is a shitty excuse to pull something like this. Hell, I would accept Jean hooking up with Quentin Quere. At least that way it wouldn't bring Abigail Brand into the picture.
DeleteJack
Way to go Hank
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