The Great X-Men Storytime - Vol. 5: Fall of the Mutants (Part 3)

And we're back!

Boys and girls, meet Archangel!

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Shouldn't this have come before the last thread, given it seemingly takes place after this batch of issues?

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Yeah, timeline's a bit naff admittedly. They do take place at the exact same time more or less, but I forgot to check if they were any references to the events of these issues in New Mutants.

Caliban's mask is actually pretty cool.

Paco Lips!

Apoc's Stretch Armstrong powers never fail to crack me up.

I like Caliban, he's a sad little characters whose poor choices make sense

Another cool mask, all courtesy of Walt Simonson himself.

>Huitzilopochtli
Try saying that three times fast!

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I'm sure Morrison can

Admittedly, casting Moe Howard as War IS a bold casting choice, but I think it'll work out just fine.

Join Apocalypse, get a free limited edition golden mount!

>Boink!
DRAMA
HIGH STAKES
BOINK

Scots can pronounce plenty of things most human tongues cannot.

Love the little subplot with Caliban at the bottom, it flows really well if you just skim throught the pages too.

Geez, just put on a sweater.

Oh god, Apoc's turning into Egghead!

Ass

Does anyone know the year that things flipped from "Mutants because of radiation" to "Mutants because of X Gene"? It has to be a 90s change

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Hey. I spent all day yesterday waiting on this instead of doing something useful!
I feel mad at myself!

Now that is an entrance.

I'm still loving how much Scott has drilled tactics into the team in this run, such that he can just go full QB and call plays.

No, that's not true! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

Thanks...?

I honestly cannot remember.

Chocolatechips exploiting the existence of actual gods/Eternals to sow greater fear is something that is in no way incompatible with Marvel cosmology. It's great.

>Huitzilopochtli
The only tricky bit is the "Ochtli" bit at the end, because my Anglophone tongue hates that Ocht sound.

Aw man, sorry user, I was pretty busy yesterday so I wasn't feeling up to it by the time I got some free time.

One of the things I loved in E is For Extinction from Secret Wars was seeing team tactics like Quentin Quire linking the whole team together and then having Dust scatter herself around the whole room so they could see everything

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I don't think offering Jean power is going to at all tempting at this moment in time.

Warren's mask, on the other hand, is just silly. Oh well, they can't all be winners, I s'pose.

CALIBAN NO

Whoopsie daisy, once again gotta go walk the dog!
brb

It was around this time, a few times they mentioned the radiation kick starting the x-gene then never mention the radiation again.

>Whoopsie daisy, once again gotta go walk the dog!
>brb
No problem.

saying Huitzilopochtli isnt hard at all
its something like
weet see lo poch tlee

the h has no sound in Spanish

apocs here looks like he's pitching a tv ad sale

Angel should be transformed into a cyborg symbotie like blue beatle or technovore
It will fix his wing retraction problem

All they need now is someone to learn magic then its basically the teen titans

It was definately a thing by the time the cartoon hit.

Screw it, I'm just saying "Huitzil" like the robot

Alright, probably no more interruptions for tonight.

>Alright, probably no more interruptions for tonight.
Good

>Uh, Caliban, you know you can get up now, right?

Colors aside, it really does feel like Archangel's is one of the first truly "modern" designs out there.

Well the X-men line did invent the 90s aesthetic

did Claremont like Apocalypse and Archangel?

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True, but I meant more like something post-90's. Aside from the colors, Archangel's design hasn't been changed all that much if at all in all these years.

Caliban is the only Apocalypse based heel turn besides Warren that at all worked.

Every other one was total shit, and they did it SO MANY TIMES.

Also, is that fucking Reagan? That's hilarious.

Yeah, it became a pretty overused shitty gimmick with time, and it's a shame, because I'd rather they go with the UXF route and create their own characters rather than force pre-existing characters into the Horsemen role.

Yo, speaking of blackouts, does anyone want to read the Daredevil tie-in issue after this?

Jean's come a long way since the days her training exercises were about lifting a fucking sheet of paper with her TK powers.

I actually don't have the Power Pack issue, unfortunately.

Sure got over Maddie quick, eh?

Cap's is another issue I don't have.

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Dead is dead*

*except in comics

>Yo, speaking of blackouts, does anyone want to read the Daredevil tie-in issue after this?
Yes

>Nooooo, my mount! That was free DLC, you bastard!

Coolio! I love that issue, but how couldn't I, it's Nocenti and Romita Jr.

Oh geez, Hank is going full Ben Grimm.

teleports behind you
nothing personel kid

>I'd rather they go with the UXF route and create their own characters rather than force pre-existing characters into the Horsemen role.

I wish they'd have at least pulled a Gruenwald and dug up some old obscure mutant to use. But no, it's always actual X-Men. Or the fucking Hulk.

Oh no, an spaceship, no one's ever seen one of those ever before!

>an
Hurrr

Old obscure mutants will remain obscure as long as the current crop of writers and editors stick around, sad but true.

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A shame. It'd be nice to see them gradeschoolers kill the shit out of her.

She kicked him out, then ghosted on him.

WHO IS TO BLAME?!

I'd like to think Jean is saying all that with a mouthful of food.

Editorial, of course.

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EN SABAH NUR AKBAR

People just see a spaceship or some spaceships. An spaceship is special

Despite not having the issue, we still get some Power Pack, natch.

whenever Jean says something like that it makes me think of a woman who grabs the hand of her husband when she is giving birth and needs to painfully push push push the baby out of her vagoo.

Hey, fuck you, man! :(

tmi, user

>Jean can't stop shoving hotdogs into her mouth

L-lewd.

So she dies and you get her mount! That ain't how it works in WoW!

I'm getting way too much mileage out of mount jokes

>SHATTER!
Pretty lazy onomatopoeia, if I'm being hones,t fampai.

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Yeah, but we're playing Blue Dude Redemption here.

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Walt was saving the premium ones for Thor.

Well played.

KATHOOM!

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>body and soul
Damn those Claremontisms!

He's making up for the lesser sound effects with the sheer variety in Pocky's shapeshifting.

Just barely missed it!

One final "fuck you" to the original X-Factor concept.

Seriously, just look at how happy they are!

These pages make it clear that the ship is ridiculously huge for being Achocolatechipse's bachelor apartment.

He is a creative big fella, ain't he?

Apocalypse escaping by becoming a plane seems kind of stupid to me. Decades later Mystique would learn to do that.

Truly the end of an era for X-Factor. A pretty lousy era too if I'm being honest.

Good things the kids and the leftover Morlocks weren't inside.