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ms_tique

OOC - Adjectiveless X-Men

Jan 23, 2006 23:56

Well, it's official. According to Joe Q of Marvel, the new "Adjectiveless" X-Men lineup will be Cable, Mystique, Rogue, Cannonball, Sabretooth, and Iceman. You'd think I'd be happy about my little Blue B-List Baby getting into a regular title ( Read more... )

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finalgirl January 24 2006, 05:20:08 UTC

You know what's funny?

evil_mutant isn't taken.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:36:56 UTC

Oooh. Tempting.

Of course, she's not so much evil as misguidedly self righteous, but that's too many characters.

finalgirl January 24 2006, 10:40:45 UTC

I looked it up since, you know, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

I was talking with Nate's player earlier, and I realized something; with Gambit headed for his drow-elf Apocalypse-horseman makeover, almost every member of that team has a reason to want to smack Apocalypse around.

Except Iceman. I have no idea what he's doing there.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:51:29 UTC

Bobby heard Sabertooth was buying a keg. He's going to spend the entire run looking vaguely confused and wondering when the strippers are coming.

ros_not_a_ho January 24 2006, 05:37:49 UTC

*facepalms and proceeds to bitchslapping Marvel*

I still can't help but hope JQ said it in joking sentiment. Why would they pull Cable off his own successful series? He's already gone the X-man route, so I'm hoping he's only guest starring for the Apocalypse issues. And Mystique and Sabretooth on the same team is a "been there, done that" scenario post 1990's X-Factor, though the snarking was cute.

You know I'll buy it too, but damn people!

On the other hand, Grandma could be getting what she wished for by having Sam paired up with the Mississippi Marauder instead since Remy is set to become Poccy's bitch. Rogue, I'm sure, will be in need of the consolation.

And Ro's still in Africa. Bitches.

projectileszg January 24 2006, 07:48:25 UTC

"No, ma'am! Bad enough being in the same book as this Triangle of Wrongness. Rogue and Ah are not going to be thrown together just because most people can't distinguish our accents."

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:38:46 UTC

"Indeed you won't! I'm saving you for Talia! appalled at the very suggestion."

What a bizarre lineup. "Two are unrepentant villains with a long history of losing to the X-Men. Two are former members of X-Force. Together, they fight crime!"

_steelmagnolia_ January 24 2006, 17:26:14 UTC

Let me see. The ex-lovers. Dysfunctional mother and daughter. The object of puppy love. Father and son figure. It sounds like an extremely dysfunctional family, is what is sounds like.

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thomas_small January 24 2006, 05:42:28 UTC

Ooooh, Marvel. Sucks verily. I'm betting Rav has an exterior motive. Because it's just TOO dumb, otherwise.

By the way, someone wants us to do the Two Problems Solve Other Ones again. Interested or do you think once was enough?

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:45:38 UTC

I hope she doesn't get the Magneto treatment. "This week, she's a compassionate mother who wants nothing more than to knit wooly sweaters. Next week, she MUST KILL ALL HUMANS." Based on her last appearance in X-Men (the shame of Foxx still burns) I'm not holding my breath.

I'd love to! It was a lot of fun the last time. I need to post Val's baby shower first. One condition, though. This time, we should agree to both give each question at least a token answer. I was feeling pretty swamped by the end last time around.

thomas_small January 24 2006, 18:19:18 UTC

Ugh. FOXX. You'd think a master seductress would try something on Gambit better than the uber-Goth jailbait hickeybiter. And the motivation was all 'the hell?' anyway. Seduce Gambit? Why not just kill Gambit, replace him, take the first chance to have her catch him shagging a student and pretend to be kicked out of the house? much more efficient, and it's not like she didn't have the chance.

I'm really sorry I stopped with my share halfway through. Rest assured it WON'T happen again, and may I mention, huzzah?!

ms_tique January 24 2006, 18:30:33 UTC

I spent the whole arc thinking, "pleaseletitnotbemystique" then just hung my head in shame when it was. I have to admit, there were some amusing moments of RP when I had to pull some kind of freakish justification for that out of Mystique's ass.

I think that's part of the fun of playing a currently active character. You may be moving in one direction with your RP, and then suddenly -bam- you're telling everyone some bizarre canon move was actually in your plan all along! At least Brubaker has a good reputation. Marvel apparently seduced him away from DC, where he was supposed to be well liked. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Huzzah! We should find an unanswered question from the end of the last one (I still can't believe how many people wrote in! That rocked!) to kick this one off. If there aren't any funny enough ones, I'm good with making up a sample to start the post. I think that helped get people into the spirit of the thing.

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ghostofmuir January 24 2006, 05:55:45 UTC

Moira is currently screaming in my head that she will HAUNT them. She will damn well HAUNT THEM ALL!

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:47:26 UTC

I can't help but notice Cable, Sabertooth, and Mystique are all over 50. They're old enough to actually remember Moira, even with the joy that is MarvelTimeTM. At least they'll know who's haunting them.

spiral2darkness January 24 2006, 07:23:28 UTC

*groan!* With all the other crap they've done, why am I not surprised!

It's times like these that I remember why I no longer collect or buy any X-Men titles ~_~.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:49:50 UTC

Aww... I bitch, but I still remain a tiny bit optimistic that they'll surprise me. Comic books are my soap operas. Convoluted plot twists and ridiculous relationships are par for the course. I just hope that this new guy can tell a good story while they're at it.

(... and that Raven doesn't get her ass kicked by kindergartners again in the near future. :D )

ghostofmuir January 24 2006, 15:41:08 UTC

That wasn't really Raven, anyway. That was some weird alternate-universe Raven, in a world where Power Pack are still that young. They have, elsewhere, actually been shown to grow up.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 18:33:45 UTC

Wait - some Marvel kids who aren't stuck in a permanant timewarp? Did they rescue poor Franklin Richards while they were at it? :)

Honestly, what little I've seen of the whole thing was pretty cute. I also respect the idea that Marvel's trying to make some part of their lineup appeal to younger readers. After all, the only reason I'm a Marvel Girl instead of DC's little girl-gone-wild is Marvel's what my stepfather brought home when I was growing up, so that's the line I got into reading. I've heard great things about many DC titles for years, but I don't want to make the financial investment in a whole new line of comics.

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