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In which “Astonishing X-Men” is something of a misnomer; Death has a good look; sometimes you just need a guy who swoops; Miles stops worrying and learns to love Nate Grey; Telekinesis is silly looking; “Wolverine” dies; and nothing really changes.
X-PLAINED:
- Astonishing X-Men (miniseries)
- Ambience
- Nina (again)
- Mannites (again)
- The third-best way to get out of awkward conversations
- The Hulkbuster base
- Bastion (again)
- Bastion’s worst nightmare
- Death (a new one)
- Fiddly bits
- Cable’s Psimitar
- Telekinetic snowboarding
- Headcase
- Darco
- Glub
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Grace
- Totem
- Things to do with a severed head
- The Changing
- The (apparent) death of Wolverine
- How to salvage this miniseries
- Hypothetical X-crossovers
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I can confirm that in Marvel vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, “psimitar” is just pronounced “scimitar.” I THINK that’s the only time it’s ever been named in a voiced medium, but it’s totally possible it happened somewhere I didn’t see.
The Inhumans were once positioned to supplant the X-Men. Is there an article or something about all the attempts at next big things that failed?
I don’t know if anyone here has read Livewires. It’s a mini-series that is theoretically a follow-up to the Mannites, although they’re just referenced in passing (however, it technically goes into their backstory). It’s irrelevant for X-Men history, but it’s worth checking out.