New Cable Series

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:51:35 +0000, Dan McEwen wrote:

> grinningdemon <grinningdemon DeleteThis @austin.rr.com> wrote in
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>> On 31 Mar 2008 17:24:24 GMT, Dan McEwen <ferroSPAMboy DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>grinningdemon <grinningdemon DeleteThis @austin.rr.com> wrote in
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>>>> Didn't he have Nightcrawler's dad turn out to be Belasco so some such
>>>> bullshit? I only read it the one time as it came out so I may have
>>>> missed something.
>>>
>>>No, that was Witchfire from Alpha Flight. Nightcrawler's father was
>>>Azazel from a race of demon-like mutants who humans once mistook to be
>>>true demons.
>>
>> Oh...I'm still not seeing much of an improvement though.
>
> There isn't much improvement. IIRC, Mystique told the story and I don't
> see her as a bastion of truth. I'm sure the whole "demon" and "angel"
> mutants can be undone in a Xornetoesque story.

I don't know about that. "It wasn't him" doesn't work so well with the
"demon" story because there were so many "siblings" that resembled
Nightcrawler. Of course since it hasn't been mentioned since then it could
probably be put down to being a bad dream that Nightcrawler had. I suppose
you could also say "they were all skrulls."

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:17:09 -0500, Billy Bissette
<baines.TakeThisOut@coastalnet.com> wrote:

>grinningdemon <grinningdemon.TakeThisOut@austin.rr.com> wrote in
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>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:49:07 -0500, Billy Bissette
>> <baines.TakeThisOut@coastalnet.com> wrote:
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>>>grinningdemon <grinningdemon.TakeThisOut@austin.rr.com> wrote in
>>>news:lfj3v3holc03prnrcvsmtpqdjem669b9o0@4ax.com:
>>>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:35:22 -0500, Billy Bissette
>>>> <baines.TakeThisOut@coastalnet.com> wrote:
>>>>>Dan McEwen <ferroSPAMboy.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>news:Xns9A72438FF9E96McEwen@ 130.133.1.4:
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>>>>>> Didn't Emma use her diamond form quite a lot in Astonishing?
>>>>>
>>>>> It recently got mention in Uncanny, as well. When Emma and Scott
>>>>>were in the Savage Land, she mentioned being the only person that
>>>>>could look at Scott's eyes, because she could turn her own to
>>>>>diamond.
>>>>
>>>> As I said, it comes up occasionally...but not often.
>>>
>>> It hasn't really had a place to come up. Emma arguably hasn't
>>>been that active of late.
>>
>> So? All that means is that Morrison's secondary mutation for her
>> doesn't suit her character...which makes it even more difficult to
>> make use of her diamond form...it doesn't change the fact it rarely
>> comes up...there are just different reasons why it rarely comes up.
>
> It does suit her character.

No...it doesn't...it may suit her personality...but those very aspects
of her personality also make her ill-suited as a field
operative...she's always been more of a leader/manipulator and she
very rarely gets her hands dirty...the only reason Morrison gave her
the diamond power in the first place is to make her fit in a team that
already had two telepaths so he could play out his love triangle...it
never really made much sense, in my opinion.

>
> Emotionally, it ties with the idea of her being hard, sharp, and
>dangerous. Power-wise, it is a defense system both physically and
>mentally.
>
> Morrison used it more by having her pushed to a more aggressive
>point, which also worked with her now being on an active team of
>good guys in a world where you bash people over the head to bring
>them to justice, because mind-controlling them just doesn't look
>as visually appealing.
>
>
> Except now she has fallen back to just being a supporting role.
>She wasn't even a leader in New (kids) X-Men, despite being the
>main and often only authority figure of the book.
>
> Put her back in the middle of a small active team, and she'd
>have more use for diamond form again. She's no longer really
>"active", even when she is present. She's part of Uncanny, where
>she's been on vacation and now doing a stint as a detective,
>while Scott decides what kind of team they will even be. She's
>not even a factor in X-Force, beyond apparently being the one
>person that Scott most wants to hide X-Force from. I don't know
>what status she might have in Young, but if it is any, then it
>will likely be pretty much the same as it was in the previous
>book.

I have no doubt that they could force the diamond form into more
stories if they were so inclined but I don't think her character fits
the action role...I don't believe she belongs in the field...and the
fact that she is most often shown in a Prof. X-type teacher/director
role seems to suggest the current writers agree with me.