Graymalkin’s End!Comics in this thread:>Uncanny X-Men #29>Cyclops #5>Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #5>Wade Wilson: Deadpool #5>X-Men of Apocalypse #4
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>”When you were lucid. When you were medicated. We were friends.”Yeah, but he was meant to be dead after that.
>”But imagine if I had an entire prison population to assist me? Enough power to remake the world, Monet.”Yeah, no. Unless Mister M somehow ended up here, you're not remaking shit.
>>154023070People are gonna get mad at Storm: EMM #5
So Monet was working with the X-Men the whole time? But then why did Rogue suggest sending people to Graymalkin again?
I don’t know why, but something tells me that the first panel seems to have been designed with the idea that someone would crop it and then unironically use it as a reaction image against A.I. stuff.
Quicksilver!
Good thing that we could already tell that the Fake New Mutants were also created by Perimeter, or else this would be really awkward.
Oh, Jubilee just solo’d the rest of the Fake New Mutants that easily?
Wait, Omega Red is still in Graymalkin? But then how was he appearing in Spider-Man & Wolverine?
What the fuck, Banshee? And we're also following up on the Hellfire Vigil moment with him and Siryn?
So we introduced Banshee into the comic only to have him immediately defeat Corinna the next page?
Tasting the snikt is really all it took to take him out?>”Then we’re ordering some decent food. How’s pizza sound?”Monet, you’re rich. Just buy them actual food, now is not the time for pizza.
>”Dr. Ellis has some burns and broken bones. She’ll live.”Of course she fucking survived. We’re still not free of her.>Monet and Pietro are temporarily taking over leadership of the X-MenI'm actually fine with this. Would have been better though if they had built that up a bit more.
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And now for Cyclops.
After revisiting the orphanage where he grew up - which was about to be torn down and replaced by a Roxxon data center - Scott’s trip back to the Factory was suddenly disrupted when his Quinjet was shot down. The evacuation turned out to be disastrous as Scott accidentally hit his head while parachuting, breaking his visor and leaving him blind, with no way to contact the X-Men. His only hope for survival came in the form of a mutant named Mei (not to be confused with Maystorm), who revealed to Scott that she was one of many mutant teens kidnapped by Donald Pierce to mine for a metal in a nearby mountain and that it was Pierce's new Reavers who had shot down the Quinjet while hunting for her after her escape. Together, they ventured back to the wreckage in search of Scott’s glasses so he could regain his sight and shut down the mining operation. Sadly, by the time they reached the crash site, the glasses had already been smashed and two of the Reavers were waiting to ambush them. Mei used the skills Scott had just taught her to defend herself, but she accidentally killed one of the Reavers and fled in terror, only to get promptly recaptured by Pierce. Scott, being finally fed up with this shit, opened his eyes and blasted the remaining Reaver, and scrapped him for parts. He then forced the Reaver to act as his sight and his mechanical limbs for weapons and traps to get rid of the rest of the Reavers. But even with no Reavers left to defend him, can Scott, Mei, and the rest of the teens defeat Pierce now that he has finally found the metal he was looking for?
Oh yes, apparently Paknadel is having an interview with AiPT regarding this miniseries today. I’ll probably post it here once it comes out.
>>154023169>>154023173How did this become Man With Peacock Tattoo 2.0?
Okay, so it wasn’t actually Adamantine that he was looking for as I thought last time, it was Uru. In my defense, Adamantine is also referred to as “Metal of the Gods” and Pierce was possessed by it in Wolverine, so I just assumed it was just that.Instead, we end up with another X-Book that is affected by the events of Immortal Thor #25.
Now he finally has the power to finally accomplish the one thing he has always wanted to do: invading and taking over Albania!
Surprised that they instantly recognized Scott, but I assume they could tell it was him by looking at the pouches.
Tearjerker got RIPped. None of us really cared for him either way.
Let’s do this.
Teenage mutant miners to the rescue!
Get fucked Pierce.
>Tearjerker was still alive and is now going to steal Pierce’s name and partsLet’s see if this will be brought up anywhere…
Now that I think about it, couldn’t the X-Men have just used Cerebro to locate Scott?
And now for Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant.
Following the end of the Thunder War, Storm imprisoned the thunder god Susanoo in a pocket dimension for attempting to force her to assist with his ritual suicide, or else he would destroy Earth. In response, Susanoo’s war general Akujin destroyed the city Biarritz in France and threatened Storm to release him or else. The Scarlet Witch - who has been investigating a murder where the heads of a couple had mysteriously exploded - tells Storm that she should take Akujin’s deal, but Storm responds by basically telling her to fuck off and relocating the Storm Sanctuary from Atlanta to Biarritz. Unfortunately for her, a mutant from Biarritz ends up being murdered inside the Sanctuary, similar to the way the couple had been killed. Before Storm could find out who had done it, she was teleported away to the edge of the DC universe(!?) by a variant of Storm’s mom N’Dare. Alt-N'Daré revealed that the reason why she had done this is because Earth-616 was dying, and that there was no option but to just let it happen and then attempt to recreate it again. Storm refused to accept that, which made Alt-N'Daré teleport her through the Omniverse and to Earth-61391, where Storm met a grown-up Furaha who decided to help her get back to her universe.While all of this has been happening, the FBI have been working on Project Galacta, Death and her new avatar Doctor Voodoo have been killing all life and recruiting the wraiths of dead beings to add to her army for her war against TOAA, while Akujin and her sisters have been preparing a large-scale invasion on Earth and attempted to get the Olympians Hades, Persephone and Hera on their side by using the Elysium as an entry point for their attack, but ended up killing them when they refused. How in the absolute hell will any of these plotlines conclude in a single 20 page issue? Let’s find out.
Again with these cringe sound effects.
>>154023076Bump
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Dude, it’s not worth bringing back Eternity on the very last issue of this mini.
>Galacta fucking killed Armor off-panelThe hell? She has only been making a handful appearances throughout this run, and it was all so that she could get killed?
>Storm got help from Brother Voodoo’s brother to resurrect Storm and she was the reason to behind the mysterious murdersCouldn’t you have revealed this like in Issue #3 instead?
Don’t fucking involve Arakko into this bullshit Ayodele.
Why the hell are things escalating even more? We’re halfway into the last issue and Storm is still not doing anything to stop this.
>he’s still doing these fucking title pages, even on the last issueKill me Pete.
>>154023291>first ruins Galacta by making her a glowie>now kills ArmorWtf
Wow, it wasn’t enough to waste page time with one conversation, now we need to have another.
And we’re back to this random mutant from Issue #2.
>>154023173If Pietro becomes a mainstay I might finally be interested in this book. Missed that guy like you wouldn't believe.
>All plotlines got fucking resolved off-panel in a single pageI knew that the ending was going to be disappointing and rushed as shit, but WOW. I genuinely hope that this is Ayodele's last issue, because how the fuck can you end your run like this?
And now for Wade Wilson: Deadpool.
It’s the end of the first arc! Previously, Wade finally revealed to us what had happened to Ellie months ago before the events of the series, while he was stuck in the back of the trunk of Hammerhead’s car. Hammerhead and his mooks decided to go kill Blind Al since Wade refused to give anything up about how the omens worked. Despite Al’s attempt to defend herself by blowing up one of the mooks with liquid nitrogen, Hammerhead ends up pistol-whipping her and stealing her diary. Wade finally ends up freeing himself and saves Al from her burning apartment, and Al tells him that they have to stop Hammerhead and that she knows where he is - because she’s the one behind the omens, and her diary contains all of the omens that she has written down! But how is she seeing them? And why is the last page of her diary torn?
>”On New Year’s, I woke up with a head full of predictions.”Okay. I have 2 questions then.1. If I understand this, you don’t actually have any real future sight powers like Destiny has, you just got an infodump of things that will happen by some unknown source (ie. similar to Layla Miller). That means that you knew that Hammerhead and his mooks were going to attack you, and that you were going to blow up one of the mooks >>153550557 >>153550561. Given that the omens aren’t set in stone and it’s fully possible to prevent the outcome, couldn’t you have made sure that Wade (or anyone else, really) was aware of this in the first place?2. If you only got the knowledge of when things will happen, how exactly have you been sending the omens to Wade and making sure that they get to him? Or did you actually know that you were going to send Wade an omen by putting it inside a bottle that gets thrown into the sea, that then ends up getting swallowed by a shark, which is then fished up by a boat where Wade just happens to be on?
Wade you damn moron. Let her fucking finish, she knows more than you do.
>>154023118X-Men comics are finally good again
key snikt
Time to send you to another world, Hammerhead.
>misseddammit
Blind Al still got to the place. Let’s hope nothing bad ends up happening to her…
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>>154023273>SHEER AURA
>The omen that was torn from the diary was that Blind Al was going to save WadeAw. That was actually kinda cute. Still ended pretty rushed though.
And now for X-Men of Apocalypse.
Three months ago, the XoA got split up and thrown into the Savage Land at two different periods in time so that they could continue looking for M'Kraan crystal shards. While Team A (Forge, Blink, Morph and Wild Child) ended up in Savage Land during X-Men #116 and met Wolverine and Storm, Team B (Gambit, Nate and Creed) ended up in Savage Land during Uncanny X-Men #269-274 and met Rogue and Magneto. Once Team B got their crystal shard, they were about to teleport back and reunite with Team A, but before they did that Gambit stopped Nate and asked him what had happened to Rogue and why she was in the Savage Land. Nate tells Gambit that Rogue’s mind was broken due to her encounter with Ms. Marvel, and that they couldn’t alter her mind in any way without causing massive changes in the timeline. Gambit’s response? Going literally rogue and travelling back in time around the events of Marvel Super-Heroes #11/Avengers Annual #10 to meet up with Rogue, (who was in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants at the time) and offer her help to…kill Ms. Marvel!?
>>154023341This loser of a writer really couldn't accept he only got a mini and still tried to make a huge cosmic plot just wank Storm more
Oh dear, I hope something bad won't come of this...
>The rest of the XoA are now in the present day Graymalkin (before this issue of Uncanny X-Men)Wait, what the hell?
>"After all we've been through, you're questioning my judgment?"Dude, just let him fetch Gambit back before he does something that you can't undo.
Destiny and Mystique are also here now.
>"Destiny foresaw you coming to this time period."Of course she foresaw that the AU version of Rogue's future husband that she hates would travel to this moment and destroy shit.
>"I need to make sure Rogue stays away from you."Carol what the hell!? The cover was only meant to be bait!
Oh well, Nate returned with another continuity mindwipe for everyone again.
>>154023133>>154023154>>154023169So who else was in Graymalkin?Sebastian ShawDazzlerTommyStacy-XJohnny Dee (tentacle chest dude)That big fucker with the huge eyebrow horns, whose that again?
Alright, the entire team is now in the present. Now what?
Wait, why the hell is AoA Sinister and Holocaust here now?
I started reading the 1963 series to prepare for this, I should be caught up in about 10 years.
>>154023258>look at me>at I am the Donald now
>Forge was working for Sinister and Holocaust all along, and the entire reverse Legion Quest was bait and it was always going to be another multiversal invasionWhat the hell man?Only the Omega issue left. Will there actually be any massive consequences that will affect the current X-Books as they hinted at? Or will all of these issues released on a bimonthly-ish schedule have been nothing but a waste of everyone’s time? We’ll just have to wait and see…
Next week: X-Men #31, Bishop #1, Wolverine #21.And that's it! If you liked these, support your LCS or whatever.
>>154023127>>154023137Did Ellis' bodyguard do anything?"go save some lives"Disappears
>>154023130That butt is very adorable.
>>154023107The problem with putting old designs next to new ones is that the old ones look more appealing and uniform.
>>154023094In what way? The entire book is eyerolling BLACK KWEEN powerlevel bullshit that nobody actually buys. Does she punch out the Living Tribunal while posing imperiously and talking down to it? Meh, it's expected at this point.
>>154023270>accursed universeAbsolute Batman is still kicking your ass
>>154023340Pietro at least has actual experience training kids. It'll suck because this book sucks but he'll probably be the best part of it.
>>154023632Look as long as Pietro is a bit of a dick and at no point do they pretend that he considers Magneto to be a good father or person then I'll be happy
>>154023259>>154023264Nah fuck this Mei should have joined up. Why does Logan get all the young girl proteges?
>>154023264Cool little story.
>>154023681Same reason to how Psylocke's solo ended with a bunch of Hand child assassins also staying at the Factory, only to never be brought up again: MacKay is not playing ball with the solos featuring the characters of the team (we still don't know if Glob is still going to be appearing even after Infernal Hulk #7)
>>154023169All this time setting up Inmate X as the X-Men's next big mystery box as he jobs out in a single fightSomebody get THE CONDUCTOR OF X out of the fucking kitchen
>>154023188Because this book feels like an awful mish mash of what Gail wants to write (Neo Nu New Mutants) and what Editorial wants (popular team and the mutant prison storyline)
>>154023173>Monet becoming a mainstayYES
>>154023291>FBI claiming jurisdiction of private property in FranceAnd didn't even show a warrant.
>>154023169>>154023173That was terrible.Also, Mutina is friendly now even when the whammy is gone?
>>154024327One asskicking by Kurt was enough to set her on the path to redemption.
>>154024201Infernal Hulk might as well be it's own thing
>>154023264this is trying to look tough but it genuinely looks like Scott is going the wrong fucking way.
>>154023340But Quicksilver isn’t a mutant.
>>154023490This series is an even bigger waste of everyone's time than Batman: H2SH
>>154024362But like... She's still a semi-celebrity trying to profit off of anti-mutant xenophobia
>>154023361>MCMCU
>>154024681Don't read uncanny, so she still hasn't been exposed publicly? That'll go well "Nonononono, that footage? All AI-generated! "
This reads like a "best of" nostalgia party for X-men.
>>154023308Looks like Armor is barely still alive
>>154024548I don't care. We don't get real Avengers books anymore so it's not like he's gonna show up there any time soon
>>154023341I’m sorry.What?
>>154023428Why is everything so sparkly?
>>154023341this is like the Marvel version of a REALLY bad U-19 Shonen Jump manga
>>154023470Black haired Rogue is cute.
>>154023193Weird that X-Men is the line most affected by events happening in a Thor Book
>>154024994And it still got nominated for an Eisner award somehow.
>>154023291They meant glowies killed someone the first time they visited, I think. Armor's fine
>>154023291Another armor jobbing
>>154023291ugly ass Galacta design
>>154023296Aiiieee not a sword made of ice
>>154023341Did the demon bitches just fail and die on their way to earth? Did Death just give up?
>>154023340>>154023632Same. Still not really sure how I feel about him and Monet as a couple (seemed to happen just because) but I'll take it
>>154023341I genuinely want another writer to do a Storm solo and retcon this entire thing as dumb dream she had
Have the masses finally woken up about how meh Simone's book actually is or are they still just sucking it up since its "Uncanny"?
So who is the father of storms daughter
>>154025831Me
>>154023338>>154023341>How did it end>storm solo'd all the multiversal threats It highlights how this and previous books were all just Murewa powerwanking Storm. Hopefully it just gets ignored. Especially with this StormWinsLol ending. This makes Cates's Thor glazing look tame.
People like Monet?
>>154026039I don't She insists upon herself
>>154025610That’ll be racist anon…..
>>154023259Doesn't this book take place over all of two days, I don't think the X-Men even realized he had crashed before he called them saying he'd killed a bunch of reavers.
Galacta bros, how we feeling right now?
What did we learn from all of this? DC assfucked marvel and the assfuck will continue til all of the fags at Marvel are fired and blacklisted from the industry.>>154026258Joe Kelly And Brevoort should be fired?
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>>154023464'tiqued>>154023473well that's weird, did loeb run out of pages or somethingcarol had no idea who or what rogue was until rogue ambushed her outside her home
>>154023133Either one could be a clone. Maybe both.
>>154025119I remember the letter page of Iron Man mentioned that Thor appearing in a display was reader's benefit and in-universe they would be seeing Beta Ray Bill instead currently, so presumably it is a difference between editorials' views of "aim for working without context" or "tie into newest and greatest thing"
Monet isn't brown enough in this.
>>154023112Haven't read in awhile, mutina joined the team? Neat
>>154023341Might as well just said "and the adventure continues".
>>154023118hmm know I'm curious and M vs Rogues power level.
>>154023291Wasn't she black? Thank god she didn't end up being another nigger, but it's still dogshit she got retconned into this fucking comic of all.
>>154024681She's on the path, not over the finish line.
>>154023346Wade covers:Wade Wilson: Deadpool #5 Chad Hardin VariantWade Wilson: Deadpool #5 Gurihiru Marvel Soccer VariantWade Wilson: Deadpool #5 Peter Scanlan Magic: the Gathering VariantWade Wilson: Deadpool #5 1:25 Paco Medina VariantWade Wilson: Deadpool #5 1:50 Peter Scanlan Magic: the Gathering Virgin Variant
>>154023416This book got the best variant coversX-Men of Apocalypse #4 Arthur Adams VariantX-Men of Apocalypse #4 Joe Madureira VariantX-Men of Apocalypse #4 Mark Brooks Animated-Style VariantX-Men of Apocalypse #4 1:25 Chris Campana Variant
>>154023137nah man, I'm not feeling this suddenly Corina and her goons are sympathetic and not that bad crap.
>>154028677They had a name plate for her"Gail Arakawa" which sounds Japanese-American
Uncanny coversUncanny X-Men #29 Dan Brereton Magic: the Gathering VariantUncanny X-Men #29 Germán Peralta VariantUncanny X-Men #29 Jonas Scharf Marvel Soccer VariantUncanny X-Men #29 1:25 Matteo Lolli VariantUncanny X-Men #29 1:50 Dan Brereton Magic: the Gathering Virgin Variant
>>154023070>Who's been sleeping in my bed?giwtwm
>>154023341If Marvel's smart or even just of moderately subhuman intelligence, they'll immediately pretend like nothing in this or the previous series happened or explain it away as literal in-universe fanfiction or something, then blacklist this retard from ever writing for them again.
>>154029297He was good on another story he wrote. Just that all the blood went from his brains while writing Storm.
>>154023341This and the previous one were abysmal dogshit, the fucking powerscale of mystery nigga gods and demons over other pantheons, stormwanking, FBIwanking, all was fucking trash.
Im black and i just wanted to come in here to tell you all I hate fucking storm she is fucking lame and I hope she dies. Monet is a better character.
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>>154023259I don't get this he's suddenly back to 20 years ago characterization like rightclops never happened. Why are they all a bunch of softies after krakoa instead of being fucking pissed. He should've fragged Pierce, dude literally promised to kill more mutants again, magneto would have.
>>154025632Its been spinning wheels for over a year. "masses" is like a few thousand people in this context.
>>154023169>>154023173Do this graymalkin shit that has been built up since #1 was resolved in...2 issues ? We had the whole dumb shit about muh satellite that would destroy your home base if BOTH X-Men team were to attack,only for it to be resolved by one team in less than a day....That's some stellar writing.
>>154030495Yeah I hate that arc, cyke and mags shouldn't have been letting that place stay open torturing their friends for a day let alone 2 and half years. At least come up with a better excuse since there's about a dozen people they know that could clean up a satellite in about 5 minutes.
>>154029193That gambit one looks pretty cool at least. Shame about the writer
>>154029698Honestly I thought that's what the whole point of the split team was. Gambit's crew being the softer more idealist ones that wanted to try Chucks dream of integration after Krakoa was a bust, and Cyclops' team doubling down on isolationist tendencies, it's kind of dumb both are basically the same book at this point
>>154031128cyclops sending strongly worded letters to the people trying to kill them is more extreme than rogue actively working with them.
>>154023341>Brevoort edited this and unironically thought that it was okay for Ayodele to get away with literally wasting the readers' time and resolve everything off-panel at the very last page while leaving all of his plotlines from the last series looseI can already tell that the shills are going to flood the AiPT interview to make sure no one can actually properly whack this fucker
>>154023308>Hadad, Galactus and Knullthere's no way Apocalypse survived that fight
>>154023264Fuck, this book was worth it just for that line.
>>154023133>Omega Red is still in Graymalkin? But then how was he appearing in Spider-Man & Wolverine?wasn't that a standalone thing, not really tied to whatever is the 2026 continuity?
>>154023278thats a salamander
>>154028621I took that page as monet sucking herself off, which she does, a lot. Rogue has always been the stronger of the two, classic flying brick rogue at least. Monet's weird ass powers has always felt like a low level telekinetic that put 80 percent of their points on invulnerably and flight and put what was left over on strength.
>>154033624I'm trying to think of Monet's strength featsThere was fighting some Hell Lords in X-Factor but she diedThere was trading a few blows with Worldbreaker Hulk but he just punted her to New Jersey and she didn't make it back before the fight endedShe speed blitzed Amora the Enchantress onceNothing else seems memorable
>>154023169>almost 3 years of buildup and a shitty event>gets snikted
>>154023076>>154023127Why are these fags suddenly pretending to care about the prisoners lives when we've seen they didn't give a shit if they died from the sentry dogs?
>>154023258Hope this guy will at least be grateful for Scott in keeping him alive and basically be the one who's let him get all these good parts.
>>154029592Galacta taking Hisako to Marvel Rivals
>>154035382and by marvel rivals we mean the Rape Cave
>>154036211Galacta's a dolphin?
>>154029150The Arthur Adams and Joe Madureira Variants are great. This series had some of best recent X-Men covers for some reason.
>>154023341>>154023437Yeah it's so painfully obvious that Ayodele tried to cram every single idea and plan he had for a longer series into 5 issuesOn the one hand, I can respect him having and keeping to his vision of the story, no matter how detrimental it would be to its executionBut on the other hand, fuck man, sometimes you just need to play with the hand you're dealt and just restructure your story into something that'd actually work with the amount of issues you haveI can't bring myself to hate it, but I certainly can't I'd ever recommend it