X-Men Deadly Genesis #1- Finally time for this MODERN MASTERPIECE
- I'm not a fan of the artist. It's very much in line with the mid-'00s depressing house style
- I'm pretty sure there was an entire New Avengers arc about how the mutants' energy went into Weapon Omega, but I guess there's leftover for our third Summers brother
- Vulcan already a petulant crybaby in his first appearance
- Nightcrawler's flashback gets a much needed update as he's now chased by people with guns instead of literal pitchforks. Funnily enough, Marvel would get back to the pitchforks in future flashbacks of this scene
- I remember when Kitty and Emma were fun together instead of Kitty screeching that she's a mass-murdering villain all the time
- Shout-out to Emma's pigtails!
- Wish Colossus was back to being a corpse
- Oh now some of them are carrying pitchforks again
- Rachel would never refer to Jean as anything other than "mom"
- Her stupidity is in-character though
- I really hate how this artist draws hair
- Scott should be immune to his own optic blasts
- lol edited by Paniccia
- What was the point of these backups except showing that Petra and Sway are better characters than those who survived?
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2- We are #blessed by the artist already needing fill-ins
- Beast sucks for interrupting a Kitty rant
- Bru's Emma is pretty good
- Wouldn't Scott notice he's not wearing his visor immediately
- When was the last time Kitty's technological prowess was mentioned (and I'm not talking about Guggs' fucking fluent binary bs)
- Havok's such a tool AGAIN
- This is where the Kitty/Havok feud started
- Imagine being told to fuck off by BEAST
- Havok the cuck
- Banshee's death is one of the dumbest things ever (didn't even manage to protect the plane) and it is unbelievable that he's still not really back
- Darwin cool powers lame backstory Matthew Vaughn is a criminal
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X-Men Deadly Genesis #3- lol "we'll mourn Sean later"
- DID THEY?
- Vulcan's just the worst
- Brubaker's um, problematic treatment of women is on full display in this issue
- Sway, gone too soon
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X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4- Wait, why would Vulcan want to destroy the evidence of Xavier being a piece of shit
- Vulcan should never have dropped the "Kid" from his codename
- How would Vulcan know Xavier was affiliated with the X-Men at this point in time?
- Xavier such a terrifying person for influencing these kids like this
- Of course Xavier designed costumes with deep V's and boob cutouts
- Super convenient that Vulcan found his way to Earth
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X-Men: Deadly Genesis #5- Destroying that Sentinel is the only good thing Vulcan ever did
- Xavier not being a cripple anymore after M-Day never made sense
- Brubaker the first to really get to work on Emma being an abused stripper backstory
- Shaw also wasn't in charge yet of the Hellfire Club at this point
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6- So no explanation how the eff Vulcan got to Earth
- Also no real explanation for all the ghosts everyone was seeing at the start
- Sway being cut in half that's our Brubaker-sempai
- The reveal that Krakoa wasn't actually sentient was never referenced again. Hello Kid Krakoa!
- Darwin was living inside Vulcan all this time, hottt
- ...what was Kitty intending to do when she fastballed into Vulcan lmao
- Scott: Don't TOUCH me, motherfuuucker
- Shorter Vulcan: WAAAAAAAAAAH
- Whoa they actually did give Banshee a funeral
- lol why is Pietro there
- Charles Xavier a victim of cancel culture
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Arc conclusionPiece of shit, ill-conceived story that introduced a crappy villain and a mutant with cool powers but is such a lame character that he was relegated to the PAD ghetto only a few years later. I will say the characterization was on point for virtually everyone though.