GIANT-SIZE X-POSITION: The "Uncanny" Brian Bendis - Part 1

[SoupStainedTie]

Yeah, I know about Ernst. But the character has just been forgotten by every writer since Whedon.

Wood is probably using Cassandra. Lowe said to watch for her this year. NEXT

I hope Wood decides to use Ernst as Cassandra and retcon Whedon.

It'd be a nice to surprise after keeping Ernst around at the school all these years when they could have so easily just had her killed, depowered, or disappear.

[darknessatnoon]

I hope Wood decides to use Ernst as Cassandra and retcon Whedon.

It'd be a nice to surprise after keeping Ernst around at the school all these years when they could have so easily just had her killed, depowered, or disappear.

Carey wanted to use her in Supernovas, but it was overruled when Whedon finally told the editors what his story was about.

[Colin7]

So it's confirmed that Xavier is hitching a ride in Magnus head then.

Wow, I didn't catch that in his answer, and I am not reading Uncanny X-Men. But I am reading Uncanny Avengers, and Red Skull has used Xavier's brain to give himself Xavier's mutant powers. I would think that might have prevented a download of Xavier's consciousness into Magneto, but I am probably wrong. That is actually a really cool idea!

[MartinRedmond]

I hope Wood decides to use Ernst as Cassandra and retcon Whedon.

It'd be a nice to surprise after keeping Ernst around at the school all these years when they could have so easily just had her killed, depowered, or disappear.

Jean was teaching her the alphabet, love & friendship. They know who she is.

[Phoenetik]

I hope Wood decides to use Ernst as Cassandra and retcon Whedon.

It'd be a nice to surprise after keeping Ernst around at the school all these years when they could have so easily just had her killed, depowered, or disappear.

I hope so too! That was one of the greatest and most beautiful revelation in Morrison's run in my eyes. Such a wonderful idea and it shows what Charles Xavier really was all about and stood for!!! In this decision he showed how much he trusted and loved the human race that he even gave the monster Cassandra Nova a second chance! That's brilliant! Unfortunately Marvel after Morrison sucks and they never came back to this amazing idea and even tried to retcon it. This is basically the same story Uncanny X-Force were telling with Genesis. I hope some good writer will come up with Cassandra being Ernst again and give her some deserved screen time.

It would be great to see her reaction after she will find out that she is the worst creature ever lived on earth. But I guess it is too close to Genesis story and they will not go this root. Maybe both should hook up and start a club. lol Teenage Jean Grey a.k.a. little Dark Phoenix can also join.

p.s. how sad it is to remember how great, complex and deep Morrison's X-Men have been and that nobody of the X-Men writer is as good as him at the moment........

[MartinRedmond]

Yes,Cassandra murdered millions, but she didnt start a riot at school. So no life sentence for her.

[blanchett]

I've actually liked most of Bendis comics. I even liked House of M up until the end. Morrision and Bendis both wrote genocides but Morrison's actually had a real world context. There was no real world context to Decimation's act of god moment, curing people of being "different" was to me bordering on offensive and could only relate to praying the gay away. It was totally contrary to the concept of the X-Men. Just like with One More Day, the problem with Decimation wasn't the goal it was the execution. There were far better way to diminish the mutant population than having Wanda act out of character and say "no more mutants" and by far better I mean Morrison's approach. I'm not saying that to slate Bendis. I actually thought Uncanny X-Men #1 was fantastic, All new so so.

[Deus ex Chris]

Yes,Cassandra murdered millions, but she didnt start a riot at school. So no life sentence for her.

No, the unkillable psychic force of nature was brainwashed and set under the watch of the two most powerful minds on the planet instead. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

[Pixie_Solanas]

And Beast is now an illuminati member, starring in the illuminati comic book.

He just went from Clear to Operating Thetan in one fell swoop.

[Talisman]

All Bendis has said in the interview, in summary, is "wait and see". We're waiting. All-New X-Men is the best X-Men book in years, but Uncanny felt odd, unfortunately. Let's hope it can pick up the pace.

.............wtf is this?

So it's confirmed that Xavier is hitching a ride in Magnus head then.

basically

Non-pure mutants? Let's work on that terminology. Anyway, curious to see what Bendis has planned for the Kitty/Illyana relationship. Aaron handled it greatly by having Pryde throw her friendship with Rachel right back in her face.

And rightfully so.

That kind of misses his point though, because Native Americans didn't screw over other people to take the land. In fact, they were the opposite. Tribes had no problem moving elsewhere in the continent when there was conflict.

Also, I had no idea the Celestials are now responsible for the X-gene, but I quite like that explanation. It fixes what was really a lazy explanation of super-powers from the otherwise talented Lee and Kirby.

Really? That's been hinted at for decades.

[Kaiolino]

I've actually liked most of Bendis comics. I even liked House of M up until the end. Morrision and Bendis both wrote genocides but Morrison's actually had a real world context. There was no real world context to Decimation's act of god moment, curing people of being "different" was to me bordering on offensive and could only relate to praying the gay away. It was totally contrary to the concept of the X-Men. Just like with One More Day, the problem with Decimation wasn't the goal it was the execution. There were far better way to diminish the mutant population than having Wanda act out of character and say "no more mutants" and by far better I mean Morrison's approach. I'm not saying that to slate Bendis. I actually thought Uncanny X-Men #1 was fantastic, All new so so.

To be fair, the Decimation was Quesada's idea to pave the way for the Avengers-centric MU.

[Mr. Holmes]

To be fair, the Decimation was Quesada's idea to pave the way for the Avengers-centric MU.

Yeah pretty obvious Decimation was an edict macguffin.

[semicyon]

Spider-Man's marriage and too many mutants were two of the three "genies", IIRC, that Quesada publicly stated that he wanted to put back in their bottles (i.e. undo) during his reign as EiC. I don't blame Bendis for that resolution of House of M. The push to displace X-Men with Avengers as Marvel's flagship franchise is also more Quesada's publishing decision with Bendis as the hired gun. But, that's probably part of the problem with his Avengers for me: it seemed to be just a job that he shoe-horned to his writing style/sensibilities. The banter and street-level stuff is beautiful to see in Ultimate Spider-Man or Powers or Alias but graceless for me in his Avengers work. It "feels" more appropriate for the X-Men with their family of outsiders and long history of soap operatics. Just hope he spends more time making sure that not everyone falls into the same Bendis speaking cadence and changing concepts/backstories so glaringly like Noh-Varr or the Beyonder.

[Rotis09]

I've actually liked most of Bendis comics. I even liked House of M up until the end. Morrision and Bendis both wrote genocides but Morrison's actually had a real world context. There was no real world context to Decimation's act of god moment, curing people of being "different" was to me bordering on offensive and could only relate to praying the gay away. It was totally contrary to the concept of the X-Men. Just like with One More Day, the problem with Decimation wasn't the goal it was the execution. There were far better way to diminish the mutant population than having Wanda act out of character and say "no more mutants" and by far better I mean Morrison's approach. I'm not saying that to slate Bendis. I actually thought Uncanny X-Men #1 was fantastic, All new so so.

Are you for real here? Okay she suffered from an extreme mental break. That wasn't out of character for a character who accidentally created events that killed off 3 of her teammates. Wanda had a history of losing her mind and tapping into her immense powers resulting in something terrible. And I love how you say her erasing a genome is comparable to a genocide. At least most of the ex-mutants survived. To me Morrison took the much more horrifying approach and House of M did something unique with far reaching consequences. Genosha is rarely mentioned at all because every important character on Genosha survived while HoM led directly to AvX over half a decade later.

[semicyon]

Are you for real here? Okay she suffered from an extreme mental break. That wasn't out of character for a character who accidentally created events that killed off 3 of her teammates. Wanda had a history of losing her mind and tapping into her immense powers resulting in something terrible. And I love how you say her erasing a genome is comparable to a genocide. At least most of the ex-mutants survived. To me Morrison took the much more horrifying approach and House of M did something unique with far reaching consequences. Genosha is rarely mentioned at all because every important character on Genosha survived while HoM led directly to AvX over half a decade later.

House of M was a weird combination of the widest and kindest culling of mutant characters in the X-Men's long history of weeding out characters. The Mutant Massacre, Legacy Virus, Genosha, were all much more violent and "permanent" resolutions but their effect didn't really stop the proliferation of new mutants that continually makes the X-Men franchise a daunting property for new readers to get into... a LOT of backstory for the existing characters and there's always the threat of a new batch of mutants for readers to keep track of. There was interesting and long-lasting fallout to the previous mutant cullings but House of M did really create some new stories about nation formation, a siege mentality, etc. that the other ones did not.

And, yeah, Wanda has gone bad/crazy almost as often as her sister, Polaris: In Transia when possessed by Chthon; her possession by That Which Endures; her freakout due to Immortus' machinations and the dismantling of the Vision, her time as a Bride of Set. Sure, it was all due to the work of others but it seems that all of his children have not only inherited mutant powers from Magneto but mental instability.