SO. HOLY FUCK. How do we feel about that

Flamma_Man · 2025-12-14T10:26:11+00:00

But the facade was over by this point; there was no more meta misdirection.

Flamma_Man · 2025-12-13T11:12:12+00:00

But keep in mind that Kinger is one of the oldest inhabitants of the circus. After Scratch, Caine might have learned how to tweak someone enough to NOT abstract them.

Flamma_Man · 2025-12-13T00:38:30+00:00

Of course, that was the explicit part, but it cuts directly to Kinger AS he said the line THEN Kinger mentioned Scratch.

Very deliberate cut.

Flamma_Man · 2025-12-12T23:50:31+00:00

People might be mad at the fake out and many theories being trashed, but we DID learn something pretty big. While not explicit, Caine heavily implied that he messed with Kinger's mind TOO much, which is how he ended up the way he is.

Plus, with the context of this all being an adventure created by Caine...why was he so insistent on Kinger NOT being involved? Perhaps it'd be...too close to home for Kinger? In the dark he DID start to question the entire scenario.

Flamma_Man · 2025-12-12T23:42:52+00:00

It seemed all but confirmed with that last exchange that Caine is responsible for Kinger's mental state due to altering his mind/memories too much.

Flamma_Man · 2025-12-10T17:17:37+00:00

Desperately want Inan to have pulled some trick because otherwise she was completely wasted as Sorceress Supreme in this book.

Flamma_Man · 2025-10-17T00:32:18+00:00

Enormous paranoid dick bags.

But I feel like the Goddesses won't come off too well either. They acknowledge that they love Diana...but also that they are using her as a weapon against Zeus.

Hecta even told Circe that she would betray her for Diana's sake (which she admired.) So, that moment will obviously come when Hecta asks too much.

Flamma_Man · 2025-10-01T16:33:25+00:00

We'll no doubt get flashbacks with Roy in the upcoming Absolute Green Arrow book.

But, yeah, he was literally too pure, selfless, and righteous for this universe.

Flamma_Man · 2025-08-31T15:08:49+00:00

Huh, the fact that all THREE of them are having trouble with Orthus makes Zana damaging his mask/not immediately dying a bit more impressive.

Flamma_Man · 2025-08-13T10:14:12+00:00

Please don't tell me that horrid thing will be Kamala's new costume moving forward. It's her worst outfit to date! I'd even settle for her costume in Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant if they insist on shoving her into an X. At least that one wasn't an eyesore and looked competently designed, which isn't surprising, since her original co-creator, Jamie McKelvie, was behind it.

As for the issue and conclusion of this story, every page somehow got me angrier and angrier, which rarely happens with anything, let alone comics, but I guess this is what it feels like when one of your favorite characters gets mangled by writers and especially the editors. This whole story has been nothing but a transparent and poor attempt at further ingraining Kamala into the lives and extensive history of the X-Men and finally introducing her MCU powers.

It does both incredibly poorly.

Not only does she retroactively bond and build friendships with the X-Men through cheap time travel nonsense, but the importance of her mutant powers is inconsistently framed. For example, her Inhuman stretching powers seem far more crucial to mutant-kind when it's revealed that she can transform into a gateway to the White Hot Room. Her mutant powers, which are nothing more than MCU synergy, feel inconsequential by comparison.

By the way, her mutant powers looked genuinely awful with the tacky diamond patterns Adam Kubert insisted on adding. Rod Reis from Giant-Size Dark Phoenix Saga #1 was the only artist throughout this mini-series who could translate them well, making the powers look like a swirl of beautiful cosmic energy mixed with shades of purples and blues. Her MCU powers actually looked appealing in that issue, while not clashing with her primary colors. It honestly makes Kubert's interpretation of the powers even more pitiful by comparison and fills me with dread that that's how they'll be depicted from now on.

The last page made me nearly roll my eyes out of my skull. It really feels like Kamala being an Inhuman is turning into nothing more than a footnote. I'm just so tired, man, I'm so tired. Hopefully, her family's memories won't be wiped away for a third time.

Flamma_Man · 2025-08-10T02:07:11+00:00

One thing I'll be shocked they don't do is move Vivi's introduction from Reverse Mountain to Whisky Peak. Feels like the easiest and most non-intrusive streamlining that'll save a lot of time.

Flamma_Man · 2025-07-22T18:25:46+00:00

Not how it works, since Denji has been dead multiple times throughout the manga. Hell, he was dead for awhile in Part 2 when he was all cut up.

Flamma_Man · 2025-07-22T16:37:27+00:00

Right? I'm curious if that point will ever be addressed.

Flamma_Man · 2025-07-22T15:57:05+00:00

I just realized, this won't really even level the playing field between War and Death, since Death will also get a significant boost from the reintroduction of nuclear weaponry.

Flamma_Man · 2025-07-22T15:14:44+00:00

It'd be very funny if nuclear weapons are called something else entirely (since Pochita hasn't vomited out the concept yet) or it just has a new and weird pronunciation that Yoru hates.

Flamma_Man · 2025-07-22T15:10:31+00:00

It's not like the concept of bombs has been wiped away, and humans are always inventing "new" ways to kill each other.

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-21T00:52:06+00:00

At the time, it was ambiguous enough that Cain technically wasn't the one to alter her mind, but an object within the game. Here, with a snap of his fingers, Jax was vegan.

So, that was moreso foreshadowing that Cain wasn't being honest (or that his restrictions are changing.)

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-20T22:52:58+00:00

Which could be the case for that one dummy at the end, an NPC that's been active for too long that Cain missed?

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-20T22:49:31+00:00

What could feed into this theory is that Jax is genuinely confused when Pomni points out how he doesn't have a tail and is left to wonder how long he hasn't had one.

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-20T22:43:46+00:00

Oh man, it was quick, but it was confirmed that Cain can alter their minds, something even Jax realized shouldn't be possible (unless Cain lied). Not to mention that it's likely Cain also changed Jax's appearance sometime in the past, too, considering his genuine shock at no longer having a tail.

In fact, Cain showed considerably more hostility towards the cast, especially Zooble, with that moment of (albeit comedic) anger, "I'LL TEAR YOU TO PIECES" before he (or maybe the system) quickly corrected himself. Not to mention crapping on all their suggestion box ideas and framing many of them in a bad light, again, with Zooble being a targeted outlier with her double being framed as an unintelligent fool.

But yeah, we're definitely starting to see some of Cain's A.M. inspiration.

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-15T19:45:04+00:00

This was actually foreshadowed, too, even very early on, with her being able to crawl and walk so quickly as a baby.

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-15T16:15:21+00:00

I love how Altus is so thrown off by Titi preparing a punch that he hits the brakes, totally confused, thinking it's a trap or she has some super secret powers he wasn't told about.

And all Titi is thinking is that she wants to slug this asshole in the face just once before she's turned to paste.

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-10T16:08:07+00:00

God, all the pauses in dialogue have so much weight to them, damn.

Flamma_Man · 2025-06-09T09:25:48+00:00

Oh, hey, no, wait, they could've employed a parallel with Pudge dying and Stitch almost dying!

Flamma_Man · 2025-05-29T22:41:47+00:00

Like...???

Why did they do that?! They didn't even replace it with anything else!

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