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scans_dailyWell, following last years "Heir of Apocalypse" which gave us the rather... unexpected makeover for the twinkiest X-Man who ever twinked, and a new mission statement:
Ominous, yet ambiguous.
Now we have Revelation actually showing up to set something into motion for a later larger event, and it looks like (please, please please) they are going to dump the one aspect of the change which I think (And I confess I am biased) near universal ridicule.
X-MEN #19
Written by JED MACKAY
Art by NETHO DÍAZ
Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
On Sale 2nd July
AFTER APOCALYPSE COMES REVELATION. Doug Ramsey, the heir to Apocalypse, begins his great work as Revelation in X-MEN #19 by Jed MacKay and Netho Díaz, on sale this July. The issue serves as a prelude to a major X-Men storyline launching later this year.
Well, Doug's Revelation looks more like Molecule Man now, but he has the Ramsey hair back, which is a plus, and a better dress sense, which is a relief. Plus, one hopes that Warlock and Bei will make interesting foils, though since we still ahve no idea what Doug's amped up powers are, it's still rather vague.
I wonder if it ties into the hinted future from the recent Cable and Bishop one-shot "Timeslides", where we see a near future where Revelation is in charge... or trying to be.
What have they DONE to you Warlock??
Aaaand we're back to the glam-rock look.
Horsemen? "Age of Revelation"? This seems worryingly derivative Doug, you're better than this!
And in case anyone is still unhappy, let's end with a recent Cypher (with accents of Warlock) by Art Adams that some lucky soul (not me) got on a sketch cover.
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Date: 2025-04-18 09:59 pm (UTC)Given Doug's power is language, would a souped-up Doug's powers be weaponizing language? Not like the ridiculous sort of "able to psychologically break people with a few words" kind, but the other kind.
(There was an old Young Avengers where Prodigy showed even if you couldn't cast magic yourself, saying some magic words could still be enough.)
... anyone else thinking there's a chicken-y cast to that War-Lock's look? No? Little bit?
But all I can think of with that panel of New Kid showing Cable and Bishop that list is "BEHOLD! Marvel's upcoming event itinerary!"
(... that "XvX is not exactly inspiring confidence either. Though we just had an X-Men Fight Each Other Event.)
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Date: 2025-04-18 11:53 pm (UTC)He tried to follow instructions to cast Magik's spell to help with some Asgardian shenanigans, but the words changed whilst he was trying to speak them and the team ended up in Mephisto's Hell, rather than Hela's Hel.
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Date: 2025-04-19 12:15 am (UTC)I've lost track of the number of leaders that the Kree and Shi'ar have burned through since the FF first launched their rocket.
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Date: 2025-04-19 09:23 am (UTC)That's off the top of my head, wouldn't be surprised if there were some other names in there.
As for the Kree, they usually bounce back to the Supreme Intelligence.
But in the 90s there was that hapless space pirate, then those two generals, then the Shi'ar annexed them for a while, then I think SI came back... then in the 00s House Fiyero overthrew the SI, the Phalanx conquered them, then Ronan wound up in charge, then the Inhumans took over until Future Franklin Richards told them to go back to Earth.
Now some of them are ruled by a nice Supreme Intelligence and the others by Hulkling.
(Unless the nice Supreme Intelligence has been forgotten and / or killed by now. If he hasn't, Hickman will probably 'fix' that.)
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Date: 2025-04-19 03:15 pm (UTC)Not unless we get Sleeper too.
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Date: 2025-04-19 12:26 am (UTC)I'm just rather nervous about the creative decision to look at Cypher and think "You know, he needs to be more intimidating and powerful" when the point of Cypher has always been that he has a totally passive mutation, passes for human even when he's using his powers, and still strives to make things better for mutants by forging friendships and alliances.
Plus they had a whole arc in the New Mutants from a few years back where we saw a future Doug as "The TrueFriend" who basically used Warlock to take control of the world for it's own good, with the usual disastrous totalitarian results. The notion that Doug (who ended up suicidally depressed by what he saw) would accept power and use it in that way again, doesn't feel right.
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Date: 2025-04-19 08:50 am (UTC)Sorry I'm just still stuck in the doldrums after the amazing potential of Krakoa as an idea was at *least* half-wasted and then thrown in the trash for a "return to form" where they IMMEDIATELY lampshaded how deeply depressing a return to form for the X-Men is. Not even Gail Simone's admittedly excellent Uncanny has been able to get me past the feeling of violins on the Titanic.
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Date: 2025-04-23 08:35 am (UTC)"It's in REVELATIONS, PEOPLE!"