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venatosapiens

Preach it, sister.

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shadowpsykie

wish there was a "Like" Button :D

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freezer

Dammit, where's my applause icon!

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ozaline

Very nice! Out of the mouth of my favorite X-person too :D

How is this series on a whole, I've been thinking of adding it to my file in place of some I dropped, since it's got Kitty but on the other hand I haven't been a fan of some of Bendis' character directions or retcons.

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salinea

This series is very.... it's not very typical of superhero story in that so far it's been very focussed on characters reacting to one another and very much not on a plot revolving around fighting supervillains. Very chatty, very Bendis - but well written as such. It uses the set up of the old X-Men pretty cleverly to question the evolutions in modern comics and comics characters and the history of the X-Men and at the same time make it pretty accessible to newcomers. There are times when the characterisation are a bit shacky, but overall it pulls through. I think it's been very, very good.

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ablackraptor

I got the first five issues but had to drop it because of financial reasons, but the bits and pieces I've seen its relatively decent if flawed. I'm ordring the second trade now though to catch up a bit.

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shadowpsykie

YES YES! i was waiting for something like this... okay... this title makes me happy, (for the most part) instead of ragey... yay for no triggers.

Also, ding dong Prop 8 is dead!

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auggie18

Man, this is going to make things awkward around the Marvel water cooler, assuming Remender is reading other people's books. Go Kitty, though. Good speech. Kudos for not using any racial epithets to make her point.

Very off topic, but did teen!Jean get a haircut? It looks like she's aping her daughter's style.

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trobadora

GO, KITTY!!!!!!!!!

This made me really, really, REALLY happy.

Seriously, ALL THE LOVE. ♥ ♥ ♥

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salinea

she's one of my favourite X-Men for a reason <3

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ablackraptor

This, this is the page that just made me decide to pick this series back up.

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nyadnar17

Well look at this. An adult conversation about what it means to be a minority in a spandex comic book series. One that actually treats the different views on the subject with respect instead of just creating cartoonish straw men.

It is a GREAT time to be an X-fan. I love it.

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icon_uk

Round of applause... If anything I prefer this to her much lauded eulogy for Larry Bodine, an issue which might be worth unearthing I think.

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salinea

I have issue with the use of real life slurs in that eulogy, although otherwise it was very good.

I thought about posting it to compare it to the not quite recent anymore issue in Generation Hope that tried to address the same theme, but honestly I didn't have the heart to.

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damar148

So who she's talking to, OldScott or YoungScott?

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crabby_lioness

That's the way Kitty should be written. Yay for good writing!

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violetclm.livejournal.com

"ALEX SUMMERS IS A JERK!"

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biod

What's this? Someone talking sense in a high-profile teambook? Preposterous.

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philippos42

I forgot about the time-displaced X-Men and was confused at 1) Kitty being around Cyke and 2) Bobby not knowing she's Jewish.

Then I remembered and it made sense.

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silicondream

Having grown up on Alan Davis' Shadowcat, I find it mildly hilarious to imagine the computer geek with curly brown hair, a big nose and a star of David pendant saying, "Now you might not realize this, but I'm Jewish..."

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drexer

Mind if I join in the standing ovation?

Can we just skip that, build a giant statue of Kitty and drop it somewhere in the view of Remender's window?

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bruinsfan

I think in addition to the intangibility Kitty has the mutant power of immunity to event-driven poor characterization. I can't recall an instance of her being written badly in recent years, and she's just about the only Marvel character I can say that about.

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salinea

I thought she was written very weakly in W&tXM but not exactly badly either so hmmm, point taken.

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leoboiko

I was waiting for this.

I thought that was Daredevil she was talking to for a moment.

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theflames

Ahhh, it was a good issue. She did good.

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spacebetween

Well on one hand I applaud Kitty for this, she is really over looking what Alex was trying to push. Which was people should over the fact that they are mutant in the same way that people view religion, culture or other separation factors that cause prejudiced. He isn't trying to completely erase it, just the stigmatism behind it.

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drexer

Then his speech was very badly written. Because like a lot of people said, that was definetly not what was interpreted and that's why Kitty's words have been so well received.

Lack of separation is different from homogenisation and the speech seemed to be pushing the latter and not the former. Coming from a person on a top position of privilege which even soured the events more.

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angelophile

Gosh, when Bendis is on form he's so, so good.

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cyberghostface

Just curious shouldn't the tag be Brian Michael Bendis?

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salinea

should it?

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