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I'm not feeling the anti-Laylaness. She is what she is--but I'm finding I really like the way the whole final sequence was set up.
Another pretty chilling dupe experience. As long as Peter keeps coming up with these little moral conundrums, I'm in. I can understand someone getting sick of the emphasis on Jamie, but to paraphrase, I'd read Peter David write Madrox reading the telephone book.
So if the dupe dies, his experience revert to Jamie? How does that work? I know we're not exactly on firm empirical ground with any of this, but that doesn't make much sense to me unless there is a "soul" transferral, which I'm not sure I'm willing to accept even in a comic book.
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i love layla, she's cool. frosty cool.
From: Ninja Land | Registered: Nov 2004
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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Marvel has made some noise about stuff neither being created nor destroyed recently, which is a dubious and laughable justification for strapping all of the 'missing' mutant powers on some other macguffin.
And yet mutant powers aren't the only thing that has vanished from the Marvel U lately.
Tryp 'outs' Layla as a fellow force for chaos.
According to Dr. Strange, 'chaos magic,' like Wanda (and himself, from time to time) used to use, 'doesn't exist anymore.'
Gosh, if plot devices can neither be created nor destroyed, where, oh where did all of that chaos magic go?
Seems to me that the 'non-existent' chaos magic is doing the same thing the 'non-existent' mutant powers are doing. Hanging out, waiting for the inevitable retcon.
In the case of the missing chaos magic, I theorize that it's hanging out in the form of a stocking-clad girl, sucking on a lollipop, getting increasingly impatient with how long things are taking...
Which creates the possibility that Layla might have a pair of teenaged twin brothers as well, named Billy and Teddy, also creations of a frustrated mad magic mamma.
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i always thought Wanda just created Layla to undo her crazy work....like she created her sons.
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OK- time for Siryn and M to share scenes with some other folk. The two of them are getting a bit too claustrophobic.
The Rictor/Quicksilver stuff is *really* interesting. That last page was nicely subtle. I can almost enjoy Pietro, despite Marvel's campaign to vilify every hero who appeared before 1975.
I like the implied decay in the survival instinct perhaps caused by mutantkind's apparent near-extinction. Provocative. Speculatively quasi-scientific. In a good way.
From: Knoxville, TN | Registered: Jul 2003
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PAD does seem to be working the witty word play a bit tho.' Guido's conversation with Rahne felt a bit overdone.
I'm glad to see Ric isn't going to be a sideline character. I've faith PAD is just playing with us, and Ric won't give in to Quicksilver's temptations.
From: Denver, CO | Registered: May 2004
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I read it right after I got back from the comic shop. I think it was better than the last issue. It had some much-needed action, it had the witty dialogue coming fast and furious, and it explored some intriguing grey areas in the State of Mutantkind in 2007.
My only complaint is that once again, we got the mediocre fill-in artist. I hope that this is happening so that Raimondi has time to draw the concluding installment.
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Some powerful scenes in the latest issue. And I really liked that one character didn't allow his dislike for another character to keep him from saving this other character. I just hope he lives to see another day now.
Some funny stuff, too:
FATALE (as she's about to combust): Do something!
MONET: Okay.
FATALE: What are you doing?!?
MONET: Getting some distance. This is a new shirt.
Only thing I don't like is that the fill-in artist ended up doing the whole arc.
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It's weird. I liked the issue but at the end I was like, "What just happened here?" Somewhere along the way, I sorta missed the point of the plot. (If there was one.) I did like the 300 nod, though. Very amused.
Oh, and vaguely disturbed by Layla's comment about Rahne and Julio. Mostly because I remember all the weird stuff with them before and not really liking it. Let's just give Ric Shatterstar back, hmm? Preferably off panel, so I don't have to see him...
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