TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
Yeah, PoX #4 was fine, felt like it ended right in the middle of what it wanted to show/accomplish. We'll see if once this whole thing is finished, it was worth it/made sense to have this kind of issue at this point of the story.
Those Sinister Secretshave people figured them out?
There's more than one pretender
Next week is the first "red" book of the series, can't wait
This is why I get so pissy about paying upwards of $5-6 an issue for this stuff. You just can't do that and then present an incomplete story (the Phalanx scene at the end was so opaque that it was incomprehensible unless you'd read, what, PoX #2 right before reading this or had an encyclopedic knowledge of X-Men history, and even then it's pretty opaque).
"Fine" is about what I'd call this, "incomplete" is another. I have no idea what's going on with his Sinister characterization, but I kind of hate it right now (seems like Hickman's go to for characterization is either wacky or sarcastic, even when it doesn't fit the character at all. It's quite annoying). It looks like the theories about the X-Men are going to bear out in such an obvious and direct fashion that you'd think it has to be a misdirect, but I figure HoX #5 will answer that question.
Not a lore guy (unnecessary history is the death of many a series, this one included), but the Krakoa deal was kind of interesting if nothing else. Hated Cypher's random sarcasm, but liked him interpreting Krakoa's language in the moment. Hopefully we get some follow-up on that.
I'll take another look at the Sinister secrets later, but as for #5 (I believe):
I initially thought Wolverine/Jean/Cyclops, and it may actually be depending on how you interpret the "married with child" line. In the main timeline, Scott and Jean don't have a kid: Scott and Madelyne Pryor have a kid (Cable). The line only works if you count alternate reality offspring Rachel Grey as "their" child.
It's such an ill visual.
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