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Clark’s deadpan look as he reveals their coworkers are actually far stupider than Bruce thought is everything. I’ve rarely if ever seen Batman that scared.

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I mean Kurt is more horny than you give him credit for. Kurt was a priest and the reason he stopped was that he was too horny for the cloth.

There are 2 Nightcrawlers: the swashbuckling hero who charms women and is also Catholic sometimes...or the super-Catholic guy who is also a swashbuckler sometimes. It varies from writers, but Kurt switches up how deep into religion he is.

AAALLLLLRIGHT. Time out, blow the whistle. I like to think I am a liberated individual, I'm progressive, I'm hip, I've got my biases checked in a little luggage bag. I am maybe about to lose all my liberal credibility. I don't care, my god sometimes shit goes too far. But this is WRONG This is FUCKED UP. I thought the point of abortion rights and contraceptives is that we DIDN'T start leaving abandoned babies all over the place! That if you wanted to have sex that was fine but wear a fucking condom! And people are treating KURT like he's losing his mind because he doesn't think this is OK. BUT IT ISNT OK. Something is rotten in the state of Krakoa and the priest is speaking truth! Morals MATTER, something has to MATTER. You can't just start flinging shit at the wall because you live in paradise and the longer we let this happen the worse it's gonna get! Way of X 3

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God, this is one of my high points of my week. In this rough world, Shiba Inu Room is one of the things that gets through the week. What a good boi!

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DC Comic Review Detective Comics #794-795

I am on a bit bad Bat-comic hunt right now and I figured that the War Games era would be nice place to start. And this is one weird comic to start off with.

The comic opens with a bunch of immigrants from Santa Prisca dying from a disease while being smuggled. After some buildup to War Games with Batman and Orpheus, Tarantula (pre-sexual assaulting Nightwing) hunting down the smuggler who was responsible for the immigrants.

While torturing the man, Tarantula learns that living disease (The Mugre) killed the immigrants and infected the smuggler. As the man is dying Tarantula hears a message that he was at a Gotham Chemical Plant which leads her to go to Gotham to stop the disease.

Meanwhile in Gotham, Batman hears of people dying The Mugre and does some investigating where he comes across Tarantula. They have a fight based on the information. But gangster interrupt the fight because one of the gangster's family members died because of the disease.

We then get a three-way fight between Orpheus, Batman, and Tarantula. Orpheus stays behind to get gang calmed down and Batman rushes off to stop Tarantula from doing something stupid.

Unfortunately, Tarantula does a stupid and would have blown herself up without Batman's interference. This left herself open to attack by The Mugre and Tarantula possibly got infected. The two leave through the sewers and meet up with Kafka: a sentient swarm of cockroaches who only appeared in this story and a Joker's Last Laugh tie-in.

Afterwards, the two vigilantes do research on the Mugre where Batman discovers what stop the disease in ancient times: cockroaches.

So, we get a monster battle between Mugre and Kafka, and I have no clue why this is happening in a Batman comic? Anyway, Batman cures Tarantula, and does some more War Crimes buildup with the GCPD and Orpheus.

As a whole this story is just a weird story to happen in Gotham, and the writing of this story is not enough to make me care. It is very wild that this comic expected me know about Kafka, and no one is going to make me care about Tarantula.

However, the brief moments that Orpheus has in this story are really strong and Pete Woods art lift this book from the bottom of comics to just mediocre storytelling. 4/10

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It was not a plan; it was more of Hail Mary play by a dying Jean after Orchis invaded the Hellfire Gala killed a bunch of mutants including most of the newly elected X-Men team (don't worry they got better).

Jean playing off the fact that a lot of Krakoa did not entirely trust Firestar because of her past as an Avenger (there is a lot of talk by some X-Men/fans about stuff like where were the Avengers when Genosha was destroyed, that turns to excuse to hate on the Avengers as a whole). The point being that it was believable that she might be a mole, and Jean did not want for Orchis to pull off another massive attack with the surprise factor they had during the Hellfire attack.

I hope whoever came up with this plan found some way to make Orchis having the propaganda coup of a pretty, intelligent redhead as their "one of the good ones" spokeswoman worth it X Men Unlimited Infinity 115

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I believe that Jim Jasper was not reborn on Krakoa. It just that his powers are strong enough that he was reborn in Otherworld without mutant help.

Ok. Some PLEASE tell me that Krakoa's resurrection policy did not apply to Jim Jaspers! X Men Unlimited Infinity 106

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I guess in the Marvel Universe life on Earth is are just Digimon. Can’t wait for MetalNatureGirl as a sequel.

I would like to point out. You can't "devolve" something anymore than you could "evolve" it. Evolution is not a step ladder. X Men Unlimited Infinity 73

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At this point Piotr was turned into a Russian agent sabotaging Krakoa by mind controlling agent for Russia and Piotr’s brother. So his bad decisions at least have a reason to exist. This is one of the main plots of X-Force running at the time.

The fact that his friends don’t notice is another can of worms entirely, but the man has had a couple of rough years.

Fuck. Off. Piotr. If that is the level we're operating at then this entire nation state is a farce. X Men Unlimited Infinity 70

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That’s because the Dark Riders are characters that only appeared in 3 stories (including this one) and they were all weird annuals stories that were written Steve Orlando.

It’s just Steve picking some weirdos that Steve thought looked neat.

I did not know Krakoa HAD a monster mash team. I recognize Magik and Marrow, I know Shark Girl from a previous story, but Mammomax and Wolf Cub are new faces for me. Neat! X Men Unlimited Infinity 68

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I did not know Krakoa HAD a monster mash team. I recognize Magik and Marrow, I know Shark Girl from a previous story, but Mammomax and Wolf Cub are new faces for me. Neat! X Men Unlimited Infinity 68

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This run is making some capital "C" choices here, even considering the fact that the lantern rings had less limits back then. Hal giving himself brain damage from using the ring is so stupid that it got some laughs out of me.

What so the Ring is a magic genie lamp now? Where poorly worded instructions can have wacky consequences-fuck off. Action Comics 614

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John Greycrow (one of the men on the ground in the Mutant Massacre) got beaten up by the Morlocks in the beginning of Hellions. The rest of people involved in the Mutant Massacre were either dead when Krakoa started and were real low on the resurrection list, chose not to be involved with the island, or (in Sabertooth’s case) put in Krakoa’s version of jail: The Pit for unrelated crimes.

Why is he allowed to be in here? If his genetics work is so important, that's one thing. But who is trusting him to make decisions on ANYONE'S behalf. X Men Unlimited Infinity 46

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They do eventually shove Sinister in a hole, but by time there were 3 other Sinisters just causing trouble.

The "meta" reason for this is that the universe was dealing with a God!Sinister who manipulated things (like putting mutant Sinister in a position of power) in order to be born. It is confusing and not the greatest part of the Krakoa era.

Why is he allowed to be in here? If his genetics work is so important, that's one thing. But who is trusting him to make decisions on ANYONE'S behalf. X Men Unlimited Infinity 46

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It is more that Destiny does not mind a little terrorism considering her whole deal. And also, she is probably still a little annoyed with the Moira thing and is letting her aggression out on the people that can know about the "Moira running a shadow cabal on Krakoa" because only the council knows about it.

You could just say "my power doesn't work that way", Irene. No need to be a dick. X Men Unlimited Infinity 46

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The problem is that people don't talk about Nazi Sinister is because they happened in "bad" stories (Tieri's Weapon X series and Claremont's Excalibur v3) and he has since been reinvented as campy villain by Kieran Gillian that people actually like to see. So, there is weird stuff like Sinister removing the racist part of his brain, in order to get the fun egomaniac that wants to be everything by using weird mutant science and cloning.

Sinister is there because they need his DNA base to resurrect all of dead mutant, but if they just stole it from Sinister, he would be a massive pain to deal with. But in order to keep him on a leash, they put him on the Quiet Council, where he would have a lot of eyes on him when he tries to do something shady. (It does backfire

Why is he allowed to be in here? If his genetics work is so important, that's one thing. But who is trusting him to make decisions on ANYONE'S behalf. X Men Unlimited Infinity 46

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It only took 3 different writers and 14 Infinity Comics, but the book finally realized that Nature Girl was in the wrong for her environmental crusade. And the story changes to: Steve Orlando playing with characters that only he and other people know about. And that’s more fun.

And that's where Nature Girl has lost the plot. Every human life is, in the end, fundamentally irreplaceable. Once it's gone its gone and it leaves a hole in a dozen other lives. You don't justify that without being fundamentally broken

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Yeah, Jubilee adopted a baby during her vampire-phase during a run with an all-women team of X-Men, which was written by a sexual harasser. Shogo has been around turned, into a dragon in Otherworld, has not been seen since Knights of X.

Cute kid, that probably has been forgotten because of how he ages Jubilee.

Neither could I! Jubilee was already my favorite X Man but now I have doubled down! X Men Unlimited Infinity 41