AXM: Torn TPB

[alixtii]

So I stopped by the bookstore and picked up the Torn TPB of Astonishing X-Men. Can I just say, I love Joss's female characters? Especially Kitty, but also Hisako and Blindfold and everyone else.

(Only, where were the Cuckoos?)

ETA: Spoilers for Phoenix: Warsong in the comments.

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

Phoenix: Warsong.

There's actually a continuity reason they are not involved.

You probably don't want to know the rest as it involves harvesting Emma's eggs. Yeah, she's their mommy.

[amyheartssiroc.livejournal.com]

Astonishing X-Men rocks.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that could be good or bad.

I knew--probably both from you and Wikipedia?--that Emma was the Cuckoo's biological mother. Which opens the Cuckoocest possibilities up beyond just the five four three of them.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's bad.

But.

As you're a Cuckoos fan, you probably want to check out Warsong when it comes out in trade. And Phoenix Endsong too, if you haven't already.

I'm totally not feeding you a bunny about the Cuckoos being potential slayers, either. Nuh-huh.

[thenyxie.livejournal.com]

That's one thing I have always loved about the X-Men, and that's one thing they've kept consistent throughout all the years since they switched the team in the 70s; VERY STRONG female characters. There's a reason Joss loved the X-Men when he was growing up, and he's really not changing them so much as keeping them true to their roots.

I really need to catch up on Astonishing X-Men though. I am behind.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia seems to suggest they survived the ordeal, which is really all that I was worried about. But I shall probably check out the Warsong and Endsong trades too, at some time in the indefinite future when I have lots of money to spend on comic books.

I like the Cuckoos because of a) the 'cest potential, and b) the purity of the archetype.

Why is it that the only hit on Google for "cuckoocest" is this journal?

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

That's a very good point, and I never meant to suggest that Joss was doing anything radical to change the characters. In part, I was thinking of the characters that I think of specifically as Joss's, because that's where I encountered them first, even though I suppose he inherited most of them from Morrison: the Cuckoos, Blindfold, Hisako, etc. As well as characters I know Joss created: Danger, Abigail Brandt.

But that reasoning falls apart, of course, because of course Kitty Pryde is at the top of the list. Which is partly because the things she does and the things which are done to her in Torn are pretty damned awesome, but also because I've loved every incarnation of Kitty I've come across, from the Pryde of the X-Men cartoon to all three movieverse versions of her to X-Men:Evolution Shadowcat to the version of her in Astonishing, the first comicsverse version I've seen (not surprising as Astonishing is the only X-Men comic I've ever read and the only Marvel other than Runaways).

Oh, Kitty.