Preview: DEATH OF X #2

DEATH OF X #2

(W) Jeff Lemire, Charles Soule (A/CA) Aaron Kuder

• After the events on Muir Island, Cyclops and Emma Frost put their plans into motion.

• Storm and Medusa come together to find a solution for the deadly effects the Terrigen has on mutants.

• One of the clouds heads to Madrid, the site of the first skirmish between mutants and Inhumans.

Rated T+

In Shops: Oct 19, 2016SRP: $3.99

"But mutants have been exposed to terrigen many times...there have been no ill effects."

Except for the fact that there's a long long long long long long LONG history of terrigen DOING EXACTLY THAT.

GOD I'm getting sick of Marvel's disregard of continuity these days.

The x-men should win. Ooh wait...Marvel

"I wanted to look you in the Eye. To gauge your reaction. To see if this was..Purposeful."

Classic Storm I LOVE it. :-)

Also we better get a GOOD EXPLANATION as to why Storm can't fully deal with the T-mist.........And it better be a good one. -_-

This book is just all kinds of bad. Screwing the Xmen and Inhunans all at once? Only Marvel.

@ambaryerno: This could be a plan of Evil Anti Mutants Group.

Unus? Callisto anybody? Holy hell marvel. . .at least pretend to respect continuity for something this far-reaching.

Is it really that long? SoM is the only point I can think of and those were only DEPOWERED mutants. Also, Quicksilver was not only fine, he also got repowered from initial Terrigen, and then he was written as depowered mutant.

Besides, said pre-Inhumanity Terrigen was also lethal to humans so.....

I think Medusa is talking about the period of Inhumanity when THIS specific altered Terrigen formula was released. I don't really remember how it was written by Hickman, but IIRC Hickman did acknowledge its danger and specifically contextualized the fact of its harmless to non-Inhumans alteration.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend this utterly abominable brainfart of a concept, I can literally feel the loathing towards every idiotor and writer involved growing, but if we're going to call out this story on its bull let's just try to be more accurate.

Oh and by the way, this variant subtly exposes exactly how I feel:

Even Jeff Lemiere can't salvage this two properties. Sad.

"I wanted to look you in the eye. To gauge your reaction. To see if this was... Purposeful."

Not too smart, if you ask me. I'm not sure I'd have gone in there and, basically, accused Medusa's people of trying to kill mutants right to her face. You know, especially if I wanted help. Even if I believed they did it on purpose I'd keep it to myself. If I were in Medusa's place, and had nothing to do with what was happening, I'd have been insulted. That last panel with Medusa, though. That doesn't look good, either.

I can understand why you would think that sir, but actually this is smart. Storm and Medusa don't have any secrete between them(Supposedly) which is why she is talking to her about this. Storm wants to know if Medusa KNEW about this and didn't say anything IF Medusa did know then she'd be screwed, hence why Storm said "I wanted to look you in the eye and gauge your reaction to see if this was..Purposeful." Storm doesn't know the Inhuman intentions AND Remember Scott said that the Inhumans lied to him in the first issue. Bobby was there when Scott said that and Scott was in contact with Beast as well. So either Scott or Bobby or Beast TOLD Storm and she wants to know if this is true or not. She isn't accusing her of anything.

This strategy isn't new I mean this is exactly what Kings of great Nations do if they are skeptical of each others intentions. They meet hash it out and explain there concerns.

OR Straight up go to war (Depending who's Ego is the biggest)

Storm didn't have to tell her what she was doing. She could have left it at just a meeting, letting Medusa know what was going on. Instead she put Medusa on the defensive, which isn't that bright.

Yes I fully understand what you mean, but that's what I meant about Storm and Medusa share NO secrets between them. Storm just wanted to know if Medusa knew about this Mist killing mutants or not. That's why Storm laid out all her cards on the table first to see what does this ruler think about this situation. Storm says it pretty clear she doesn't KNOW Medusa's intentions, but she does at the end of their conversation. (Very smart and strategical actually to find out if the threat is friend or foe)

If Medusa shows that she doesn't really care about the situation or dances around it THEN that would let Storm know "Ok, so this woman did know about this. Alright Scott's right she's an enemy". Medusa wasn't on the defensive she really didn't know in fact she immediately jumped on a solution to start helping Storm.

i want to see more emma/scott and les everyone else in this seires SMH

i think beast is behind all of this.

@x-menlover: My god!!!

@mizerous: Did you realize it? or Are you being sarcastic ??

Standard plot: secret agendas, tense meetings, backstabbing to follow... In a word: Boring. Art is good though.

I enjoyed the previous issue, and this looks good as well, but really need to hit a home-run with issue 4.

Wait I thought Cyclops died how did he comeback ?

@kid_omega_prime: Flashback story, so we think this story will illustrate his fate.

Seems interesting, but I still hate the art.

Kill her Storm..kill her.

Ugh I don't even hate (care about) the Inhumans. I just want my mutants back on top without the editorial bullying.

So, when is everyone else's sentimental death of the X-Men? Mine was that transition time of AvX and when Bendis took over. That's when the X-Men really died to me, damned whatever Marvel officially publishes.

*sigh* I don't understand how the planet hated mutants for decades but are somehow OK with Inhumans. & then still OK with these scumbag Inhumans releasing a cloud of change all over the planet. The government was hunting mutants for decades for just trying to help but these shitheads commit an act of terror against the ENTIRE world & everybody is just like "Aww, that's sweet." fucking hate the Inhumans. I hope they fail hard in comic sales after the inevitable defeat & death of X-Men bcz Marvel comics is now dictated by the needs & wants of the MCU/Disney.

This art SUCKS & the book is over priced. Kiss my ass Marvel.

@dr_cheesesteak: For me: E for Extinction started kiling it, House of M/M-Day killed it definitly.

Well, X-men comics started turning terrible sometime around end of 90s. Not sure about details now, but it was around Death of Moira Mc. Taggert, Colossus (he got better), Return of Smeghead (Scott, never liked him and dispise him since he left Madelyn Pryor) and this Onslaught thingy wast much kosher either. Then E for Extintion came and "Game over man, game over".

Well, maybe it because that Poison cloud killing mutants. I wodnt be surprised if goverment and/or SHIELDs reaction on it was like: "Be my guest. You can kill them all if you want. You do us all a fafor."

If you ask me, only prupose of this book and its sequel IVX is make Inhuman scum look good and X-men/mutants bad or even evil.

I love Aaron Kuder's artwork!

MCU shit rules, as always.

#mutantlivesmatter #CyclopsWasRight

Marvel still hard at work tearing down the pillars that have held it up for half a century.