#development out of all of this. plus...three teacher/mentors and three students...each deliberately created to mirror one of their mentors

[bigskydreaming]

Remember that time I wrote this post and then when Bobby's next book was ultimately revealed a few months later it was......Duggan's X-Men book and he proceeded to do all of this AGAIN for another year and a half?

Good times, good times. Totally didn't play myself here at ALL.

Just realized…..Marauders #27, the end of the current volume, came out today and that means its over! Bobby and Christian are no longer Duggan’s to……

*checks notes* 

- literally only write two pages worth of appearances every ten issues, during which Bobby just flexes with his powers in ways he’s definitely been written doing for twenty years but for some reason Duggan is always convinced he invented, Christian just drinks martinis, talks about his ‘mutant name’ and pretends only existing to project an air of ennui counts as having a personality, shhh, its fine, and this is considered writing two high profile gay characters in a relationship by a self-proclaimed ally who loudly congratulates himself on twitter for putting them front and center in his book. 

By which in retrospect, after the two and a half years he had them solely to himself, we can now definitively conclude he meant: on the covers of a handful of issues that they largely don’t even appear in and in an even smaller handful of issues where their only actual pagetime has them totally disconnected from everything actually going on in the book plotwise and thus completely fucking irrelevant, if one were inclined to be generous in their assessment of said narrative relevancy.

No but literally this is the last issue featuring the Marauders cast Duggan assembled for this book, of which Bobby was hyped up as one of the main leads as opposed to the dozen or so Hellfire Club randos which were NOT hyped up as the leads or even mentioned in the initial marketing for the book at all, but turned out very much were the actual main leads…..and what was Bobby doing during the Marauders’ final mission together?

Well, he was busy….not being there. Because he randomly decided to go to Niffleheim and fight frost giants because…..not really sure. But he did ask Christian to let Emma and Kate know that he wasn’t in town or this dimension at the moment, and that oh yeah also once he was done dunking on frost giants for the ego boost, he and Christian were going to go on vacation in Ibiza and probably not come back. I’m not even kidding. That actually happened. Why did Bobby feel a pressing need to fight frost giants? Were frost giants ever a part of this book or a threat the Marauders faced or remotely relevant to their mission statement of mutant rescue or even somehow connected to the Hellfire Trading Company plots? Nope. He just…..went off to go fight frost giants in the final issue while the rest of the team went on a mission to steal eight billion bucks from those Verendi brats. Because hey, why not. Makes about as much sense as anything else he did in this book.

BUT WHATEVER. HAHAHAHAHA ITS OVER, Bobby and Christian aren’t Duggan’s anymore, they’re headed off to another book WHICH WOULD REALLY BE GREAT IF MARVEL WOULD ACTUALLY SAY WHAT BOOK THAT IS NOW. 

(Like seriously what is the deal with pretty much every Destiny of X book having been announced as well as most of their casts and yet for some reason nobody seems able to just say what book Bobby and Christian are going to, just that they’re definitely going to be in another book and that’s why they won’t be in Orlando’s Marauders, cuz like he did want them but they weren’t available for him to use?)

Honestly though I literally don’t care at this point because wherever they’re headed at least it won’t be Duggan writing them and that’s good enough for me right now. Hey maybe whomever IS actually writing them next will actually….write them? We can only hope!

I’m gonna keep crossing my fingers they’re headed to Al Ewing’s X-Men Red title, because that would be a dream come true. He’s actually someone I would trust to write Bobby well and prioritize him, and I love the rest of his X-Men Red cast and would kill to see Bobby alongside Ororo, Gabe, Nathan, Berto and Erik, dealing with the Great Ring and opposing Brand’s machinations, like omg that would be so ideal. Honestly Arakko remains the part of the current X-books I’m most interested in and it just makes sense for that to be their destination given that what little focus Bobby got in the past few months in Marauders, pretty much the only content specific to his character or stated interests was all about Arakko, so like, I can’t imagine where else they’d be sending him or why, but whatevs. Guess we’ll see. 

There’s still been no announcement of what book Alyssa Wong is writing for the X-offices in Destiny of X, so it could be the reason Bobby and Christian’s DoX plans have been kept under wraps and they weren’t announced as part of the Red lineup is because they’re in whatever that mystery book is instead, and like, I probably wouldn’t hate that because what little I’ve read of Wong’s Marvel work I really like. Its largely just not having any idea what her book’s premise is or direction its aimed at that has me being like ‘Ewing or bust!’ But if they’re in Wong’s as yet unannounced book instead though, like I really doubt I’d mind, I just can’t say with one hundred percent certainty since who knows what the fuck the pitch for it even is. *Shrugs*

But anyway, for now I’ll just stick to being happy I don’t have to wait another two years to see somebody other than Duggan actually DO something with Bobby while the dude gives himself all the gold stars for trotting him out every ten issues for a ‘feat’ he then tries to pass off to fans of the character as though they really just ate and you’re welcome.

Hahahaha bye Duggie and may the Bobster never be stuck under your pen again. You’re not the worst, cuz you’re not Bendis, but you’re still pretty bad and I did not like you and also I think you suck.