#they're not people and the sooner we can launch them all into the sun the better off our whole species will be

[razzek]

Also humans need more than one kind of feedback, and especially in something like a vehicle going at 50 or more miles an hour, the driver Does Not need to be looking away from the road for even a second! Switches, dials, and keypads are important!

Touchscreens do not belong in cars

[buzzdoesdc]

You know what I want to see? A Supergirl origin story which actually understands just how traumatic her origin is.

Clark grew up on Earth. He was a teenager before he found out he wasn't human, and likely a young adult when he found out what happened to his home planet. It was probably sad, sure, and he mourned the parents he never got to know, but it was always an abstract. He still had the only parents and home he'd ever known, and finding out about his past wouldn't change that.

But Kara? Kara grew up on Krypton for something like 15 years. She probably had favourite stores, and restaurants, and places to go. Friends from school and from her childhood, people she'd known all her life. Music and stories that had shaped her and carved out a place in her heart.

I don't think we definitively know how much warning she had. Maybe she had months, or maybe her parents didn't want to frighten her just in case Jor El was wrong and she ended up only having minutes. Either way, at some point she was told that her world was going to end, and they could only save her. Not her friends, not even her parents, just her and a baby cousin she barely knew. You need to look after him, her parents say. You are all he has.

I don't know when the ship put her in suspended animation, but I'd hope it was just before launch so the last memory of Krypton she'd have is her parents, not the destruction of everything she's ever known.

Regardless, the important part is she arrives 30 years later. Maybe her ship is sent off course, or is intercepted, or is just that much slower. Either way, she's late. In the comics Kara leaps out of the ship happy as anything and ready to be Supergirl, or at most initially anxious and confused but soon relaxed if not comfortable.

I don't see that. I see her falling out of the ship as soon as it lands, collapsing to the ground and weeping for all she's lost. She picks herself up, looks around, and Kal El is nowhere to be seen. She's panicking, but he can't be far away. He's just a baby. They left together, they'd have arrived together. They have to be together. They're all each other has left.

She stumbles away, hoping there'll be some sign of him close by. The yellow sun is bright, far brighter than Rao ever was, and it burns through her skin to her very bones. Everything feels soft and keeps breaking when she pushes against it. It keeps getting louder and louder and louder, and by the time she finds people it's like they are screaming.

Maybe it only takes an hour or so, or maybe several days, but sooner or later Superman finds her. They think she's a threat, but when he looks at her he sees a lost child. It takes him a second to recognise the language she's speaking, but when he realises it's Kryptonian a little kernel of hope builds in his heart. He introduces himself as Kal El, the same way he has a thousand times in the mirror just in case he wasn't alone after all.

Kara looks up and sees her aunt's eyes and her uncle's smile. It takes a second for her to understand what he said, his accent is so strong, and then Krypton dies all over again. He looks old, older than she is by a number of years. He moves like the people around her, talks like them. She was supposed to protect him, teach him about their world. He was all she had left.

And now he isn't.

Clark tries, of course. He's a good man with a kind heart, and she's family he never knew he had. (This breaks her heart a little more. He never knew she was supposed to be there. He never knew to miss her.) He introduces her to Ma and Pa, and they say she can call them that too. She never does. He introduces her to Lois and Perry and Jimmy and everyone he knows, and she looks right through them like they aren't there.

He tells her about Superman, and being a hero, and the powers she will develop soon. He teaches her to control her hearing and her strength. They don't discuss it, but everyone else assumes she's going to be a superhero too.

She tries, tries to understand the stranger her cousin has become, to imitate him, but it never quite sticks. She just doesn't have his compassion. This is not her world, these are not her people. She just can't love them like he does. (if this universe is anything like Man of Steel, I don't think compassion was considered much of a virtue on Krypton.) She wears his colours, his symbol, but it never quite fits her right.

I think in the end she finds her place. Maybe as Supergirl, maybe Power Girl, maybe as someone else entirely. Earth never truly becomes home, but it becomes a place she can live. She makes friends, learns to blend in, but always keeps the light of Krypton alive in her heart. Observes it's holidays as best she can, remembers as much as possible of the stories and the music so it isn't lost. She's all that's left, after all.

I hope she has friends that try to learn for her. Join in holidays, learn the rituals and the stories. Everyone deserves that, to not feel truly alone.

Clark is a child who finds out he's adopted. Kara is a teen refugee in a foreign land. I just think her story should reflect that.

[ramajmedia]

The X-Men's [SPOILER] Just Died To Save Marvel's Future

Warning: MASSIVE SPOILERS for House of X #4

Just when it seemed like the X-Men might be able to save the future of Mutantkind, everything has gone wrong. Marvel fans knew that House of X #4 would be historic in one way or another, but the last thing anyone expected... was the death of the X-Men.

That's no exaggeration, as readers of Jonathan Hickman's House of X and Powers of X relaunch have now discovered. After the previous issue finally made this X-Men reboot make sense, and positioned most of the classic X-Men heroes to save the future once and for, disaster has struck. It isn't the loss of one Mutant superhero readers will need to process, and which Marvel will need to explain. With House of X #4 the slaughter of the X-Men is so extensive, and so unforgettable, it's hard to even imagine what the new future of the X-Men universe will look like. Needless to say, SPOILERS ahead.

A nightmare--a waking one--and the beginning of the end, unless I'm mistaken. These are plans for a Mother Mold--a Master Mold that makes other Master Molds--in orbit around the sun. As far as we can tell, construction has been completed. It's just been in a dormant phase... waiting for the right catalyst... We think this is where NIMROD becomes operational. (Powers of X #2)

Despite how complicated and confusing the overall X-Men relaunch has been to this point, readers won't actually need much context to appreciate this latest twist (and therefore join the most devoted X-Men fans in their confusion over Marvel's decision to wipe out the team). But let's no get ahead of ourselves. The final mission led by Xavier's strike team also happens to be the most important. Most likely, in the history of the X-Men as a whole.

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The previous issues revealed the dark future of the X-Men and Earth, which begins--like always--with a war launched between humans and Mutants. It's just another variation of the same war, as the now time-looping Mutant Moira McTaggert has witnessed, always proceeding the same. First the humans create Sentinels, then Sentinels evole and take over the planet, and ruin soon follows. So to stop it, Cyclops leads the X-Men on what they know is their most dangerous mission yet: destroy the Mother Mold built in orbit around the sun before it can come online. But things go bad--fast.

Remember: this will be a frontal assault of an orbital station tens of millions of miles away built by a secret organization whose sole purpose is the extinction of mutants. Can such a thing even be done? (Powers of X #2)

As mentioned before, Cyclops is informed that the mission is nearly impossible, but necessary. And for their part, the X-Men team of Cyclops, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Archangel, Husk, and Penance come up with the best plan they can. But when the human alliance aboard The Forge space station surprises them with an act of explosive sacrifice, they are caught entirely off gaurd. And it costs the lives of Archangel and Husk in a heartbeat. Setting the stage for what's coming, as the X-Men respond by sticking to the plan: manually detaching the four connections keeping the Mother Mold from falling into the sun. But it isn't the last time they underestimate the commitment of the humans to defending their own race...

The death of Erasmus proves to be the tipping point for this dark chapter in X-Men history (the soldier who realizes the X-Men are attempting to infiltrate the base, and detonates the explosives on his person). It's all the motivation that his surviving love, Dr. Alia Gregor needs to make this as bloody a defense as possible. And while Wolverine and Nightcrawler make short work of their assigned docking collars--using intensely lethal and non-lethal means, respectively--the good doctor chooses her target carefully.

As Cyclops takes out the third connection with a well-placed optic blast, Mystique notices that some thing doesn't "feel" right about her own assignment. She barely has a moment to lock eyes with Dr. Gregor before being blasted out of an airlock. The death of one of the oldest X-Men enemies may not be as tragic as the heroes who first fell... but it's also not the last soldier lost.

The loss of Mystique is a hard blow, but Dr. Gregor leaving the entire area surrounding the target open to the vacuum of space means that none of the other X-Men could safely reach it. Even if one of them could brave the lack of oxygen, Dr. Gregor's decision to bring the Mother Mold online early gives them just seconds to decide. With Nightcrawler suffering from internal injuries, and seeing no other option, both he and Wolverine inform Cyclops that they're both willing to do what needs to be done to complete the mission, and save the future.

With some final words--Kurt promising that he will find Wolverine in the next life, whatever that may be--he teleports the two out onto the unprotected space station. Next to the connection collar, and exposed to the full heat and radiation of the nearby sun, Nightcrawler is turned to ash instantly. Leaving Wolverine with only a heartbeat longer to do what he does best: cut.

Yes, it seems like just yesterday that Wolverine returned from the dead. But as the sun burns off his flesh and his healing factor does what it can to resist the obliteration witnessed with Nightcrawler, Wolverine guarantees that his teammates' deaths were not in vain. Unleashing his claws on the space station's final connection to the massive Sentinel Mother Mold, he inflicts enough damage to sever it completely, with only seconds to spare.

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There are only so many times Marvel can kill Wolverine before the sacrifices begin to run together. But there is something to be said for giving Logan the kind of death people write myths about: slashing into the Sentinel that would have eradicated his people, as the pair slowly drift into the sun. All things considered, Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz may have delivered the most epic death of Wolverine yet seen. Unfortunately, the death toll rises even higher.

While we're on the topic of X-Men heroes Marvel can't stop killing, Cyclops watches as Wolverine and Nightcrawler make their sacrifices, referring to Logan as "the bravest man I know." Telling Jean to inform Charles Xavier (via her telepathic link) that the job has been finished, Cyclops notes that it has cost them their friends and family. But it was likely still worth it, if it saved the future of all Earth's people. But as the man in charge of the mission that claimed Dr. Gregor's love, Cyclops must pay his own debt.

Saying a final goodbye to Jean Grey after being shot in the back, Cyclops takes a short-range shot that leaves little doubt as to his fate, as well. So with only Jean Grey left drifting in an escape pod--oh, Penance earlier fought and died so that Jean could board it and escape--the death of the X-Men is almost entirely complete.

Yes, as the narration begins to take over in the final pages of House of X #4, the Sentinel guards of the station finally descend upon Jean Grey's escape. Tearing it open and blasting her with their energy weapons, the mission is finally finished. A success in that it achieved the destruction of the Mother Mold, and the avoidance of the future Moira MacTaggert warned was coming. But in terms of Charles Xavier's team, and the beloved heroes of the X-Men universe... one of the bloodiest failures in comic book history.

Now, how long will it stick? There is guaranteed to be immediate doubt cast over the deaths, since the deceased heroes have already been announced as leading the new wave of X-Men comics following Hickman's relaunch. So will these sacrifices be revered, avenged, repeated in another time loop, or are they not what they seem to be in this issue itself? Hopefully those questions will be answered sooner rather than later.

House of X #4 is available now at your local comic book shop, or direct from Marvel Comics. The story will continue in Powers of X #4 arriving on September 11th, 2019.

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