Unreachable Star Reviews November 9th, 2005 (SPOILERS)
Peter Dimitriadis
a few details on House of M aftermath stuff, mostly involving who
loses their powers and how. If you want to be surprised, don't
read. I'm also doing quick thoughts again rather than the more
detailed reviews that I always want to do but never quite find
the time or energy anymore.
This week, we have...
Cable & Deadpool #22 - 3.25 Stars
Decimation: House of M The Day After - 3 Stars
Exiles #72 - 3.5 Stars
Gotham Central #37 - 3.5 Stars
New Excalibur #1 - 3.25 Stars
New X-Men #20 - 3.5 Stars
Teen Titans #29 - 3 Stars
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Cable & Deadpool #22 - "Crack The Internet In Half (tm): Bosum Buddies
Part 3 of 4" (Writer: Fabian Nicieza,
Penciler: Patrick Zircher, Inker: UDON's M3th)
Cable and Deadpool move into action to take down The Black Box, who
has access to all the information in the Internet. But Cable knows
the truth about him, and has plans already in motion to take him
down.
Okay, I'm not quite enough of a geek to be able to guess who Black
Box is, or to really be all that involved in the mystery. I do
know that it's a fun ride getting there, at least now that we're
not focusing so much on what the Dominus Objective actually does.
Review: 3.25 stars
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Decimation: House of M - "The Day After" (By: Chris Claremont, Randy
Green and Aaron Lopresti)
Mutants all over the world have lost their powers. Whereas once
they numbered in the millions, now there are hundreds at most, and
the gene for mutation has been taken clean out. Now, the X-Men
and others try to cope. Anti-mutant extremists are taking the
chance to be bold. The Government is unleashing a new, different,
Sentinel program. Some mutants are having trouble adjusting to
their new realities, while others are happy with the change.
It reads a little bit like an extended advertisement for the other
tie in books - we get little notes of set-up for X-Factor, New
Excalibur, Son of M, and so on.
I do have a bit of a beef with the inconsistency displayed with
exactly how certain characters lose their powers. Some characters
get converted into perfectly human bodies, while others are left
deformed for no good reason. There's no unifying principle that I
can find, and that's something that ticks me off. I'm saving up
most of my rant for another review though, because I've seen
preview images that suggest it's going to tick me off a lot more
in an upcoming series.
I'm also more than a little annoyed at who they depowered and
who they kept. Dani loses her powers, but we get Austen-created
Mammomax still lurking about. More than 99% of mutants world
wide have lost their powers, but of active X-Men team members
so far the count is still one, the token Bobby Drake.
I'm going to ignore those two beefs in grading the issue, which
does a decent job playing with the different results... it just
does it in too scattershot a manner. Aside from a few good
moments, there's just not enough depth into any of the events -
the depth is saved up for the other books. So that feels just a
little like a cheat. On the other hand, if you're not sure which
of the tie-in books, if any, you're going to get, this is a good
way to get a taste of the concepts they're playing with.
Review: 3 stars
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Exiles #72 - "World Tour: New Universe, Part I of III" (Writer: Tony
Bedard, Penciler: Paul Pelletier, Inker: Rick Magyar)
Proteus has stolen Mimic's body and gone dimension hopping, and
the Exiles chase him to the New Universe, where mutants don't
exist, and superhumans have only been around for about a year.
I have a special place in my heart for the New Universe. Books
set there are among the first I recall following, and Psi-Force
and DP7 are titles I get nostalgic for and reread every few
years. I still think they have some of the most inventive
characters.
Now, the New Universe was absorbed into the Marvel Universe, and
is now a planet surrounding a distance star and contained in
some sort of quarantine field (I didn't actually read that series).
So, the Exiles aren't visiting THE New Universe, just one that's
remarkably like the New U was in the early days, right down to the
point about being set in the 80s. In fact, I have to give him
credit... in at least most of the cases (I can't speak for Justice),
you can actually pinpoint the moment in the comics that they arrive.
Bedard did his homework, in other words. As did the artist - the
clothing is pretty well dead on for those moments. Not that there's
all that much that needs doing for the New Universe, but it's
certainly appreciated.
So, I have to come clean... I'm not sure I can be entirely objective
about this issue. This is one of those things that I'm so happy to
see some of my old favorites brought back to life that I almost don't
care what the story is. Okay, to be honest, I get the feeling that
some of my favorites just got an extended cameo for this issue and
won't play a role in the rest, and that's a little disappointing,
but he is doing some pretty interesting things with the other
characters. Proteus' target makes perfect sense, as does the New
Universe character hunting him. I'm pleased, and mostly, I'm
relieved not to be disappointed. Now, for me personally, and in
terms of my personal enjoyment, I'm going to name it my Pick of
the Week. In terms of objective quality, it should probably go
to the next book. So we'll call it a tie.
Review: 3.5 stars
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Gotham Central #37 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (Writer: Greg Rucka,
Artist: Steve Leiber)
Gotham Central goes all to hell in the obligatory Infinite Crisis
tie-in. As the seven deadly sins run free over Gotham, Detective
Crispus Allen must choose between trying to take care of his
partner, do his job, and protect his family as all signs point
to the end of the world.
I was afraid, when I heard this was a tie-in, that this would be
one of those issues that don't really make sense unless you're
reading the big mega-crossover. Luckily, it's not - the actual
crisis is almost unimportant... you could substitute almost any
mass disaster and with few changes, the story would still work.
It's a good character piece of a cop in the middle of an
apocalypse.
Review: 3.5 stars
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New Excalibur #1 - "Here We Go Again!" (By: Chris Claremont & Michael
Ryan)
While the original Excalibur team (along with a few guests, who
will form the new one) reunite in England in the wake of Decimation,
Dazzler is seemingly murdered by a group who resemble the original
X-Men.
It's actually rather pleasant... I'm still not sure I'm going to
get it full time, but I'm feeling good about my decision to see
it through the first arc. I still have fears beyond that - firstly,
for the fact that most of what I enjoyed in this issue involved
characters that are not part of the permanent cast, and secondly
because the first arc seemingly involves parallel dimension junk.
I have a fear that that sort of thing is going to form a major
part of this books raison d'etre, and it's exactly the sort of
thing that drove me from the first Excalibur series.
Review: 3.25 stars
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New X-Men #20 - "Childhood's End, Part 1 of 4 " (Writers: Craig Kyle
& Chris Yost, Pencils: Mark Brooks, Inks: Jaime
Mendoza)
House of M strikes the students of the Xavier Institute.
So, the new creative team comes on board. It's a little hard to
judge how things are going to be, because this issue is right on
the heels of House of M, and so it's all pretty much about
dealing with the disaster of M-Day and establishing who has what
powers.
I'm actually surprised and pleased that not all of the old New
X-Men cast, the ones who are not on the cover, have become
powerless. That doesn't mean things are all great for them
either, and they've got some pretty interesting story-fodder
with the aftermath.
The writers have got the voices of the character well enough
(although again, it's a 'dealing with disaster' issue... the
true test of that comes when they're just hanging out), and
we get the depth that was lacking in the Day After issue,
although there are a couple seeming errors with respect to
powers - maybe they'll explain more about it later. Also,
we have one of those annoying problems where we see the
same event in a number of different comics, only nobody
bothered to co-ordinate. So we see Emma walking in and
talking to Kitty upon learning that Sofia has lost her
powers (and is for some reason collapsed) in House of M,
while here Emma comes in, Kitty's nowhere to be seen,
Sophie and Laurie are still wandering about in the confusion
and neither seems to know yet if they have their powers.
It's to be expected, to an extent, but you'd hope people
would at least try to be on the same page.
I'm pretty pleaed with it, though, as a single issue.
We'll have to wait and see how the creative team shakes out
over the long term.
Review: 3.5 stars
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Teen Titans #29 - "Life and Death" (Script: Geoff Johns, Pencils:
Tony S. Daniel, Inks: Marlo Alquiza)
Jason Todd breaks into Titans Tower to fight Tim Drake in a Robin
vs. Robin fight. Elsewhere, the Titans react to various parts of
Infinite Crisis.
I'm not going to comment on the stuff involving the other Titans,
because it really doesn't interest me all that much. I might have
skipped the issue if it wasn't for the confrontation, as I'm
getting a little tired of the tie-ins.
It's enjoyable. I don't know enough of the history of the two of
them, and I'm not reading the story in the main batbooks that
includes Jason Todd, so those who do may get more or less from
the story, but it satisfied me. Jason didn't come off as a one
note hero-gone-bad or anything like that, just a bitter man with
some issues, and a few things he's right to be upset about.
So, I had fun. It wasn't one of the best things I read this week,
but I'm not sorry I got the issue by any means. I do think that
I'll be skipping the next arc, as I didn't like the book that much
the first time he appeared.
Review: 3 stars
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That's it for this week folks. Next week, according to the
shipping list, we have 4 books (since I'm dropping the main
X-Men title). Runaways #10, X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (of 6),
Mutopia X #5 (of 5), and Birds of Prey #88.
See you next week...
Peter Dimitriadis
http://www.unreachablestar.net
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Colcannon Bacstai
"Peter Dimitriadis" <gh...@unreachablestar.net> wrote in message
news:v8ednWukl8fY-u_e...@rogers.com...
>>Exiles #72 - "World Tour: New Universe, Part I of III" (Writer: Tony
>>Bedard, Penciler: Paul Pelletier, Inker: Rick Magyar)
Proteus has stolen Mimic's body and gone dimension hopping, and the Exiles
chase him to the New Universe, where mutants don't
exist, and superhumans have only been around for about a year.
I have a special place in my heart for the New Universe. <<
Ditto! Heck, I've got a Star Brand tattoo on my chest to prove it!
I've been counting the days since learning of the impending issue and it
does not disappoint. Most folks consider all the NU stuff to be a big lame
joke, but I think Bedard and crew took great care to cater to us nostalgic
types. It's great they focused on the early days of the line before all that
PITT stuff.
Justice started as a displaced interdimensional "cop" who (as you saw in the
comic) could see the evil in people, but then Peter David (whose work I
love, but this just didn't work for me) did one of those "everything you
know is wrong issues" and turned him into a normal person who thought he was
an interdimensional "cop."
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/justicet.htm
I'd love for the Exiles to prevent the whole PITT mess or for Star Brand to
join up!
Peter Dimitriadis
Well, I liked most of the PITT stuff and didn't like Justice much before
then, mostly because it kinda went against the whole 'one origin for all
the powers in the New U' thing that I liked. But hey, even if we disagree
about what parts we liked most, us New U fans have to stick together
nonetheless! :)
And it still is pretty cool how well they matched the early issues.
> I'd love for the Exiles to prevent the whole PITT mess or for Star Brand to
> join up!
I have a feeling it'll be Justice joining the group, and either Star Brand
adding to the threat or helping to drive Proteus off that world but not
end him as a danger. Justice seems the only New Universe character who'd
willingly join up with the Exiles to chase down a paranormal using his
powers in an evil way - that was part of what he did, isn't it?
Peter Dimitriadis
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Madman
> Exiles #72 - "World Tour: New Universe, Part I of III" (Writer: Tony
> Bedard, Penciler: Paul Pelletier, Inker: Rick Magyar)
> set there are among the first I recall following, and Psi-Force
> and DP7 are titles I get nostalgic for and reread every few
> years. I still think they have some of the most inventive
> characters.
Yeah, it was really good to see these guys again although
the impending fight between Exiles and you-know-who (no Spoiler here)
seemed very forced.
Speaking of invenstive -- Inventive-wise, Exiles is the best comic out
there. Love it.
Madman
Jimmy Fury
Mammomax... bah.
But both "The Day After" and "New Excalibur" felt very messy... kind of
disappointing. Infact, what the hell was going on in New Excalibur?
It was all over the place.
It seems that the Xavier Institute is being turned into a kind of
virtual prison for the X-Men, which seems interesting.
Also, did anybody noticed just how snarky the previews were in New
Excalibur for what's out this month? And furthermore, the letters page
revealed that yep... poor old Cecilia Reyes is dead. Off-panel no
less. What a waste of yet another character.
Colcannon Bacstai
"Peter Dimitriadis" <cs23...@cs.yorku.ca> wrote in message
>>>Justice seems the only New Universe character who'd willingly join up
>>>with the Exiles to chase down a paranormal using his powers in an evil
>>>way - that was part of what he did, isn't it? <<<
Ya know, seeing how 2099 is going to be the next world they visit. This
might seem viable considering Justice's connection to that universe /grin
prestorjon
exactly how certain characters lose their powers.>>
Well Blob lost a lot of weight but kept his skin. Who else lost their
powers who looked different? IIRC there was a lot of "star trek alien"
type mutants who were humans with different skin colors or forehead
bumps.
I've got two nitpicks. When the Xmen are fielding phonecalls Bobby
Drake takes a call from Mr and Mrs Kincaid and informs them that Noriko
still has her powers. Why would Cecily's parents be concerned about
Noriko Ashida?
My other nitpick is that the inconsistency. There are only supposed to
be a "few hundred" mutants left but in New Xmen Cerebro says that there
is a 91.4% reduction in mutants. if we go by Morrisons 16 million
mutants estimate then that leaves closer to 198 THOUSAND than 198.
<<So, the new creative team comes on board. It's a little hard to
judge how things are going to be, because this issue is right on
the heels of House of M, and so it's all pretty much about
dealing with the disaster of M-Day and establishing who has what
powers. >>
This was, I think, the best and most effective of the three Xbooks I
read this week. Poor Laurie, poor Kevin, poor Cecily. I do have the
nitpick that early on there was a picture of a kid who was a dead
ringer for Josh but seemed to be human colored so it made me think Josh
had lost his powers. I do think it will suck to have David and Sofia
without powers, but I liked that they kept the two people who
desperately wanted to be rid of their powers: Cecily and Kevin with
them. Poor Kevin though, all excited, touches Laurie and bam, corpse
hand. Hope Josh can heal her. Hope Kevin can get past his guilt.
They have to go somewhere with that kid. Either have him put a gun in
his mouth and end the misery or have him and Cecily share their misery
(she's hot for him and immune to his powers, plus she's REAL flexible :
)
prestorjon
This
might seem viable considering Justice's connection to that universe
/grin >>
Okay I'll bite, what's Justice's connection to 2099? I onyl ever read
Doom and Xmen 2099
Colcannon Bacstai
>>> Ya know, seeing how 2099 is going to be the next world they visit. This
>> Okay I'll bite, what's Justice's connection to 2099? I onyl ever read
>> Doom and Xmen 2099 <<
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/justicet.htm
Justice popped up in Spidey 2099 as a character called the Net Prophet.
Scroll down toward the end.
Peter Dimitriadis
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, prestorjon wrote:
> <<I do have a bit of a beef with the inconsistency displayed with
> exactly how certain characters lose their powers.>>
>
> Well Blob lost a lot of weight but kept his skin. Who else lost their
> powers who looked different? IIRC there was a lot of "star trek alien"
> type mutants who were humans with different skin colors or forehead
> bumps.
Beak and Angel, and all of Beak's kids have been restored to normal.
Iceman, technically, was a block of solid ice when he was depowered, and
yet turned human - I've seen a preview image that suggests some no name
mutant who happened to look like a dragon, when they lost their powers,
did not turn into a human, but simply lost the ability to fly.
>
> I've got two nitpicks. When the Xmen are fielding phonecalls Bobby
> Drake takes a call from Mr and Mrs Kincaid and informs them that Noriko
> still has her powers. Why would Cecily's parents be concerned about
> Noriko Ashida?
Yeah, I noticed that too, but I figured it was just a name substitution
thing - since both Noriko and Cessily kept their powers, the conversation
works for either of them. I suspect they originally wrote it for Cessily,
but then the art came back and he was looking at a hologram of Noriko, so
he changed the name but forgot to get the last name.
Either that or Cessily and Noriko are a lot closer than we've been lead to
believe. ;)
> My other nitpick is that the inconsistency. There are only supposed to
> be a "few hundred" mutants left but in New Xmen Cerebro says that there
> is a 91.4% reduction in mutants. if we go by Morrisons 16 million
> mutants estimate then that leaves closer to 198 THOUSAND than 198.
Well, New X-Men takes place only minutes after House of M ends. In The
Day After, Emma specifically says 'our early estimates of 90% of the
population have been conservative... it's much worse than we thought'.
Maybe mutants were being depowered over the course of a few hours and so
the number continued to drop, or Cerebro continued to read people as
mutants for a while after they were depowered as their brainwave patterns
cycled down to normal human levels.
> <<So, the new creative team comes on board. It's a little hard to
> judge how things are going to be, because this issue is right on
> the heels of House of M, and so it's all pretty much about
> dealing with the disaster of M-Day and establishing who has what
> powers. >>
>
> This was, I think, the best and most effective of the three Xbooks I
> read this week. Poor Laurie, poor Kevin, poor Cecily. I do have the
> nitpick that early on there was a picture of a kid who was a dead
> ringer for Josh but seemed to be human colored so it made me think Josh
> had lost his powers. I do think it will suck to have David and Sofia
> without powers, but I liked that they kept the two people who
> desperately wanted to be rid of their powers: Cecily and Kevin with
> them. Poor Kevin though, all excited, touches Laurie and bam, corpse
> hand. Hope Josh can heal her. Hope Kevin can get past his guilt.
> They have to go somewhere with that kid. Either have him put a gun in
> his mouth and end the misery or have him and Cecily share their misery
> (she's hot for him and immune to his powers, plus she's REAL flexible :
Heh. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin has suicide in his future.
I did find it a little bothersome that Kevin was walking around without
his coverings... you'd think he'd be real careful about that, to the point
of sleeping with them.
Also, what's up with Josh not being able to heal Laurie? He's healed
Kevin's wither-effect before.
prestorjon
substitution
thing - since both Noriko and Cessily kept their powers, the
conversation
works for either of them. I suspect they originally wrote it for
Cessily,
but then the art came back and he was looking at a hologram of Noriko,
so
he changed the name but forgot to get the last name. >>
Although IIRC Noriko's relationship with her folks is even worse than
Cecily's, also do they even know where she is. Last I remembered she
still hadn't contacted them yet in Japan.
<<Heh. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin has suicide in his
future.
I did find it a little bothersome that Kevin was walking around without
his coverings... you'd think he'd be real careful about that, to the
point
of sleeping with them.
Also, what's up with Josh not being able to heal Laurie? He's healed
Kevin's wither-effect before. >>
I figure Kevin doesn't sleep all covered up. Rogue has a similar
"recklessness" about not keeping covered in situations where she's
unlikely to touch someone. People start screaming Kevin runs outside,
sees that everyone lost their powers and figures it's party time.
As far as Josh that could be one of two things: either the new writing
team forgot (I must admit I couldn't remember if Josh could heal Kevins
damage) , or maybe he will be able to once he gets himself together.
He told Laurie he was really scared (which makes sense if Laurie still
has her powers)
As far as suicide goes it would make a certain level of plot sense.
This guy kills his parents, becomes walking death, then thinks he's
cured and injures the girl he's got a crush on. Plus I think he was
pretty angsty before all of this. It would make sense but I'm hoping
he gets it together.
William George Ferguson
>Beak and Angel, and all of Beak's kids have been restored to normal.
Minor correction, at least one of Beak and Angel's kids, Tito, is still a
mutant, with a beak and wings, per Exiles.
--
I have a theory, it could be bunnies
Peter Dimitriadis
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, William George Ferguson wrote:
> Peter Dimitriadis <cs23...@cs.yorku.ca> wrote:
>
>> Beak and Angel, and all of Beak's kids have been restored to normal.
>
> Minor correction, at least one of Beak and Angel's kids, Tito, is still a
> mutant, with a beak and wings, per Exiles.
Yeah, I realized shortly after I hit send I forgot to put in
'almost' before all. (Or alternately, 'but one' after). S'what I get for
only proofreading after I finish posting. ;)
rja.ca...@excite.com
Didn't she get shipped to an extermination camp in WEAPON X?
rja.ca...@excite.com
Jimmy Fury wrote:
> I'm also pretty miffed at Dani being depowered, over someonebody like
> Mammomax... bah.
I was gonna say "Isn't Dani still a Valkyrie" but they're toast as
well... bummer. Still, ya never know. _X-Men The End_ has her still
mutant and chooser-of-slain, as far as I can see; of course it's based
on status quo when the story started, including Xavier in Genosha... is
Wanda there too? Magneto? In other words it's set a few years in the
future but several significant people have stayed where they were -
which is common in real life but not in comics! (In comics, you go
/back/ to where you were! Hal Jordan is a test pilot again!!)
rja.ca...@excite.com
And seems to be somewhat short of a way to get there, and the Exiles
can do that.
I'd forgotten how creepy Justice was. Punisher crossed with Fin Fang
Foom without the dialogue.
~consul
> Well Blob lost a lot of weight but kept his skin. Who else lost their
> powers who looked different? IIRC there was a lot of "star trek alien"
> type mutants who were humans with different skin colors or forehead
> bumps.
There seemed to be folks who kept skin colour.
> I've got two nitpicks. When the Xmen are fielding phonecalls Bobby
> Drake takes a call from Mr and Mrs Kincaid and informs them that Noriko
> still has her powers. Why would Cecily's parents be concerned about
> Noriko Ashida?
Wasn't each panel a different call?
> This was, I think, the best and most effective of the three Xbooks I
> read this week. Poor Laurie, poor Kevin, poor Cecily.
Yeah, I really felt for Kevin when he realized that he still had his powers. Big
slap in the face.
> I do have the nitpick that early on there was a picture of a kid who was a dead
> ringer for Josh but seemed to be human colored so it made me think Josh
> had lost his powers.
Th ekid who lost his 'shadow'? Was he running after the one whom it was his
shadow? I thought he was, and that the purplish guy with the dot on his head was
his 'shadow', but they seemed to be different kids in both panels.
--
"... respect, all good works are not done by only good folk. For within these
Trials, we shall do what needs to be done."
--till next time, Jameson Stalanthas Yu -x- <<poetry.dolphins-cove.com>>
~consul
> Beak and Angel, and all of Beak's kids have been restored to normal.
One of Beak's kid is still a mutant. And I noticed that the kid wasn't an
asshole about still looking like he did, not a huge whiner like the other kids
we saw living in the mansion. Good parenting, I say. :)
> Also, what's up with Josh not being able to heal Laurie? He's healed
> Kevin's wither-effect before.
They might have depowered him? Given how he was maybe too 'miracilish' for the
storylines?
Brian Doyle
"~consul" <con...@INVALIDdolphins-cove.com> wrote in message
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> Peter Dimitriadis wrote:
> > Beak and Angel, and all of Beak's kids have been restored to normal.
>
> One of Beak's kid is still a mutant. And I noticed that the kid wasn't an
> asshole about still looking like he did, not a huge whiner like the other
kids
> we saw living in the mansion. Good parenting, I say. :)
The kid is less than a year old, so perhaps doesn't understand what's going
on.
> > Also, what's up with Josh not being able to heal Laurie? He's healed
> > Kevin's wither-effect before.
>
> They might have depowered him? Given how he was maybe too 'miracilish' for
the
> storylines?
The wave hasn't semi-depowered anyone we've seen, it's "Mutant" or
"Non-Mutant", so he's still an Omega level healer.
Nathan P. Mahney
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Has he been seen successfully healing anyone since Decimation? Perhaps his
powers are gone but he doesn't realise it yet (as implausible as that might
be with Hank McCoy on hand).
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~consul
> "~consul" <con...@INVALIDdolphins-cove.com> wrote in message
>>>Beak and Angel, and all of Beak's kids have been restored to normal.
>>One of Beak's kid is still a mutant. And I noticed that the kid wasn't an
>>asshole about still looking like he did, not a huge whiner like the other kids
>>we saw living in the mansion. Good parenting, I say. :)
> The kid is less than a year old, so perhaps doesn't understand what's going
> on.
They also matured at a faster rate, just by size, and the fact that he speaks so
well, he's at least 4 yrs old.
No, I don't know why he is talking so well given only less than 1 yr comic book
time has passed, but he, and the others of his family, do.