I'm not really sure how I feel about the idea of the Dark X-Men.  The idea of Norman wanting his own team of Dark Avengers makes sense.  In the Marvel Universe, the Avengers should be a household name.  Plus the fact that there's been so many different members and they often change costumes, there's no reason the general public would suspect anything shady was going on.  The X-Men are another story.  Most people seem to hate or fear mutants.  For Norman to try to have his own team of mutants, it's a harder sell.  But then, Cyclops has tried making mutants more welcome among the normal folk.  And Norman is just the kind of guy to want to have a piece of every pie.  I've joked before but I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to create a Dark Power Pack someday.
 

I'm just glad that X-character is in circulation again. Hopefully they do something interesting with it. $4 is a bit much though, and I don't really care about the Hope back-up story, so I'll probably wait for the trade instead of buying the next issue.

I totally meant to mention the back up story.  Guess I started getting too excited about the certain character returning. 

Sorry I mentioned it. I'm thinking I'm not alone in not caring about it though.

I remember you and Babs agreeing that you both find Dark Beast to be pretty generic, but hopefully this mini will help you see what I see. Cornell is really shining and I had to laugh at how quickly this bunch of sociopaths made a bad situation worse.
 
I'd say this was my pick of the week, even over Batman&Robin and X-Force # 21.

And does anybody think Hope's new costume in the solicits looks a little like Kick-Ass without a mask?

huuuugely stoked that he's back. He was my favourite character growing up and I hope he doesn't join the Dark X-Men. 
 
Every character that joins a Norman Osborn team seems to have the mind of a freaking child and I don't want to see him like that.

" huuuugely stoked that he's back. He was my favourite character growing up and I hope he doesn't join the Dark X-Men.   Every character that joins a Norman Osborn team seems to have the mind of a freaking child and I don't want to see him like that. "

" @Dane said:

" huuuugely stoked that he's back. He was my favourite character growing up and I hope he doesn't join the Dark X-Men.   Every character that joins a Norman Osborn team seems to have the mind of a freaking child and I don't want to see him like that. "

I can't see that happening under any circumstances. What he managed to do in this issue alone is incredibly impressive. "

LIke I said, I don't see it happening. No one wants to see that, and it would be completely pointless after the mini is over and they'd have to deal with him anyway. I just hope he doesn't end up in the hands of Matt Fraction.

I haven't really read this. So, I can't say for sure, but Mystique never struck me as someone who would be so keen on helping someone like Osborn. I know she has those nano-sentinels in her blood. It's either help or blow up. She's just always been a character who never wants to be forced to do anything. I would imagine she would be plotting some way to reverse this and make him pay for this humiliation
 
After she disappeared in that X-Men: Manifest Destiny book. I was really looking forward to her reappearing. She told Bobby that she would come to see him again. Not with her face and body, but promised that he would love her. She then jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and has been missing since her reveal in the Utopia story. I was really curious to see how she would live up to that promise.  It's felt lack luster so far.

I'm actually becoming a bit of a Mystique fan.  I loved her story with Wolverine in his last main run, where they end up fighting nude in the desert. 

Any reason why the hope/cable story wasn't mentioned at the end ? good great bad? any input?

What was the Hope story like?  I couldn't be bothered to get this, since I didn't like anything to do with the Dark X-Men.  The Cable & Hope story in Psylocke #1 was slow, so I was wondering if it was the same sort of slow paced recap in this issue too.

This is what i am trying to figure out G-Man and everyone else...they are making a big deal about hope and how she is supposed to save mutant kind but what is nate's whole deal in this are they just going to kill him off again to show the power that norman has, or are they going to run with the whole mutant shaman thing. It is just very wierd that they are putting two characters in to the marvel universe with the basically the same goal as far as we can tell right now.

The issue was ok, i don't like what they are doing with weapon Omega, hes was an interesting character in Marvel presents and in omega flight, now they completly changed him into this comedic type character whos always fumbling around. He showed he could be a leader, and left Omega flight to do good in the whole of Canada, now he just seems like a different character. everything else seems pretty cool. i stopped reading comics around the time the "x-character" was in it and started reading comics again after he was gone. So I really know nothing about him other then everyone told me back then he sucked, and the x-men books started to get good again when he was gone. But whatever, it had no effect on me that hes returned because well, i dont know the character very well. 
 
Oh and I love the whole story of Cable and Hope, but i didnt read this story just because i missed the first part, so Im excited for the trade to come out on that. On a side note I'm very happy we are getting a short story at the end of the books to kinda make up for the price instead of some stupid preview of a shitty character u can see on the internet.
 
Have a good one all
Cheers.

o and shame on G man for insulting mystique

if daken is not apart of it , im not getting it !!!!!!!

I get the Mystique\Jean Grey thing but can Mystique duplicate Jean's powers? I mean even a little bit?

Never seen Mystique duplicable non-physical powers.

I like Dark Beast the best he's just plane mean.

" What happened to the Exiles Mimic?"