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		In a stunning development, Marvel kills off Professor X of the X-men, again, at least for now (news.yahoo.com)		80
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Somacandra		2012-09-13 03:20:53 PM

Does Not Approve

Nina_Hartley's_Ass		2012-09-13 03:21:55 PM

I was a DC reader as a kid and as we were swapping comics one lazy afternoon I told a friend, a Marvel fan, I was surprised to see a major villain like Doctor Doom die in Fantastic Four 144.

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He laughed.

The Stealth Hippopotamus		2012-09-13 03:23:12 PM

And not a single fark was given..

So here is some cosplayed X-Men

Magorn		2012-09-13 03:43:45 PM

I'm just hoping the make the sequel to X-men First class so we can learn what trauma cause professor X- to go from having an upper-class English countryside accent and a full head of hair to a bald Scotsman

Walker		2012-09-13 03:49:08 PM

Magorn: I'm just hoping the make the sequel to X-men First class so we can learn what trauma cause professor X- to go from having an upper-class English countryside accent and a full head of hair to a bald Scotsman

Nevermind that. How did he go from being in a wheelchair with a full head of hair to being bald and walking in the flashback where he and Magneto meet Jean for the first time, to being in a wheelchair again?

simplicimus		2012-09-13 03:57:33 PM

Walker: Magorn: I'm just hoping the make the sequel to X-men First class so we can learn what trauma cause professor X- to go from having an upper-class English countryside accent and a full head of hair to a bald Scotsman

Nevermind that. How did he go from being in a wheelchair with a full head of hair to being bald and walking in the flashback where he and Magneto meet Jean for the first time, to being in a wheelchair again?

Probably a result of the first time he died.

The Stealth Hippopotamus		2012-09-13 04:06:59 PM

There is no Rule 63 Professor X. I'm ok with this...

texdent		2012-09-13 04:30:57 PM

He'll be back in a year

unlikely		2012-09-13 04:58:16 PM

1967 Called. They want their sales figures back.

Gosling		2012-09-13 05:41:00 PM

Nobody stays dead but Uncle Ben, Joe Chill and Dan Turpin.

Mugato		2012-09-13 05:42:07 PM

I'm glad I stopped reading comics when I was 13. Not that I think I'm mature or anything, it's just that they tend to, well do stuff like this. Repeatedly.

Gosling		2012-09-13 05:42:43 PM

...no, wait. Scratch Dan Turpin.

Fonaibung		2012-09-13 05:46:27 PM

Mugato: I'm glad I stopped reading comics when I was 13. Not that I think I'm mature or anything, it's just that they tend to, well do stuff like this. Repeatedly.

I rip them occasionally and sometimes don't even finish the arcs. I've been a comic fan for over two decades and still consider myself a comic book fan... I just don't like comic books. I don't know how to explain it.

Mega Steve		2012-09-13 05:48:34 PM

I've been o0ut of the loop for awhile. Is Magneto good, evil, or just dead now?

Masso		2012-09-13 05:49:55 PM

Nobody really stay dead in comics except Uncle Ben, Jason Todd, and Bucky.

kroonermanblack		2012-09-13 05:53:01 PM

Does anyone really fall for this any more? Even kids have instant access to the entire volume of comics now, which we didn't.

Surely no one sees 'x dies!' and thinks it'll last a week?

Gosling		2012-09-13 05:54:39 PM

Masso: Nobody really stay dead in comics except Uncle Ben, Jason Todd, and Bucky.

Bucky and Jason Todd came back.

Kanemano		2012-09-13 05:57:09 PM

Mugato: I'm glad I stopped reading comics when I was 13. Not that I think I'm mature or anything, it's just that they tend to, well do stuff like this. Repeatedly.

as one of my old teachers said, even though he was talking about Soap Operas, it's impossible to write a story that lasts 40 years without repeating yourself.

whizbangthedirtfarmer		2012-09-13 05:57:41 PM

I wonder if he will be able to walk again when he comes back.

Mugato		2012-09-13 06:01:08 PM

Fonaibung: Mugato: I'm glad I stopped reading comics when I was 13. Not that I think I'm mature or anything, it's just that they tend to, well do stuff like this. Repeatedly.

I rip them occasionally and sometimes don't even finish the arcs. I've been a comic fan for over two decades and still consider myself a comic book fan... I just don't like comic books. I don't know how to explain it.

I know what you're saying. I like the concept of comic books and I go to comic cons and I love girls who are into comics and I appreciate the art and everything but it's not something that I can really follow on a steady basis.

The occasional graphic novel is cool though. Looking forward to the Dark Knight Returns DVD coming soon.

IronJelly		2012-09-13 06:03:13 PM

whizbangthedirtfarmer: I wonder if he will be able to walk again when he comes back.

I laughed.

But yes, death in Comics is only temporary. he'll get better. Even if he doesn't get better soon, it's only one X-men series, and there are generally like 6 of them being published concurrently.

HeartBurnKid		2012-09-13 06:03:28 PM

Gosling: ...no, wait. Scratch Dan Turpin.

Nobody stays dead in comics except for Uncle Ben, Joe Chill, and Captain Mar-Vell?

TheBlackrose		2012-09-13 06:07:39 PM

HeartBurnKid: Gosling: ...no, wait. Scratch Dan Turpin.

Nobody stays dead in comics except for Uncle Ben, Joe Chill, and Captain Mar-Vell?

Mar-Vell was brought back for a bit in AvX.

Wasn't Gwen Stacy in the permadead tier? Or did they finally reverse her?

PapaChester		2012-09-13 06:07:57 PM

whizbangthedirtfarmer: I wonder if he will be able to walk again when he comes back.

Not only will he be able to walk, but have god-like powers. Maybe he even consumes the Phoenix and turns it into a pet.

Personally I think Patrick Stew... err.. Professor X deserve world-crushing powers.

palan		2012-09-13 06:08:14 PM

possible states of the marvel universe:
Professor X: has powers/ walks
Jean Grey: alive/dead
Wolverine: Has memory/amnesia

Pick one for each row, and tell story.

whizbangthedirtfarmer		2012-09-13 06:12:48 PM

PapaChester: whizbangthedirtfarmer: I wonder if he will be able to walk again when he comes back.

Not only will he be able to walk, but have god-like powers. Maybe he even consumes the Phoenix and turns it into a pet.

Personally I think Patrick Stew... err.. Professor X deserve world-crushing powers.

Didn't that stuff happen already with the Onslaught crap? X as uber-powerful and deadly? I missed most of the 90s-00s.

Kurmudgeon		2012-09-13 06:17:12 PM

TheBlackrose: Mar-Vell was brought back for a bit in AvX.

Wasn't that a Skrull clone? Not talking about the new Captain Marvel.
/the former Ms. Marvel in case you missed it.

Gergesa		2012-09-13 06:25:43 PM

Imperious Rex!		2012-09-13 06:32:56 PM

I don't care about this. What I do care about is that Elektra may finally be on a team book. Sure, it might be the Thunderbolts, and it may have Red Hulk leading it, but I don't care. Elektra will stab people multiple times.

www.comicbookresources.com

Magorn		2012-09-13 06:45:27 PM

Imperious Rex!: I don't care about this. What I do care about is that Elektra may finally be on a team book. Sure, it might be the Thunderbolts, and it may have Red Hulk leading it, but I don't care. Elektra will stab people multiple times.

[www.comicbookresources.com image 593x900]

That's odd, an anatomically impossible chick in thong, tons of pouches, ridiculous musculature, swords held wrong, and nary a foot to be seen, and yet Rob Liefeld's name is nowhere to be found on the cover. Please god, don't tell me he has imitators

Imperious Rex!		2012-09-13 06:48:39 PM

How is she anatomically impossible OR holding the swords wrong? She's clearly getting ready to slice someone in the face with the katana.

Maybe you're looking for that catwoman thread.

As for the pouches....eh, I don't care.

PhDemented		2012-09-13 06:58:04 PM

Imperious Rex!		2012-09-13 06:59:36 PM

That would be because it's Flash Thompson with the Venom symbiote.

I just got that from the press release, I don't really follow the venom 'character'

Cyno01		2012-09-13 07:01:35 PM

The Stealth Hippopotamus: There is no Rule 63 Professor X. I'm ok with this...

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Youre not looking hard enough.

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[Image: Rule 63'd Erik and Charles from X-Men: First Class. Erik is lounging with her back against Charles's chest, while Charles wraps her arms around Erik's neck. Charles is wearing a floral skirt and hose, hair curled at her shoulders, while Erik is wearing gray slacks and a black turtleneck, and has her long hair braided.]

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Also, cut scene from First Class.

ALSO...

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Olympic Trolling Judge		2012-09-13 07:01:55 PM

Do comic book fans have resurrection pools for when something like this happens? 'Cause, uh, put me in for six months. I want in on this action.

PonceAlyosha		2012-09-13 07:06:23 PM

The Stealth Hippopotamus: There is no Rule 63 Professor X. I'm ok with this...

[img839.imageshack.us image 287x432]

Yes there is, in canon. Her name is Cassanda Nova. She's his psychic anti-backwards twin.

Fano		2012-09-13 07:23:47 PM

texdent: He'll be back in a year

A YEAR? Pshaw, for mutants, the Pearly Gates are a revolving door. I expect him to be back within 6 months, tops. If he isn't already back.

Fano		2012-09-13 07:25:26 PM

Magorn: Imperious Rex!: I don't care about this. What I do care about is that Elektra may finally be on a team book. Sure, it might be the Thunderbolts, and it may have Red Hulk leading it, but I don't care. Elektra will stab people multiple times.

[www.comicbookresources.com image 593x900]

That's odd, an anatomically impossible chick in thong, tons of pouches, ridiculous musculature, swords held wrong, and nary a foot to be seen, and yet Rob Liefeld's name is nowhere to be found on the cover. Please god, don't tell me he has imitators

He had a whole label, called Image, that had imitators.

Smackledorfer		2012-09-13 07:36:08 PM

Pouches make more sense than superheroes running around without any gear.

Just my 2¢

eddievercetti		2012-09-13 07:43:03 PM

Cyno01: ALSO...

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Am I the only farker who never beat that asshole in MvC1? Cheapest boss I've ever met.

/THE DREAM IS DEAD!

Fano		2012-09-13 07:47:52 PM

Mega Steve: I've been o0ut of the loop for awhile. Is Magneto good, evil, or just dead now?

He's been replaced by Dicklops

t3knomanser		2012-09-13 08:19:38 PM

Imperious Rex!: How is she anatomically impossible OR holding the swords wrong? She's clearly getting ready to slice someone in the face with the katana.

Her anatomy is actually pretty good and not Liefeldian at all. The physics-defying ribbons on her costume are silly, but they look good on a cover. Or at least, they would, if not for the fact that they mostly end up blending into Red Hulk. At least they make compositional sense and do actually break up some negative space. That's stylistic. One has to wonder about the tactical sense of a skin-tight, ass-crack-flossing costume that has gigantic farking ribbons floating off of it, but whatever- it's a comic book.

The katana, on the other hand- that's bad. It's just floating out there in space. That's not a swinging motion, and you wouldn't swing a sword from that position. At best, you could say she's just keeping it out of the way so she can jab someone with the sai, but the way she's holding the sai means that she'd mostly end up driving the pommel into her own face, even as she stabs someone. Unlike the ribbons, there's no compositional reason for her to be attacking like that. If, on the other hand, she were holding only one weapon- the sword- in a stabbing position, and braced with two hands, it would not only look more dynamic, but better compliment the way the ribbons are breaking up the negative space.

On a vaguely related note, Castle's limp-wristed grip on the elephant gun is actually probably more annoying to my eye. It's lazy, sloppy, and doesn't convey a line-of-action in the same way that Deadpool's approach does.

I'm not even going to bother with the gun-wielding-not-Spiderman guy.

Lanadapter		2012-09-13 08:37:40 PM

I hate temporary comic book deaths. If you're going to do ressurection make it have some sort of special meaning and be contained within the current story arc(like how the jesus myth has triumpth over death)

Rreal		2012-09-13 08:44:20 PM

TheBlackrose: HeartBurnKid: Gosling: ...no, wait. Scratch Dan Turpin.

Nobody stays dead in comics except for Uncle Ben, Joe Chill, and Captain Mar-Vell?

Mar-Vell was brought back for a bit in AvX.

Wasn't Gwen Stacy in the permadead tier? Or did they finally reverse her?

yes and no, she's dead, but they had a flashback of her banging Norman osborn and having his babies

Imperious Rex!		2012-09-13 08:46:26 PM

^ Really? That's....bizarre. Then again, there is a lot of weird shiat that goes down in comics.

All I really need to be satisfied is gratuitous violence meted out by a lady ninja. Nothing too complicated in that.

Dubwise		2012-09-13 09:09:20 PM

Maybe the shi'ar have a clone of him.. Or this was the clone..

PsyLord		2012-09-13 09:14:11 PM

The one, true Prof X was killed? Are you sure it wasn't a robot, or clone, or simulacrum?

/not obscure reference

Zombie DJ		2012-09-13 09:47:15 PM

What? Does he have a movie coming out?

Empty Matchbook		2012-09-13 09:55:40 PM

Okay, it's official: he's been killed/resurrected more times than Jean/Phoenix herself. More times than a character characterized by death and resurrection.

Imperious Rex!: I don't care about this. What I do care about is that Elektra may finally be on a team book. Sure, it might be the Thunderbolts, and it may have Red Hulk leading it, but I don't care. Elektra will stab people multiple times.

[www.comicbookresources.com image 593x900]

That is an AWESOME roster.