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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-27 00:00:00

Current mood:	blah
Entry tags:	char: green goblin/norman osborn, char: mystique/raven darkholme, creator: jason aaron, creator: jock, event: utopia, publisher: marvel comics, title: dark x-men

Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3

How did Norman get everyone's favorite shapeshifting freedom fighter to join his X-Men team?

This is from Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3, written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by Jock. It's sort've a follow-up to Jason Aaron's "Get Mystique" storyline, which involved Cyclops siccing Wolverine on Mystique after the events of "Messiah Complex," causing him to chase her all over the Middle East (where he got the Taliban to help him out) before he gutted her and left her to die.

Continuing from where the preview left off...

There's this page.

Mystique takes out the bikers.

The last page shows Mystique and Norman leaving the bar, which is surrounded with hundreds of soldiers and several tanks.

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	Raven lives to screw with the X-Folk. proteus_lives 2009-08-27 04:24 am UTC (link)
	In every sense of the word. Both her and Daken love to mess with people, they might get along famously. Maybe the X-bloodlines will get a little more inter-twined. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Raven lives to screw with the X-Folk. xdoop 2009-08-27 04:37 am UTC (link)
	Mystique and Daken? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Raven lives to screw with the X-Folk. foxhack 2009-08-27 04:41 am UTC (link)
	Sittin' in a tree F U C blam (Reply to this) (Parent)

timgueguen
2009-08-27 04:42 am UTC (link)

The last page shows Mystique and Norman leaving the bar, which is surrounded with hundreds of soldiers and several tanks.

Which to me indicates they're getting as ridiculous with Mystique as they have with Wolverine. Since when has she been an uberthreat in combat? The whole point of Mystique was that her shapeshifting powers meant she could go anyplace and make you think she was anyone, allowing her to stab you in the back. Her Raven Darkholme identity allowed her access to all sorts of goodies produced by the US military and intelligence agencies even without pretending to be say Nick Fury and swiping some new toy from SHIELD or what have you. She was more like Mastermind, someone who wouldn't get her hands dirty directly unless she really had to.

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	timemonkey 2009-08-27 11:13 am UTC (link)
	If you think about it, the more people you throw at her, the easier time she has. All she has to do is jump into a crowd and start shifting and the enmy won't be able to tell who she is, especially if they happen to be wearing uniforms. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlbarnett 2009-08-27 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	well now that they've added size shifting to her power she would be difficult to hit. And she's a lot smarter than Osborne or the average soldier. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bj_l 2009-08-28 01:23 am UTC (link)
	You mean like those times she trained in Murder World so she could kill each and every X-Men with her hands? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-28 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Only because she was planning on rescuing her daughter. And even then, she basically had the Brotherhood distract the X-Men so she could assassinate Xavier alone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bj_l 2009-08-28 02:21 am UTC (link)
	And she killed the RogueBot, with no second thoughts; some rescue mission. Nightcrawler was the only one she couldn't harm. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-28 04:03 am UTC (link)
	she killed the RogueBot, with no second thoughts Were you reading the same issue I was? (Reply to this) (Parent)

ap0cryphal
2009-08-27 04:44 am UTC (link)

solid dialogue from the ever reliable jason aaron, and you can't go wrong with jock on art...but i still don't see the point of an entire miniseries to start off osborn's x-men :/

that said, considering how daken's trying to go all machiavelli on everyone in dark wolverine (daniel way not completely sucking for once), mystique er, "mentoring" him might be all kinds of interesting.

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	darkknightjrk 2009-08-27 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, if those two joined forces...that would be interesting, to say the least. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shanejayell 2009-08-27 04:45 am UTC (link)
	When did she become a homicidal killer, huh? It's TOTALLY OOC from her original appearance. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-08-27 05:20 am UTC (link)
	Mystique has never been totally sane, even though her love for Destiny and Rogue kept her grounded for a long time. Now that they are gone, Mystique is reverting to "kill random people for my own amusement" mode. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-27 06:03 am UTC (link)
	Since she was impersonating Wolverine and murdering people at random, I assumed she was trying to trash his reputation after he gutted her. I'm going to pretend that all the 'Wolverine just casually murders whole bars' stories I see are actually Mystique from now on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	midnightvoyager 2009-08-27 04:24 pm UTC (link)
	... ... opens mouth. closes mouth I... will be stealing that thought. It will help my sanity considerably! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-08-27 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, me too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-08-27 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Mystique is the new Skrull! Also, icon lurve. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-27 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	It's one of Kerithwyn's. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	chaoswolf1982.livejournal.com 2009-08-27 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	Think about it - in the Skrull invasion... Mystique's the only safe one. They wouldn't even bother trying to copy her - they can do her shit already! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xdoop 2009-08-27 05:37 am UTC (link)
	Jason Aaron isn't the best Mystique writer. But I'm guessing most of the people she offed worked for Norman. And if its ok for Fury to kill people just because they're HAMMER agents, I guess it's ok for her too. :p (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darkknightjrk 2009-08-27 04:58 am UTC (link)
	"causing him to chase her all over the Middle East (where he got the Taliban to help him out)" Wow. Uh, okay--that's kinda fucked up. When did that happen, and how exactly did that work? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ap0cryphal 2009-08-27 05:12 am UTC (link)
	not the middle east, it was afghanistan - all of that happened during jason aaron's arc on wolverine #63 - #65, "Get Mystique" - snappy dialogue and vicious fun. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-08-27 05:38 am UTC (link)
	not the middle east, it was afghanistan Which is in the Middle East. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ap0cryphal 2009-08-27 05:45 am UTC (link)
	Um, no. Afghanistan is not in the Middle East. Basic geography, friend. You can say it's in Central Asia, or South Asia, but not the Middle East. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phoenixmessiah
2009-08-27 06:11 am UTC (link)

Relative Location Afghanistan is landlocked, and situated in both the northern and eastern hemispheres. It's positioned in the Middle East, a recognized geographical region of southwestern Asia. It's bordered by the countries of China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

This is from:
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/af.htm

So basically you are both correct.

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	ex_menagerie993 2009-08-27 05:33 am UTC (link)
	I adore the art here. (Reply to this)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-08-27 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	Well of course he wouldn't sleep with Mystique. She's not blonde! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-08-27 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	She could pretend to be Gwen for him. (Reply to this) (Parent)