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         Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 9:46am | IP Logged | 1
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I've been enjoying this alternate history so much. JB, I hope it's been as fun for you as it has been for us readers.
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         Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 10:03am | IP Logged | 2
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Hmm. Perhaps Wolverine is really kind of an oddball mutant  superhero too. Like Cyclops having completely artificial  eye-beams, and thus deserving his name, but his actual x- power being able to breathe under water.
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         Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 10:13am | IP Logged | 3
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Can you imagine the terror Jean's parents (being civilians) must be experiencing right now?
  Though now that I think of it... Would they be more or less frightened than the X-Men given that they don't know the full extent of the Phoenix entity's powers?
  Hmmm... I guess I'll go with more scared since given their perspective, after a certain point it doesn't matter just how powerful someone trying to harm you is.
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         Steven Queen Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 10:23am | IP Logged | 4
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The suspension in mid-air so high (the stark white backgrounds) really adds to the sense of danger and helplessness.  It's a good choice of less-is-more imagery, especially in contrast with what occurred previously.
  Edited by Steven Queen on 09 June 2020 at 10:23am
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         Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 11:43am | IP Logged | 5
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Wolverine in the Legion might've been Regener-Lad. Sorry.
  Mr. & Mrs. Grey are hanging in there. So what does the Phoenix-Empress who can have anything really want? :^O
  I guess even a mint copy of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 and Action #1 with the coloring contest page intact won't be a lot of help...
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         Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 11:53am | IP Logged | 6
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If a declawed Wolverine had been female and in the Legion of Super-Heroes, might they have called her...
 
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         Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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As for Lilandra, evidently she (or the Phoenix) wanted to kiss Scott, so... check that off the list.
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | 8
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RelentLass••• Men have died for less!
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         Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | 9
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Then again, since Wolverine had bone claws all along.......
 
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         John Byrne 
  
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Shrieking hellspawn upon your house, Valenti!!!
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         Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | 11
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Michael: Hmm. Perhaps Wolverine is really kind of an oddball mutant  superhero too. Like Cyclops having completely artificial  eye-beams, and thus deserving his name, but his actual x- power being able to breathe under water.
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  Agreeing that Wolverine is a weird case, the overall package does seem to make a  slight amount of sense in regards to the original idea of the X-Men-- at least in  comparison to your example.
  Logan's healing allows ---> bone replacement/claws ----> creating Wolverine.
  He's a mutant with a wrinkle -- a compound result of mutant powers and Canadian  governmental abuse.
  If he were the only exception, I think the X-Men concept could accommodate him  pretty easily. But he's not the only exception, and I guess he probably never could  have been.
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         Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 09 June 2020 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | 12
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Wallace: Can you imagine the terror Jean's parents (being civilians) must be  experiencing right now?
  **
  Yes! To me, it's a testament to the mastery on display here that I feel so much  of their plight with very little page-count actually devoted to it. 
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