And I am angrier than ever. Why are X-Fans such masochists? Even more than Teen Titans fans but slightly less than Legion fans. God damn.

I’m an on-off X-Men reader, but I haven’t kept up in the last few years. Mostly because, well look at the cycle. So before going back, I asked longtime and hardcore X-Fans what I should expect. Most wondered why I even do this, I get more than enough masochistic RAGE from Teen Titans.

So here’s what happened while I was away:

Shadowcat is back:

We last saw Kitty Pryde at the end of Joss Whedon‘s very successful run in Astonishing X-Men, arguably one of the best arcs in the past decade. She’s freed from her giant intangible hollow bullet circling space forever and is back on earth, but with a catch: she’s stuck in her intangible form and can’t speak without wearing a suit. But she gets better. Don’t ask how but she does. But who brought her back?

Magneto joins the X-Men:

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So. Storm and Cyclops kissing. What the actual fuck, Marvel, really.

So I was finally able to read X-Men: Second Coming, and I must say, that was a pretty strong opening. This crossover has every potential to be as awesome as Messiah CompleX. But there’s a little something that bugged me. Okay, there’s the fact that Nightcrawler calls out Wolverine and X-23′s murderous ways mere seconds after he kills a couple of humans as well. Or the fact that Cyclops blew out a huge hole in his fucking wall when we all know that Cyclops is the most stoic X-Man ever. (continue reading…)

Kids, don’t go around the world feeling way too smug about yourselves. Don’t pat yourself in the back too much. Remember this: you are not as awesome as you think.

Always keep in mind that Cyclops is the owner of a jetpack…

… and you’re not.

He’s better than you are.

[Thanks, Baddie, for that awesome image. Also, I'm just recycling jokes I used in Plurk ages ago. Don't mind me.]

In non related news: non-owner of a jetpack Carlo J. Caparas became a national artist. Insert ragetoon here.