Comments on: X-Force #17 Review: Time to Kill

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:20:42 +0000

No I think it’s pretty logical and obvious that everyone is going to survive. They saved Boomer and she is definitely a minor character at this point. But it seemed, to me at least, like they were trying to build up the ‘Oh noes, will everyone die?!’ tension.

Either way it will be interesting to see what happens next issue. If nothing else we get a nekkid Laura on the cover. ;)

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:28:34 +0000

I understand. I just don’t think that with Elixir there, and given the fact that Surge is relatively important that they’d kill her of at all (or at least in this scenario).

The more pertinent questions at the time for me was whether or not this will be viewed as yet another terrorist attack. This could very well be the shot the cements Trask’s march on San Francisco that brings Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men to pass.

By: jrpbsp

jrpbsp — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:13:47 +0000

Well is she explodes at all they are shown to be universally lethal. Everyone who’s power overloads to that extent has died as a result. That was the cliff hanger I was referring in that scenario.

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:06:06 +0000

I didn’t read the events with Surge as a whether or not we’re supposed to question her safety. She’ll clearly survive.

No, what I saw was something else entirely. They’re mere feet from the UN, where Trask is giving his anti-mutant speech. Just then a mutant bomb will go off directly outside? It’s a ploy by Trask to cement his anti-mutant ideals.

Whether or not that was obvious to the reader or not, I cannot say, but I read the cliffhanger in an entirely different way. Not as “I wonder if Surge will live?”, but rather “I wonder if X-Force can keep Surge’s explosion under wraps in order to not play into Trask’s plans?”