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Apologies & Explanations

So, if you follow me, you may have noticed that this blog has been incredibly inactive as of late. That is in part due to things going on in real life and my free time being spent writing (I RPG on two sites), but the real root of the matter is that it’s actually painful for me to host an Emma blog at this point in time. 

I love her so much, she’s the character that was the final pushing point to get me into comics after seeing her in Wolverine and the X-Men. I’d had moderate interest from JL and JLU, but that show (and Emma (xCyke) and X-23 were what specifically pushed me. 

Emma was this badass female with a soft heart that was hidden with an ice cold exterior. Her hidden flaws made her perfect, she was HBIC and she didn’t take shit from anybody. If only they had kept that up in the comics. 

The Fraction run was bad enough. I thought we’d never escape that hellhole. After being written by the likes of Morrison and especially Whedon only to have the new showrunner come in and essentially shit all over the character, it was heartbreaking. And I wasn’t even reading currently, this was all TPB’s and whatnot. 

But lately…AvX specifically, it’s gotten painful to see how they’ve taken her character. She had this great rejuvenation at the hands of Kieron Gillen and then BAM. AvX… just terrible. 

I know I said earlier partway through this event that if Marvel killed Emma off I’d drop them. I’ve gotten to the point where I’d rather they do that than wreck her any further. 

So for now, the blog’s on hiatus. I may reblog something every now and then, but I can’t bring myself to put my heart and soul and feels into this when it’s so damn painful to see what they’ve done with Emma. 

So, Uncanny X-Men Is No More (AKA A Bendis Rant)

According to all new information and reports, Bendis is going to be coming in after AvX with the All New X-Men (which includes a Jean Grey that’s traveled forward in time or something) or whatever the hell they’re called. Frankly, I can’t give a rats ass about what the name of the book is, because I’m too angry to think straight. 

I had maintained ever since the rumors started that Bendis would be coming over to fuck up write the X-Verse, I’d be okay with it, provided it didn’t mess up Uncanny, X-Factor or Legacy. Welp, they’re cancelling Uncanny and now the state of Emma after this is very much up in the air, apparently. 

Uncanny’s been cancelled…maybe? They’re not very forthcoming about it. All they’re saying is that Bendis’s book is to Uncanny what New Avengers is to Avengers…except we still have New Avengers and Avengers books. Yay Brevoort! Thanks for the clarification?

It just sucks. This was my dream book. Ever since 534.1, I wanted Gillen on this book permanently. Then, for ONCE, Marvel actually gave me what I wanted O_O And now, here we are, with it being taken away. We had to suffer the reign of Fraction for years and then we finally got relief with the brilliance that was Kieron Gillen, somebody who not only understood these characters, but who cared about them. Now they’re being thrust into the hands of Bendis. 

We thought Fraction was bad for Emma…but imagine her under the pen of Bendis? I shudder at the thought. And that’s assuming she even makes it out of this alive. We all know there’s going to be at least one casualty (it’s a Marvel event, death is required eyeroll) and a lot of whispers say it’s going to be an Avenger…but what if it’s Emma? Just throwing that morbid question out there. 

If it is, it’s highly likely that I will be dropping Marvel. As is, I refuse to buy anything that Bendis writes purely on principal (save for AvX <_<)