Geek Syndicate Issue 8 | Page 100

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Geek Syndicate

five X-Men into the present
in an attempt to show Scott
Summers the error of his ways.

ew who looks exactly like Professor X, which seemed weird
to me.

B: I don’t know if you agree
but I think it’s fair to say that
was more or less a failure.

S: An older Hank McCoy sporting horns, which was pretty
cool.

S: Yeah. So Battle of the Atom
starts when future X-Men
come back in time to the present to say you’ve got to send
back the original X-Men so
that they don’t screw up the
timeline. So it starts with three
sets of X-Men from various
time periods. Time travel stories are so hard to talk about!

B: We’ve got Deadpool.

B: It gets even more complicated when there’s a plot
twist a little later on. Who are
these future X-Men who come
back? It’s Jean Grey, although
we don’t find that out straight
away because she’s dressed
like Xorn, Professor X’s neph100

S: Yep, still wisecracking.
B: And some kind of child of
Wolverine and Mystique who
is originally disguised as an
older Kitty Pryde.
S: Also, what we are led to believe is, a future Iceman. Of
course this Jean Grey is the
grown-up version of the original Jean Grey who was brought
into the present.
B: Basically, the premise of
the future X-Men’s argument
is that by bringing the original

X-Men forward in
time the presentday X-Men have
destroyed the future.
S: Yup, and their
mission is to send
back the original
five. Oh wait! And
there’s Molly Hayes
from
Runaways
there too.

B: At first it all
seems very…heroic.
Because for future
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