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The New Gay X-Man In Today's Uncanny X-Men #14 (SPOILERS) UPDATE

Published Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:00:00 -0600

Last updated Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:33:02 -0600

This is how they did it back in 1992, in Alpha Flight #106, by Scott Lobdell and Mark Pacella.

And this is how they do it in 2013, in Uncanny X-Men #14 by Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo.

And one of the nice things is that this issue, which will likely get all sorts of attention, is really, really good. It's a character piece, it's a training issue, it's recently joined X-Man Benjamin Deeds (for it is he) learning to use his mutant power of sympatico, becoming like the person he is talking to, and weaponising it on behalf of the X-Men. He's Zelig as a superhero. Get ready to stack this next to X-Factor #87 and Uncanny X-Men #244 in your collection.

And indeed, thank you Cyclops, there may be complaints that Benjamin Deeds has a rather passive power set, rather than knocking seven shades of shit out of people, but as Emma Frost puts it…

Which is almost giving Deeds a similar place on the team that Doug Ramsey used to have. unappreciated powers initially that then become very very useful indeed.

Though I'm not exactly sure which face they'd have to carve in to Mount Rushmore.

Go buy Uncanny X-Men #14. And play a drinking game for whenever someone says the words "power set".

UPDATE: And to be fair to Scott Lobdell, he handles it a little differently these days too, from Teen Titans #6…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. With Ales Kot and Tom Murphy of Zero #3, out today, signing tonight. And Sean Murphy signing on Friday…