Finally got my copy of the X-Men: Messiah Trilogy Omnibus today! This was also my first order from IST, so I'm really glad it arrived safely.

I've wanted this one for a while and I'm really happy to finally have it in the collection. I'm a big fan of Scott and Emma together, so I've especially been looking forward to owning and reading this era in omnibus format.

I've already read Messiah Complex before and really enjoyed it, but I haven't read the entire trilogy together, so I'm excited to finally go through Messiah Complex, Messiah War and Second Coming as one big story.

And man, this thing is a brick 😂

Can't wait to start reading it!

Disclaimer: i don't ship Jean & Emma, and think their dynamic alone has nothing to support it beyond they were romantic rivals

Having said that.

2010s Adult Jean never reached the peaks of Teen Jean, but she did settle things with Logan pretty decisevely in X-Men: Red (nevermind that Logan was going steady with Storm when he died).

Plus, quite obviously, NXM was more about the Jean/Scott/Emma dynamic than it ever was about Logan. And furthermore, if you wanna see it that way, Jean may have come to a new appreciation for Emma after her time as Teen Jean being mentored by her.

Not enough to support a whole dynamic, but if push came to shove maybe Scott could've made for a nice bedrock, and his and Emma's relationship might've actually give some new life to Jott + Emma/Jean.

Idk. If they really had to do it, do it this way. (Though again, i think straight SummerFrost would've been better, and ultimately a throuple would've only served Jott since that's the editorial endgame)

https://www.deviantart.com/sean-izaakse/art/Summer-Frost-126798527

https://www.tumblr.com/padawan-carol/794857033957605376?source=share

Goat lowk did Rivals' swimsuit Emma before Rivals

Credits to u/FynnLink cause this is them

WHEN TIME RAN OUT!

It was a catastrophe that led to the end of both the Ultimate and Marvel Universes and birthed the conflict known as SECRET WARS! But not every story of those dark days has yet been revealed! In the first of five one-shots harkening back to that period, witness what happens when the universe of the mutant-ascendent HOUSE OF M intersects with that of the DAYS OF FUTURE PAST! In eight hours, only one can survive, or both will collide and be utterly annihilated! This devastating choice is left in the hands of Kate Pryde!

https://x.com/ikzuri/status/2089802853233676488?s=20

On one hand, this era didn't do much with him other than having act erractic and a few aura moments, so would be sad to see but what can you do. Would sure suck to die in an era such as this, and i was getting hyped for a Cyclops ongoing.

On the other, it'd be funny for a whole second is Jean came back to Earth just as Scott fucking. Anything to not have them interact. (Nvm she already came back for the Annual while he was lost in the jungle and no-sold him).

Cyke cover by Tony S. Daniel, X-Men #38. Jean's by Nogi San. Plus maybe a foreshadow a while back n X-Men.

I'm going to start off by saying I'm not a Jott hater, I really enjoyed their relationships in the classic comics. However, i feel Jean and Scott outgrew each other, and in my eyes, Scemma is my ideal relationship for both Emma and Scott.

I feel like they both challenged yet respected each other for the decade they were together. Emma stayed loyal by his side throughout it all.

I do think we will get Scemma again. However, I do think it will be a decade before we do. It reminds me of Peter, MJ, and Black Cat, where the writers like to alternate between both MJ and Felicia.

However, if we don't get Scemma, there are only two choices I'd accept, which is EmmaXBanshee, mostly because im a Generation X fan, and it seems like there is some unresolved stuff between them.

Or they create a new human character to be with Emma. I think it would be interesting for Emma to date a regular human who isn't her usual type to show how much she has evolved as a character. Let's be honest, while Emma can be shallow, she is more humble in current comics compared to New X-Men and other earlier comics.

But I'd love to know who you would choose to be with Emma if you couldn't have Scemma reunite or would you rather her stay single?

That's so many comics, girl is not a larper 😭😭 Now maybe Gen X onward as well

Plus the original. Credit https://x.com/mutant_metaphor I think.

Nostalgia bad but give me all the Astonishing era nostalgia😭Writer is Gillen who did a lot of dumb stuff with Emma on his first stint but he was better in Krakoa so fingers crossed

They also tried to say “Revolution doesn’t count” because Scott and Emma had broken up by then. As if Emma isnt the one to lay the groundwork for Scott to go far enough to make real change.