That line is pretty blurry in most of House of M.

Both, I guess. He hits Matt in Born Again and Original Sin suggests that Jack hit Maggie once in a fit of frustration and rage.

He had just been introduced but he wasn't yet Strong Guy.

He then briefly ruled Hell. There, you should be all set.

It's one of those relationships I couldn't have seen coming a couple years ago and now it's just sort of perfect. I like them together a lot and really hope they get to be regularly in a book again.

I agree that the #1 strategy is helpful to new readers and, in my opinion, a lot of readers who've been with things for a while. I just think the strategy benefits the characters Marvel is crosspromoting far more than the ones they aren't and they'll more aggressively promote those characters accordingly.

That was in Son of M and there were a ton of ill effects. Any person he touched either died or turned into a weird, mutant/inhuman hybrid. He then set himself up as a weird, sort of cult figure.

I agree with you there. It's very silly and doesn't really add anything. Piotr's been in a difficult emotional place for a long time. What does some new childhood trauma really add?

Agreed. Velvet gets good and it gets there quick but it's probably best read in long, breathless sit-downs so you can see the ways it all fits together.

That was supposedly Rick Remender's plan when he was slated to take over X-Men after Bendis left. Of course, him leaving Marvel sort of shuttered those plans.

But that doesn't make sense either. In Giant Size #1, Piotr's powers first manifest when he saves his sister from a runaway tractor. Xavier meets him literally minutes later and he joins the X-Men. Him knowing about his mutation as a kid is itself a retcon.

oh my god Black Bolt being killed on his way back to his home planet is literally the plot of Realm of Kings oh my god

I am not really an Inhumans guy (I liked them in the Stan and Jack Fantastic Four and Hickman's FF but that's really about it) and I liked Ms. Marvel but it doesn't even really feel like an Inhumans book. I picked up Uncanny Inhumans and was vastly disappointed but I did like Ellis' take on Karnack. I might pick that…

The Daredevil one at least didn't seem so much like abuse as a moment of weakness at least. I'd mostly forgotten about it.

That's true and I'm certainly not one of the X-Men truthers you can see on Bleeding Cool but look at the way Marvel's comic model works right now. They push new series with a purposefully short lifespan, using new #1 covers to appeal primarily to new readers. X-Men being a franchise that lives and dies on long…

I'll get to work.

I've said before that the way Marvel is pushing the inhumans is hilarious to me. They act like they've won, like you already love the inhumans and they're just giving you more of what you need. "The inhumans are on Agents of SHIELD, your favorite show and now they're in Uncanny Inhumans, the blockbuster comic you…

The Tim/Dick fight was pretty forced, especially when we know that Dick is kinda right. Definitely a step down.

That's true but recycling a story that's barely 10 years old doesn't feel particularly authentic or natural to me.

He didn't. Piotr's immediate parents are very supportive of him. When he leaves Russia in Giant Size X-Men #1, his parents are sad to see him go. It's one of the most straight-forward, nakedly emotional introductions to the second class of X-Men characters. They're just sad he won't be able to help on the farm.