foolish_m0rtal | Astonishing X-Men

So I just finished Astonishing X-Men vol. 4 by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. I completely recommend it. The action scenes are awesome, the dialogue is great (and hilarious, courtesy of Whedon), and the plot is complicated and engaging. (Okay, so I'm still not completely sure what just happened. I have to go back and read the last book again)

I'm not going to go into characters and give away spoilers, but coolest newbie award goes to Hisako Ichiki (Armor), a student at the school who dreams of being an X-Man and ends up tagging along with Wolverine, who becomes something of a gruff pain-inducing mentor.
Emma Frost is still a dodgy bitch, and I'm still not completely solid on her, what with her being a former supervillain and everything. But she has a cool role in the series. (Still, when she and Scott kept getting all mushy, I kept wondering: "Is this for real, or are you just using your feminine wiles, wench?")

Best quotes from Astonishing X-Men:

Emma Frost: "Superpowers, a scintillating wit, and the best body money can buy...and I still rate below a corpse."

Kitty Pryde: "Okay, I officially really really don't know why I'm here. I'm not a fighter, not like you guys."
Logan: "You've been in it plenty, kid. I'd take you at my back any day."

Beast: "Maybe Scott and Logan should fight on the lawn again. The kids love that."
Logan: "I ain't up to anything don't have the word 'beer' in it."
Beast: "You could fight for beers..."
Logan: "Well, now, that doesn't sound too bad."

(after fighting alien menace Ord)
Cyclops: Well, looks like our friend is gone.
Frost: Without so much as a 'this isn't over!' There's simply no etiquette nowadays.

Nick Fury: "How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?"
Frost: "I read his mind."
Beast: "I matched his DNA."
Logan: "I smelled him."
Beast: "I also did that."

Frost: "J.Jonah Jameson'll be tongue-kissing Spiderman before the X-Men catch a little public favour."
Pryde: "Why do you insist on saying things I can never un-hear?!"

Agent Brand: They hunted for the X-Man destined to destroy their world and...Colossus got the nod. I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.
Colossus: No, I"m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.
Everyone: 0_0
Colossus:...this is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

Beast: You kidnapped us.
Brand: We're not past that yet?
Pryde: It was four hours ago.

Cyclops: What's Plan B?
Brand: We all die now.
Cyclops: What's Plan C?

(talking about Colossus)
Beast: He has been quiet...
Logan: *sarcastically* As opposed to the wacky prankster he used to be.

(Cyclops is giving the team orders)
Logan: "Me?"
Cyclops: "Have a beer and stay away from Hank."
Logan: "It's a plan."
Pryde: "Are you gonna fight everyone, Logan? I just want to know if I'm next."
Logan: "Nah, you'd go ninja on me- I can't take that kind of hurt."

Logan: We get thorugh this, I'm gonna pop a claw through her eye. You guys cool with that?
Frost: Absolutely.
Cyclops: Logan, we don't just...nah, go for it.

Spiderman: Oh, this is never good. You get this many big guns in one room not civilly warring, it's either the end of the world, or...I don't have an 'or.'

(Beast and Logan battle and crash through a wall into student quarters)
Student #1: So, what- the teachers spend all their time here trying to kill each other?
Student #2:...
Student #1: This place is so cool.