Hank has a tendency to obsess over problems -- he thinks he can solve them with science, and because he so rarely *fails*, he's really bad at letting things go.
Here Comes Tomorrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Tomorrow) was the last four issues of Morrison's run on X-men. There were parts of it that were cracktastically bad, but mostly it was a flash-forward to a world where Hank had become possessed by Sublime, the sentient bacterial lifeform that *hates* just about every other lifeform on the planet.
The plot involved possessed!Hank and his hideous clone army (clones mixed from other X-men, so you had clones that could teleport, shoot eye-beams *and* duplicated themselves all at the same time) trying to find the Phoenix Egg while the current X-men (Wolverine, the Cuckoos, some others) tried to find it before he did. Most of the X-men died horribly at the end when the Beast arrived on the battlefield and started slaughtering them *himself*, instead of letting his clone army do it. In the end, it came down to the Phoenix, and the humanity of Jean Grey.
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:26 am (UTC)Here Comes Tomorrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Tomorrow) was the last four issues of Morrison's run on X-men. There were parts of it that were cracktastically bad, but mostly it was a flash-forward to a world where Hank had become possessed by Sublime, the sentient bacterial lifeform that *hates* just about every other lifeform on the planet.
The plot involved possessed!Hank and his hideous clone army (clones mixed from other X-men, so you had clones that could teleport, shoot eye-beams *and* duplicated themselves all at the same time) trying to find the Phoenix Egg while the current X-men (Wolverine, the Cuckoos, some others) tried to find it before he did. Most of the X-men died horribly at the end when the Beast arrived on the battlefield and started slaughtering them *himself*, instead of letting his clone army do it. In the end, it came down to the Phoenix, and the humanity of Jean Grey.