Evangelyne Whedon is a fairly minor character to come out of Chris Claremonts X-Treme X-Men. A mutant lawyer who fought in the court room for mutant rights, the character play a significant role in one, maybe two arcs of the book, and then was basically ignored until a recent issue of Gen Hope made use of her.
Why have I deemed her worthy of talking about today? Well, mostly because given the way that the X-books are constantly escalating into the grounds of political/action drama, and given the demands of the world when working on those things, the X-Men are probably going to need a lawyer representing them more often in the future.
Gillen's new run on Uncanny promises a more pro-active team working under some Machiavellian principles, and manipulation of the legal system will probably be necessary for them to accomplish their goals. Gillen has already used Whedon once in this role, and I wouldn't be surprised if she continued to be a recurring supporting characters as time goes on.
I wouldn't, however, expect to see her on the field of battle, as her mutant power is to turn into a raging giant red dragon whenever blood touches her...kinda impractical.
Dr. Nemesis
If you have read any x-book post Second Coming you've almost certainly noticed Dr. James Bradley. Dr. Nemesis is an honest to goodness Golden Age super hero who Matt Fraction retconned into a scifi mutant nazi hunter. He was very much a pet character of Fractions, brought in by Beast to help for the X Club, the X-mens scientific cabal for getting mutant kind back on track. His powers are basically that hes smart and athletic but hes also enhanced his own eyes to allow him to see through things, and detect genetic anomalies.
Dr. Nemesis has become more or less omni-present in the x-books of late, probably because the Xmen these days no longer have Beast or Forge, as such someone has had to step up and become the head of the X-Men's science division, and that man happens to be the ever cranky Dr. Nemesis.
The crankiness is probably also what lends himself to being used. As a more or less constantly surly and cynical character, hes fun to contrast against a lot of the more idealistic X-Men.
While Beast is returning to Wolverine's X-Men, expect Dr. Nemesis and the X-Club to continue to play a large roll in Uncanny for the foreseeable future.
Kid Omega
Quentin Quire was the main character and main antagonist of Grant Morrison's Riot at Xavier's story several years back. Arguably the best X-Men story of the last decade, Riot presented a new view of rebellious mutant youth culture. An introverted, too sensitive, too intelligent too POWERFUL young mutant suffering a personal trauma and awakened to the exhilaration of narcotics tries to find a way to make himself feel important, and so he starts his own tiny revolution.
Quentin is a massively powerful telepath, but at the heart of things he mostly wants to feel accepted and like he belongs. For a while Quentin had ascended beyond humanity and dwelt in the White Hot Room, the plane where Phoenixes live. We don't know why he's come back to this level of reality, but it seems that it has to do with the fact that he feels unfulfilled.
While Quentin played the anarchical terrorist in Schism his actual goals and intents are probably not nearly as diabolical as he'd like people to believe.
Thats it for this weeks Mutant Watch, come back next week and we'll talk about Transonic, Zero and Husk.
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