X-Men (comic) predicts the WTC in 1985...

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TuffGuy

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X-MEN #189, January, 1985
Rachel is a telepath from the future. Her memories are the events that WILL happen. The last panel before this one reads "The New York she remembers is that of the 21st century"

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HombrePequeno

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There's hundreds of millions of people in America. Quite a few million of them make predictions. Some of them have to be right sometimes. Why? Luck.
 
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<< There's hundreds of millions of people in America. Quite a few million of them make predictions. Some of them have to be right sometimes. Why? Luck. >>


true enough, but this is xmen we're talking about, and it is quite a coincidence.
 
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Fangorn

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That's just a coincidence.
Rachel came from an alternate universe where the Sentinels took over everything...all of North America was pretty much a wasteland.
 
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I don't think it's a coincidence. Don't any of you guys know about Bin Laden's secret stash of X-Men comics? What do you think this guy does while he's cooped up in his cave? Reads comics of course...duh...;)
 
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greenfirs

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Chances are that this is a hoax.

Chances are that those two panels aren't even taken from a real X-Men comic book.

Someone that's half-decent with Photoshop could have drawn this up and applied a filter or two to give that "old comic paper" look.

Remember the guy posing on top of the tower with the plane behind him?

That was such an obvious hoax and yet so many people fell for it.

This could just be a more professional hoax.

And since it doesn't involve photographs, it's even easier to prepare.
 
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Logix

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Chances are that this is a hoax.

Chances are that those two panels aren't even taken from a real X-Men comic book.

Someone that's half-decent with Photoshop could have drawn this up and applied a filter or two to give that "old comic paper" look.

Someone's a pretty good artist, then. Can anyone confirm that this panel exists?
 
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McPhreak

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<< Chances are that this is a hoax.

Chances are that those two panels aren't even taken from a real X-Men comic book.

Someone that's half-decent with Photoshop could have drawn this up and applied a filter or two to give that "old comic paper" look.

Remember the guy posing on top of the tower with the plane behind him?

That was such an obvious hoax and yet so many people fell for it.

This could just be a more professional hoax.

And since it doesn't involve photographs, it's even easier to prepare. >>



If this is a hoax, I give props to whoever made it up. Looks pretty real to me. I'd confirm the X-Men panel (I'm pretty sure I have it all the way back to the 80s), but unfortunately my comci stash is on the other side of the country...:(
 
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greenfirs

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This isn't good art at all!

Anyone that's half-decent with line art could do this! Even I could do this! But I would have to do in on paper, scan it in, then apply the filter. I don't do so well with line art using a mouse. But I'm sure there are plenty of people who are proficient with a mouse.

I bet that you won't find anyone who is able to confirm this.
 
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TuffGuy

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<< This isn't good art at all!

Anyone that's half-decent with line art could do this! Even I could do this! But I would have to do in on paper, scan it in, then apply the filter. I don't do so well with line art using a mouse. But I'm sure there are plenty of people who are proficient with a mouse.

I bet that you won't find anyone who is able to confirm this. >>


and IF someone CAN confirm this?
 
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greenfirs

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and IF someone CAN confirm this? >>



Then I will retract my claim.

But they better be able to post scans of the entire page, as well as the preceding and the next page.

Just a "yes I can confirm" from some random person isn't very convincing.
 
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Maetryx here, :cool:

If that's real, then issue #189 of the X-Men (probably the Uncanny X-Men, BTW) will probably spike in value and be even more difficult to get a hold of. My best friend is the manager of the Comic Shop here, so I'll check with him and see if:
1) he's heard about this coincidence
2) if he has that issue in his store.
 
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KevinH

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Greenfirs - That style of art is exactly what comic book art looked like before Jim Lee/McFarlane and company took comic book art to another level.
 
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