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Review: All-New X-Men #23

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on March 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

All-New X-Men #23They should just call this title X-Men: Resurrection.

First the original X-Men come to the future which means Jean and original!Angel are basically resurrected. Then Christopher Summers is all ‘surprise, I ain’t dead either’ just in time to meet up with the young version of his son. Who’s going to be resurrected next? I hear Maddy is coming back too ala the X-Men title. Poor Scott, he can’t win for loosing.

As for Jean, it’s about time she realized she’s being a brat and her temper isn’t going to do her any favors. I hate Bendis is making her a brat though, but I can kinda see where it comes from. After all, considering everything that will happen to her, I can see a teenager not coping all that well. But at the same time Bendis makes it very petty with her constant flip-flopping over Scott which makes this all a bad after-school special.

So far though, Space has been fun, if it doesn’t turn super angsty later…

Can we just have more of Bobby and Rocket? Cause that stuff is hilarious!

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Review: All-New X-Factor #3

Posted in Reviews on March 1, 2014| 4 Comments »

All-New X-Factor_3Gambit+Kittens, can we have more of that please?

There is a theory on Tumblr that he named them after classic animated cats, but I’m not totally sure about that. Oliver, I’m almost positive that this is a nod to Oliver Twist, seeing as Remy is an orphan himself, and that is also the name of his kid in the X-Men: The End comics. Lucifer, well, Remy is a Catholic (lapsed?) and Lucifer was the Angel that fell from Heaven, the comparison makes itself. Figaro possibly has something to do with the Barber of Seville and the fact that the Count is trying to woo Rosine (Rogue) and has to sneak and disguise himself to do it. Or maybe he just likes the opera?

Either way, I’m so glad that Remy got to keep his cats from Astonishing X-Men because if Rogue does stay dead then he’s going to need the emotional support he can get.

Oh, wait, there was actual plot in this issue too.

Mr Snow is spying on his team, so perhaps we were right not to trust him. Quicksilver is spying on his sister for Havok (and let’s hope it’s not because Polaris is the only sister Quicksilver has left). And the Thieve’s Guild is not exactly behaving itself.

Now they have one pissed off Danger on their hands… this can’t end well.

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Review: Marvel Knights: X-Men #4

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Marvel Knights: X-Men #4And pretty much everything goes to pot.

This is exactly what people are afraid of when they worry about what happens when mutants are left unchecked and untrained. This is touched on in the regular comics but here it takes on a very visceral form as Wolverine has apparently been under a suggestion spell, the girl had been used and abused by her Uncle, and Darla gets drunk and just doesn’t care anymore. The town is going to go up in a very big blaze of non-glory and it didn’t take much to do it.

Rogue and Wolverine get to use their history against east other. It’s a study in just how messed up these two are. Wolverine’s history is bloody, and Rogue’s mutation has to incur emotional issues that the regular comics can’t really touch without raising their ratings. It’s not quite as in depth as I would have loved to seen but the fact that Revel even goes there is pretty darn cool.

Being the second to last issue in a limited run, we get a lot of reveals and set up to the climax. At this point, I’m not sure how it’s going to end. Probably not with rainbows and kittens, that’s for sure.

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