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Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #42

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on March 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »

WatX_42Doop killing it with the funk is the best thing about this issue, hands down.

This volume of WatX is coming to a close so it can be relaunched with a new writer and new-ish focus. The title is topped off with the graduation of many of the main characters in a predictably sappy+comical way. We also get those dreaded flash forwards that hint at stuff that may or may not come to fruition. The whole thing is nice and tidy and the definition of lack-luster.

While I am happy that we didn’t get some crazy cliffhanger or whatever it was that X-Men Legacy Vol 2 gave us… I was hoping for something with a lot more zing as Aaron has given us in the past. There is a moment or two here and there plus Doop’s great scene there towards the end, but it mostly tries to rely on nostalgia to eek out a very safe close by attempting feels. The thing is, this is comics, we’ve all learned not to get attached, at least the way Aaron is trying to manipulate.

I think we pretty much all feel like Quire on this one…

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Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S01E14 “T.A.H.I.T.I.”

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , , on March 5, 2014| 1 Comment »

Agents-of-SHIELD-TAHITIWell, that was disturbing…

Like all televisions shows, even the best ones still have to take a season to truly find their feet and AOS has been doing exactly that… I’m just not sure I like where they are standing.

All season there has been a push towards there being something rotten in SHIELD, little things here and there, especially with the circumstances around Coulson living and Skye’s backstory. Then you have the Winter Soldier trailer which basically flat out accuses SHIELD of becoming the bad guy. Now we have TAHITI which is an episode that holds up a neon sign that says there is something seriously corrupt inside SHIELD what with their secret facility (that was way too easy to find if you ask me) and their Leech meets Source Code blue guy floating in the tank.

(You’re telling me that all this tech going on down there, the production of chemicals and drugs and the like, and there is no scientists on duty? Just too guards? Unless the place was mothballed, which it clearly wasn’t, their should have been way more people there. This smells like either a set up or lazy writing.)

Speaking of lazy writing, I was really hoping that this show, when it finally stopped being all about Skye, would try to be clever and unique like much of Whedon’s work. Instead, we get the tried and true “we secretly work for a corrupt company/government” storyline. Yeah, it can be effective, but it’s been done so much, especially lately. If this whole backseason is going to be nothing but them ‘fighting the man’ then I will be disappoint…

But at least it won’t be ‘the Skye show’ and we can get more from everyone else. Always a plus side to everything…

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Review: X-Men Legacy #24

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on March 2, 2014| 4 Comments »

X-Men Legacy #24So apparently this title got cancelled and I didn’t notice.

That happens to me more than I’d like to admit.

But now the long drawn out nature of the last couple of issues makes a lot of sense. And this final issue wasn’t any less long winded and a bit of a let down. The way the world worm is stopped is literally by Xavier’s ghost coming and saying “I’m proud of you, Son.”

Really?

That’s what you went with?

Meh.

The real question now is what is up with Legion? Did his physical body get completely destroyed and now he’s living in Ruth’s mind? What does it mean that she basically got time traveled back to just after Xavier’s death? And what of the time traveling man who claims to be a decedent of Xavier?

I don’t think we’ll ever know… that’s comics for you…

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Review: Deadpool #23

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

Deadpool #23Deadpool makes gore look good, and hilarious.

His ability to just frack $hit up knows no bounds and those poor shlups that got in his way had no chance, at all. The way gore and battle is presented in this issue is just brilliant in its execution. It’s more than just a joke, it’s the classic twist of Deapool’s sarcasm, wit, and playing with convention. 

But in all this, the bad guy probably got away to muck things up another day. Not terribly surprising but that’s okay.

Hopefully Preston will get a LMD next issue and get back to her family, the woman should also be given sainthood for putting up with Deadpool…

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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

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on March 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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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Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #41

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Wolverine and the X-Men #41As much as I love the X-Men, they are a bunch of hypocrites.

How many has Wolverine killed, lately? Bobby nearly turned the world into an ice ball. If Kitty came back she’d be welcomed with open arms. Hell, even Cyclops is kinda forgiven. But Toad follows his heart and goes with Paige, then helps the X-Men save the day… and he’s repaid with a bunch of “we can’t trust you anymore” and “you betrayed us”.

It’s complete bull $h!t.

Some argue it’s because Toad isn’t good looking and it’s hard to deny that point. What other excuse is there? There are plenty of former-villains who have had their moments, hell, look at Magneto! The only other option is that it’s simply done like this to push the plot forward, the comic book version of “it was in the script” of things done simply so that other things can happen even if they don’t really make sense.

Or does it?

Earlier on, when Toad went to the other side, he commented that things come easy to Quire because he’s not ugly like Toad is. Aaron has set up the concept of an unfair world when it comes to beauty and politics. So, as a reader, we should have seen this coming.

And it proves just how horrible we, as a people, can really be… which is a main theme of the X-Men.

Huh.

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Review: Black Widow #3

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on February 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Black Widow #3Third issue in and the title seems to have stalled just a bit.

It’s not a bad story, but it’s a little bit of a rehash of what has gone before which, seeing there has only been two previous issues, is problematic. We have more existential commentary from Nat in another mission gone wrong because she’s distracted, and it doesn’t move forward the overall plot in any way. It’s not a terrible issue, but a stall this early in the title can be dangerous as a sign of things to come.

But, for these faults, it’s a beautiful comic with great flow and pacing. In some ways it’s very reminiscent of an episode of Burn Notice. It would make a wonderful filler issue… five more issues in.

With a SHIELD job on the horizon, hopefully we’ll start into the arcs and get this ball rolling.

 

 

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Review: X-Men #10

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on February 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

X-Men #10Well, that escalated quickly.

This issue is just bursting with sudden turns in the story line, and most of them don’t make any sense. Why didn’t Enchantress take out Monet properly? Why did they end up in the desert when they obviously had a lot better options (it had to take time to get there so why did they go there in the first place)? Why are the kids fighting when that goes against almost everything that school was founded on? And what moment did John and Rachael have cause I apparently missed it.

A hodgepodge of events ripple throughout this issue, everything from little side missions to Lady Deathstrike realizing that maybe she shouldn’t have activated the being intent on destroying the world. It’s a mess, that’s the only way to really describe what is going on in this issue.

And yet again, Wood is dragging up more female villains off the D-List (Dead-List) to go up against our group of females.

And this title was so promising in the beginning…

 

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