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Review: A+X #17

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on April 10, 2014| 1 Comment »

A+X #17Can we at least get a mini-series of Tony Stark and Broo?

I was skeptical about this pairing and when I started reading it I was little pissed at how douchey Tony was being… but then that’s Tony, he doesn’t work well with others. Broo, on the other hand, works well with everyone because he simply doesn’t have a douche bone in his body. Once Tony realizes that Broo is not some annoying kid, but a mind on his level, the two have a blast, the perfect blend of snark and naivety.

Together they show that even nerds don’t fit into a single definition. It’s an important lesson all too ignored.

As for the Cap/Cyclops/Skrull/Doom storyline going on… it’s all a bit random still.

Rogers stays with the good Skrull while the rest go off to destroy more of Doom’s stuff. Okay, sounds good, but why is Cyclops even helping him anymore? They’ve passed the Skrull threat, it’s all Doom now, so why doesn’t Cap arrest Scott and then send in the whole Avengers team? Maybe if I was more invested in this story then I might care…

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Review: X-Men #11

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on March 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

X-Men #11This series just keeps stalling out.

Not only is this issue a bit dull in the ‘we have to set things up’ kind of way, which can be forgivable, but there is simply nothing unique or interesting or clever about it. Wood is dragging up the B-List dead female characters, surprise surprise the lady who started it all is having second thoughts because she’s a spoiled rich girl in over her head, and Sublime drops some cryptic thing about Shogo because of course he has to.  None of this is particularly bad, but it’s not particularly good either.

What is going on?

Is Wood this bad of a writer or is he simply afraid to push things since he’s got the only female team book at the moment? Or worse, he actually thinks this is progressive stuff?

All I want to do is shake my head and I’m left in an existential quandary. I want to stop reading the title because it’s boring and is a bit too close to the sexist borderline… but I don’t want to stop reading it because then Marvel might think that ‘oh, no one wants women lead books’ instead of the truth ‘no one wants to read boring books regardless of the characters’. I guess at the moment it’s a wait and see what Wood is setting up for… Maddie coming back can actually be pretty epic if played right, I’m just not holding my breath.

And I agree with Rachel, I’m hoping we get Rogue back too.

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Review: Uncanny X-Men #17

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on March 9, 2014| 2 Comments »

Uncanny X-Men #17Did I miss Irma dying her hair red? I know she mentioned it… oh well.

This issue throws you into the story much the way these kids are thrown into Tabula Rasa to fend for themselves as a ‘training exercise’. You know, some days I’m on Scott’s side, other days, I just want to smack him across the face. I understand that these guys need to learn how to protect themselves but, really, throwing them into Tabula Rasa like that without warning? Can we say overkill? Or maybe just ‘trying to get them killed’?

Then Scott goes and be’s the biggest hypocritical douche by kicking out Bond for making a mistake? Seriously? The dude learned his lesson, just like you learned your damn lesson, Scott. You suck.

Yet another case of mucking with Scott’s characterization in order to get the desired outcome. Blech.

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Review: Amazing X-Men #4

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on March 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Amazing X-Men #4I don’t know if it’s technically possible to burn down hell… but that sounds awesome…

Everyone is finally brought together, Beast is knocked to his senses, Wolvie and Northstar are found, then Iceman and Firestar are rescued by the Bamfs.  It was all appropriately nostalgic and fun. Now the group is ready to go do some damage on the high seas of the afterlife.

What really interests me is the backstory of the Bamfs. We discover where the Red Bamfs came from, and most of the history behind the Blue Bamfs. The biggest question though is what did Nightcrawler offer them? He treats them like family (of course he would) but there is an insurmountable sadness there. I hope this isn’t something that is going to take forever to resolve (if ever).

Until then, we’re going to have a swashbuckler of a time… can’t wait!

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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: 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: 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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