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please don't remind me of Young X-Men.

Given that Orlando is clearly a John Francis Moore fanboy, I'm kind of surprised Bedlam didn't appear in either Marauders or X-Men Green.

Gillen and Duggan are the Morrison and Austen of the 2020s



If this was a dig at Duggan, it was kind of magnificent.

I loved his villain dialogue; Stryfe and Apocalypse spoke like evil poets from another world. Stryfe's Strike File and the Apocalypse Manifesto were more compelling than they had any reason to be.

bolding, italicizing, underlining, drawing little stars around it. Everything Duggan touched turned to garbage. He's not Austen-tier, but he comes closest in his approach to that nadir than any...

Jeez. I'm so burned out on Krakoa at this point and so disappointed in all its wasted potential that I'm not sure I can recommend it. I think my absolute bare-bones reading list would be something...

Duggan made it weird. There's really no other way of putting it. It's kind of funny because he's nominally on the polar opposite end of the political spectrum from Frank Miller, and yet this last arc...

They ought to have invited Transonic and started a proper book club, though probably not even anyone in-universe remembers she exists.

Yes—and I'm pretty sure that was Karma's coming out. She had a pink buzzcut and everything. (So nineties!)

There was something really special about Moore's run, and it makes me sad that mainstream American comic books just aren't capable of doing anything like it anymore. He had room to meander, and even...

My money's on Doug too. It wouldn't come out of nowhere: not only has he been a secret player on Krakoa since the nation's founding, but the third volume of New Mutants showed his potential to go...

I'm sorry Gerry, but Tony and Emma are not Mr. and Mrs. X.

That would be an excellent adaptational choice. Xavier has been practically Flanderized as a selfish, manipulative bungler over the last couple of decades. It was shocking and interesting to explore...

Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1 Immortal X-Men
2 X-Men Red
3 Wolverine


Least Favorite Ongoing X-Title
1 X-Men
2 Marauders
3 Deadpool

That raised my eyebrow too—until I remembered that the rehabilitation of Frenzy ran concurrently with Cannonball getting downgraded and pushed off to the side in...hmm. I think it started just after...

Generation X volume 2. That one was a criminally underrated point of light in the X-Men's darkest decade.

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I would really, really, really like it to be about Rahne coming to terms with her adopted mother's role in founding Krakoa and then helping to destroy it, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Because they're not. Hickman wrote the core members of Orchis as intelligent human beings who earnestly believe they're living through a reprise of the Homo Neanderthalensis versus Homo Sapiens...

Why Duggan was chosen to replace Hickman as the X-books' "showrunner" is something I'll never understand. It's like he's doing all he can to drag the franchise back into the 2010s malaise from which...

Wake me when Duggan leaves the X-books to write for the CW or something.

Shaw's line—"I was never a mutant, I just had a mutant gene"—reminds me of Roy Cohn's "I'm a straight man who has sex with guys" bit from Angels in America. Strongly suspect Gillen was thinking of it.

Not to mention that on a nuts-and-bolts level, Hickman is a writer of a much higher caliber than Duggan. Read Inferno again and try to imagine if that guy was choreographing and scripting HFG23. Even...

It was very momentous and dramatic &c, but—on the whole it was just kind of an okay read. Duggan's writing in general doesn't make me feel anything, and this wasn't much of an exception. It's like he...

Vulcan's invited?!