You mean an AU story written in 2 issues by the best X-Men writer ever who build an amazing world and immensely developed all these characters beforehand?
Yeah and look where he is right now. Everyone is tired of him. The original AoA was very good, but let's not act like the subsequent AoA/4 horsemen stories were good. You can't use the same AU concept over and over again.
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UXM sounding more and more like nonsensical hijinks.
Just gonna drop my thoughts here, I tried to keep it as brief as I could...
X-Men: The Exterminated #1 I still think it's odd that a title about the death of Cable doesn't feature Deadpool, Domino, Shatterstar, Boom-Boom, Cannonball or Warpath (at least on the cover anyway). Also not feeling that cover art in regards to Kurt & Hank who look like they're in a Dr. Seuss crossover.
X-FORCE #1 I don't get why the Liefield + Zaffino variants don't feature Boom-Boom. Weird. Gimme more Tabby. Still not feeling Kid Cable, and I don't get the appeal of Deathlok when we could've had Siryn or Rictor in his place.
UNCANNY X-MEN #4-7 It took me forever to figure out that was supposed to be Pixie on the cover with Glob, Armor & Rockslide. I honestly thought it was Marrow, Dragoness or an original character at first. A little bothered that Hisako looks European here. I guess this cover confirms these four are the central NXM in this event when we could've been getting more Hellion or Dust...
The return of X-MAN is uncanny but I've no idea what they're going to do with another telepath. Maybe they'll stick him & Legion on some unexpected team with Blindfold, X & Adam X the X-Treme idk
Nice to see a nod to the Betsy+Warren relationship, but I'm a little tired of the typical Angel-is-evil-gotta-save-him thing.
The Horseman of Salvation designs are stupid of and the choices for the Horseman are ridiculous. Why are we retreading the past with Angel again? And are we really supposed to care about Blob, Omega Red and whoever that bearded dude is? Wouldn't it have made more sense some combination of characters we actually care about and do something interesting with them? If we have to revisit this story, then I'd have preferred Chamber, Mystique, Rictor, Magma, Empath, Mercury, Havok etc.
MERRY X-MEN HOLIDAY SPECIAL #1 Bunch of great writers. I didn't instantly recognize all of them, and I'd never heard of that Charlemagne tha God guy (instantly repelled). Anyway, it'll be interesting if they can pull off one-page stories. Surely art quality will be HIGH. I'd love to have some cute character interactions and touch on some characters we don't see as often.
ICEMAN #4 A Mutant Pride Parade seems fitting for Bobby. I love the idea. And something Sinister lurking in the shadows really changes things. I do wonder what he intends to do to out favorite Iceguy.
X-23 #7 I love that we're going with a murder-mystery story for my favorite clawed mutant. I wonder if this mysterious X-Assassin is a familiar face or not
SHATTERSTAR #3 are these gladiators OCs? I haven't seen them before AFAIK. I'd hoped that Spiral was somehow involved in the gladiator ring but there's no indication of that happening. A shame, because I'd love to see her go up against Shatterstar.
WEAPON X #27 More Monet which is great. A shame the book has sucked. I do feel like the end has to be coming soon since X-Force now exists.
DOMINO #9 Given the discussion regarding her powers, I do wonder if this very SPECIAL GUEST is Longshot or Black Cat since their powers are somewhat similar. Gail has brought in some great guest-stars so I'm intrigued.
X-MEN RED #11 Def seems like The End. No Namor, so I guess he's busy avenging or defending. I assume the team will deal with C.Nova and then will transition into Uncanny. Hopefully, this isn't the last we see of Gentle + Trinary.
MR. AND MRS. X #6 So excited for another occasion which allows for multiple X-Men to show up. I spot Jean, Kurt & Bishop on the cover already so that's five of my fav X-Men in one place. I assume Laura and Sam got invites too.
So no Astonishing X-Men? Hmm, I wonder what Rosenberg will be writing post-Disassemble. Maybe he'll continue to write Uncanny, since Kelly is attached to MMX, whilst Brisson will have his hands full with X-Force. That, or he'll be writing a splinter title come Jan-Mar. I'm sure he'll be following up on storylines set in motion between MM, NMDS & AXM.
Not really, Claremont connected both the 616 universe and the 811 universe beautifully. The characters in the 811 were written A LOT like the 616 version, almost as if it was a direct future. Therefore, the character development was way better than AoA.
How about you ask people if they want more Old Man Logan. Everyone is tired of him. You can't use the same concept over and over again.
Oof, almost forgot the OG Exiles! Completely AU, yet great writing! And Extreme X-Men Vol. 2 was good.
DC, please give Jonah Hex a new solo.