I swear to Glob that even Brian's New Avengers didn't make artists draw that many characters for a fight.
I swear to Glob that even Brian's New Avengers didn't make artists draw that many characters for a fight.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
So...
I think the intention of this story was to soft reset the x-franchise with the erasure of mutant history from the books and the X-Mens achievements.
Secondly,
* Wanda Maximoff removed the x-gene from humans making future mutants impossible
*The T-mist made everyone sterile preventing new mutants.
And that was forgotten. I figure this vaccine will be forgotten too. The highlight of this issue was the Stepford Cuckoos & Sage the bad was a lot
I didn't get the sense that the X-Men were literally forgotten, just that the people who didn't care for them quickly went about running a smear campaign that focused on why they should be forgotten.
And let's be honest, why wouldn't people want that vaccine? Sure, there's a good chance that you'll get a minor power or something fantastic and beautiful, but there's also a chance that you'd get a power that was incredibly dangerous to yourself and others. Or it could leave you an invalid.
And this is a problem that has been a part of X-Men for a long time and one which I can't faukt the writers for wanting to use, especially in this context. The X-Men are going to be spending time in a mutant utopia, only to come back to a world that was happy to have them gone. That is an interesting setup. But so was this X-Man story.
Fingers crossed!
Well this issue was one big fight that did not go the X-men way. What really made me laugh was the closing commentary of the world not caring what happened to them and people celebrating their deaths. Once again the X-men save their sorry hides, just to be hated and have their deaths celebrated.
I love this issue. The fights and art were great.
Highlights:
- Psylocke & Angel deliberating Storm
- Jean and X-Man interaction
- The telepaths joining forces
- Sage!
8/10
As for the event, it feels very decompressed. The kids didn't contribute anything but just to give them screen time and drama. There were some nice moments but there were also WTF moments.
It's just meh for me 6.5/10
I enjoyed this issue more so than the last couple. Though that has more to do with seeing characters I haven't seen in awhile show up. It was great seeing Husk briefly interact with Sam (though I didn't care for all of her dialogue), and seeing Sage pop up and use her telepathy. I also felt the art was inconsistent. It looked gorgeous most of the time, but there were a couple of times weren't it looked really off. Ended with more of a whimper unfortunately.
Last edited by Soulsword323; 01-16-2019 at 08:15 PM.
Only Lord Claremont could have made something of worth out of this mess.
The Psylocke/Storm ULTIMATE INTIMACY scene would have been worth it alone(but Ororo would have broken free from X-Man's trance with her own willpower, of course)!
This was probably the best issue of the 10, but goddess, that is not saying much. Could have organized these 10 issues a lot better to tell this sort of story, but whatever. Maybe they will have some interesting minis in this AoX timeline, but I'm not really holding my breath or anything.
Marvel.
You can do much better...
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
At the end of the day, Nate achieves the very first thing he set out to do in the series, even if through a change of viewpoint. He starts by blowing up the mansion to end the X-Men... and ends up with absorbing them all in his head, thus ending the X-Men.