Yeah it has been mostly great, a couple of really nice surprises.
X Force is my number one book, then Marauders, X Men is up there but a couple of really dodgy issues brought it down a notch.
Half of New Mutants is good too, disappointed with the other half and with Excalibur. Fallen Angels was pretty but failed to hit the right beats.
...and thank the Goddess he did.
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Prisoner X works well enough as a stand alone piece that it's okay.
Sometimes things don't have to matter, they can just be good.
They didn’t say anything about repercussions, the only thing I remember hearing was Leah saying that they get to keep their memories and experiences of the event. And that Blob and Northstar will still be friendly with each other because of how they bonded during X-Tremists.
The Marvelous X-men writers did especially Zach Thompson or whatever his name was. He said the some of the X-men liked being celebrated or seen as gods and that would carry over which I guess you can argue that it did with Magneto. The whole Age of X-man was hit or miss with me. I did like Prisoner X and Xtremists, but the rest fell flat especially Marvelous X-man. The event had some real ideas and could have been great but it just was bland and wasn't successful in what it was trying to do because the writing was so mediocre.
IDA with AoX mattering. One could have never read that and come into all of these DoX books and not miss a thing. There are zero references and none of the characters have changed as a direct result of what happened in AoX
I do think Age of X-Man did three important things that prepped the X-Men for Krakoa:
1) The X-Men achieved their dreams.
-Well, not exactly Charles’ dream but they’ve been given a world where they’ve won. A collective vision from all the mutants that amounted in a world with all mutants. It highlights that even if they can’t admit it, the X-Men cannot imagine a world where they don’t face persecution without humans being removed from the board entirely. Not that this means human genocide, just that they know they’ll be safer in a community of their own. The Age of X-Man also provides them with the mutant culture that they’re now developing on Krakoa.
2) Brought attention to the fact that they’re stuck in a cycle of never winning.
3) A bunch of the X-Men are tired as sh!t of fighting an unwinnable fight
-I think this feeds into how easily the mutants were able to adapt to the new dream. They know their old ways don’t work and haven’t worked otherwise they wouldn’t have had humans protesting on their doorsteps after decades of struggle. So when Xavier offers a way out that gives them a much-needed win PLUS the ability to still protect mutants, they would logically be jumping over tables to accept his vision.
That’s actually pretty cool! Do you have a link to it?
We need like an annual about all of the angry mob people with mutie signs who are now unemployed.
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