Data pages: Extra goodies or wasted potential?

[JasmineW]

One of the best uses of the data pages was in last weeks New Mutants.
It got fans talking, gave us a little bit of insight into the sleeping arrangements on Krakoa but didn't disturb the story.

[Triniking1234]

Sometimes I like them
Sometimes I don’t.

It all depends. Truth be told, when they first started back during HOX/POX I Absolutely loved them. The content was interesting but then soon after it just began to drag. There were some data pages during the phalanx angle that were hurt a complete bore to get through. Again it all depends on how they’re used. I do miss the days of just using panels to push that story and explain it but in DOX’s defense there is a lot going on that wouldn’t fit into your conventional comic format.

At this current point I’m honestly skimming through some of them especially if it’s one long wall of text.

This.

Like in the #3s, there was one in X-Men that went into the civilian identities of Hordeculture and that may have taken up too much space as art and speech bubbles.

The 2 data pages in X-Force were just extra setup for the Reaver getting killed and the resurrection of Xavier and him meeting X-Force later.

The data pages in Marauders are actually a combo of "useless and useful" in regards to this thread. By that I mean the "useless" parts don't help the issue they show up in but they set up a future issue which make them "useful".

[Digifiend]

I know. The X-line gets Gwenpool now?

It may not be an official X book, but it is an X office book.

[ARkadelphia]

It’s the stuff that dreams are made if