Originally Posted by
Sutekh
There were parts that I felt read too much like wish-fulfillment fanfic, and other parts where it seemed like a magical mystery tour of sudden guest-stars and scene transition after scene transition, with little payoff for all these sudden appearances. It's like, wham, there's Magneto, and it's a big deal, and he'll be utterly irrelevant to the story like two seconds after he appears...
I desperately *wanted* to like it, but there felt like too many things crammed in to the story, and it needed to be twice as long as it was to effectively service all the characters and locations being showcased. I do still kind of like it, if only for the characters, whom I love, and the artwork, which was gorgeous, but it felt both rushed and rhymeless, and yet lacking, ultimately, since it felt more like an after-the-fact explanation for why Wanda wasn't a bad-guy (sort of an 'Author's Saving Throw' in the TV Tropes parlance), than an actual *story.*
I thought that the use of Wanda by Bendis was terrible, but the execution of Children's Crusade, while technically giving me everything I wanted, from a narrative sense, did so in a way that felt unsatisfying, if that makes any sense.
I don't hate it, and feel bad for anyone trying to make anything palatable from the dog's supper that Bendis barfed up and left behind.