Originally Posted by
Thievery
As for 395, here's how I feel.
Chamber get's off to a great start, as stated. Except for, in my opinion, Chamber's naivety.
Much of the rest of the comic is unoriginal. You have the Mutant Massacre repeat, which isn't the type of story that you want to tell if you are trying to launch a bold new era.
The B-Plot with Chamber is also unoriginal. I didn't know this at the time that I read Poptopia, but Sugar Kane and Chamber is a little bit of a replay of Lila Cheney and I believe Cannonball.
Kane/Chamber at least has the idea of Sugar Kane only using Chamber as publicity going for it. The problem there though, is that I just don't picture Chamber as being naïve enough to go along with this. I know that later on you get the feeling that Jono knows that he was being used, and was getting something from Sugar Kane himself. I also get that Chamber probably saw this as a way to avoid joining the X-Men, and doing things his own way. But, the idea that Jono would come across as oblivious to how the media would end up writing tabloid stories featuring Sugar and himself in a negative light comes across as a little half baked. Jono knows that mutants always are portrayed in a negative light by the press. Just my opinion.