I wish I could give him negative stars. Phoenix Ressurection sucked, Jean was a side character in an event about her long-awaited return. Uncanny was terrible, Astonishing was meh.
I wish I could give him negative stars. Phoenix Ressurection sucked, Jean was a side character in an event about her long-awaited return. Uncanny was terrible, Astonishing was meh.
Astonishing
Uncanny
War of Realms
I thought it was a very amusing mix of uncertainty and love letter. That sort of makes it a perfect send off to the dark ages even if that means ending up with a lot of cliche story beats. 7/10 but I'll round up to show some love.
Not that there was much given to the X writers following 2004 but that spot seemed pretty uniquely awkward. What is your best example of making something similar work?
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The best example of a writer doing a great job with a bad concept is Kieron Gillen writing the best X-Men comics of the decade (pre-Hickman) with his tie-ins to an terrible event like AvX.
Bad writing, bad characterization, poorly executed ideas, with bad art.
It looked like a dumpster fire.
So I skipped it. We gon' save that money.
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Probably the run with the biggest fall in quality I've seen in a long time. It has a solid start, Rosenberg put some effort until, at least, issue 15 or 16, I think. The one where Hope kills the senator, anyway. From there, it becomes so shallow and edgy, I can't even be angry at him, I'm just sorry. It could have been great. Cyclops and Wolverine taking out the villains back to back in Westchester is the last great X-Men moment before Hickman. And surely my favorite since Secret Wars.
Im not sure I completely agree with this. Rosenberg's run made it so that the stuff Hickman did was much more palpable. He had to make things so dire for mutantkind that they would flock to Krakoa as a much needed alternative to the status quo that was left in the wake of Disassembled. Rahne's death was touched upon as she was one of the few we saw resurrected from the pods. Sebastian's death is a current plot point being used in Maraurders. Dani got her powers back in that run and she is using them now. I would not be surprised if more pops up as characters from his run get used
Rosenberg had good ideas but the execution was horrible. His run started to get better towards the end when it stopped being villian of the week type stories and it became more serialized. What I didnt like is that he used it to wrap up his lingering plotlines from his minis but those felt rushed and out of place. Many of his issues could have been 2-3 parters bc of the timing he was forced to move too fast which made for weaker writing.
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Yeah that bothered me at first too. In my headcanon the reason why the mutants were so willing to go with Krakoa is because half of them were being massacred in Uncanny and the other half had just gotten a taste of what a world without mutant discrimination looks like in Age of X-Man.
His run was awful. I can’t say he has no talent because I like his non X-Men related stuff.