Shadow King and training the youth. I guess part of my issue is that I'm not really interested in most of the characters she is using, or in a YOUNG X-Men/training young mutants book, which is what the book has turned into under Ayala. I feel like the book should have been renamed as a new volume of Young X-Men or something instead of using the New Mutants title when the actual New Mutants characters are getting so much less of the spotlight now.
I'm about to drop it, but I'm willing to admit that maybe it's just that I just don't like the new setup and the new roster more so than not liking Ayala's writing (for instance, can't STAND Cosmar and how much focus she is getting).
I saw Ayala at a con before COVID starting shutting everything down and Ayala is one of the nicest, most personable, most down to Earth creators I have ever seen or met. I really am happy that people are enjoying Ayala's work and that it is garnering so much positive hype and praise, even if I personally don't enjoy it. Ayala deserves it.
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No shade to them but I don’t miss either of their runs and hope I don’t see them on an x-book anytime soon.
X-Men Gold by Guggenheim was to me like reading one of those 'X-Men Adventures-style' comics that adapted stories from the cartoon that adapted stories from the comic. A rehash of a rehash where the art and stories aped the original source but never came anywhere close to it. Still those takes on the characters feel miles closer to the characters I knew and loved for decades than the Hickman era, and that was following all the failings and changes to characters that flowed from Morrison to Bendis. I came to like Emma Frost in the 90's but from Morrison on she's basically been Catherine Tramell, the character Sharon Stone played in the film Basic Instinct. She now too often comes off as needlessly vulgar to me. And don't get me started on the Iceman retcon which I will never believe...
X-Men Blue by Bunn... I started off liking the 'Time-Displaced 05' but as they wore out their welcome the appeal wore off. Bunn actually made me enjoy them again, something I didn't think was even possible, which speaks volumes about both his skill as a writer and his regard for the characters in his care. Bunn's one of a handful of 'modern' comic writers that I feel holds himself to the standards I grew up with in comics in regards to telling good stories true the the characters in his care, at lest to the extent editorial would allow.
HOX/POX era feels like as much an alternate timeline/universe as Age of Apocalypse did, only one trying very hard to pass itself off as the genuine article.
Put Todd Nauck back on a book? Yes please!
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