Now the Jean Grey School can finally have more than like 30 students. I always wondered how they dealt with the fact that 17/18 year old Hellion is in the same class as 14 year old Idie.
Action Comics is actually decent now? And Snyder, from a brah that is supposed to know a lot about horror he sure found a way to make the Rot.red completely boring. I can't even tell the difference between the two. Animal Man needs some one and done issues badly. Fuck this.
Action Comics is actually decent now? And Snyder, from a brah that is supposed to know a lot about horror he sure found a way to make the Rot.red completely boring. I can't even tell the difference between the two. Animal Man needs some one and done issues badly. Fuck this.
What happened between Morrison and Millar? They wrote a bunch of stuff together in the 90s, then Millar started to break out, and then all of a sudden they severed all ties.
Now that I've read Action I have to amend my book of the week, before it was easily Green Lantern, but now Action takes the honor. GL was great this month, aside from a few panels showing the spread of the Third Army, the entirety of the book was Johns developing Simon Bad as a character. It was nice to see someone get a GL ring and not really know how it works. Plus I'm just a giant Geoff Johns fanboy, so whatever.
UXM has been generally pretty good since Second Coming but Wolverine and the X-Men is the only X-book you NEED to be reading if you're already following UXF.
They have really fucked up both Animal Man and Swamp Thing with this relaunch and it makes me sad because these are two of my favourite writers. But it's so boring an
I'm trying to justify Captain's speech to Cyclops to myself as he is my favorite hero, but I can't. What I will tell is that I agree with everything he did even if what he said was some crazy Cap speaking.
But, here's some spoilered considerations:
Cyke: "Somewhere I went off-track" *shows the first dark phoenix saga*. I agree and I still think Cyclops is villain-material, and unlike parallax who just blew a fuse, Cyclops has been slowly becoming less compassionate and more militaristic over the past decades, so the character is going on the right direction.
Hope: She needed the scarlet witch (and maybe even Iron Fist) to do what she did, maybe if Cyclops hadn't acted out, they would reach this conclusion faster and done this Witch + Hope equation without the need of the Phoenix 5 episode; so again, I agree with his actions.
Cap: "I can't help your friends if they don't turn themselves in". Cap doesn't want to arrest everyone, he wants to see what to do about them, but can't if they are on the run. Plus, he is right, something is coming to destroy the earth and instead of cooperation, Cyclops used his iron-hand tendencies that he has been showing for a long time and said the first "fuck you". So cap is right in keeping him in jail, how do you thrust a would-be dictator to be the leader of a reborn mutantkind when he already showed that will wage war against earth? Sorry guys, he has become Magneto, there is no sugar-coating it.
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I want my "Cap is right" shirt.
Edit: You know what? Screw that. The speech is right, too. Cap is absolved, everyone! Let's party!
Jim Zub's Pathfinder #2 has really blossomed. It's chock full of party personality, and it's cool to see such a diverse cast start to merge and gel.
This guy knows adventure comics! It does feel that not only does he know the subject matter well, he has studied that amazing IDW Dungeons & Dragons series for it's use of characterization and humor in tough spots.
Yes, it was. I am so happy to see the development of these characters that are going into the book which only purpose is to kill them. (the rage shall burn forever on this one... or at least it comes out and end up being not awful)
I'll say it again: if you're reading Avengers vs X-Men but not the Uncanny X-Men tie-in issues, then you're seriously missing out on some great character moments courtesy of Gillen. #19 gives us a glimpse into what it's like being the Dark Phoenix, and by the end it's made abundantly clear that
Scott believes he won -- that it was all worth it.
Yes, really. I still think Gage tried to pack too much into this issue, and I was kinda bummed that Hercules didn't stick around, but it was an enjoyable experience seeing these two schools come together and not to kill each other.
And I miss the issues of X-Men where the team would play sports and just hang out.
I'll say it again: if you're reading Avengers vs X-Men but not the Uncanny X-Men tie-in issues, then you're seriously missing out on some great character moments courtesy of Gillen. #19 gives us a glimpse into what it's like being the Dark Phoenix, and by the end it's made abundantly clear that
Scott believes he won -- that it was all worth it.
I hope marvel doesn't chicken out and pull a Tony Stark and erase his mind...or a Hal Jordan and blame it on the Phoenix. They need to run with a whole Renegade X-men Squad led by Cyclops and written by Gillen
I was never a fan of the art on this book... or the writing particularly... but I love the general plot (kids most likely to be villains training to be heroes) and some of the characters have real pontetial.
This issue really helps to flesh out the characters a bit and show some of this potential. The one character I always felt the series really failed to do justice is X-23; surely you can do better with a teenager who experienced prostitution and murder than keep repeating, forever and ever, that "you are no longer an assassin, you can be better", etc and etc. I think people should approach her with more caution -- people inside the book and people writing her.
That said, every team book done with characters that don't have their own storyline outside the team needs a moment to breath and just let the people interact with each other.
I'll say it again: if you're reading Avengers vs X-Men but not the Uncanny X-Men tie-in issues, then you're seriously missing out on some great character moments courtesy of Gillen. #19 gives us a glimpse into what it's like being the Dark Phoenix, and by the end it's made abundantly clear that
Scott believes he won -- that it was all worth it.
And I loved the bit there with
the White Hot Room, and the "cameo" from Jean.
Yes, really. I still think Gage tried to pack too much into this issue, and I was kinda bummed that Hercules didn't stick around, but it was an enjoyable experience seeing these two schools come together and not to kill each other.
And I miss the issues of X-Men where the team would play sports and just hang out.
Yes. Best of the week, hands down (marvel side at least). Even with X-Force still going strong, UXM was such a beautiful issue and keeps my argument that there was no character assassination of Cyclops in this event.
So, does Cable spring his dad from captivity? Is that why they are on the run? Remember that Nathan told Scott that he would be there for him at the end.
ut come on, how great of a face-punch would it have been if Marvel had been able to hold off on the Marvel NOW! announcements until this final issue? If this issue was where the Uncanny Avengers concept first debuted and if the final page was followed by ads for all of the new series, my jaw would have fallen all the way to the subway floor.
I hope marvel doesn't chicken out and pull a Tony Stark and erase his mind...or a Hal Jordan and blame it on the Phoenix. They need to run with a whole Renegade X-men Squad led by Cyclops and written by Gillen
This is why I will forever hate when people insist that the retcon that Jean didn't eat that sun is the victorious retcon. Because it undermines the entire point of the Dark Phoenix Saga.
That you ARE responsible for what you do with all of that power, and that the Phoenix doesn't take control of your mind, but that its urges and power mix with your personality. Because if the Phoenix were the responsible one, then Jean wouldn't have been able to take her life at the end of the story. Just before that, she tells Scott that she might be able to keep herself in check, but that it would require constant focus forever. It'd be like always being hungry and having to constantly choose not to eat.
One of the things leading into the DPS was that Jean was being aroused by John Wynegarde, and losing her restraints against that lust. So when the Phoenix power finally got the better of her, it's no surprise that Jean's actions are in part dictated by lust.
I dunno if Scott SHOULD become a villain, but he certainly has the potential to become a very tragic one if he does. The problem is that the scenario that Jean tried to prevent in Here Comes Tomorrow seems to be playing out on him, or was prior to the restarting of mutantkind. The other X-Men were being distanced from Scott one by one, and without his team and his friends, he couldn't well carry the responsibilities he had taken on. Granted he pushed a lot of people away and openly invited catastrophe by WANTING the Phoenix to come, but when it's all over I kinda feel some pity for the guy. His life hasn't been going so hot for awhile now.
