One-sentence summary: At least it has Endangered Species in the back.
I have nothing good to say about the current X-Men storyline, or the book in general. It's just bad. Everything about it is bad. The story's dumb, the dialogue is just poorly written, the characters don't act anything like they should, and the art is very far from what I like. I don't understand how wide the range of Mike Carey's quality; Crossing Midnight is this beautiful, well-plotted book, but everything else he's doing currently is abhorrent.
The Endangered Species back-up was pretty good. I liked the twist end to that, and the art's very good for that. It was a very nice bit of comic, but probably didn't justify the crap-storm that was the rest of the issue.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
New X-Men #40
One-sentence summary: I should really remember more of what happened, but I don't; I think it was ok?
Alright, I'll fess up: I don't really care about New X-Men. I really don't feel the artwork, I got into it too late to like any character but Santo (and occasionally Dust), and I barely remember half the characters. Combine that with this latest storyline about Ilyana Rasputin, a character I only remember as a child for having died, and I really don't know what's going on in the plot. They're in limbo? It looks like Hell, but I think it's limbo (they keep saying that). A character who's a devil, but not the devil or anything, has huge amounts of power and they need to beat him, so they need a soulsword, which can only be made from yakity smakity, blah blah blah. It's just such a convoluted storyline where things are happening all over the place, with characters dying and being brought back from the dead like nothin', involving characters that I didn't think we'd seen for 15 years, all with confusing artwork that does not facilitate easy understanding.
I just don't really enjoy New X-Men; they die so often even their own self-pitying speeches have turned to self-referential mockery.
On a good note, though, this issues does contain the latest Endangered Species bit, which I'm enjoying more than most X-books (excluding [X-cluding?] X-Factor). This one was ok; I didn't know the character he was talking to, so I couldn't connect with that, but it was still interesting. I'm hoping this mini-series answers the question that's been bugging me that I don't know an answer to: why the 198? What's special about them, or that number, that prevented them from being hit by Wanda's curse (that's actually part of the story and not an obvious story-telling device to prevent Marvel's most lucrative characters from disappearing)? I do look forward to this.
Alright, I'll fess up: I don't really care about New X-Men. I really don't feel the artwork, I got into it too late to like any character but Santo (and occasionally Dust), and I barely remember half the characters. Combine that with this latest storyline about Ilyana Rasputin, a character I only remember as a child for having died, and I really don't know what's going on in the plot. They're in limbo? It looks like Hell, but I think it's limbo (they keep saying that). A character who's a devil, but not the devil or anything, has huge amounts of power and they need to beat him, so they need a soulsword, which can only be made from yakity smakity, blah blah blah. It's just such a convoluted storyline where things are happening all over the place, with characters dying and being brought back from the dead like nothin', involving characters that I didn't think we'd seen for 15 years, all with confusing artwork that does not facilitate easy understanding.
I just don't really enjoy New X-Men; they die so often even their own self-pitying speeches have turned to self-referential mockery.
On a good note, though, this issues does contain the latest Endangered Species bit, which I'm enjoying more than most X-books (excluding [X-cluding?] X-Factor). This one was ok; I didn't know the character he was talking to, so I couldn't connect with that, but it was still interesting. I'm hoping this mini-series answers the question that's been bugging me that I don't know an answer to: why the 198? What's special about them, or that number, that prevented them from being hit by Wanda's curse (that's actually part of the story and not an obvious story-telling device to prevent Marvel's most lucrative characters from disappearing)? I do look forward to this.
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