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ratcreature) wrote2007-07-05 07:40 pm
ratcreature) wrote2007-07-05 07:40 pm
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I'm reading X-Men comics for a change...
Astonishing X-Men #1-21 (written by Joss Whedon, art by John Cassaday)
I wonder whether I shouldn't have waited for the final issues to come out before reading. Now that I'm faced with a cliffhanger again, I remembered how irregularly this came out for a while. Still it was entertaining so far, and I like the mix of an overarching plot that's coming to a conclusion in the final issues, i.e. that alien world that is convinced by some prophecy that an earth mutant will destroy it, which makes for a nice mystery keeping you hooked, and the subplots threaded into that.
Though the subplots didn't all work equally well for me. The one with the mutant cure was pretty cool, but I didn't really get into the sentient danger room thing as much, though it wasn't bad. I have to admit that the Hellfire Club stuff left me mostly confused, as I had no idea who all these people and their history with the X-Men were (though I have come across some in fanfic), and I didn't know anything about this Cassandra Nova character and her history with Emma Frost. Eventually I read with a couple of reference and overview websites open and skimmed those to get the gist, but I still felt lost. How did anyone manage to follow superhero comics at all before reference websites?? Anyway, I suspect readers familiar with the background may get more out of this (or hate it for messing with something, I guess that's always a possibility).
Still, even with my confusion the basic suspense worked for me, or I wouldn't have bothered looking up all these Hellfire Club people and their history and powers in the first place. Also I'm inclined to like this X team because it has Cyclops, Wolverine and Beast who are among my favorite X-Men characters.
I wonder whether I shouldn't have waited for the final issues to come out before reading. Now that I'm faced with a cliffhanger again, I remembered how irregularly this came out for a while. Still it was entertaining so far, and I like the mix of an overarching plot that's coming to a conclusion in the final issues, i.e. that alien world that is convinced by some prophecy that an earth mutant will destroy it, which makes for a nice mystery keeping you hooked, and the subplots threaded into that.
Though the subplots didn't all work equally well for me. The one with the mutant cure was pretty cool, but I didn't really get into the sentient danger room thing as much, though it wasn't bad. I have to admit that the Hellfire Club stuff left me mostly confused, as I had no idea who all these people and their history with the X-Men were (though I have come across some in fanfic), and I didn't know anything about this Cassandra Nova character and her history with Emma Frost. Eventually I read with a couple of reference and overview websites open and skimmed those to get the gist, but I still felt lost. How did anyone manage to follow superhero comics at all before reference websites?? Anyway, I suspect readers familiar with the background may get more out of this (or hate it for messing with something, I guess that's always a possibility).
Still, even with my confusion the basic suspense worked for me, or I wouldn't have bothered looking up all these Hellfire Club people and their history and powers in the first place. Also I'm inclined to like this X team because it has Cyclops, Wolverine and Beast who are among my favorite X-Men characters.
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I didn't read much X-men stuff, but I have to admit I like Cyclops the best out of all the X-men, then Jean.
I was mostly into DC - Justice League (JLE just cracked me up) and Captain Atom, but the last comics I bought was that SGA 3 parter which was actually a bit of a disappointment.
You seem to be going through a lot of comics!
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I like Scott/Jean as a ship, so I admit I'm not too fond of the Scott/Emma romance (especially since Emma Frost isn't exactly one of my favorites), but since Jean is as I understand it currently dead again... I admit I'm very confused by X-Men comics overall, because the cast is so huge and they are just so convoluted with all the futre people coming back from alternate timelines and all that stuff. So I'm primarily a movieverse fan for the X-Men, but venture into the comics occasionally.
And TV tie-in comics can be very bad, especially if they try to go for photographic likeless and just end up being lame screencap tracing that don't even look like the characters despite that.
I didn't feel much like reading comics for a long time, but still got my subscriptions, so I have a huge backlog I'm working through.
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You must have quite the library then!
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