Let's read together: X-Men - The Bad Old Days? (6,077 views)

X-Men: Blind Science #1

- Messiah Complex happened one year ago but the X-Club was also formed on year ago hmmmmm
- Someone should inject Hope with the Hope serum
- Rao forever trash. I think Aguja loves her
- Does anyone in this universe respect Jeffries? Might be a bigger loser than Hank Pym
- Finally, a dystopian future where the X-Men lost
- It's the one vial Beast kept and that was stolen by Emma/Anole to start America's new eugenics program!
- Beast wasting mutantkind's salvation on himself sounds about right
- We really lost out on the Hope will become evil plot
- At least Spurioso is smart enough to reveal the cliche-ridden future is a simulation

Arc conclusion

Fun, but fillery oneshot. They should give this Spurrier guy more assignments.

- I am so done with Fraction at this point
- Look at how alpha shirtless Cyclops looks
- CBR legend Steve Sanders is back
- Franklin Richards probably should’ve been used more in this whole Decimation plot
- Let’s make this comic worse by including Steve Rogers
- Beast deserved that punch
- Sexist Steve
- Steve is a bad ally
- lol presidential medal of freedom
- the laffer curve guy got that medal too this year
- Why does Hope keep acting like life is tougher now than when it was with Cable
- Bye medal

Arc conclusion

This was bad. I get that Fraction is the lead writer and has to do the extra stuff but good lord he's just retreading the same character beats over and over. Cyclops is too alpha for his own good. Beast is trash but he means well. I did enjoy the Hope story although that might've been because of McKelvie or Franklin. You can see the new direction where they're trying to reintegrate the X-Men back into the MU proper, something that always fails because writers get bored of it after one arc.

Oops did I completely forgot XFactor Second Coming tie in.

lol did they have any interactions in Red?

Uncanny X-Men #526

- So many oversized issues with Marvel quietly hiking the price up to $3.99
- Now we’re close to paying $4.99 for 20 pages
- While Portacio art whoa this comic could’ve come out in… 2019
- Brittonic!
- Rogue: Daughter of Dixie
- Tony is back it’s almost like he’s a popular movie character now
- lmao a virgin mother why don’t you lay it on thicker
- Where did Kitty’s clothes go?
- Colossus’ Fraption offends me
- It seems like they were setting up some sort of journey for Kitty but Gillen took the quick way out
- The most beautiful blue mutant
- Ah, Coipel
- Two more Magneto family members who aren’t his family anymore
- lol isn’t Logan the one who is going to try to kill Wiccan multiple times
- Magneto has picture of kids who aren’t his kids

Uncanny X-Men #527

- I remember how the Heroic Age was pitched as the end of hero vs. hero stuff, and they’re definitely shoving that new sense of camaraderie in your face here, but then they did Schism in 2011 and AvX in 2012
- Speedy Gonzalez doesn’t know about his future fate RIP
- Logan and Scott discussions tend to be interesting but Fraction is flopping as usual
- It makes sense that Fraction would ship this reductive relationship
- Emma is such a tragically whipped girl

Uncanny X-Men #528

- Has a character ever been derailed as fast and as much as Idie
- lol Storm
- Kate Kildare!
- At what point did she become Sinister?
- “Plucked me off the streets”
- The ultimate offense is that Kitty and Emma have had virtually no interaction since these final Fraction arcs
- Storm pushing Idie in front of a bulletstorm is iconic

Uncanny X-Men #529

- Mate
- They couldn’t have recruited Gambit instead of Fantomex?
- Back when Transonic still believed in human clothing
- Nasty robosexual
- Hope finally got her pet
- The bubble suit is the ultimate humiliation
- nvm the grey hair scene is the ultimate humiliation

Arc conclusion

This was... inoffensive (except maybe the Idie parts lol) by Fraction standards. Still some bad dialogue and characterization choices but it did introduce us to the most underrated teen team of all, although we can thank Gillen for that. By focusing each issue on a different character, it also prevents decompression and Fraction wasting time on his usual tics. Portacio art is what it is, but it is better than Dodson/Land. The Lights' connection will be further developed in Gen Hope and then will be discarded entirely for the Avengers event of course. I think at this point, these increasingly doomed plots will drag more and more stories down.

New Mutants #15

- Thinking about it, consider how many vengeful guys are in Limbo plotting against Yana these days
- Didn’t we have this scene in Hellbound
- Warlock nasty
- Guess Pixie and Magik aren’t friends
- We need more issues like these that’s just characters hanging out and dealing with recent events
- Pixie has a tough life

New Mutants #16

- It’s been four years since Inferno
- Oh hey it’s Magik 1.0
- THAT’S HOW WITCHFIRE GOT THE AMULET
- Those poor Inferno babies should’ve just been killed

New Mutants #17

- Cannonball and Lila’s relationship was certainly problematic
- Sam/Dani is gross
- It’s time for sexy goat girl
- Wells is a continuity king
- Sam’s incompetence is probably this book’s biggest flaw
- *flutter*
- Damn, that was easy

New Mutants #18

- Never give ANYTHING to the government, my fellow libertarians *tips fedora*
- That girl has Zatanna powers
- Gonna predict that lady is going to feel sorry for brutalizing Dani
- they got owned hard

New Mutants #19

- So mean to poor Face
- Magik’s nice to Pixie again
- Kinda harsh to Sunspot
- Bitch boy Doug
- Karma and Face so sweet
- I miss Karma being important

Arc conclusion

Good arc. Nothing groundbreaking and it doesn't reach the heights of some of the one-shot issues, but it's perfectly good superhero comics that uses some old stuff to create something new. It's also the introduction of yet another one of Karma's future forgotten wards! There's definitely some decompression going on (especially since the next two issues are basically part of this run), but I did like the brutal fight and the NM just hanging around before shit went bad.