Post by salarta on Jun 3, 2019 0:55:54 GMT
RCO appears to be working again so here we go.
New X-Men #21
New X-Men #22
New X-Men #23
This was just okay. In general, I'd say better than Decimation: House of M: The Day After #1. There are some things worse, some things better, about it.
That probably wraps up me reading stuff for the day.
New X-Men #21
{Spoiler}
I'm gonna get myself some LOWE'S SEAFOOD.
Why is Commissioner Gordon moonlighting as Jack Abrams?
I'm going to assume Stryker had one of his followers hijack a bus and ram into the taxi. That or Stryker has mutant powers. Whatever.
Sentinels outside the mansion is a pretty shitty thing for the government to do. Have the thing that's been used to commit a genocide on Genosha and hunt down mutants in general, and have it serve as a "protector" in what is ostensibly supposed to be the safest place for mutants in their much diminished population.
The Fantastic Four Wrestling Federation sounds like a pretty promising enterprise.
Mutant town being empty does a good job of demonstrating how bad this whole scenario is. Thriving community and it's reduced to hardly anything. As a temporary storyline, this could've been okay. But its effect for nearly two decades on the franchise killed its forward momentum, and probably could be argued as the reason the franchise suffers from such horrid nostalgia trip activity while it doesn't seem to go much of anywhere. Franchise progress essentially died.
Stryker's foresight bit just makes me wonder why people aren't casting him out of his own organization for potentially being a mutant, same as KKK has cast out members after the discovery they have some black ancestry.
Seeing X-23 get the use she does in this, and thinking about her use since she was created, is just a very vivid reminder to me of how Marvel operates. New characters have a better shot at opportunities than characters created decades ago who got treated poorly by past writers.
I'm gonna get myself some LOWE'S SEAFOOD.
Why is Commissioner Gordon moonlighting as Jack Abrams?
I'm going to assume Stryker had one of his followers hijack a bus and ram into the taxi. That or Stryker has mutant powers. Whatever.
Sentinels outside the mansion is a pretty shitty thing for the government to do. Have the thing that's been used to commit a genocide on Genosha and hunt down mutants in general, and have it serve as a "protector" in what is ostensibly supposed to be the safest place for mutants in their much diminished population.
The Fantastic Four Wrestling Federation sounds like a pretty promising enterprise.
Mutant town being empty does a good job of demonstrating how bad this whole scenario is. Thriving community and it's reduced to hardly anything. As a temporary storyline, this could've been okay. But its effect for nearly two decades on the franchise killed its forward momentum, and probably could be argued as the reason the franchise suffers from such horrid nostalgia trip activity while it doesn't seem to go much of anywhere. Franchise progress essentially died.
Stryker's foresight bit just makes me wonder why people aren't casting him out of his own organization for potentially being a mutant, same as KKK has cast out members after the discovery they have some black ancestry.
Seeing X-23 get the use she does in this, and thinking about her use since she was created, is just a very vivid reminder to me of how Marvel operates. New characters have a better shot at opportunities than characters created decades ago who got treated poorly by past writers.
New X-Men #22
{Spoiler}
I'm assuming all these costumes and missions would mean something to people who were big fans of past X-Men stories, but to me they're just there. And while I'm at it, as a Polaris fan, this doubles as a perfect illustration of how poorly she's been treated over time. None of these scenarios they're acting out involve Lorna.
Dust's clothing not changing was on the one hand a good avoidance of potential backlash (it would've understandably pissed a LOT of people off to see her suddenly in, like, a bikini or something), on the other hand raises the question of why other people are putting up with THEIR costume changes. Mercury complains about having to wear Emma's old costume (looks like Goblin Queen or Jean as Black Queen but context makes it sound like it's Emma), but if Dust doesn't have to wear one, shouldn't she get a choice in the matter? Or is being forced into revealing outfits and complaining about it one of her fetishes?
One of the big problems I've had with the whole "you don't get to stay if you don't have powers" bit is that it's supposedly (in-story) for the depowered mutants' protection, but in reality it just puts them at greater risk. They're isolated and easier to pick off. I figure the real reason it's being done, though, is cause editors/writers of Marvel at the time wanted to throw out any characters that no longer have powers, so they had to force dumb reasoning in the comics to justify a real world decision.
"Yes. I have killed in Afghanistan." I'm imagining either several minutes of cricket chirps as they stare at each other, or "He looks at me/I look at him/and he looks at me/and I look at him" going on.
"Madrox Ln" So uhh... I know this is just a stupid namedrop, but now I'm imagining streets named after mutants for no reason.
X-23's scene with her "mom" is actually pretty good horror material for her. I'd consider it a pretty meaningful scene to recreate and/or refer back to in future usage of her, getting rid of the fact that Emma did it screw with ("test") her or whatever. And in general the whole Emma wanting X-23 thing feels ludicrously forced to add drama.
I'm assuming all these costumes and missions would mean something to people who were big fans of past X-Men stories, but to me they're just there. And while I'm at it, as a Polaris fan, this doubles as a perfect illustration of how poorly she's been treated over time. None of these scenarios they're acting out involve Lorna.
Dust's clothing not changing was on the one hand a good avoidance of potential backlash (it would've understandably pissed a LOT of people off to see her suddenly in, like, a bikini or something), on the other hand raises the question of why other people are putting up with THEIR costume changes. Mercury complains about having to wear Emma's old costume (looks like Goblin Queen or Jean as Black Queen but context makes it sound like it's Emma), but if Dust doesn't have to wear one, shouldn't she get a choice in the matter? Or is being forced into revealing outfits and complaining about it one of her fetishes?
One of the big problems I've had with the whole "you don't get to stay if you don't have powers" bit is that it's supposedly (in-story) for the depowered mutants' protection, but in reality it just puts them at greater risk. They're isolated and easier to pick off. I figure the real reason it's being done, though, is cause editors/writers of Marvel at the time wanted to throw out any characters that no longer have powers, so they had to force dumb reasoning in the comics to justify a real world decision.
"Yes. I have killed in Afghanistan." I'm imagining either several minutes of cricket chirps as they stare at each other, or "He looks at me/I look at him/and he looks at me/and I look at him" going on.
"Madrox Ln" So uhh... I know this is just a stupid namedrop, but now I'm imagining streets named after mutants for no reason.
X-23's scene with her "mom" is actually pretty good horror material for her. I'd consider it a pretty meaningful scene to recreate and/or refer back to in future usage of her, getting rid of the fact that Emma did it screw with ("test") her or whatever. And in general the whole Emma wanting X-23 thing feels ludicrously forced to add drama.
New X-Men #23
{Spoiler}
"I do not have a uniform" is now to the excessive point of feeling like the writer is trying to shoehorn in "SEE? SEE? DUST'S WEARING HER RELIGIOUS GARMENTS." I think it would've been a perfectly good touch if they just had her go to the assembly in her regular clothing. That or her showing up in a uniform that's respectful to her beliefs.
"I want X-23 taken out first" This only makes sense to me if the goal on Emma's part is to see if X-23 can't control herself with an onslaught of opponents. Otherwise it just feels like a stupid forced technicality "play up the drama" moment.
The juxtaposition of Emma's and Stryker's speeches and venues is a pretty good and powerful message within the storytelling.
And then it ends with death. Because it wouldn't be terrible "character death and especially a high body count somehow makes stories good" Marvel thinking without it.
"I do not have a uniform" is now to the excessive point of feeling like the writer is trying to shoehorn in "SEE? SEE? DUST'S WEARING HER RELIGIOUS GARMENTS." I think it would've been a perfectly good touch if they just had her go to the assembly in her regular clothing. That or her showing up in a uniform that's respectful to her beliefs.
"I want X-23 taken out first" This only makes sense to me if the goal on Emma's part is to see if X-23 can't control herself with an onslaught of opponents. Otherwise it just feels like a stupid forced technicality "play up the drama" moment.
The juxtaposition of Emma's and Stryker's speeches and venues is a pretty good and powerful message within the storytelling.
And then it ends with death. Because it wouldn't be terrible "character death and especially a high body count somehow makes stories good" Marvel thinking without it.
This was just okay. In general, I'd say better than Decimation: House of M: The Day After #1. There are some things worse, some things better, about it.
That probably wraps up me reading stuff for the day.