Cyclops was good. Uncanny was messy, my main takeaway is ‘good that this story arc is behind us’.
Also the Faux Mutants were a waste. Sure, now that we know the Outliers/New Mutants plots were diversions at best, prolonging them would feel like a waste of time. But I can’t shake the feeling there was a way to do that plot and give the characters a meaningful win despite it all being an illusion and I don’t feel they got it.
The final request from Rogue is incredibly random.
Just skimming forward to the August solicits there, and the X-Books consist of (not counting Midnight, which like Ultimate v2, is its own thing):
*DNX: Event launch (competing against Avengers Armageddon, Queen in Black and the upcoming Hulk War events *from Marvel themselves*)
*Double-shipping adjectiveless (billed as DNX preludes), Uncanny AND Wolverine all in the same month
*Tomb of Apocalypse (Jubilee/Wolverine) & Bishop five-issue miniseries
*Outback and Gambit flashback-miniseries (the latter by Claremont)
*GX-23, Inglorious X-Force and X-Men United, which all feel like they’re marking time until their inevitable cancellations with #10
*Percy’s Deadpool if you count it (I know Paul doesn’t)
*X-Men ’97 tie-in mini
That doesn’t feel healthy. 15 issues (counting Deadpool & XM97), most of which feel like they’re marking time until their end about the time of the next line relaunch (post-DNX), and aren’t even good enough as standalones. And leaning too hard on the flagship (XM, UXM, Wolverine) books by spamming them out.
I wonder if Marvel’s next stunt will be to make Uncanny and X-Men both weekly books with Wolverine biweekly, sort of like the Spider-Man “Brand New Day” era. That way they put out ten X-books a month without worrying about having to cancel most of them. Marvel is running out of ideas for X-books at this point (all the other team books have been canceled and everyone has gotten a solo title).
@Krzysiek Ceran- The contrived part about Cyclops was how Pierce was able to manipulate the uru. Pierce spends the rest of the miniseries using technology but suddenly he knows the right spell to manipulate the uru so he can use it to fight Scott and friends.
Agreed that Rogue’s request felt random- why not ask Logan or Kurt? (We know that Logan will soon be busy leading an Avengers squad against Ross because Cap is trapped in Hell by Doom but Rogue doesn’t know that.)
Michael> The contrived part about Cyclops was how Pierce was able to manipulate the uru. Pierce spends the rest of the miniseries using technology but suddenly he knows the right spell to manipulate the uru so he can use it to fight Scott and friends.
I mean, literally his whole plan was “get uru”. Stands to reason that he would have prepared some way to USE it.
The Wolverine game trailer did nothing for me. The blood spurts are ridiculous in volume and the gameplay looks uninteresting to me.
My main takeaway was that the X-Men Origins Wolverine game by Raven Software did all that 17 years ago and it was ripping chunks out of Logan that regenerated in real time in what was a stunning technological achievement at the time.
And X2 Wolverine’s Revenge had Mark Hamill as Logan.
And Insomniac’s Wolverine is just not grabbing me in any way.
I didn’t know there was going to be a Wolverine game until I read it here. I agree with Krzysiek Ceran that the blood spurting is borderline comical, but it also looks really cool. I like that it incorporates Madripoor, and the characters look great. The plot, from what I can glean, seems to be standard Wolverine fare, which makes sense for a video game. I’ll probably end up getting it, unless word of mouth is bad.
I played X2: Wolverine’s Revenge. That was when I still played video games, and I found the version for the Game Cube on sale for $10 at a Best Buy the December of the year it was released. It being marked down so much the same year of its release should have given me a hint of its quality. Well, $10 isn’t too much even for a game I decided I didn’t want to play. The most memorable part of the game is that the game creators seemed to simply forget to include a level in the game. Sabretooth released three deadly villains: Juggernaut, Magneto, and Omega Red. Wolverine must stop them before going on with his mission. He defeats Juggernaut and Magneto, then gets back to his own mission. At the end of the game, he realizes he forgot about Omega Red. Oh well. I suppose, at the very least, this Wolverine game can only be an improvement over X2.
Cyclops was good. Uncanny was messy, my main takeaway is ‘good that this story arc is behind us’.
Also the Faux Mutants were a waste. Sure, now that we know the Outliers/New Mutants plots were diversions at best, prolonging them would feel like a waste of time. But I can’t shake the feeling there was a way to do that plot and give the characters a meaningful win despite it all being an illusion and I don’t feel they got it.
The final request from Rogue is incredibly random.
Just skimming forward to the August solicits there, and the X-Books consist of (not counting Midnight, which like Ultimate v2, is its own thing):
*DNX: Event launch (competing against Avengers Armageddon, Queen in Black and the upcoming Hulk War events *from Marvel themselves*)
*Double-shipping adjectiveless (billed as DNX preludes), Uncanny AND Wolverine all in the same month
*Tomb of Apocalypse (Jubilee/Wolverine) & Bishop five-issue miniseries
*Outback and Gambit flashback-miniseries (the latter by Claremont)
*GX-23, Inglorious X-Force and X-Men United, which all feel like they’re marking time until their inevitable cancellations with #10
*Percy’s Deadpool if you count it (I know Paul doesn’t)
*X-Men ’97 tie-in mini
That doesn’t feel healthy. 15 issues (counting Deadpool & XM97), most of which feel like they’re marking time until their end about the time of the next line relaunch (post-DNX), and aren’t even good enough as standalones. And leaning too hard on the flagship (XM, UXM, Wolverine) books by spamming them out.
I wonder if Marvel’s next stunt will be to make Uncanny and X-Men both weekly books with Wolverine biweekly, sort of like the Spider-Man “Brand New Day” era. That way they put out ten X-books a month without worrying about having to cancel most of them. Marvel is running out of ideas for X-books at this point (all the other team books have been canceled and everyone has gotten a solo title).
@Krzysiek Ceran- The contrived part about Cyclops was how Pierce was able to manipulate the uru. Pierce spends the rest of the miniseries using technology but suddenly he knows the right spell to manipulate the uru so he can use it to fight Scott and friends.
Agreed that Rogue’s request felt random- why not ask Logan or Kurt? (We know that Logan will soon be busy leading an Avengers squad against Ross because Cap is trapped in Hell by Doom but Rogue doesn’t know that.)
Was expecting discussion of the Wolverine game trailer, esp if the annotations are delayed this week.
Michael> The contrived part about Cyclops was how Pierce was able to manipulate the uru. Pierce spends the rest of the miniseries using technology but suddenly he knows the right spell to manipulate the uru so he can use it to fight Scott and friends.
I mean, literally his whole plan was “get uru”. Stands to reason that he would have prepared some way to USE it.
The Wolverine game trailer did nothing for me. The blood spurts are ridiculous in volume and the gameplay looks uninteresting to me.
My main takeaway was that the X-Men Origins Wolverine game by Raven Software did all that 17 years ago and it was ripping chunks out of Logan that regenerated in real time in what was a stunning technological achievement at the time.
And X2 Wolverine’s Revenge had Mark Hamill as Logan.
And Insomniac’s Wolverine is just not grabbing me in any way.
I didn’t know there was going to be a Wolverine game until I read it here. I agree with Krzysiek Ceran that the blood spurting is borderline comical, but it also looks really cool. I like that it incorporates Madripoor, and the characters look great. The plot, from what I can glean, seems to be standard Wolverine fare, which makes sense for a video game. I’ll probably end up getting it, unless word of mouth is bad.
I played X2: Wolverine’s Revenge. That was when I still played video games, and I found the version for the Game Cube on sale for $10 at a Best Buy the December of the year it was released. It being marked down so much the same year of its release should have given me a hint of its quality. Well, $10 isn’t too much even for a game I decided I didn’t want to play. The most memorable part of the game is that the game creators seemed to simply forget to include a level in the game. Sabretooth released three deadly villains: Juggernaut, Magneto, and Omega Red. Wolverine must stop them before going on with his mission. He defeats Juggernaut and Magneto, then gets back to his own mission. At the end of the game, he realizes he forgot about Omega Red. Oh well. I suppose, at the very least, this Wolverine game can only be an improvement over X2.
@Chris V: It’s still better than Xenogears being released with the entire second half of the game being unrealized.
And in comics news, Marjane Satrapi died.
Oh, that is sad news. Only 56.
I guess this means a new HTA is on the way,