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.)
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.)