{"id":10248,"date":"2024-07-25T20:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2024-07-25T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:29:54","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-22-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10248","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 22 July 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES INFINITY COMIC #7.<\/strong> By Alex Paknadel, Phillip Sevy, Arthur Hesli & Clayton Cowles. Since they aren’t keeping the “From the Ashes” branding beyond the first few months, I suppose this is also going to be renamed or relaunched at some point? It certainly seems as if it has a specific remit at the moment, which is to bridge the gap between old and new status quos while saving the regular titles the hassle of taking up time on it. This is the first part of a Havok storyline, seemingly designed to explain why he’s not looking dead any more in the upcoming X-Factor<\/em> book. There are worse ways to use the Unlimited books, and it’s a better solution than just saying “we’ll come back to that later” when telling that story isn’t really a top priority for the new books. This first part is basically set-up: Madelyne’s attempts to heal Havok still aren’t really working, and eventually the demon who’s charged with looking after him takes pity on the guy and tells him that they could sort him out properly in Limbo. It’s got a job to do and it’s decently entertaining along the way.<\/p>\n

DEADPOOL VS. WOLVERINE: SLASH ‘EM UP INFINITY COMIC #6.<\/strong> By Christos Gage, Alan Robinson, Carlos Lopez & Joe Sabino. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a Deadpool and Wolverine film out. I guess somebody’s sat down and run the numbers and decided that it makes more sense to take advantage of that by commissioning random new Deadpool\/Wolverine stories for Unlimited rather than promoting decent ones that already exist, but it seems odd to me. This is the concluding part of a functional mini which elevates itself with a few good moments but doesn’t actually have much going on under the surface. It’s absolutely fine, it has a nice enough ending, but it’s still hard to see why it’d be of much interest beyond completists like me.<\/p>\n

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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: WWIII #3.<\/strong> By Joe Kelly, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin & Joe Sabino. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a Deadpool and Wolverine film out… Mind you, this three-issue miniseries is a bit more understandable as a tie-in commission. After all, Kelly is a key Deadpool writer, and Kubert is a big name artist. It winds up as the sort of book where I feel vaguely guilty for not liking it more. It’s ambitious, at least in its storytelling, and the art is often spectacular. It doesn’t go for the easy option of playing the hits, and tries to do something about Deadpool’s quest for self-improvement instead. But it’s a book I find easier to admire than to actually enjoy. It’s not always easy to follow, and the underlying ideas seem quite familiar, with what seems to be a dash of meta about audience expectations thrown in. It’s an interesting book, yet it never really engages me.<\/p>\n

WOLVERINE: BLOOD HUNT #4.<\/strong> By Tom Waltz, Juan Jos\u00e9 Ryp, Guru-eFX & Joe Caramagna. This is the end of the tie-in miniseries, which was at least twice as long as the plot merited. If you want to see a bit of good old fashioned decompression, then I guess this is it – it certainly allows room for the art to breathe and let the fight scenes play out, and that’s something. But there’s not really much to it, and the story ends by hitting the reset button in underwhelming fashion. If it wasn’t the umpteenth heroes-versus-vampires series of the moment then I might be a bit more receptive to it, but in this context it’s just More Of This.<\/p>\n

NYX #1.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> So this was pretty good! This seems to be the street level book with mutants living in the real world among the humans. I’ve wanted Marvel to do more stories in that vein for years, so I’m perfectly happy with that as a premise – I think it’s a massively underexplored angle, all the stronger for the implied contrast with Krakoa as the previous status quo. I liked Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing on Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>, I found their Captain America<\/em> run a bit too high concept for my tastes. This is more character driven, though, and plays to their strengths. It’s a good selection of characters, which finds a good role for Ms Marvel as the mutant with no first-hand attachment to Krakoa, and Francesco Mortarino’s art strikes the right tone while finding a few moments to switch things up – he really does a good job of selling Ms Marvel crossing town Spider-Man style. There are a couple of odd character beats and Anole feels like he’s been shoehorned into the first issue because he’s a regular, but I figure Kelly and Lenzing know where they’re going. (The silly QR code pages need to go, though.)<\/p>\n

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