{"id":10278,"date":"2024-08-08T22:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2024-08-08T22:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:16:48","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-5-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10278","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 5 August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES INFINITY COMIC #6.<\/strong> By Alex Paknadel, Phillip Sevy, Arthur Hesli & Clayton Cowles. Pretty much what you’d expect from the previous two issues: yes, Madelyne deliberately botched Havok’s magical resurrection in Dark X-Men<\/em>, but she says it was to keep him safe by making sure he stayed by her side. If you’re going in that direction then this is handled perfectly well, even if the art seems to be struggling a bit to sell Alex’s decay in a PG way – I buy it for the characters, and that’s the key thing. Still, it’s obviously a story that exists primarily to extricate Alex from a fairly recent storyline and free him up for X-Factor<\/em>, and there’s an unavoidable issue here of being able to see the strings. Needs must, I suppose.<\/p>\n

UNCANNY X-MEN #1.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> So there’s a lot to like here, but I’m not entirely sold yet. On the plus side, Gail Simone has always been strong on characterisation and interaction, and I like her takes on the main cast. Rogue as leader has been done before, but it’s still fair enough to play her as someone who doesn’t see herself as suited to the role, and I like the idea that she’s mainly looking to reassure herself that the whole X-Men thing had some sort of point to it. It’s good to see the X-Men doing some normal things in the real world for a change, and put them more in the everyday. David Marquez’s art is absolutely fantastic, and if I’m not quite sure why we’re devoting so much of issue #1 to a fight with Sadurang, the establishing shot of him on the pyramid is just beautiful.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, there’s the perennial problem of From the Ashes that the post-Krakoa X-books don’t have a premise as immediately striking as what came before, and that makes a first issue a tough sell; it’s something of a slow start in that regard. Still, I’d expect the strengths of this book to lie more in the longer term. From the Ashes isn’t trying to compete in the realm of high concept, after all.<\/p>\n

More of an issue for me is that I still don’t get Corina Ellis as the apparent main villain for the series – so far, she seems to be just a standard issue anti-mutant ranter, and I don’t think you can go back to that well so soon after Orchis. I guess you could make something of the idea that Orchis, like the mutants, had everything for a little while during “Fall of X” and then lost it all – so that both sides find themselves in the same regrouping phase – but that doesn’t seem to be the angle, and honestly, I’m puzzled about what’s supposed to make this character different from the many, many similar ones we’ve seen in very recent stories.<\/p>\n

WOLVERINE: DEEP CUT #2. <\/strong>By Chris Claremont, Edgar Salazar, Carlos Lopez & Travis Lanham. This is basically what issue #1 would lead you to expect – it’s Wolverine going after the Marauders, and pushing Claremont’s original idea that they’re all clones who don’t necessarily realise that fact. In practice, that means it’s an extended fight scene. And while Edgar Salazar sells the idea very well, this just isn’t how Scrambler’s powers worked first time round, and I can’t help feeling that if the target audience is people who want a Claremont retro books set during the 1980s but also don’t care much about Scrambler’s powers working in a completely different way, then that might be awfully niche.<\/p>\n

SAVAGE WOLVERINE INFINITY COMIC #1-2.<\/strong> By Thomas Bloom, Devmalya Pramanik, Javier Tartaglia & Joe Sabino. Two issues of this were posted today. I’m not exactly sure the world needed a Wolverine Infinity Comic – I rather liked the fact that the Infinity Comics tended to do some more obscure stuff – but if we’re doing one then this is a perfectly fine start. Logan gets stuck\u00a0 in a small western desert town and the local radio station seems to have been taken over by a conspiracy-minded talk radio host who’s also some sort of monster. The henchmen who seem to be made largely of fingers are certainly an odd visual and the art sells it rather well. It’s inessential, but hey, the Infinity books are basically a bonus for Marvel Unlimited subscribers, and it’s better than it needs to be for that remit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES INFINITY COMIC #6. By Alex Paknadel, Phillip Sevy, Arthur Hesli & Clayton Cowles. Pretty much what you’d expect from the previous two issues: yes, Madelyne deliberately botched Havok’s magical resurrection in Dark X-Men, but she says it was to keep him safe by making sure he stayed by her side. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-axis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10280,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}