{"id":10356,"date":"2024-09-05T22:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:58:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:58:36","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-2-september-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10356","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 2 September 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN: FROM THE ASHES INFINITY COMIC #13.<\/strong> By Alex Paknadel, Di\u00f3genes Neves, Arthur Hesli & Clayton Cowles. So, yeah, I just went on Marvel Unlimited to re-read this and they’ve added the entire run of CrossGen’s Mystic<\/em>. Didn’t see that coming. Apparently they’ve just put out an omnibus, but I think it’s the first time they’ve added any CrossGen material.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is part 1 of a Magneto story set in Merle. That’s an interesting call in itself, because X-Men<\/em> has mostly had Magneto hang around on the fringes in his floating chair trying to look ominous. But From the Ashes<\/em> winds up being the first book to expand on that. The fact that he can’t walk was so strongly implied that it doesn’t really count as a reveal (and isn’t treated as one), but apparently he’s also outright depowered. The story leaves it to X-Men<\/em> to cover how all that happened, so there really isn’t any new information that X-Men<\/em> won’t cover in due course. But it’s still a bit of a surprise to see it show up here first.<\/p>\n

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The actual story is about Magneto’s first meeting with the local rabbi – Alaska’s Jewish demographic may be less than 1%, but Merle can apparently support a small synagogue. The story does acknowledge that this is a bit of a fluke. Her basic angle on him is that he sees himself as the mutant Moses but lacks the modesty that the role requires. He doesn’t like that at all, but the fact that he’s so keen to keep up the image of being Magneto rather points the other way. It doesn’t feel like an organic progression from Resurrection of Magneto<\/em>, but aside from that, on its own terms, it’s solidly done. From the Ashes<\/em> is doing a lot of rather morose character pieces and might benefit from changing that up a bit, but maybe that sort of post-Krakoa comedown is precisely what it’s going for.<\/p>\n

SAVAGE WOLVERINE INFINITY COMIC #6.<\/strong> By Tom Bloom, Guillermo Sanna, Java Tartaglia & Joe Sabino. We’re still in the first arc and I’m not sure what more I can say about it at this point. This is Wolverine fighting his way to the bad guy for what’s presumably the climax next week. The art is the selling point here – for want of a more appropriate phrase for Infinity Comics – with simple but distorted enemies, Logan as the one normal thing on the page, and some striking red-tinted colouring in the opening parts. The new X-office has had pretty good quality control on the Infinity Comics so far.<\/p>\n

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> Exceptional X-Men <\/em>launches as more of a Kitty Pryde solo book than a team book – only one of the new characters even appears, and Emma’s only in a couple of pages. Or maybe we’re doing the routine where each issue focusses on a different character. Either way, the angle is that Kate\/Kitty is trying to drop out of the mutant life and just be normal in Chicago. And, yes, we’ve done this before when she was working in the Belles of Hell under Claremont, but I can see why we’re ignoring that. It’s not a particularly well remembered arc and bringing it up doesn’t help the story. The point of this is Kitty trying to go back to her pre-X-Men life, not Kitty going back to late Claremont.<\/p>\n

Having her try to drop out but feel compelled to mentor the local teen mutants anyway seems a reasonable angle. We’ve had plenty of school teams before but I don’t think we’ve done them being mentored in the real world before. If that’s the direction then I can see it working. Trista seems a fun character who can play an updated version of Kitty’s original role as the extremely enthusiastic teen, and that contrasts well with Kitty herself. Carnero’s art gets across the generation gap between the two, and gets the setting over. There are some storytelling issues here – it’s not at all clear why Trista doesn’t get into the club. And the supporting cast are all variations on extremely nice and supportive, at least so far.<\/p>\n

But the book gets away with Kate returning to the “Kitty” name, by making it into a more complex relationship with her back story than a simple return to a previous status quo. And while you could argue that this doesn’t flow very plausibly from the Shadowkat stuff in Gerry Duggan’s run, I’m more than happy just to rip the sticking plaster off that one and get it over with. A good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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