{"id":11275,"date":"2025-07-30T22:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:18:21","slug":"the-x-axis-30-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11275","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – 30 July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this is quiet. There’s no Infinite Comic this week, though they do take skip weeks sometimes. I notice they just axed Astonishing Spider-Man<\/em>, which does make me wonder whether somebody’s starting to have doubts about how many subscriptions these things are selling, but we’ll see. Remarkably, that leaves us with a grand total of one X-book.<\/p>\n

SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE #3.<\/strong> By Marc Guggenheim, Kaare Andrews, Brian Reber & Travis Lanham. Yeah, even if it’s the only book out, I can’t get worked up enough about\u00a0Spider-Man & Wolverine<\/em> to give it its own post. Well, except by default. This kind of\u00a0is<\/em> its own post. But you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

The plot of this series is ostensibly something about a directory full of confidential information about SHIELD double agents, with Kraven and Omega Red also hunting it, and the title characters learning that Wolverine might have killed his parents back in the days when he was working for Romulus. For present purposes we’re doing the memory gaps thing again, so Wolverine can’t say for sure whether it’s true or not. That’s all perfectly serviceable as far as it goes.<\/p>\n

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But this issue randomly takes us off to the Savage Land, and sticks everyone in their old costumes, and then at the end of the issue we’re off to China and… boy, it’s pretty<\/em>, but if ever a comic read as if it started by asking the artist for a wish list of what he’d like to draw, this would be it. Is “Kaare Andrews draws dinosaurs and Spider-Man’s black costume” really enough to carry a book? I mean… maybe? It’s a book that exists to be an art showcase, after all, and taking it on its own terms, maybe all it really needs is a story that’s on a sugar rush as much as the art is. If you’re looking for anything more than that, well, it’s not here to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this is quiet. There’s no Infinite Comic this week, though they do take skip weeks sometimes. I notice they just axed Astonishing Spider-Man, which does make me wonder whether somebody’s starting to have doubts about how many subscriptions these things are selling, but we’ll see. Remarkably, that leaves us with a grand total of […]<\/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-11275","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\/11275","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=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11276,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions\/11276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}