{"id":11902,"date":"2026-04-02T23:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:18:42","slug":"the-x-axis-1-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11902","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – 1 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, another quiet week. The solicitations had the\u00a0Uncanny X-Men Annual<\/em> coming out too, but that’s slipped a week. So just the two books, then.<\/p>\n

X-MEN #28.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> Three chapters in, this is feeling a bit less than the sum of its parts, to be honest. There’s plenty to enjoy here in the details. I particularly like the way Jed MacKay writes Quentin and Idie, with Quentin shouting all the rightful indignation, but Idie as the one who actually seems more quietly dangerous. Netho Diaz draws a great Maxine Danger, giving her a fabulously inappropriate cheerfulness – and the book ends with a lovely splash page of Psylocke having already taken out Beyond’s men in time for the inevitable fight back next issue. The Beast’s frustration at being expected to have a magical scientific answer for everything is a nice beat.<\/p>\n

But at the same time, it’s a story where a bunch of villains hunt down the X-Men because they’ve been hired to hunt down the X-Men, and aside from the living ship thing, it pretty much boils down to gunmen and conventional weapons and so forth. And… uh… and? It’s a bit par for the course for the X-Men, and while the individual Danger Room members have potentially interesting hooks to them, they don’t actually have any particular connection with this book. It all feels a bit interchangeable at the macro level. Still, the details are good.<\/p>\n

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LOGAN: BLACK, WHITE & BLOOD #4.<\/strong> Final issue of the anthology miniseries, which in turn is just the latest in a series of these\u00a0Black, White & Blood<\/em> anthologies. I just don’t think the format work – mainly it winds up convincing me that apparently there\u00a0isn’t\u00a0<\/em>that much you can do with red spot colouring, and stories that use it mainly to make the blood stand out more end up feeling repetitive in a way that they wouldn’t have if they’d appeared as back-ups somewhere. “The Monster in the Dark” by Ethan Sacks, Garry Brown and Andres Mossa isn’t a bad story in isolation – there’s actually quite a neat idea about Wolverine defeating sort of vampire thing who treats the meeting as a wonderful discovery that he isn’t alone – but in the context of this series it feels rather samey.<\/p>\n

Giuseppe Camuncoli’s “Kintsugi” is a slightly half-formed story about Mystique impersonating Wolverine to steal a magic mask, which is mainly a pretext for her to get driven briefly mad so that Wolverine can fight versions of himself. But it does use the colouring much more effectively, either for atmosphere or in an outright unnatural way, and on that level it works well enough. “End of Days” by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Piotr Kowalski and Rachelle Rosenberg is an oddity set in the distant future, with alien archaeologists arriving on a dead planet and finding a semi-fossilised version of Wolverine still wandering around and defending a graveyard. It’s not exactly a story so much as a vignette which gestures at a story that it leaves to the imagination, but in an ideal world these anthology books would take the opportunity to do more weird things like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, another quiet week. The solicitations had the\u00a0Uncanny X-Men Annual coming out too, but that’s slipped a week. So just the two books, then. X-MEN #28.\u00a0(Annotations here.) Three chapters in, this is feeling a bit less than the sum of its parts, to be honest. There’s plenty to enjoy here in the details. I particularly […]<\/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-11902","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\/11902","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=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}