{"id":7759,"date":"2022-04-11T22:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7759"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:08:45","slug":"x-men-unlimited-infinity-comic-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7759","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #26<\/strong>
\nWriter: Declan Shalvey<\/strong>
\nArtist: Nick Roche<\/strong>
\nColourist: Chris O’Halloran<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Sabino<\/strong>
\nEditor: Lauren Amaro<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a Banshee story for St Patrick’s Day! Marvel have done quite a few holiday tie-ins with the Infinity Comics, and I wonder if this started out as one of those.<\/p>\n

We’ve not just got an actual Irish character here, we’ve got an actual Irish creative team. Declan Shalvey’s already done two arcs on this book; Nick Roche is probably best known for his work on IDW’s Transformers books, but he’s a really good artist who brings a nicely sturdy, cartoony quality to Banshee.<\/p>\n

The New York St Patrick’s Day celebrations inspire Banshee to actually return home to Cassidy Keep, that wonderful bastion of Oirishness where actual leprechauns live. He finds Black Tom there, and the usual fight breaks out, with Sean accusing Tom of always trying to take things from him. Of course, that’s ultimately about Tom raising Sean’s daughter Theresa.<\/p>\n

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The problem here is that Black Tom Cassidy is being used regularly in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> – he’s a more prominent character than Sean these days – and setting him up as the potential villain here doesn’t really fly. Shalvey clearly does understand Tom’s current status quo, and he’s feinting at him taking the villain role, but the trouble is that Tom’s no longer in that role and Sean ought to know that. I get that it’s a proxy for Theresa, and that Sean is meant to misread the situation when he shows up and finds the leprechauns missing, but the fight still feels a bit undermotivated to me.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, all this seems to be heading towards the idea that the squabbles of Sean and Tom’s generation are fading into history as Theresa’s generation takes over. That’s a nice enough idea but this is one of those Infinity Comics that feels like it needed a bit more space if it was really going to tell that story more effectively. As it is, it’s perfectly serviceable, and looks pretty good, but doesn’t really have much weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #26 Writer: Declan Shalvey Artist: Nick Roche Colourist: Chris O’Halloran Letterer: Joe Sabino Editor: Lauren Amaro It’s a Banshee story for St Patrick’s Day! Marvel have done quite a few holiday tie-ins with the Infinity Comics, and I wonder if this started out as one of those. We’ve not just got […]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7759","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\/7759","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=7759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}