{"id":7933,"date":"2022-06-07T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2022-06-07T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:37:15","slug":"x-men-unlimited-infinity-comic-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #28"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #28\u00a0<\/strong>
\n“So I’m Dating a Pop Star!”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jason Loo<\/strong>
\nArtist: EJ Su<\/strong>
\nColourist: Antonio Fabela<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Joe Sabino<\/strong>
\nEditor: Lauren Amaro<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, yeah. This came out at the end of March and I’m only getting to it now. Time for a renewed push to clear the backlog.<\/p>\n

The thing is: sitting at the top of my review list for a while has been\u00a0Demon Days<\/em>, the Peach Momoko miniseries which shipped more or less quarterly and basically involves Marvel Universe characters being reworked into Japanese mythology. And the thing bores me so completely that I just cannot face re-reading it. I mean, it’s beautiful, of course, but I just don’t get it at all. It doesn’t feel like the characters have much in common with the originals beyond the very superficial; I don’t feel like it’s telling me anything interesting about the characters or about Japanese mythology or about any sort of overlap between the two. If anything, it leaves me feeling like there is no connection and the whole thing is a completely arbitrary parlour game. Maybe if I knew more about Japanese folklore I’d be seeing some sort of connection there, but I don’t and I’m really, really not. I just don’t understand at all what the thing is trying to do or why it exists. It’s one of those comics where even the first time around I could feel by the end that I was still dutifully turning the pages but none of it was sinking in. And I just cannot bring myself to re-read the thing in order to review it properly. Life is too short.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the next\u00a0Demon Days<\/em> series to be solicited is something to do with\u00a0Civil War<\/em>, and the book itself is a mixture of X-books elements and stuff from the wider Marvel Universe, so I have decided that for my purposes it is Not An X-Book and we can all move on with our lives.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So what’s next on the list? Well, it’s this one-off\u00a0X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic<\/em> issue, one of the short stories that they scatter between regular issues.<\/p>\n

I’d be interested to know who’s actually reading\u00a0this book – since it’s only available as a freebie thrown in with a Marvel Unlimited subscription, you might suspect that it’s leaning towards the hardcore completists. At the same time, it’s a phone comic, and the Infinity Comics as a whole lean heavily towards accessible material for the casual fan. Somewhere in the overlap you get comics like this – a short Lila Cheney story played for light comedy.<\/p>\n

To promote her new album, Lila grudgingly agrees to go on a reality show where pop stars pretend to be normal people and go on dates. And of course the three dates she gets are awful – a guy from Portland who won’t shut up about his own band, a right-wing bigot “who loves reading about conspiracy theories” (and is all in favour of the mutants living on their own island and withdrawing from the rest of the world), and… oh no, hold on, that’s as far as we get because a fight breaks out with him and his mates.<\/p>\n

It’s a completely harmless little story which is more “mildly diverting” than anything else. It’s not as easy to play about with the vertical scrolling format when you’re doing a basically talky story like this, but EJ Su is a completely solid cartoonist. It doesn’t really find a pay-off for its premise, though. The original hook here is “Lila goes on reality TV”, and it kind of swerves two thirds of the way through to become “bigots are awful”. Which is more or less the generic X-Men ending these days; wheel out somebody just awful and have the heroes humiliate them. And that’s fine as far as it goes – by all means let’s have the bad guys get their comeuppance from time to time – but it also risks becoming something you can tack on to literally anything as the final act, and that’s kind of what it’s doing here.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s basically fine, and the Infinity Comics continue to have more effort put into them than you might be assuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #28\u00a0 “So I’m Dating a Pop Star!” Writer: Jason Loo Artist: EJ Su Colourist: Antonio Fabela Letterer: Joe Sabino Editor: Lauren Amaro So, yeah. This came out at the end of March and I’m only getting to it now. Time for a renewed push to clear the backlog. The thing is: […]<\/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-7933","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\/7933","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=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}