{"id":8027,"date":"2022-06-28T20:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2022-06-28T20:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:06:32","slug":"x-men-unlimited-infinity-comic-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8027","title":{"rendered":"X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #41<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cBirthday Side Quest\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Writer &amp; artist: Jason Loo<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Letterer: Joe Sabino<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Editor: Lauren Amaro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It feels like only yesterday that I reviewed Jason Loo\u2019s last single-issue\u00a0<em>Unlimited\u00a0<\/em>story, the one where Lila Cheney went speed dating. Actually, that was issue #28, and it came out in March\u2026but it took me a while to get around to reviewing it.<\/p>\n<p>This is very much in the same vein. It\u2019s Jubilee\u2019s birthday; she invites her former teammates from\u00a0Generation X to join her in a fantasy-themed escape room. You might wonder whether Jubilee doesn\u2019t have any\u00a0<em>other<\/em> friends than the people she hung out with in a series from more than twenty years ago, who she might want to spend her birthday with\u2026 but then again, most of the candidates are currently in\u00a0<em>Knights of X<\/em>, so maybe she doesn\u2019t. Anyway, Jubilee wants to do it in full cosplay, and nobody else is really on board with that. And only about half the team show up, though that\u2019s probably a good move given how many characters that would be.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">If <\/span>you remember the Lila Cheney story, you probably know where this is heading. There\u2019s a bit of light comedy. Loo\u2019s art is really good at that kind of thing &#8211; one thing this story does really well is make these characters look like old friends hanging out. But it\u2019s got the same basic problem as the Lila story &#8211; rather than just commit to making \u201cthey hang out and that\u2019s entertaining\u201d into a plot, it randomly throws in a bunch of anti-mutant bigots in the second half so that the heroes can beat them up. That\u2019s all a bit generic, and it doesn\u2019t resolve anything that was set up in the first part of the story. \u00a0Once again, it feels like Loo didn\u2019t actually have an ending for the gentle character comedy he had set up, and just reached for the stock X-Men ending of the Krakoan era.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I get it, it\u2019s satisfying when the bad guys get beaten up. But it\u2019d be even more satisfying if it had something to do with the first half of the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #41 \u201cBirthday Side Quest\u201d Writer &amp; artist: Jason Loo Letterer: Joe Sabino Editor: Lauren Amaro It feels like only yesterday that I reviewed Jason Loo\u2019s last single-issue\u00a0Unlimited\u00a0story, the one where Lila Cheney went speed dating. Actually, that was issue #28, and it came out in March\u2026but it took me a while [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","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=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8028,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions\/8028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}