{"id":8281,"date":"2022-09-20T20:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2022-09-20T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:28:44","slug":"x-men-moon-girl-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8281","title":{"rendered":"X-Men & Moon Girl #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN & MOON GIRL #1<\/strong>
\nWriter: Mohale Mashigo<\/strong>
\nPencillers: David Cutler & Marika Cresta<\/strong>
\nInkers: Jos\u00e9 Marzan Jr & Marika Cresta<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Rachelle Rosenberg<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nEditor: Lauren Bisom<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the “technically an X-book but only barely” file comes this one-shot which, as so often, isn’t a one-shot. It’s the final issue of a three-part miniseries, the other parts being\u00a0Miles Morales & Moon Girl<\/em> #1 and\u00a0Avengers & Moon Girl<\/em> #1. Once again, Amazon has quite sensibly listed the whole thing as a miniseries called\u00a0Moon Girl Team-Up<\/em>, but officially, that’s not the name. Officially, this is three one-shots and they’re all #1.<\/p>\n

So that’s irritating me before I’ve even started reading it.<\/p>\n

Anyway. The High Evolutionary has stolen Devil Dinosaur and plans to clone it. He’s also obtained a sample of Wolverine’s blood so that he can use its healing factor to stabilise the clones. I don’t remember this ever being an issue for the High Evolutionary in his many years of vigorous cloning, but sure, let’s go with that. In this issue, Moon Girl, Havok and Wolverine head to Counter-Earth to fight the bad guy. Yes, just those two. And again, sure, okay. It’s Moon Girl’s book and you don’t want her being vastly outnumbered. Besides, using Havok avoids just retreading the usual schtick of “wide-eyed pre-teen hero teams with grumpy old Wolverine.”<\/p>\n

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The comedy angle is that since Counter-Earth is populated entirely with the High Evolutionary’s New Men, our heroes need to disguise themselves – which means big animal heads. I like that – it’s the right sort of silly. It’s not just random cutesiness, it’s the inherent silliness of the New Men squared. The art sells it pretty well, and I think it’s actually more effective for being underplayed. We don’t get the obvious bit of Wolverine refusing to wear his porcupine head, because within the logic of Counter-Earth it’s a perfectly sensible plan. Counter-Earth is not exactly consistently written, but for present purposes it’s a bucolic village of nice animal people. Well, outside the Evolutionary’s base it is, anyway.<\/p>\n

Still, this is basically a Moon Girl story with the X-Men acting as sounding boards. Naturally, she gets face to face with the High Evolutionary – who is a one-dimensional nut in this story – and the guest stars don’t have much to do with that. In theory the Evolutionary is a good choice of villain for this team because he resonates with (1) dinosaurs, (2) crazy genius and (3) mutants – in practice the main angle is the Evolutionary chiding her that she’s too busy trying to get respect as a hero to fulfil her potential as a scientist. Which is true, but it’s not much of a dilemma.<\/p>\n

Nice art, though, and a perfectly decent family-friendly team-up story if that’s what you’re after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN & MOON GIRL #1 Writer: Mohale Mashigo Pencillers: David Cutler & Marika Cresta Inkers: Jos\u00e9 Marzan Jr & Marika Cresta Colour artist: Rachelle Rosenberg Letterer: Travis Lanham Editor: Lauren Bisom From the “technically an X-book but only barely” file comes this one-shot which, as so often, isn’t a one-shot. It’s the final issue 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-8281","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\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}