{"id":9082,"date":"2023-05-20T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2023-05-20T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:39:37","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-15-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9082","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 15 May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nice quiet week, for once.<\/p>\n

X-MEN vol 6 #22.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> This is evidently meant to be the Orchis spotlight issue – only half of the X-Men appear, and it’s mostly focussing on the plans of Orchis. Thing is, I’m not sure that Duggan’s take on Orchis really has enough depth to it to sustain this. They feel like they’re all basically the same character doing the same thing. That wasn’t quite the case under Hickman, when a big part of Orchis’s role was to be a mirror of Krakoa. We seem to have abandoned that angle, and I’m not really convinced that anything much has come in to replace it. As a\u00a0plot<\/em> angle, “the Krakoan drug supply is contaminated, ruining the mutants’ reputation and their economic leverage” is fine – but the Orchis characters aren’t very interesting at this point.<\/p>\n

X-FORCE vol 6 #40.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> It still feels like a weird choice to spend years building up Beast’s scheming in\u00a0X-Force<\/em> and then pay it off in\u00a0Wolverine<\/em>. This issue sees Sage’s new team dragged off to the future by Kid Omega to deal with assorted Beast variants planted throughout the timeline by… well, apparently by another future variant Beast. I suppose this is kind of sort of their showdown with Beast, but it feels far too much like busy work designed to occupy the characters instead of having their storyline actually pay off in their own series. It feels terribly placeholder to me.<\/p>\n

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #79.<\/strong> By Steve Orlando, Emilio Laiso & Rachelle Rosenberg. So that leaves this as the best X-book of the week, as Eye Boy tries to talk some sense into Nature Girl, and get precisely nowhere with it. We’re clearly going here with the idea that X-Men Green’s eco-terrorism is such an extreme overreaction that it has to be attributed to Curse’s influence – which is the back door that makes Lin Li redeemable – but leaving open the possibility that maybe she has just snapped. She’s certainly an outright villain at this point, but bringing in Eye Boy as a likeable voice of reason to put that point beyond doubt is an effective choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nice quiet week, for once. X-MEN vol 6 #22. (Annotations here.) This is evidently meant to be the Orchis spotlight issue – only half of the X-Men appear, and it’s mostly focussing on the plans of Orchis. Thing is, I’m not sure that Duggan’s take on Orchis really has enough depth to it to […]<\/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-9082","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\/9082","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=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}