{"id":9491,"date":"2023-10-07T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2023-10-07T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T16:20:47","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-2-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9491","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 2 October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #107.<\/strong> By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Lynne Yoshii, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo & Travis Lanham. This is the sort of thing you get in middle chapters of Infinity Comics. Sunfire goes to a place, gets into a bit of trouble, and then someone we recognise shows up at the end. Nothing wrong with that – it’s getting the story from A to B, and it’s re-establishing the idea that Otherworld is a place where random monsters can show up for no good reason. With fairly short chapters on a weekly schedule, you’re going to get issues like this, but there’s not much I can say about them individually. It’s fine.<\/p>\n

X-MEN #27.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> Hideous cover aside – and I genuinely do loathe it – this is a definite step up from the last couple of issues, because it isn’t so relentlessly bleak. Instead, it’s an issue of the X-Men going to have a nice chat with the Fantastic Four on a farm, drawn by Phil Noto. And Orchis are barely in it. Of course, this still amounts to saying that this is one of the better issues of the storyline because it’s a detour from the storyline, and in plot terms it’s maybe a bit thin, but it still feels like a welcome tone correction from the last couple of issues. Part of that is probably because it’s Phil Noto on art, which is going to lighten most things up, but it’s not the art that made the last two issues so oppressive. Hopefully we’re sticking with something closer to this – I wouldn’t say it really engages me, but at least it doesn’t feel like a chore.<\/p>\n

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IMMORTAL X-MEN #16.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> The desert exile side of “Fall of X”, on the other hand, works a lot better for me. Not that I’m particularly up on my Biblical references, I’ll grant you, but it feels like a good use of Exodus and Hope. We’re not just doing a symbolic re-enactment of the Book of Exodus, there’s also a thread about\u00a0why<\/em> that’s the experience that everyone’s being put through. And by everyone, I mean a massive number of background characters and a handful of names, which seems terribly suspicious in itself, but helps to keep this all focussed. I’m not quite sure what I make of the other half of the plot, with Xavier making deals with Sebastian Shaw to keep him off Krakoa, but I’m at least intrigued to see where that’s all going.<\/p>\n

X-FORCE #45.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> In which Chronicler finally manages to get one of his puppets into a position to get rid of Mikhail. It’s been obvious for ages that this was going to happen at some point, and it was obvious last month that it was coming very soon, but the book still makes it work. After all, sometimes the most satisfying thing to do is to make it abundantly obvious that something is coming, and then do it. And it is<\/em> well paced, because after long months of Chronicler insisting to Mikhail (perhaps as misdirection?) that he can only steer things very, very gently, the moment he gets his opening, he takes his shot out of the blue. The Chronicler \/ Colossus arc is one of the strongest elements of\u00a0X-Force<\/em>, and this issue really pulls off the turning point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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