X-Men Red<\/em>, and leaves me wondering what this scene is doing here. I do like Joshua Cassara’s Otherworld, though, which is pleasingly trippy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Then we’ve got Firestar helping Juggernaut to escape – all pretty good, and the X-Men need a few hope spots where they get clear wins along the way. The idea of Dr Stasis trying to give himself Juggernaut’s powers is odd; as people have pointed out in the comments, Stasis is not the Sinister clone who’s supposed to be interested in magic, so why is he trying something like this? I’ll give Duggan the benefit of the doubt on that one, though, since I can just about see it as something to do with him trying to build bridges with the world view of Mother Righteous. We’ll see.<\/p>\n
We’ve also got more of Cyclops in Orchis prison, and god, who thought it was a good idea to make us look at repeated panels of Scott with his eyes sewn shut for months on end? It’s extremely unpleasant and it’s just trying far, far too hard. It’s the sort of thing Mark Millar would have done. I suppose some people might think that’s a compliment.<\/p>\n
And then… out of nowhere we’ve got a new plot thread about a group of mutants being kept by Dr Doom? That’s not a bad idea in itself – okay, Doom would want to shield his mutants from Professor X, and he probably doesn’t have any gates in Latveria anyway. It just seems odd to be introducing new plot threads at this point. Maybe it’s just because I’m reading the book in the context of “Fall of X”, most of which feels like it’s wrapping up – while this feels like a bit of a detour to fill out something longer.<\/p>\n
MAGNETO #4. <\/strong>By J M DeMatteis, Todd Nauck, Rachelle Rosenberg & Travis Lanham. Final issue, and I’m not sure this really reached its potential. The idea is perfectly sound: Shortly after switching sides and becoming the New Mutants’ mentor, Magneto is confronted with his past, in the form of a girl that he radicalised through his own actions as a Silver Age mutant. She tries to make him a villain again, and he’s tempted (and mind controlled, to be fair), but ultimately resists. That’s fine, but what makes it interesting is the idea of using it as a vehicle to try and reconcile the wildly different interpretations of Magneto down the years, from Silver Age villain to more-or-less paternal mentor. And I don’t think it sticks the landing there. It doesn’t help that DeMatteis has a very unusual interpretation of Silver Age Magneto – basically, that he thinks he was posing as a villain in order to give the X-Men someone to fight – which is… um, well, a very questionable interpretation of early stories where he’s conquering small countries and threatening to nuke them. Perhaps the big problem with this story is that DeMatteis tries to take that idea as a given, when it’s such an idiosyncratic reading of the character that it needs more work to sell in the first place. Some really good work from Todd Nauck on this series, though – he does a lovely New Mutants, and the half-baked cyborg henchwomen are good designs. And he can draw a really nice knitted jumper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the quietest week we’ve had in a long time. X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #111. By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Lynne Yoshii, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo & Travis Lanham. This is the final part of “The Redroot Saga”, which feeds back into the opening scene of this week’s\u00a0X-Men. Sunfire rescues Redroot and escapes while badly injured […]<\/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-9554","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\/9554","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=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9555,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions\/9555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}