{"id":9806,"date":"2024-02-02T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9806"},"modified":"2024-02-02T21:15:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T21:15:27","slug":"the-x-axis-29-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9806","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – 29 January 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #124.<\/strong> By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Phillip Sevy, Yen Nitro & Travis Lanham. This arc feels less like a story and more like a scramble to catch up on what a bunch of barely related characters were doing during Fall of X. Thunderbird! X-Corp! Shatterstar! Somnus! Cerebra! The notional main story here is that the Externals are rounding up mutants for Selene, which at least picks up on her trying to resurrect them in Immortal X-Men<\/em>. But it feels like it’s being squeezed aside by all the unrelated stuff around it, and while Selene does<\/em> have some actual star power as a villain, she’s still basically just doing what she normally does. And next issue is… something to do with Captain Britain? There’s way too much going on here, and none of it is cutting through.<\/p>\n

WOLVERINE #42.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> Oh dear. A storyline co-written by Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy sounded like a horrible style clash when it was announced. It avoids that trap, but largely because LaValle’s contribution is undetectable. Certainly, nothing that made his Sabretooth<\/em> minis worth reading is to be found here. This is just a tiresome exercise in gore porn. Some of it is downright stupid, in a way that simply doesn’t work alongside the general horror tone that the book seems<\/em> to be aiming for. But even the bits that strike a better balance are mainly just reminding me of why conventional Sabretooth stories were so boring. This is part 2 of 10 and another eight issues of this is going to be an absolute chore.<\/p>\n

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DEAD X-MEN #1.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> This, on the other hand, is a pleasant surprise, in as much as the title turns out to be a red herring. It’s simply the X-Men who died at the Hellfire Gala, having been resurrected by the Five in the White Hot Room, just as Immortal X-Men<\/em> showed us they could do. In other words… it’s the rightful X-Men getting their chance after all. That’s nice! And it ties rather more closely to Rise of the Powers of X<\/em> than I was expecting. I was expecting something much more gimmicky than this. Now… all that said, I’m not entirely sure it’s really about<\/em> anything in particular, so much as a bounce through alternate timelines that complements the plot mechanics of another book. But it does that quite enjoyably, so I’m happy to give it some time to see where it’s going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #124. By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Phillip Sevy, Yen Nitro & Travis Lanham. This arc feels less like a story and more like a scramble to catch up on what a bunch of barely related characters were doing during Fall of X. Thunderbird! X-Corp! Shatterstar! Somnus! Cerebra! The notional main story […]<\/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-9806","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\/9806","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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}