{"id":9988,"date":"2024-04-05T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:53:29","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-1-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9988","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 1 April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #133.\u00a0<\/strong>By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Nick Roche, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, Travis Lanham. Look, there\u2019s only so much I can say each week about an endless, rambling storyline with no apparent point beyond being a farewell tour. I can sort of see how that might work in theory, but what we\u2019re actually getting feels very unfocussed. It feels almost as if it\u2019s intended to come across as a victory lap. And while there\u2019s still good stuff out there, the Krakoan era as a whole isn\u2019t going out in a way that can pull off a victory lap.<\/p>\n

X-MEN #33.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> Speaking of which. Not that this is an especially bad issue in its own right. It\u2019s obviously making an effort to tie up loose ends, provide a bit of resolution, and generally clear away some of the dead wood so that\u00a0Fall<\/em> and\u00a0Rise<\/em> can take a clear run at the AI opposition. It does all that quite efficiently. Shinobi Shaw even shows up for a couple of pages, and he\u2019s a character I actually\u00a0am<\/em> interesting in checking in on during Fall of X. It doesn\u2019t have the mad-scramble feel of some other contributions to this crossover (though it seems to have been written in complete ignorance of Callisto\u2019s role in Dark X-Men<\/em>). At the same time, it doesn\u2019t feel epic either, and the character moments rarely land. It\u2019s mainly just the plot moving from A to B in quite a simplistic way. This isn\u2019t how you want Krakoa to go out.<\/p>\n

AVENGERS #12.\u00a0<\/strong>By Jed MacKay, Francesco Mortarino, Federico Blee & Cory Petit. This is the first half of a Fall of the House of X<\/em> tie-in. It\u2019s also written by Jed MacKay, who\u2019s one of the incoming writers for Whatever The Hell Is Coming Next. Don\u2019t expect any particular pointers about that, though. MacKay\u2019s\u00a0Avengers<\/em> is in the model of the sort of Justice League<\/em> story where the big names go up against grand sweeping ideas. It does that well, but it\u2019s not the way he approaches other books and I\u2019d be surprised if it was the way he approached X-Men. This issue plugs Orchis into the villain of the week role (which has the downside that Orchis is a much weaker concept than most of the ones in this book have been, at least when it\u2019s used as a straight anti-mutant organisation). Part of the story is intended to rationalise why the Avengers have been ignoring Orchis until now – they\u2019ve been waiting for Iron Man\u2019s cue that it\u2019s time to move, basically, and now they get to go around smashing up a lot of Orchis stuff so that the X-Men don\u2019t have to worry about it. The other part of the story, which is the actual hook, involves the 3-D Man resurfacing as an ally of Orchis, who\u2019s been off panel until now because he\u2019s supposed to be tasked with keeping the Avengers occupied, and they haven\u2019t actually done anything until now. It\u2019s not the best issue of this\u00a0Avengers<\/em> run, but in terms of the bad guys getting smashed up in a brightly optimistic way, Mortarino\u2019s art is a better fit than what we\u2019re getting in\u00a0X-Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #133.\u00a0By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Nick Roche, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, Travis Lanham. Look, there\u2019s only so much I can say each week about an endless, rambling storyline with no apparent point beyond being a farewell tour. I can sort of see how that might work in theory, but what we\u2019re actually getting […]<\/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-9988","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\/9988","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=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9991,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}