More TV
(I realize this won't help me stop my TV obsession but it's only a tiny bit about TV anyway.)
Heroes has been awesome lately. Especially last week. But more importantly, did anyone watch last night and see the Spiderman 3 commercial? It was very "blah blah I don't care about MJ blah blah diamond ring whatevs blah blah I care a tiny bit about ( Read more... )
Heroes has been awesome lately. Especially last week. But more importantly, did anyone watch last night and see the Spiderman 3 commercial? It was very "blah blah I don't care about MJ blah blah diamond ring whatevs blah blah I care a tiny bit about ( Read more... )
X-Men (sole reason for reading = Joss Whedon wrote them) and they mention
some backstory like the Legacy virus and Emma Frost and Sentinels (which I
think I remember from the cartoon back in the day). Do I have any hope at
all at catching up on those things? I thought I might try Wikipedia, but is
it worth it? Also I have only read Vol 1 so shhhhh.
I've given up on most comics, but I'm still reading Astonishing, largely because I think Whedon gets the characters much better than most writers ever have. The Legacy virus storyline was weeeeak, starting out only as an iffy AIDS analogue and later just serving to cull the supporting characters (most notably and inexplicably Moira MacTaggart, but also, as you've figured out, Colossus). The Sentinels and Emma Frost go waaaay the hell back, but both have a newfound relevance in Grant Morrison's run, which was both excellent superheroics and just a bit of mind-trippiness, and upon which Whedon's run strongly revolves. It was Morrison who introduced Cassandra Nova, who pretty much set up the third storyline in Astonishing ("Hellfire") -- and I believe Morrison's run is collected in trade paperbacks, but I'm not sure.
Going back further than Morrison there's a lot more of both the Sentinels and Emma Frost -- the former are formidable and often downright frightening (particularly in Days of Future Past, in which they kill off all of the X-Men) and the latter is pure evil until, oh, ten years ago or so, at which point she seems to get dragged unwillingly to a point of moral ambivalence that Morrison pushes her across, finally. Her relationship with Scott (and, by extension, Jean) in the Morrison run is deeply interesting, though -- not as humorous as Whedon, but every bit as intriguing.
The Wikipedia entries of the X-Men storylines are thorough, but Morrison does some pretty amazing things in the end of his run, and you probably don't want to be spoiled of them. And he has Phil Jimenez on art, and that's a phenomenal storytelling pair right there.
Just be warned that Whedon/Morrison are the exceptions and not the rule in the X-Men storylines. Sadly, a majority of those books (and there are many of them) are just not worth your time in seeking them out or reading.
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