yeah, ive watched the first season and am continually surprised at how engrossed it are. it doesn't fuck canon as much as you might expect, which is so refreshing...
oh really? i used to really like her but when they started trying to write her into replacing Jean, which i didn't approve of generally & now i think it's so random that they just trust her 100%. like whatthefuck? i miss the good old days of early Generation X (and earlier obviously) when even working with her, nobody quite totally trusted her.
Did you read the "Torn" arc of Astonishing X-Men? I throughout Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men there was a hell of a lot of "We can't trust that bitch" that continued into Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing. I like her far more than Jean- Jean was either a simpering damsel type or a "ohmygod I'm gonna kill everything" Goddess, with no real discernible personality. Emma feels more real; the "Torn" arc really goes into her sense of guilt over her past failures. And there's still a lot of mistrust of Emma, which she has to constantly fight. She's sassy, intelligent, and flawed while Jean was kind of one-dimensional to me.
interesting. i haven't read "torn" or, admittedly, any much Astonishing though i guess i should. i just didnt want to start a new title (which is silly i guess since i am totally eager to start new mutants vol.) & yeah i guess they did distrust her at first. it's just surreal that all that's over i guess especially cause i liked her being a little bit evil. i donno, i guess i was just attached to jean from youth :(. i miss her truth be told...
Trust me, Astonishing X-Men is the best X-Book going, and though it always has obscene delays it's really the only current X-Men I read. The plots are more hardline science fiction (like the Grant Morrison run) and it doesn't feel much like a Marvel book, which is a good thing; Joss Whedon wrote the first 24 issues and Warren Ellis is writing it now. It's among the most thematically and artistically sophisticated superhero comics I've read in a long time.
oh wow, good to know. i dont have a lot of comics people i talk to so i actually had no idea i was missing anything there. ill def pick up tihs month's. who are the current featured characters? & what else do you read?
Core group during Whedon's run is Emma Frost, Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, and Colossus, who Whedon resurrected during his run at Marvel's request. Core group during Ellis' current run is Emma Frost, Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Storm, and Armor (Hisako Ichiki, a student at the school created by Whedon and made an X-Man in his last story arc-- also a great character with really cool powers).
I haven't been reading much, but I'm trying to get back into Runaways, Mighty Avengers, and X-Factor on the Marvel end and Green Lantern and the core Batbooks on the DC end. I know there's a new Young Avengers series-- I really liked that book when it first came out.
I've basically just been reading Uncanny &, oddly enough, Marvel's Wizard of Oz series because I love all things Oz, but they're restarting New Mutants so I'll definitely start in with that. I've also been following War of the Kings because I love the Inhumans.
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I haven't been reading much, but I'm trying to get back into Runaways, Mighty Avengers, and X-Factor on the Marvel end and Green Lantern and the core Batbooks on the DC end. I know there's a new Young Avengers series-- I really liked that book when it first came out.
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