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OOC - Adjectiveless X-Men

Jan 23, 2006 23:56

Well, it's official. According to Joe Q of Marvel, the new "Adjectiveless" X-Men lineup will be Cable, Mystique, Rogue, Cannonball, Sabretooth, and Iceman. You'd think I'd be happy about my little Blue B-List Baby getting into a regular title ( Read more... )

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spiral2darkness January 24 2006, 07:23:28 UTC

*groan!* With all the other crap they've done, why am I not surprised!

It's times like these that I remember why I no longer collect or buy any X-Men titles ~_~.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 10:49:50 UTC

Aww... I bitch, but I still remain a tiny bit optimistic that they'll surprise me. Comic books are my soap operas. Convoluted plot twists and ridiculous relationships are par for the course. I just hope that this new guy can tell a good story while they're at it.

(... and that Raven doesn't get her ass kicked by kindergartners again in the near future. :D )

ghostofmuir January 24 2006, 15:41:08 UTC

That wasn't really Raven, anyway. That was some weird alternate-universe Raven, in a world where Power Pack are still that young. They have, elsewhere, actually been shown to grow up.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 18:33:45 UTC

Wait - some Marvel kids who aren't stuck in a permanant timewarp? Did they rescue poor Franklin Richards while they were at it? :)

Honestly, what little I've seen of the whole thing was pretty cute. I also respect the idea that Marvel's trying to make some part of their lineup appeal to younger readers. After all, the only reason I'm a Marvel Girl instead of DC's little girl-gone-wild is Marvel's what my stepfather brought home when I was growing up, so that's the line I got into reading. I've heard great things about many DC titles for years, but I don't want to make the financial investment in a whole new line of comics.

ghostofmuir January 24 2006, 18:45:37 UTC

Yes, it was cute, although it seems to be trying to fit them into the Pevensie paradigm.
But I liked seeing them grownup (Julie is a very pretty 18-year-old). So to avoid having to say that it Didn't Happen (and if I declare that enough about some things, Marvel eventually agrees with me), I'm declaring it AU.

I got X-men reprints as a little girl. DC's nice enough, but no one there was my first crush.

ms_tique January 24 2006, 18:59:02 UTC

I understand. Nightcrawler was my first comic crush, and that was before they sexied him up for Excalibur. My initial interest in Mystique stemmed entirely from an interest in him.

ghostofmuir January 24 2006, 19:07:52 UTC

How could anyone not love him? He is charm incarnate in blue fuzziness!

ms_tique January 24 2006, 23:22:33 UTC

That's why I was disappointed with his recent limited series. I got the feeling the writer really wanted to do a book about Magik, but got stuck with Nightcrawler instead.

jumpyspringy January 26 2006, 09:05:54 UTC

Can I butt in here to mention the suck phoned-in art in the last issue? It looked like a 12 year old drew it.

Did anyone else think that everyone in the party scene looked like they'd been taking that Joker drug from the first Batman movie?

ms_tique January 26 2006, 10:52:48 UTC

The art was inconsistant across the board. Sometimes Nightcrawler looked completely androgenous, other times they took the "elf" metaphor too far, and then for giggles, they occasionally bulk out his chest for a manlyman scene. Feh. The less said about the way Wolverine was drawn the better.

*snicker*

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