It did not. Even if I weren't a Firefly fan, the "Katya, am I finally dead?" scene was a masterstroke, in my opinion. Still, he's most definitely been driving it home ever since Scott woke up with his eyes open. I've constructed entire happy AU X-Verse's around Scott's not getting hit in the head when he was 9, and Whedon totally sees the same point.
One thing that's always frustrated me about both Scott and Rogue is that Professor X was supposed to be helping both of them gain control of their powers, and he's done pretty much nothing in that direction, in Scott's case, for almost 45 years.
Well,when you get right down to it, Kitty was right. Professor Xavier is a jerk. And Marvel does not pay attention to what it has already written, of course, a fact that has gotten so much worse in recent years.
I have to respectfully beg to differ - Scott's been interesting before, with other writers. Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix? He was AWESOME.
Whedon didn't make Scott compellingly interesting until #23 of AXM. Up until that point, he was ridicously cowed by Emma Frost's prancing about, being a soulless bitch. Because she could, and Whedon made the Grant Morrison error of thinking that if he finds Emma Frost interesting, the rest of us will, too.
Fair point, I might have been guilty of a touch of hyperbole there. Certainly Lobdell was able to make Scott interesting, but he had to take him out of the X-Men to do it. I'd say that generally, througout X-history, Scott's only been interesting when he hasn't been acting as leader of the X-Men. To be honest, I actually found him interesting when he was wrestling with whether or not to stay with his wife and child or go to the woman he loved. I know it's easy to judge him for making the "wrong" choice there, and I don't think that the ramifications of the decision were ever properly explored (instead they just absolved him by having Maddie turn into an evil clone).
Emma Frost has almost never been interesting, apart from the first few Lobdell/Bachalo issues of Generation X.
Speaking of which, when exactly did Bachalo come down with a case of Fatal Lousiness? He brought the pretty for those first few Gen X issues, and now he is so atrociously horrible! Of course, that's just a blind girl's opinion, but my husband backs me on Current Horror.
I think that Bachalo was on a stylistic journey. When he did the early issues of Generation X he hadn't reached the place, stylistically, that he wanted to be yet. You can see his art develop over the Gen X run, and more so as he moved onto Uncanny. I haven't been picking up his recent stuff on X-Men so can't really comment.
The problem for you and I, however, is that we love where he was at when he did those first four issues of Generation X and wish he'd stopped there on his artistic journey. Obviously, that wasn't where he wanted to be. Bachalo's art has always suffered from overly dark computer colouring as well. I think his more recent work often looks pretty good in black and white, but once coloured it turns to mud.
Yeah, having dug up some of the household's haphazard post-AoA-gen-X collection, I see what you mean by transition. He's gone further now than he did on Uncanny previously.
But the guy who did the latest issue of X-Men? He brings the prettty. He brings it so much. It was the first issue of X-Men I've allowed my husband to buy in a while (because there was Exodus) and I was so pleasantly surprised when he brought it home. Sinister looks like a gothgirl, but still, preeetty.
He's certainly done what no other X-writer before him could - made Scott interesting.
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Whedon didn't make Scott compellingly interesting until #23 of AXM. Up until that point, he was ridicously cowed by Emma Frost's prancing about, being a soulless bitch. Because she could, and Whedon made the Grant Morrison error of thinking that if he finds Emma Frost interesting, the rest of us will, too.
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Emma Frost has almost never been interesting, apart from the first few Lobdell/Bachalo issues of Generation X.
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The problem for you and I, however, is that we love where he was at when he did those first four issues of Generation X and wish he'd stopped there on his artistic journey. Obviously, that wasn't where he wanted to be. Bachalo's art has always suffered from overly dark computer colouring as well. I think his more recent work often looks pretty good in black and white, but once coloured it turns to mud.
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He's gone further now than he did on Uncanny previously.
But the guy who did the latest issue of X-Men? He brings the prettty. He brings it so much. It was the first issue of X-Men I've allowed my husband to buy in a while (because there was Exodus) and I was so pleasantly surprised when he brought it home. Sinister looks like a gothgirl, but still, preeetty.
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