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[schmevil]

Dear Joss Whedon,

Please stop doing this. (Spoilers for Buffy #14) Your blind spot regarding certain issues, you know them, we've had this talk, is really, REALLY SHOWING. Good god, man.

Also? Never, ever write X-Men again. Stay the hell away from the mutants from Westchester, because Astonishing was so painfully average I can't bring myself to

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[likeadeuce]

The Buffy arc's not over. I wouldn't be surprised if [spoiler] is setting up something [spoiler] in the next issue.

Just saying. :)

And if Whedon's X-men run is 'painfully average,' what's your gold standard? Not baiting, just curious.

[schmevil]

I wouldn't be surprised if [spoiler] is setting up something [spoiler] in the next issue.

That would actually be more of a surprise at this point, so I think you're probably right. ;)

I don't really have a gold standard X writer. They've all had their ups and downs. Hell, I'm sure even Austen did some good work. XD

I tend to like a little bit of everything. O5, 80's, the pouch era - it's all good. I even liked a good chunk of 90's X-Force (post-Liefeld). Claremont's stories are delicious crack, despite his purpler than purple prose. Ellis' work on Excalibur was really quite solid. With X-Men I basically want dynamic relationships, cracky stories, and dubious science fiction.

The problem with Joss' run imo, is that it's kind of blandly familiar. I feel like I've read it all before, but better. Kitty/Piotr was a sticking point for me, in that Joss threw out years of actually, really good development for both characters, in order to make that relationship work. And what he produced was so much like what others had done before. I

[schmevil]

Oh, and Danger. So very unnecessary, considering other, similar revelations of Xavier's naughty past. That story rubbed me the wrong way, and coming at the beginning of his run as it did, my hatred for Danger probably coloured what came after.

Preach it, sister! <3 <3

[kali921]

Preach it, sister! Oh, JOSS, Joss, JOSS. What the hell happened here? I'm so sick of his hate on for love. So. Sick. Of. It.

His writing on AXM has been flat, too. He can't write Hank McCoy - in fact, he commits the cardinal sin of underusing Hank, but I'd rather have Joss underuse him than write him poorly, and Joss can't write Hank to save his life. We had twenty issues of build up on the AXM run so...that...Joss could show us Scott wrecking some guy's face? Granted, it was a BRILLIANT face wrecking, but that kind of thing should have been happening every other issue, you know?

I agree with you about Morrison's New X-Men, but you probably already knew that. Except for Scott and Emma, who make me ill because I think Emma Frost sets back women in comics every time she's on panel and written as a catty, icy bitch.

Ms. Marvel: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Carol was an A-list hero for years. I still think of her as one, along with a lot of other people

Re: Preach it, sister! <3 <3

[schmevil]

he commits the cardinal sin of underusing Hank, but I'd rather have Joss underuse him than write him poorly, and Joss can't write Hank to save his life.

I barely remember AXM Hank. I had to think about it, and I just read the issues last week. Yikes. Joss doesn't seem to have had a strong grasp on Hank, or his purpose in the book, but that's a common problem - what to do with the characters who don't just stab the hell out of things?

Although, I think he has problems with Logan, too. But these days, who doesn't? I want pre-feral Logan back.

Re Emma/Scott. I still haven't decided about that one. I loved 90's Emma circa Phalanx/early Gen X, and I think that Emma had loads of leadership potential. (One thing I loved about that era is how all the younger X girls called Emma on her bull). Neither Morrison's nor Joss' Emma is at all inspiring, and I boggle at how all the male X people seem to fall in line with no trouble. Emma/Scott could work. Maybe. It just hasn't yet. I found Morrison's Emma so hateful that while the story kinda

[elspethdixon]

There's a new issue of Ms. Marvel out today? Curse final papers making me miss the comicbook store; I'll have to make sure to go get it tomorrow.

[elspethdixon]

Oh, and Xander's resemblance to a very young Fury in that icon is weirdly amusing for some reason.

[schmevil]

He actually makes a crack about that in the comic. :)

And no, it's last months issue. For some reason I get She-Hulk a week ahead, Iron Man two weeks late, and Ms. Marvel a month late. It's really odd.