New comic day!
Feb. 13th, 2004 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelophileBought quite a lot today. About 20 X-force back issues, (from the later part of the run, around the 'road trip' time.) A few X-factor back issues (the Wildchild/Sabes/Mystique era), most of the issues of The Brotherhood (mutant spinoff thing) all from the 50 pence box and my regular order. This week that was Uncanny X-men, Transformers ongoing, X-treme X-men (2 issues), X-men Unlimited, 1602, Emma Frost, New Mutants, Ultimate X-men, Secret War.
Opinions of what I've read so far cut to avoid spoilers.
First off read Uncanny. Wanted to see if it was as bad as everyone was saying. Actually, this one has it all. Awful colouring, terrible inking that drowns out Larocca's pencils, offensive use of Shakespeare's wonderful words slipped into a dreadful dreadful script. Out of the blue character changes, terrible dialogue, a fat woman fainting, a balcony scene just to complete the mallet subtlety ripping off of Romeo and Juliet, the convenient plot twists to suddenly establish that the Guthrie's rivals are multimillionaires with access to all sorts of scientists to help them repair some super human suits conveniently found on their land, a terrible terribly hypocritical letters page, printed in type big enough to cover the fact they nly got three letters complimenting previous issues, plot holes big enough to fly the Blackbird through (just picking one at random, Juliet or whatever her name is suddenly remembering Josh's second name this issue, whereas in the previous one she never knew he was a Guthrie). There's no failing that this book hasn't picked up on except maybe the cover, which was actually quite nice.
I've endured. i could stand poor plots in the past. I gritted my teeth through God loves Man Kills 2 in the hope something better would come along and wasn't disappointed. I read the fairly poor Return to Weapon X and Grant Morrison has rewarded my loyalty with far better since. I carried on reading New mutants, despite a poor first arc and the next issue kept me going. But I'm sorry, after the Draco I thought things could only get better.
I was wrong.
I'm now dropping Uncanny X-men. Never thought I'd do that, considering what a completist I am and how Uncanny should be Marvel's flagship title. But I just can't stand it any more. I won't read another issue til May when the reload happens and hopefully Chuck Austen is tossed into the wilderness. If he miraculously ends up on another book I won't read that either.
There's only so much I can bear. I gave him a chance because I thought Lorocca's art was good enough to make me want to keep buying, but with even that suffering horribly at the hands of Udon I want nothing more to do with this book.
Thank Primus for Transformers - Issue one of the ongoing series is a joy to a terrible fanboy like me. -My- character, the one I played for so many years on mushes all over, who actually got pretty well known within the community as the definitive version, actually got more air time this issue. And, in what's becoming pretty much a running joke, got killed. He's turning into the Kenny of the Transformers world. In G1 he was eaten by demons, the G1 limited series he was eaten by a sharkticon and now he had his head pulled off by some freaky glowing Transformer. So freakin' cool. I consider it a tribute ;) The plot's pretty good too, lots of subplots, plenty of action, nice art and plenty of apparances of fan favourites. After the car wreck that was Uncanny suddenly my mood was turned around by this comic. Thanks for that Dreamwave, you've restored my faith. :)
Opinions of what I've read so far cut to avoid spoilers.
First off read Uncanny. Wanted to see if it was as bad as everyone was saying. Actually, this one has it all. Awful colouring, terrible inking that drowns out Larocca's pencils, offensive use of Shakespeare's wonderful words slipped into a dreadful dreadful script. Out of the blue character changes, terrible dialogue, a fat woman fainting, a balcony scene just to complete the mallet subtlety ripping off of Romeo and Juliet, the convenient plot twists to suddenly establish that the Guthrie's rivals are multimillionaires with access to all sorts of scientists to help them repair some super human suits conveniently found on their land, a terrible terribly hypocritical letters page, printed in type big enough to cover the fact they nly got three letters complimenting previous issues, plot holes big enough to fly the Blackbird through (just picking one at random, Juliet or whatever her name is suddenly remembering Josh's second name this issue, whereas in the previous one she never knew he was a Guthrie). There's no failing that this book hasn't picked up on except maybe the cover, which was actually quite nice.
I've endured. i could stand poor plots in the past. I gritted my teeth through God loves Man Kills 2 in the hope something better would come along and wasn't disappointed. I read the fairly poor Return to Weapon X and Grant Morrison has rewarded my loyalty with far better since. I carried on reading New mutants, despite a poor first arc and the next issue kept me going. But I'm sorry, after the Draco I thought things could only get better.
I was wrong.
I'm now dropping Uncanny X-men. Never thought I'd do that, considering what a completist I am and how Uncanny should be Marvel's flagship title. But I just can't stand it any more. I won't read another issue til May when the reload happens and hopefully Chuck Austen is tossed into the wilderness. If he miraculously ends up on another book I won't read that either.
There's only so much I can bear. I gave him a chance because I thought Lorocca's art was good enough to make me want to keep buying, but with even that suffering horribly at the hands of Udon I want nothing more to do with this book.
Thank Primus for Transformers - Issue one of the ongoing series is a joy to a terrible fanboy like me. -My- character, the one I played for so many years on mushes all over, who actually got pretty well known within the community as the definitive version, actually got more air time this issue. And, in what's becoming pretty much a running joke, got killed. He's turning into the Kenny of the Transformers world. In G1 he was eaten by demons, the G1 limited series he was eaten by a sharkticon and now he had his head pulled off by some freaky glowing Transformer. So freakin' cool. I consider it a tribute ;) The plot's pretty good too, lots of subplots, plenty of action, nice art and plenty of apparances of fan favourites. After the car wreck that was Uncanny suddenly my mood was turned around by this comic. Thanks for that Dreamwave, you've restored my faith. :)
