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New X-Men #143

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Matthew Fluxington

16:42 / 02.07.03

This comic is out today.

Has the assault begun? I'm hoping that there is some action in this issue, it would be nice for the pace to pick up a little bit. Aside from the Riot and some bits of Imperial, there hasn't been much in the way of action in this title since E Is For Extinction.

I can't comment on this comic just yet because I won't be able to but it til tomorrow. But surely one of you can tell me what to expect before I make the pilgrimage to the comic book store.

The Natural Way

18:30 / 02.07.03

Hey, nobody puts baby in a corner!

Is it out? I haven't see any previews for it. Are you sure it's not just that yr expecting it to be out. I was too, but.....

19:23 / 02.07.03

It's listed on the solicits as being out for today. And I actually believe them, for once!!

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

20:55 / 02.07.03

Virtually "Action Packed", Fluxter, and that's all I'll say.

21:14 / 02.07.03

"Virtually" indeed...

a wonderful intro into the World.

"heh, so that's a rail gun"

Definate Tension from the word go...

...nice Helmets.

22:22 / 02.07.03

Bachalo's art was great last ish but I thought it really messy and hard to follow in certain spots this ish.

That said, lots to love:

Action!

A.I.M. attacks!!!

Wolverine unleashed!

Fantomex being even more mysterious! (Makes me wonder, could HE be a lie/ a fiction/ an illusion, and E.V.A. the real weapon 13? Maybe he's a tulpa projected from her mutant mind?)

Scot sliding further (from top dog to the runt that just wants to be left alone)!

My new favorite evil-mutant power: Death Perception!

And all that wrapped behind an awesome cover!

00:00 / 03.07.03

...nice Helmets.

~giggles hysterically~ i'm going to a search on eBay for AIM helmets.

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damn.

this issue kicks ass. it has AIM for fuck's sake, and gamma rays. and Fantomex/EVA is apparently some kind of mutant/nanomachine hybrid created in a really bizarre pocket dimension.

such cool shit.

Spyder Todd 2008

01:10 / 03.07.03

Dude, just the whole idea of a building where time is synthetic...

01:20 / 03.07.03

The whole world should read this issue*. Even that little legless bastard in Mozambique.

*Soccer moms from Omaha excluded.

01:55 / 03.07.03

Oh, and some silly petty part of me is giggling at having gotten the new NXM before Flux.

~tee-hee!~

02:02 / 03.07.03

I think the potential incoherency of Bachalo blends well with the manic insanity of Morrison's script for this issue - I found myself momentarily confused in a good way as I read, like Morrison comics of old.

Presumably the mutant with the chunky boot and the mechanical insects and the glowy head (from p1 & 3)is Weapon Ex-Vee. (And his insect buzzes Fantomex's shoe on another page...)

I wasn't clear on if the Weapon Plus folks had disintegrated the whole of the World interior or if that time freeze was just for the euthanised lovers from the opening splash page. Whatever happened, it let Weapon XV see the outside world so he went to investigate and made things explore by 'STARING AT THEM SO HARD THEY EXPLODE' - and all were happy in reader-land.

I take it AIM is a pre-existing Marvel evil-conglomerate? My lack of marvel continuity lust again fails me in my readings.

Love the cover. Wonder how long it takes Bachalo to render the legion of odd, nondescript, angular debris pieces that mystically appear during action sequences in his work.

02:33 / 03.07.03

Soccer moms from Omaha need New X-Men far more than any of us. Not to mention The Filth...

This issue was a confusing, chaotic mess, and thank goodness. AIM tries to take over The World, heheh.

Slim can't make his eyebeams work? Why's he still wearing his goggles then? Sure, he won't even take them off during kindy mind sex, but if he really couldn't make his eye-beams work...

Wolvie's real name is James Logan now, eh? Either Morrison decided to retcon the Origins series or Phantom-X is lying, as usual. Or something else, you never know with this series.

The big question, of course, is whether an AIM helmet would be worth more with bullet holes or without?

"It's okay. I'm Cyclops. I've been on TV"

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

03:32 / 03.07.03

"James Logan" is probably all that Wolverine remembered by the 60's/70's when the Weapon X stuff went down. Hell, by the end of Origins he had mostly forgotten the James part.

I did think it was interesting that James Howlett got name-dropped in the Ultimates but not here.

And look, Scott's so depressed that he's impotent.

Does anyone else see a serious Scott Rampage going on before the end of this arc?

The Natural Way

10:41 / 03.07.03

Aaaargh! You fucks!

It IS out? Fucks!

yawn - thing's buddy

11:44 / 03.07.03

yeah it's out.

man, this artist is shit.

SavageFistsOfFengshui

13:02 / 03.07.03

Someone must be a fan of Jimmy Logan the Scottish "entertainer", whose real surname was Short, coincidentally. I'm disappointed they didn't make Wolvie's real name Craig Logan.

13:28 / 03.07.03

Logan could have been his first name. it could have been Logan Berry.

17:38 / 03.07.03

Will there be a show-down of Stares in the near future?

FantomX is having a blast what with the tibits of info he's stringing everyone along with.

I figure Weapon XV was one of the lovers who burned for eternity. He seems to have mutated to the point where he was able to transend & step out of this "synthetic time"... shades of John a-dreams eh?

Also interesting resemblance to Xorn... Given a long enough time-line will all mutants evolve into Star-heads?

If telepathy is the highest point of mutation will Star-headedness become the highest point of telepathy? the next step up so to speak...

Matthew Fluxington

18:15 / 03.07.03

But Xorn isn't a telepath.

Spyder Todd 2008

23:22 / 03.07.03

Where is Xorn anyway? Unless I somehow missed him, he hasn't been seen since Kid Omega transended into the supercontext.

23:29 / 03.07.03

Xorn was around for the MURDER @ THE MANSON...

And I was just thinking about the Mindreading for Columbine thred we had a while back, when I started posting about star heads & telepathy etc...

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

00:36 / 04.07.03

Arguably Xorn has trascended telepathy, what with his being able to perceive emotions and the like as physical events.

And I don't think that XV was the couple being incinerated. I think XV was the one speaking at the begining from the high vantage point while the hapy couple went off to heaven.

07:13 / 04.07.03

a good issue creepy tense and great dialogue but bachalo's total shit when he needs to draw things moving.

07:14 / 04.07.03

'so you fellas are the good lookin mutants huh?'

not when chris is drawing us, no.

08:05 / 04.07.03

God, I'm a bell. I managed to overlook nxm in the comic shop yesterday.

Why am I such a bell?

yawn - thing's buddy

10:18 / 04.07.03

this wassanice pop round-up of gm's gnostic/space-time/biota thought strands.

'the world' is simple and cool; a clean distillation of demiurgic processes, matrix themes and simulation culture.

GM's got the love for british horror and authoritarianism and weaves the shit well with all the other shit.

yeah. good writing.

10:37 / 04.07.03

fer sho. been doing quite a bit of quatermass meself lately and this stinks of it.

10:41 / 04.07.03

I liked the story, but it took me two reads to figure out what was going on. I think Chris Bachalo’s a good artist, and to my mind it’s obvious that he spends a long time working on each panel… but I felt that they don’t quite hang together as a sequence of events. No… I dunno … narrative momentum - carrying the eye from one panel to the next – for me, really. Not saying it’s a bad comic by any means, but it was just a bit hard to follow.

11:02 / 04.07.03

I also wonder whether this will end in the ultimate staring contest - between Cyclops and Weapon XV?

Liked how Morriosn was tapping into the whole GM-technology controversy - test sites deep in the English countryside - as well as the whole English sci-fi tradition of wierd goings on in some rural backwater.

Great dialogue - but the art was rather confusing, took a couple of reads to flow. The double page spread of the World reminded me of Craig - Hairy Mary - Conlan's style.

11:25 / 04.07.03

been doing quite a bit of quatermass meself lately.

Someone should invent a drug called Quatermass. It would be brilliant.

yawn - thing's buddy

11:43 / 04.07.03

you fuckin stink of quatermass, mate.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:17 / 04.07.03

Cyclop's eyeblasts are mentally controlled, it was the abuse/genetic medelling that he underwent in the orphanage as a kid under Mr. Sinister that left him unable to control them, and one time he almost destroyed Apocalypse when the anguish was turned up to 11, so I expect when he gets over his current issues we're going to have one big optic blast.

So Weapon 15 seems to be rather Xorn-like. Wonder if this has any relevence to Xorn, seeing as he seems to be one of the older mutants.

It is at least better than the last issue.

16:59 / 04.07.03

If the World uses synthetic time, is it possible that Xorn is Weapon XV? We've already established that Weapon Plus can reprogram memories...

Matthew Fluxington

18:08 / 04.07.03

I didn't care for this issue. The art was difficult to follow, and the story wasn't much easier - whenever Grant starts putting too much conceptual technobabble in the scripts, my eyes tend to glaze over and I go into what I like to call a "Filth trance." It just bores me. This issue definitely has loads of stuff happening in it, but it felt like nothing happened at all. I'm not sure if I'm really interested in the World stuff. At this point, I'm just bored and waiting for this story to end so that we can move on to the other plots.

I really wish that Grant would avoid these stories in which major cast members don't show up. I miss Emma, I miss Henry, I miss Xorn. I wish that he'd at very least show us what's going on at the mansion for a few pages. I mean, what the hell is up with Emma? She comes back to life, and we're left hanging for four or five issues? That's lame.

I think Scott came off as too pathetic in this issue. Sure, he's just hit rock bottom, but he was so whiney in this issue that it starts to undo the effect of the last issue, which was very effective in making you feel for Scott.

20:45 / 04.07.03

How does that Euthanasium thing work? Is it just an incinerator for failed experiments, or is it an accelerator for mutant development & there's this whole mythos to make the specimens walk in? The thing that they're calling Weapon XV came out of the Euthanasium, right?

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