Magneto never gives a good reason as to why the loser class are included in his new Brotherhood. He's grown fond of them? They don't seem powerful, and they don't seem to be awed by him or share his hatred for humanity.
yeah, totally. why does he need a bunch of scrubs like the Special Class? i kind of buy his "we were all losers once" spiel, and obviously there is some potential there, but for me the problem is they just aren't mutant revolutionaries. i'm sure he could find a bunch of low-powered young mutant thugs who could do everything they can do without all the moral qualms. i mean, god, most of the Omega Gang is still alive, right?
this issue was ... ehh. kind of disappointing. Esme is getting to be less and less interesting and more and more like a bad stereotype. GM's been handling the Cuckoo's teenage-ness very strangely. it seems like he's throwing in her bursts of petulance and naivete to make her seem more "real," as in, more like a teenager, but not all teenagers are like that, and the Cuckoos seemed a bit more savvy than that. Mags seems like a weird knock-off of Ultimate Magneto (not that i dislike Ultimate Magneto, but he's not really quite the same character).
and, well... i liked Assault quite a bit. however, part of that was based in the assumption that, when it was over, we'd find out what happened to Emma and the school and everything after the end of Murder, but that's been totally brushed aside. Xorneto i was coming to accept, but to go from "Magneto's been at the school all along!" to "all the X-Men are dead, the school's been destroyed, and MAGNETO RULES THE WORLD!" between issues left me feeling flat.
i've also been a big fan of the way NXM is sort of self-contained, without excessive reference back to the larger continuity, but this went a little far in that respect for me. it's just weird to have ongoing events in books like New Mutants and NYX (is this out yet? is it any good, if it is?) set in the affected areas and not seeming to deal with it. this is especially weird because so much of the rest of the X-universe seems to have reoriented itself to accomodate NXM, and the two books i mentioned in particular seem almost like spinoffs, but now the main trunk of the tree they're branching off from has been cut down. where does that leave them?
and, not to be too much of a wanker, but where are the FF and the Avengers during all this? or even fucking Spider-Man?
between this and the forthcoming destruction of the MU, the big Reset Button is looming large on the horizon, and that's kind of annoying.
the best thing about this issue? Toad. seeing him try to explain to the boss that he's just died and come back too many times for anyone to know what to think was effing priceless. and the "we will... umm... we will replace the old ways with ... with... new ways! SHINY new ways!" was perfect. |
