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Austen Makes Poopsies On New X-Men

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14:53 / 22.04.04

obedience experiment dizfactor is dead-on. except he forgot to mention the crappy art.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

16:25 / 22.04.04

Right? What is it that inspires so much vivid disgust? I mean, there's bad writers out there, tons of them, but for some reason I'd really like to join whatever movement is organizing this mass Shit In.

17:25 / 22.04.04

What remains unclear to me is why Austen continues to get such high-profile work, given the pretty much across-the-board antipathy to the guy in fandom generally. I suppose from an editorial perspective he's reliable, in the sense of consistently producing semi-coherent scripts on a monthly basis, but shouldn't there be further criteria for getting to write some of the highest-profile books on the shelves?

I do notice that they seem to stick him on sort of odd-man-out books in franchises opposite prominent creative teams, ie. Morrison's NXM, Whedon's AXM, Lee & Azzarello's Superman. I guess editors trust Austen to be an efficient placeholder while the real attention is on his A-list counterparts.

I am Invisible now

03:29 / 27.04.04

I am not impressed at all with this "new" stuff. I had already assummed it would be poo for me, as I had not planned on buying any of it. Call me picky, but GM is just a darn tough act to follow. I still wish hed go back to NXM:|
On another note....im glad Im not crazy when I read the latest and thought something along the lines of "Um...I thought Cassie= Ernst". In fact I came to barbleith tonight to ask about it. glad to see im not insane

I'll give it a few more issues to see how it goes...just isnt the same GM stuff...
I really enjoyed how almost all(if not most) of the storylines GM had going, all led up to their respective ends. I feel he went in, and went out clean, tying up any loose ends he might have. And everything was so very neatly connected...again..just my opinion.
Ive read xmen stuffs since 1984...and I think this was the best run in any of em ever. Ever

15:03 / 27.04.04

>> I guess editors trust Austen to be an efficient placeholder while the real attention is on his A-list counterparts.

I think that's the heart of it right there...that and the fact that he usually works on books where the sales will be the same pretty much no matter who writes them. Which is kind of stupid when editors list "hey, he keeps sales up" as reasons they like him. Also stupid to say "Hey, he's a nice guy and he keeps his deadlines"....like that means you should be on top books aside the likes of Rucka, Bendis, Morrison, etc.??

19:13 / 27.04.04

I don't even know why you guys are even buying/reading it. You know it's gonna suck why not save your money til Joss comes along?

19:47 / 27.04.04

Cuz I wanted to know the last one's name.

Mindee.

*Gack*

19:53 / 27.04.04

Oh, believe me, I'm not paying money for these. I'm doing the read/skim in the store thing. And as to why I'm even doing the read/skim thing? I chalk it up to the 'train wrecks are horrible yet you feel compelled to look at them anyway' thing.

20:26 / 27.04.04

Why are you all buying into this mass hallucination that Austen took over for Grant on NXM? (*hysterical laughter*) It's not happening. It's not real, I tell you! Everyone just close your eyes and it will go away!

Astonishing X-Men #1 is the true NXM #155. Remember that.

21:23 / 27.04.04

Astonishing X-Men #1 is the true NXM #155. Remember that.

But when Astonishing X-Men #1 sucks out loud, where will we redirect our hopes and dreams?

It's better to start a practice run with seperation anxiety and overwhelming feelings of betrayal now, I feel. It lessens the impact if you spread it out a bit.

22:37 / 27.04.04

I don't even know why you guys are even buying/reading it. You know it's gonna suck why not save your money til Joss comes along?

While I couldn't stop myself from flipping through these in the store (train wreck factor, as FinderWolf said), I gave them only the shallowest possible skimming so as to avoid contamination. As for Whedon's book, well, I'm not especially optomistic based on the various previews that have been released. I'll probably skip it for now, and maybe pick up the eventual hardcover eighteen or twenty months down the line if I'm in the mood for retro-80s X-men by then. For now I'm going to let Grant's NXM stand as the story's end, at least for me.

02:47 / 28.04.04

And that's probably the best way to go. I do feel like I owe Whedon a chance but really I don't owe Austen anything.

twomenwalkingabreast

09:40 / 29.04.04

I'm anxious, fevered. My body is taxed from the lack of sleep. Deep within this prison, I've lost track of time; days become nights, and nights become days. Today, I scratch another line on the wall of my cell.

I shall name this line '56'.

In Mo's absence, I was surprised to think that Austen might turn out to be ok after all. His take on Uncanny has moments of dignity, and I'm digging his work on the Avengers. He's no Morrison, I grant you (and oh! how that statement tickles me), but I was startled to find that each of the first issues of 'BNM' and 'ODN' weren't horribe at all. I regret to report that I'm frequently duped into buying a horrible comic now and again, but rarely do I make that mistake on a title for more than three consecutive month.

I'll admit it here, I was almost impressed. Charles and Logan taking off to visit the ruins of Genosha was something I didn't expect, and it touched me. Just the sight of the Magneto's memorial caused a rush! The spotlight on Emma and her indomitable spirit sparkled against her diamond skin. Seeing Hank and Scott working side-by-side filled me with joy. Oh! and the thought of a mystery villain lurking under (and inside) the mansion had me waiting on edge.

Then the second issue of each of those tales came out and I felt used and slightly retarded.

23:52 / 29.04.04

My theory on Chuck Austen is that he happenned to be writting Uncanny x-Men when X-Men 2 came out in theaters, and that he got the credit in the rise in sales that came from the movie, tricking the editors into thinking that peole liked him.

but thats just a theory

twomenwalkingabreast

01:47 / 30.04.04

Jeez, if that's the case Kirk Ultra, that's one hell of a 'gimme'.

Yeesh, aren't writers supposed to have to struggle?

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