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John Cassaday succeeding Frank Quietly could easily be compared to Jim Lee succeeding John Byrne. They're nothing alike but somehow the transition works. Cassaday is good, even though of all three preview pages there are only three panels that look good (Page 1; Panel 3, Page 2; Panel 1, Page 3; Panel 4).
Joss Whedon is another story all together. I fear we're doomed to read a book in which the X-Men will, for an entire year, re-enact Whedons favorite Buffy moments. The first pages from Amazing X-Men (with Kitty) looked familiar and they should, it's almost an exact reproduction of Buffy's return to Sunnydale after killing Angel or even Willow's return after killing Andrew (even Buffy characters were damned to deja vu old Buffy scenes).
That villain is just too lame. Is he some elder demon who was expelled by a young usurper demon to a hell dimension that has returned for revenge? He sure looks that way.
And another thing that kind of made me convulse was Emma Frost. Everyone is going on about her being a former villain and saying that when Rogue joined the secretly agencies got all uppity. Emma Frost has been a heroin since the days of the Phalanx Covenant; she's been a teacher at the Xavier school since the days after Phalanx Covenant. Her joining the X-Men and converting wasn't even that big of a deal. She's just a badass who's going to get domesticated just like Wolverine. The only problem with her I have is that she's still dressing as though she were a member of the Hellfire Club. The only reason she ever wore corsets and furry capes was because, as you'll remember, that was the "uniform" of the Inner Circle at the time. She's got a white leather fetish, that's fine, why not dress her in a nice little white Raf Simons number, with straps and a big coat. She's a hero and she shouldn't dress like an 18th century dominatrix, that's just stupid.
Cyclops should technically be forty by now, so he's probably just going through one of those "mid-life crises" and as such he trying to relive his youth (by dressing like a teenager). His skintight number is probably just the human equivalent of a ponytail or a gold chain commonly found on middle-aged human men.
Beast looks good, he's like G'Nort from the Green Lantern Corp and will probably also serve as the comic relieve. There should be a scene with him lying on Kitty's bed while she brushes his fur or where she gives him a flea bath and Josh should give Emma allergies and every time Hank would walk into a room, her eyes would start to watering and her face would swell up, that would be sooo funny (or not at all). He’s gone from Kelsey Grammar’s Frasier to Charlie Brown’s Snoopy.
Jean's death should be dealt with, me thinks. I'd have Beast sobbing all day long and Logan, seeing that this is the biggest loss he's ever had to deal with, starts struggling to relate to the other teammates (because Jean used her powers to make Logan feel like he belonged). Scott should still see Jean and she should be like a ghost appendage (because of the psychic rapport they used to share). Emma would slowly make Scott forget who Jean was (with telepathy), like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Lastly Scott should find out that Emma's a coke fiend, that would be oh-so edgy and inappropriate. Her love for all things white wouldn't necessarily stop at thigh-high come-hither whore-boots... |
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