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I just read this in trade, and wow, was that a misguided, awful story. It makes no sense to me why Bendis sets up this interesting conflict with Wanda in issue #1 and then takes six issues to get back to it. Her arc had potential, the rest of it is the same old alternate reality stuff we've seen countless times before. Just because this reality is happy and doesn't have everyone dying doesn't mean the story is any better than what we've seen before. Plus, I'd have loved to see the characters engage more deeply with the question of whether resetting the world to what it was would actually be a good thing.
And, to use this lame alternate reality to set up the primary X-Men plot for the next several years is just weak. There's so much deus ex machina in the story, it's near impossible to believe. And, despite being one of the books that was criticized as being written for the trade, if anything it reads worse there. Without speculation about what will happen, you can just zip through the $25 book in less than an hour and realize that this story has no conflict or resolution in and of itself, it's all a setup for something else. |
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