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Astonishing X-Men #11 (with preview)

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00:37 / 02.07.05

Here.

Fucking ace. That read so fast, absolutely no hiccups or loss of information. Top form. Like Miller on a good day, Cassaday is king. Charlie goes Terminator 3 and forsakes negotiations for some upscale bodily redecorating.

From the little hint about electromagnetics I guess it's Magneto driving the big rig with Charles providing commands via telepathy. Like Master Blaster.

01:50 / 02.07.05

Yes, I was wondering how the hell a cripple like Xavier could be driving a truck.

Anyway, it looks pretty dull, actually. I like this comic less and less with each passing moment. It's a shame, really, as I pretty much worship Joss Whedon.

Alas.

04:49 / 02.07.05

Whedon has indicated that he may do a S.W.O.R.D mini-series, which would be cool beyond words. That was my favorite bit from the first Ashtonishing arc.

19:48 / 12.07.05

when is this coming?

And what's that 'convoy' joke from? I recognize it from somewhere... - oh, wait, it's from Bill & Ted 2, isn't it?

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

20:41 / 12.07.05

Rumors are the Whedon is just plotting and someone else is scripting. Rumors, anyway.

The Natural Way

20:27 / 13.07.05

Very unlikely. Ast X Men scripts bristle with trademark Whedon economy.

19:14 / 18.07.05

[to be sung on Tuesday]

this book will come out tomorrow....

tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow...

21:03 / 20.07.05

Yippe... great fun.

Tip of the hat to some of the other X-books (previous & current) and in half a comic Genosha's was made more interesting than in that entire run of Excalabur.

01:18 / 21.07.05

I thought this was kind of....off, somehow. Felt just kind of not quite well paced to me. Cass' art seemed a bit weak in some points too, particularly a profile of Colossus at the top of the page where he talks to Kitty. I'll have to read it again.

I did like the 'do they know what you really are...?' 'I like to think that Jean knew' moment.

Does the sentient Danger Room really have to be given the super-villian name "Danger"? Along with "Ruin" over in Adventures of Superman, they really seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel in creating new super-villain names lately. Damn, I'm lost in a warp of forgetting how to spell 'villain' properly...both look right to me now.

01:19 / 21.07.05

oh, and the final huge splash pages bit was great too. And I'm very intruiged by the 'Prof X is a jerk again!' teaser for next issue.

rabideyemovement

01:23 / 21.07.05

"Mother?"
Is the latest batch of Sentinels descendants of the Danger Room tech? And would that imply Xavier was involved in their development? That would kinda make him a jerk.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

02:27 / 21.07.05

Well, the modern Danger Room tech was originally supplied by the shi'ar. So that could be ugly.

04:29 / 21.07.05

weren't the wild sentinels that hit genosha nano-fabricated in some central american jungle, where cassandra nova hung out?

i thought 11 was great fun. fucking convoy!

although i thought the dialogue about limitations was pretty uninteresting. and i was disapointed with how easily evaded the crashing blackbird was.

however you gotta admit whedon knows how to bring out the big bad. it felt like a cool shout out to morrison's season one.

13:39 / 21.07.05

I thought the issue was ace.

The two page conversation between Prof. X and "Danger," followed by the image on the next page of an axe-wielding Xavier, was great. Baldy hasn't been this interesting (or creepy) in a while. Also, of course, 2-pg spread of BIG BAD sentinel was excellent.

I also like Whedon's subtle references (to Jean, etc).

Only gripe: I wish Ast-X issues didn't take two minutes to read. Then again... it's probably the well-done minimalism that is making this comic work so well for me.

14:05 / 21.07.05

The "Mother" line was in reference to the fact that "Danger" (ugh) granted sentinence ("life") to the big momma sentinel before or during Xavier's slice and dice. They mentioned earlier that Danger "gave life" to the Blackbird and the Sentinel who crawled to the mansion from the farm.

That Jean moment rocked. Totally in line with Morrison's take that Jean was more of a peer to Xavier while the others would always have that teacher-student dynamic.

"Knew and understood."

I still can't believe Chuck chopped Danger up while they were having telepathic tea time. He's a sneaky bastard.

My only fanboy gripe is "nobody wondered what happened to it" in regard to the giant sentinel. No we didn't because we saw it settle down in the middle of the wreckage and eventually be transformed into the giant Magneto statue. But, in the grand scheme of things, who cares.

14:09 / 21.07.05

>> I still can't believe Chuck chopped Danger up while they were having telepathic tea time.

Yeah, that bit was cool.

Haus of Mystery

16:28 / 21.07.05

Did anyone else think that cover looked like something out of Defenders of The Earth, or some other cheesy Saturday morning cartoon? Ugly.
I'm definitely tired of this storyline now. The big reveal was nice enough, but it's not enough to save what, for me, has been a dissappointing arc. I kind of liked the Kitty/Colossus interplay, but then that's what Whedddonnnnn is good at.

16:34 / 21.07.05

I agree that the cover was pretty weak - bad composition.

17:07 / 21.07.05

I found the cover to be a sort of throwback or tip of the hat to some of the oldschool X-men covers... Ala the Byrne/Clairmont era and such.

19:09 / 21.07.05

I would love to see a Colossus/Kitty Phase-Ball Special next ish. Right between the eyes of big bad voodoo sentinel!

19:36 / 21.07.05

I'm with MacGyver.

07:30 / 22.07.05

Irrelevant Ast.X question:

If Colossus (tall, stoic, hero-type) is Angel in relation to Kitty's Buffy (insecure, smart-mouth american). Who does that make Pete Wisdom (smarmy, trenchcoat-bound, british asshole)?

12:28 / 22.07.05

Um, I only skimmed this late last night before nodding off, but howcome Kitty and Colossus are okay ? They looked like a doublehuman kebab last issue, and I couldn’t see how they survived, apart from some offhand reference to it.
I may well have missed it, please feel free to humiliate me by pointing me towards the appropriate page.

13:04 / 22.07.05

Um, I only skimmed this late last night before nodding off, but howcome Kitty and Colossus are okay ? They looked like a doublehuman kebab last issue, and I couldn’t see how they survived, apart from some offhand reference to it.

Yeah, this threw me too -- Whedon didn't bend over backwards to make us notice it -- but the implication is that the healer-kid from the New Mutants fixed them up before he ran out of juice. That panel of him collapsing from exhaustion really should've at least had Kitty sitting up and rubbing her head, or something, instead of still unconscious and seemingly impaled.

Liked this issue a lot; made up for some of the weakness of the last one. I really do appreciate the book's minimalism, but I don't appreciate it once every two months or more -- if they could stick to any official schedule, I'd certainly be able to get into it more. Six weeks wouldn't be a disgraceful amount of time between issues; why not make that the set-in-stone schedule?

05:46 / 25.07.05

Vous des porcs êtes bon pour ignorer des personnes, n'est-ce pas ?

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:08 / 25.07.05

That panel of him collapsing from exhaustion really should've at least had Kitty sitting up and rubbing her head, or something, instead of still unconscious and seemingly impaled.

If you look at the panel again, the skin under the hole in Shadowcat's top is healed - no hole.

Bumble_Beezus: I think it makes Pete Wisdom Warren Ellis' taller, more hirsute mary-sue.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:49 / 25.07.05

My only fanboy gripe is "nobody wondered what happened to it" in regard to the giant sentinel. No we didn't because we saw it settle down in the middle of the wreckage and eventually be transformed into the giant Magneto statue. But, in the grand scheme of things, who cares.

I don't have my copy of the relevant issue to hand, but I think there were actually two mega-Sentinels attacking Genosha. One stopped in the middle of the island and was converted into the Magneto statue. The other was never mentioned again...

09:29 / 25.07.05

Correct. That was the Mega-Sentinel Jet Fist... which turned into some kind of Factory Beetle Behemoth once it landed. No one's done anything with it since.

11:55 / 25.07.05

Merci de me câliner, Haus.

13:26 / 26.07.05

I do like the creepy sentinel bettleborg.

And as for what Xavier truly is that Jean knew and understood - an incredibly powerful telepath with a
slight ego/messiah complex who feels he must try
to heal and fix and be a father figure/mentor to
everyone to make up for his own loneliness? What?

13:30 / 26.07.05

I feel like there was something more to that line than just Jean saw the Prof. as a peer cause they were both ultra-powerful. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it -- but "Danger" does say it with some condemnatory tone in "her" voice, it seems.

13:58 / 26.07.05

And as for what Xavier truly is that Jean knew and understood - an incredibly powerful telepath with a slight ego/messiah complex who feels he must try to heal and fix and be a father figure/mentor to everyone to make up for his own loneliness? What?

Correct.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:56 / 27.07.05

And as for what Xavier truly is that Jean knew and understood

He's a bastard.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:59 / 27.07.05

I know that's a bit 'Ellis' of me, but there it is.

08:50 / 27.07.05

Slightly off topic, but did anyone read the recent Ultimate X-Men written by Brian K. Vaughan & drawn by Steve Dillon? - it really played on the moral ambiguity of Professor X in quite a nice way.

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