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Milligan's X-Men

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Regrettable Juvenilia

22:58 / 30.06.06

Daap wasn't drawn into the Infernal Machine, if you look closely at that panel you can see that Apocalypse teleports Lorna and the Leper Queen away from Daap... So fuck knows what he/she/it was all about.

Weird, weird run from Milligan, full of crazy things being written in a very offhand, detached, I-can't-be-arsed-to-care kind of way... The colouring fuck-ups, which I haven't seen the like of in comics for about 15 years, just added to the "will this do?" feel.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

03:04 / 04.07.06

Well, it's over.

I can't say I LIKED it, since there were far more misfires than good stories, but he did shake a few things up that might help the series in one way or another. Sadly, the only story on the book I REALLY liked was the last multi-parter, which made Apoc. interesting for the first time ever. Sure, it was the standard "Which X-Men will turn evil" sort of plot, but I couls understand the motivations for the characters through the entire story.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:50 / 04.07.06

I like the fact that Gambit's primary character trait under Milligan was that he is very stupid.

Matthew Fluxington

13:13 / 04.07.06

Yeah, everything about Milligan's run on X-Men seemed like he was doing it as a favor to a person he felt obligated to, but did not particularly like. It's rare that we see someone take on such a high profile book and seem so incredibly bored with the franchise, to the point of hostility.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:07 / 04.07.06

Might that partly be about the characters he had? I mean, if your central narrative is the Iceman/Havok/Polaris love triangle, about which nobody has cared since the Living Monolith, and the Rogue/Gambit aaaaaaaargh, wouldn't you get a bit snippy? Add to that all this Decimation bollocks and whatever the Hell the Leper Queen was about... what was the Leper Queen about?

So, I found that the stuff going on around the sides was interesting - Mystique was fun, Nightcrawler was fun, Gazer was fun, Ozymandias and Apocalypse were hilarious - but the core character interactions were just pointless. He seemed really not to want to be writing _that team_.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

17:27 / 09.07.06

Haus, with so many characters floating around the X-Men books, for a writer to say that they didn't have access to any good characters would be a poor excuse. I just don't think Milligan is the kind of writer who can do good work on a high profile, mainstream comic that is supposed to appeal to a borad range of fanboys. It reminds me of his Batman run, which didn't work for me either and felt like he would rather be writing a series he created.

That being said, he did write the only Apocolypse story I have ever been able to finish reading.

This Sunday

19:03 / 09.07.06

I think the characters were deliberately weak(er) and easily ignored. To paraphrase a reviewer during the 'Black Panther' cross-over, of course Storm isn't going to take orders from Havok. Whenever anything's serious, the 'real X-Men' like Cyclops or even Emma, come in and take care of business. Relying on Gambit or Polaris to handle it all... it's like Milligan established the Special Class for X-Men. It's a therapy group, ego-bolster thing. Which, is what a lot of confused, serially-damaged mutants would probably need in their life.

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