God this run frustrates me. There's some real quality there - far better writing, dialogue and characterisation than most comic writers are capable of, and the art, whilst occasionally shakey (see the Jean as Kitty comments above), is on the whole top notch. In fact the difficulty I have fitting the run into current continuity almost makes it feel like, I dunno, ASS X-Men, in that there's a purity to it, a divorce from the constraints of continuity, that's almost absent in the other X-books.
That said, it's forever late (as hell), it suffers from badly paced and sometimes slapdash storytelling (probably a product of its late as hellness), and it's failing utterly to carry the drama from one episode to the next.
Ho hum. |
