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Late shift, anyone?

 
  

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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:53 / 11.07.08
Hank is awesome, yes.

I like that it actually referenced the Logan/Jean dynamic and bounced Emma and Scott off them. The Phoenix as bored-with-lies, trying to cleanse the world of them. Hank and his gallows humour. The Stepford Cuckoos! Nobody's done anything with them that really made me happy, but I loved those girls back then. Quentin Quire. I really enjoy all the pieces of 'Riot at Xavier's,' the new generational miniaturization of old tropes (Remedial Class as X-Men; Omega Gang as the Brotherhood) that end up getting flipped anyway (remedial class as Brotherhood), while students try out weird roles. It's not perfect -- "Who Shot Emma Frost?" has some clarity problems -- but it really touched on some stuff that needed to come out of the X eventually.
 
 
This Sunday
05:06 / 11.07.08
What's funny/weird is the desperate just-post-Morrison clean up excercises, like settling up with Cassie Nova, when, for those who were actually reading the series, there was nothing to settle. He came on with a dead Magneto and left with a dead Magneto. His own villains and characters were all nicely arranged to be basically out of the way, for the next writers. Beast was still a cat, but he got over the OMG! I've mutated again! Oh noes! by the end. Jean was dead, but she's the easiest character ever to bring back. Charles was off his feet and Wolverine was still an old man in a sexy body with a beer in his hand. Fantomex and Officer Forster could have made great X-Men, but they weren't necessarily going down that route (and didn't, clearly).

But so much effort was put into sorting out Cass, Xorn, et al, that it boggles the normally un-boggly bits of the brain.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:14 / 11.07.08
The Problem with Xorn (dun-dun-dun) was that, Morrison fooled them all: everybody fell in love, only it was Magneto, and they wanted Xorn to actually be a Xorn...

I should probably reread it when I'm not swamped with other material...it's so mint, thinking about all the pieces that worked so well. I wasn't big on the finale, Hank's possession and all of that, but it works as a meta-commentary on how fucked up people's characters and plots get if they've been with the X for too long.

Plus, you know, he actually developed Scott into an interesting character.
 
 
This Sunday
05:33 / 11.07.08
Someone steered me back towards the DCU boards, mentioning them here, and sure enough, everybody and their kryptonian dog are freaking out of Morrison's supposed habit of leaving a trail of destruction and dismay on corporate-character books. Ruined the JLA so nobody could do anything with them, and Animal Man, and now Batman. Ruined. Destroyed. They'll never touch another Bat-book again, Morrison so sullied the very concept.
 
 
This Sunday
05:51 / 11.07.08
And I'm out for the night, to shift again another day.

G'night, Papers.
 
  

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