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Actually I quite liked the twart at the beginning - the eyeballs were funny and then...you know, just when you were thinking, "C'mon, you'd better fuck off now, Twart", he gets a bullet in the head. Very satisfying. In fact, this ish was big on the funnies: Emma's girls, "Genosha's mutants tried to start a war with the world!" and the mass bliss out, Sublime's statues depicting man arising from the ooze and, finally, his limp wristed, new-age ascent to the stars, the newscaster's tittycow milking fantasy, Angel's cliched, Jerry Springer style homelife.....
And then there's the other little details:
1. Olympic Athletes refusing X gene tests, suicide notes written in luminous blood, references to mutant "styles" and "ideas" becoming trendy, human's seeking to transcend their limitations by recuperating mutant organs.... This story arc (and Morrison's run in general) is one massive brain storming session re: what the guh? would happen if our world collided with an insane, mass incursion of novelty. And I love it.
2. Magneto as the new Che Guevera. Of course. The spectacle claims us all in the end.
3. Beast is massive. Massive beast. The naysayers can fuck off; Morrison's taken charge and Hank McCoy is everything he always should have been. Did you notice him carving the "X" into his bedsheet. Wuh? Do you think he's trying to tell them something? Eh? Eh?
4. Emma's irreverence: Her insistence on calling Prof X "Charles Xavier". She's no man's lacky, and nobody is above reproach. And all that.
5. Yeah, the pacifist thing.
6. But also the militancy. Unrecognised by the power elite, the mutants have started to play by their own rules.
7. Angel. A cipher for what mutantdom should be all about - miraculous and disgusting. Sublime.
8. And just like a fly, confused and frightened by the swatter, she fries herself.
9. Is that a voodoo mutant brain?
"Something in my head..."
10. Evil, evil John Sublime. I'm sure you noticed the U Men van outside the institute, right?
11. Snikt. Sciver's good at the cliffhanger panels, isn't he?
But not at much else. And that's my main complaint. While I don't completely hate the art, it belongs to that Chris Weston school of "Attempting realism/naturalism but failing miserably". Sciver's Cyclops looks like a twat, and everyone, like in a Weston strip, has funny morphing heads. And everything Flux said. Splash panels SHOULD NOT look that crap.
And I don't agree that it was too short. As in all of Morrison's new stuff, the plot moves at a breakneck pace, but loads happens.
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