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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 5, 2016 21:03:28 GMT -5
Thought I'd start a thread for Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men. I'm 14 issues in and have about 14-20 more to go. I forget how long it lasts. This is one of the series where the Danger Room became a sentient being. It has probably happened a couple times throughout the comic's run. It's also the series where "The Cure" story line was introduced and later influenced 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand. Also, it may have been referenced in X2: X-Men United. There's a scene where Logan brings a lit Cigar inside of cerebro. Charles tells Logan he'll have him believing he's a 12 year old girl, and that he'd have Jean braid his hair. In the comic, the X-Men battle the Hellfire club and are psychically attacked. Beast gets mentally devolved into a Beast while Wolverine is made to believe he's a 12(ish) year old girl from the turn of the last century.
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Post by BackinBlack on Jul 5, 2016 22:11:53 GMT -5
Actually this book started a year after X2, so it was probably them referencing the movie.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 22, 2016 2:20:34 GMT -5
I started reading Ghost Box, covering issues 25-30 (I believe, don't have the book next to me right now). Warren Ellis took over writing responsibilities from Joss Whedon. Surprisingly, I actually like it more! That's crazy to say because I really like where Whedon took the book. He brought each character to life so the book felt intimate, yet told a larger story that took the reader off planet and dealt with alien war planets and prophesies. There's something to Ellis's writing though. He puts so much thought into the science of things, and his character work thus far has been just as strong as Whedon's. I'm only 2 issues in so I'm not sure where the book will go, but I'm glad I have 8 more issues to look for since I have the follow up story Exogenetic as well.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 23, 2016 2:28:04 GMT -5
I just finished issue 30 and am now onto the epilogue (which is 2 issues long). What an awesome story, seriously. It felt like Star gate, but with X-Men. As usual, Warren did his homework, came in and made everything sound like some real s***, and his accompanying artist Simon Bianchi rounded the book out with some great illustrations. Of the few X-Men stories I've read, the 10 issues comprising this one are my favorite.
Simon Kinberg talked about going cosmic with the X-Men in the movies, and if they do that, I hope they go in this direction. I think the difficulty with the X-Men is that we've had so many movies that went one way, and people seem to be getting burnt out on them. That's a real shame because the audience (IMO) hasn't seen the best versions of these characters (save for Magneto maybe). If anything, Deadpool shows that you can soft reboot the characters, and do them in a way that is instantly endearing to the audience. While that may be one character, I think you can do that for an entire ensemble as well. Look at what Abrams did in 2009 with Star Trek. I think it's certainly possible. While it would be a shame to have someone as good as Fassbender and McAvoy and not use them, not using them won't necessarily mean letting them go. For my money I think they've had plenty of time to shine and I wouldn't mind having a story that focused on the other characters. Not once in this Ghost Box story did Professor X or Magneto make an appearance, and yet the band played on. The only mentions of the professor were merely references to the way he used to run things. If the professor and Magneto are to be included (heck I'd be shocked if they weren't), I do hope they're used as more a part of the ensemble than the center of the conflict yet again.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jul 30, 2016 14:37:05 GMT -5
Finished Warren Ellis's run on Astonishing X-Men (unless he wrote more X-Men that I'm not aware of). Definitely a good read. They were so good! I actually like them more than Whedon's run, which was fantastic as well. I do hate to say it, but the thing that I enjoyed the most about these books is that they took the spot light off of Professor X and Magneto and focused on Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Kitty Pride, Beast, as well as a few others. There was some sci-fi to it that was explained well but not overbearing, and they just went out and had these crazy 3-5 issue adventures. Definitely check these out.
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Post by BackinBlack on Oct 3, 2016 18:31:03 GMT -5
That's an old vid. Since then, all the X-titles are still going, and we have the Inhumans vs. X-Men event with an aftermath story already announced. Let's consider a few things though: 1. Mutants are too big a part of the Marvel universe to be done away with completely, even if they're on the brink of extinction (again). 2. It doesn't make sense to cancel the comics because of the movies because not only are comic fans just a small percentage of the movie going audience, but what's happening in the comics has no bearing on whether or not people will see the movies. 3. The "no new characters" thing is bullshit. For example, there's a new young new mutant named Sapna who been taken under Magik's tutelage. 4. Marvel may not be making toys based on the movies, but they're still putting out X-Men waves of Marvel Legends based on the comics. 5. Marvel and Fox are apparently patching their relationship and starting to work together, not only on new TV shows but will offer some help with the films (whether it's a Spider-Man like deal remains to be seen). Not to mention that it's been confirmed that a hellicarrier was part of the climax of Deadpool, as well as his friend Bob, who in the comics is a HYDRA agent; neither of those could have happened without Marvel's permission.
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Post by mr. excellent on Oct 4, 2016 15:36:54 GMT -5
It's all good lopli. Thanks for the info BIB. I haven't been keeping up with the current X-Men comics. I read some of A vs. X, as well as the earlier Messiah complex books and the stuff building up to it. I remember them being good, but it'd be interesting to revisit them now that I've read the Astonishing run. I have been keeping up with the ongoing 'will they' or 'won't they' of Marvel officially axing the X-Men. I'm with you on this one. I don't think they will get rid of them officially. Especially with the split between Perlmutter and Feige. Inhuman's was a Perlmutter passion project, not Feige's. Considering he made his bones doing X-Men films back in the day, I don't think he's totally against bringing them into the fold.
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