tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post2109449619034949621..comments2024-03-26T20:11:01.933-04:00Comments on NOT BLOG X: UXM #375 & X-MEN #95 – December 1999G. Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12279461069684403792noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-4969632666554020252014-06-23T20:33:39.803-04:002014-06-23T20:33:39.803-04:00The X-men getting the initative - and succeed - wa...The X-men getting the initative - and succeed - was a very nice and welcome surprise I didn't see coming.<br />Though this issue is indeed slippery in several points:<br />For starters, the finishing page should'v been the one before the one at the end.<br />There is way too much talking. Characters talk when they are alone, characters explain things without any reason. A lot of the art would work better without too many word baloons, like the one when Colosus indifferetely throws a skrull that stands in his way to wounded Shadowcat. Also, when "Lorna" is trapped and express her surprise, it's actually kind of a unnessecary cheat to let us belive she is not Cyclops. And it's really awkward to imagine the stiff Scott in this situation. Should'v been Jean.ray swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850259140570017583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-61175193197501510202014-06-23T19:30:21.096-04:002014-06-23T19:30:21.096-04:00On UXM #375:
Wow.
This just blown my mind off.
It&...On UXM #375:<br />Wow.<br />This just blown my mind off.<br />It's one of the issues you got to read twice to figure what really happened there and find the framing 'clues'.<br />This was harsh.<br />I'm also gald the proffesor wasn't just Onslought again, and this plan actually made sense to a certain degree. I think the real drama on this issue is that it claimes to flash out the character's inner loyalties, but it's strength point is also it's weak point. Though Xavier, Cable, X-man and even Cyclops and Jean's irrational behavior is explained (the last too to a lesser extant, since their reaction seems rational enough for me), some of the other X-men, who supposedly reacts truley to their hearts, don't make much sense or comes out with kind of suspicions and thoughts that are totally out of the blue or contradicted by previous issues.<br />Take Kitty for example: In this issue she was one of Xavier supporters, yet in the previous issues she was the most prominent speaker of Excalibur to oppose the proffesor. Better than that: None of the other X-men had any good reason to side with Xavier or Jean. To me Xavier seems the irrational one, and no one should'v sided him after he attacked Jean without worning first, though after reading it again and judging from previous X-men advantures, he could also be right. <br />Anyway, the suspicions the characters raise against each other come without a worning. There was never a built up that showed that Nightcrawler suspceted Marrow, or that Collosus didn't trust Rogue. As far that I can tell, the guys who did the fightning were only the guys that were involved in the conspiracy from the first place, so any indication that someone who isn't a telepath: mainly Jean, Cable or the Proffesor is pulling the strings here sounds to me far fetch.<br /><br />I'm dwelling in this too much.<br />It was a good issue nevertheless and I'm glad the Xavier-is-a-prick mystery came to a reasnoble end, for a change.<br /><br />I also want to mention Nightcrawler is such a good guy: He remember to ask Scott to look after Lorna as Havok's brother, going to the last X-men issue where he met her. These kind of things easily forgotten in the X-men stories, so it was a nice touch from Davis to remember to include it, and it shows Nightcrawler in a very bright light.ray swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850259140570017583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-81437073871886746782009-07-06T17:53:17.124-04:002009-07-06T17:53:17.124-04:00Larsen was told beforehand, which is why he says h...Larsen was told beforehand, which is why he says he stopped giving Wolverine first person captions during that run of issues (although I noticed a few...I'm assuming they were added by editorial).G. Kendallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12279461069684403792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-21556077343438984202009-07-06T12:15:09.215-04:002009-07-06T12:15:09.215-04:00Huh. So Alan Davis came to the X-Men with issue 8...Huh. So Alan Davis came to the X-Men with issue 85, and left with #99... I always thought he was on board for longer than that. Though I guess since he was plotting both titles, it comes out to be more issues overall, even though he was there for a little over a year.<br /><br />As cool as the reveal about Wolverine being a Skrull was, I was kind of disappointed that the Wolverine I'd been reading about in Erik Larsen's great run on his solo title at this time had been an imposter for the previous few months! It seemed kind of like a cheat.<br /><br />(And I say this as one of the fans who honestly wasn't upset when the Spider-Man who'd been around for two decades was "revealed" as a clone in the Spider-titles a couple of years earlier!)<br /><br />I wonder if Larsen was aware he was writing a Skrull the entire time, or if he learned about it later on...? I know there's an issue that delves into the Skrull Wolverine's time as the book's star, but I've always been unsure if it was planned in advance, or if it was just "damage control" on Larsen's part.<br /><br />P.S.: The cover of <i>X-Men</i> 95 shows the "neckless Cyclops costume" I mentioned a few days ago. I just think it looks really cool!Mattnoreply@blogger.com