You should probably stop reading Avengers/New Avengers then.
Nah. The books never get as impressionistic as they did during Infinity. I just did a big reread of the two, and things get really weird during that crossover. It's not just that you are getting stories that take place during a crossover. It's like Marvel's playing panel jumble where you need to have six books side by side to follow any of the stories.
After Infinity ends, both Avengers and New Avengers go on to tell complete and satisfying stories contained within each issue, or at least stretched across multiple issues of the same book. They cross over quite a bit the closer you get to the current book, but there's never that feeling of "I have no idea what is going on" that I got with Infinity.
Avengers and New Avengers don't really cross over again until Time Runs Out hits, and they're collecting that arc together very sensibly it looks like.
i'm hoping post secret wars the whole hilariously bad json gets reconned into oblivion to fit better with whatever gunn comes up with in the next movie.
json is such a fucking lazy character, oh my god i can't get over it. that xmen video about the black vortex did a fine job of making me not want to read it too.
i just started reading legendary starlord through unlimited so the mystery of who is mr.knife was kinda interesting until i watched that xmen video and yelled christ.
i think my whole problem with the new gotg run is that is nowhere near the level of greatness the whole annihilation through to thanos imperative run was and i read through that again recently before catching up with the bendis run and its like aw man.
i'm hoping post secret wars the whole hilariously bad json gets reconned into oblivion to fit better with whatever gunn comes up with in the next movie.
json is such a fucking lazy character name oh my god i can't get over it. that xmen video about the black vortex did a fine job of making me not want to read it too.
i just started reading legendary starlord through unlimited so the mystery of who is mr.knife was kinda interesting until i watched that xmen video and yelled christ.
You...you realize that Json has been around since the '77, right? He's not a Bendis creation, he was actually created by Chris Claremont in a Star Lord issue of Marvel Preview Presents as Peter Quill's father.
Also, I find Bendis' Guardians to be very enjoyable, and hope he stays on.
i'm hoping post secret wars the whole hilariously bad json gets reconned into oblivion to fit better with whatever gunn comes up with in the next movie.
json is such a fucking lazy character name oh my god i can't get over it. that xmen video about the black vortex did a fine job of making me not want to read it too.
i just started reading legendary starlord through unlimited so the mystery of who is mr.knife was kinda interesting until i watched that xmen video and yelled christ.
You...you realize that Json has been around since the '77, right? He's not a Bendis creation, he was actually created by Chris Claremont in a Star Lord issue of Marvel Preview Presents as Peter Quill's father.
Also, I find Bendis' Guardians to be very enjoyable, and hope he stays on.
You...you realize that it's still the dumbest fucking thing regardless of year, right? Bendis is just boring the characters right off the page. so far its all been a waste of ink and paper.
i'm hoping post secret wars the whole hilariously bad json gets reconned into oblivion to fit better with whatever gunn comes up with in the next movie.
json is such a fucking lazy character name oh my god i can't get over it. that xmen video about the black vortex did a fine job of making me not want to read it too.
i just started reading legendary starlord through unlimited so the mystery of who is mr.knife was kinda interesting until i watched that xmen video and yelled christ.
You...you realize that Json has been around since the '77, right? He's not a Bendis creation, he was actually created by Chris Claremont in a Star Lord issue of Marvel Preview Presents as Peter Quill's father.
Also, I find Bendis' Guardians to be very enjoyable, and hope he stays on.
You...you realize that it's still the dumbest fucking thing regardless of year, right? Bendis is just boring the characters right off the page. so far its all been a waste of ink and paper.
You...you realize that you're opinion is YOUR opinion, and not universal, right? The fact that your tastes don't align to Bendis' writing does NOT make Bendis' writing bad. It just makes your tastes different.
shrug, i dont even buy it anymore, its been relegated to marvel unlimited 6 month delay so hey, maybe that whole venom stuff is totally amazing and justifies what you are saying. i doubt it but we'll see whenever it turns up on the service.
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My only experience with Json has been with the Infinity event, but the gist I got was he's a fucking crazy, rude piece of shit.
The Avengers have a history at beating some of the most powerful empires and cosmic entities in the universe, and this guy has the gall to treat them like a bunch of peasants (can't think of the right word right now so let's just go with that)
Json is cool as a bureaucratic bad guy who sits around and throws wrenches in shit and manipulates the galaxy into fucking with the earth or with the guardians.
But he is not cool as
a dude who dresses up in a space lucha outfit, hires a bunch of new z-listers, and battles over a magic mirror like a fucking saturday morning cartoon villain from the 80s.
That said, I haven't read today's guardians yet. I'll let you know if my opinion changes.
I like Bendis on the x-books. His Gotg is a mess though, between being co-opted to work in the x-men events alone, much less bringing in angela and the line wide events, it's only had time for like, an arc and a half by itself. Which of course was done with like 3 half-arcs.
It has however been boring, un-eventful and generally pointless
I thought the Symbiote issue was pretty terrible.
Even just conceptually speaking, it's a terrible idea to just devote a single issue with no buildup to completely rewrite a major character's origins and motivations. It's worse when you do it in a team book, and it's doubly worse when you do it to give the character new powers and make them noble space knights. That sort of thing can only be competently done in solo series, and teased out so there's enough layers to it. That just seems like something any long term consumer of fictional stories would instinctively understand, but Bendis doesn't care, he just wants a new toy to play with.
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He actually did something with the symbiote instead of pad it out?
I can't help but look at that chestplate and see Brainiac's 3-linked-circles-in-a-V-formation emblem, and it's totally a Mega Man Zero/EXE style outfit. Which is why it looks so good, but still.
1. Greenland (Planet Hulk)
2. Dystopia (Future Imperfect)
3. Domain of Apocalypse (Age of Apocalypse)
4. Egyptia (New Warriors: Forever Yesterday)
5. Technopolis (Armor Wars)
6. CLASSIFIED
7. Spider-Land (Spider-Island)
8. Regency (Spider-Man: One More Day/Renew Your Vows)
9. King James' England (Marvel 1602)
10. Weirdworld (Weirdworld)
11. K'un-Lun (Iron Fist)
12. Utopolis (Unknown)
13. New Mars (Unknown)
14. CLASSIFIED
15. Higher Avalon (Captain Britain)
16. Arachnia (Spider-Verse)
17. Marville (Marvel Babies)
18. Eye of Agamotto (Doctor Strange)
19. CLASSIFIED
20. Manhattan
- 616 Manhattan
- 1610 Ultimate Manhattan (Ultimate Universe: The End)
- Attilan (Inhumans: Attilan Rising)
- Monster Metropolis
21. The City (Unknown)
22. The Warzone (Civil War)
23. New Quack City (Howard the Duck)
24. The Far East (Where Monsters Dwell)
25. Valley of Flame (Unknown)
26. The Hydra Empire (Unknown)
27. 2099 (Marvel 2099)
28. Hala Field (Captain Marvel)
29. The Monarchy of M (House of M)
30. Sentinel Territories (Years of Future Past)
31. The Wastelands (Old Man Logan)
32. Mutopia (New X-Men: E is for Extinction)
33. Westchester (X-Men '92)
34. Killville (MODOK: Assassin)
35. Arcadia (A-Force)
36. Bar Sinister (Unknown)
37. Limbo (Inferno)
38. The Deadlands (Marvel Zombies)
39. Perfection (Age of Ultron)
40. New Xandar (Infinity Gauntlet)
41. The Wall (Unknown)
I'm getting more and more curious about those three CLASSIFIED zones.
Someone pointed out that Utopolis hasn't been claimed yet; that could be the Squadron Supreme world.
I was kinda hoping one of the worlds would be
The Great Society's world; where a prematurely aged Sun God leads the equivalent of the Justice League Unlimited, who all have a pretty big bone to pick with the 616 guys
EDIT: Hmm..
The Wiki I just read brings up an interesting point. Doctor Spectrum (The Green Lantern analog) was was beaten and left on Earth 616 last we saw her.. Unless the Illuminati were complete dicks and sent her back to her world, she should still be alive. I wonder what happened to her? (I'd guess the Illuminati would have locked her up and the Cabal would have killed her when they took over.)
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It has however been boring, un-eventful and generally pointless
I thought the Symbiote issue was pretty terrible.
Even just conceptually speaking, it's a terrible idea to just devote a single issue with no buildup to completely rewrite a major character's origins and motivations. It's worse when you do it in a team book, and it's doubly worse when you do it to give the character new powers and make them noble space knights. That sort of thing can only be competently done in solo series, and teased out so there's enough layers to it. That just seems like something any long term consumer of fictional stories would instinctively understand, but Bendis doesn't care, he just wants a new toy to play with.
I really enjoyed it, actually. It's the first time in a long time that the symbiotes as a species have been seriously addressed, since the rather lame Planet of the Symbiotes back in Spider-Man.
And frankly
I was getting tired of Flash as Venom constantly struggling with the symbiote, 'will he won't he' go evil from it, etc. The symbiote needed a major change or it needed to go back to being part of a villain.
I only hope the change sticks, and if someone else wants to tell a story with evil villain Venom they just use Brock/Toxin.
Someone pointed out that Utopolis hasn't been claimed yet; that could be the Squadron Supreme world.
I was kinda hoping one of the worlds would be
The Great Society's world; where a prematurely aged Sun God leads the equivalent of the Justice League Unlimited, who all have a pretty big bone to pick with the 616 guys
Speaking of those guys-
I thought it was a shame that Doctor Spectrum (their lady Green Lantern/Ray light person) was straight up killed by Black Bolt on Earth-616 instead of being the sole survivor (I assume she's dead - Bolt screams her into the ground and we never see or mention her again).
That could've made for some good scenes, with her waking up on the planet of the people who killed her homeworld - the last survivor of the Great Society. Missed opportunity, I think.
i'm looking forward to the x-men '92 stuff but didn't that universe get destroyed already? i remember there being a limited run comic series after the cartoon finished, sort of like a final season where some shit happened and the universe was crushed inside the M'Kraan Crystal? am i making this shit up?
Smasher/Izzy is leaving Earth because of Shi'ar Stuff (and thus breaking up with sweet Sam).
Mom tells her the story of how Pa and her met...
(Avenger's World this week was an awesome Smasher/Canonball issue.)
Edit: Also, if anyone reads X-Men comics besides me, Eva Bell is now my number one favorite mutant. She's been rising in my personal ranks since her introduction, but damn....
Edit #2: Initial rush over. Cyclops still #1. Eva solidified #2.
It has however been boring, un-eventful and generally pointless
I thought the Symbiote issue was pretty terrible.
Even just conceptually speaking, it's a terrible idea to just devote a single issue with no buildup to completely rewrite a major character's origins and motivations. It's worse when you do it in a team book, and it's doubly worse when you do it to give the character new powers and make them noble space knights. That sort of thing can only be competently done in solo series, and teased out so there's enough layers to it. That just seems like something any long term consumer of fictional stories would instinctively understand, but Bendis doesn't care, he just wants a new toy to play with.
I'm not sure I agree with changing a character's origin needs to be in a specific book. The symbiote isn't 1 character per se, it's a part of other characters and I think it was quite refreshing to give them that background and history. I also think in GOTG is a perfectly fine place given they are from space and I'm not sure what solo book it would fit in better with. It makes me as a reader care about them more, and honestly takes them from the 90s EXTREME BAD GUY vibe to something I find pretty unique and cool. I also love Flash so I'm pretty ok with this story. Not sure if you just hate Bendis but he certainly didn't destroy any cherished version of a character for the sake of a story. imo he strengthened and explained past iterations of the symbiote and made an interesting story going forward for the character.
Edit: Also, if anyone reads X-Men comics besides me, Eva Bell is now my number one favorite mutant. She's been rising in my personal ranks since her introduction, but damn....
I've been burning out pretty hard on Bendis's X-books. It always feels like either nothing's happening (Uncanny) or a ton of stuff is happening but none of it has any weight to the storytelling (All-New). I like a lot of the general beats he's bringing, but honestly I think Eva's latest escapades was enough for me to give up on the whole thing. The last thing I need in this series is yet another mutant screwing with the fabric of reality and immediately acting sanctimonious towards Scott.
Edit: Also, if anyone reads X-Men comics besides me, Eva Bell is now my number one favorite mutant. She's been rising in my personal ranks since her introduction, but damn....
I've been burning out pretty hard on Bendis's X-books. It always feels like either nothing's happening (Uncanny) or a ton of stuff is happening but none of it has any weight to the storytelling (All-New). I like a lot of the general beats he's bringing, but honestly I think Eva's latest escapades was enough for me to give up on the whole thing. The last thing I need in this series is yet another mutant screwing with the fabric of reality and immediately acting sanctimonious towards Scott.
That arc stretched on wayyyyyy too long, and sucked all the life from Uncanny, but I felt the ending pretty much nailed it.
Bendis's whole run has been about whether Scott really is crazy like SHIELD, The Avengers, and the Grey School X-Men believe, or whether he's right to be so militant and aggressive. The run has constantly alternated back and forth, positioning him as a selfish narcissist one moment and then as a hyper-competent team leader whose hard choices pay off. But this pretty definitively proves that he has absolutely fucking lost it, even to a point where even he's willing to recognize that and let go of his team.
Yeah, Bendis belabored it like crazy by dragging out a pretty simple moral issue for so long and by using the long lost secret super-kill-everything mutant to get that point across (things that have both been done plenty better and plenty quicker in X-Men lore), but it was a fitting cap to the Scott Summers is an Asshole saga.
I expect the last few issues of Uncanny to revolve around straightening up the status quo a little more for the next writers, and for possibly setting up a new project for Bendis to jump onto (he's not a franchise writer anymore, but maybe he'll take a couple characters or a sideteam).
I guess I kind of agree, but in my eyes the ending suffered from the same problem as the rest of the Scott Summers Is An Asshole saga. Yes, Scott's transformation into an anti-hero has been done fairly well. He means well, but is abrasive and self absorbed. Got it. But most of the rest of the cast have been straight up terrible people, and the presentation of the story has never reflected that.
Like, what is Eva even berating Scott about at the end of this? "I can't believe you had the audacity to try talking to a mutant. It's all your fault that Team America: World Police blew you up. Twice. Seriously, dick move, getting exploded like that and ruining our days."
Scott is clearly not the ideal influence for the kid, but given that SHIELD are straight up villains and everyone else (Bobby & Beast in particular) basically just sit around being petulant, he's sort of the least-worst option as presented. And crucially, is Eva even aware of the sketchier parts of Scott's handling of the situation, like the sniping with Magneto or "maybe humans really are just dumb"? Or is she just pulling the same "Scott Summers is bad and wrong because I guess that's our premise" routine? The story seems to be trying to give her a crowning moment of awesome here, but as I'm reading it she's mostly just belatedly following Beast's lead. Which, um, yikes.
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I just looked over some summaries of it (it's....it's finally over!) and saw Eva's talk at the end of the last issue, and I agree with Merlin's spoilers.
I stopped reading UXM about three or four issues ago but Scott's MO the entire time was to not kill the kid, but save him, let him learn his powers in a safe way, not to make him a villain or a secret weapon.
SHIELD jumped the gun like always and kills Scott, which dominoes into the kid now killing everyone because the one nice guy he knew had his point proven.
How Eva, who seemed like a smart, knowing, on-Scott's side character, jumps to Scott being evil puppet master and now threatening to unborn Scott, is ridiculous. She seemed to forgive Xavier as the instigator more.
I could understand if this was a brand new writer trying to finish up the arc because Bendis had to focus on ending the Ultimate line or something and just plow through an ending to resolve things in future issues for Secret Wars, but it seems like Bendis just didn't even look back at what he wrote.
Again, we see Scott being right, but everyone ignoring that because they're so ignorant and biased he's always the bad guy.
Like, Havok is literally still a bad guy, can't they go pick on him if they need a Summers brother to hate?
My view of the end of the current UXM arc is that...
its not about Scott being right or wrong, hyper competent or insane. Its about the fact that Scott fails. All of his plans, all of his work, and what he ends up with are two universes. One in which he is killed and one in which one of his students takes from him that the lesson is "Do whatever the hell you want." Neither of those are what Scott set out to do, and they are not the results he was looking for. He failed.
What's important at this point is where Scott goes now. I think one of the huge points of Bendis' run is that Scott plans for his loss. I think there is a really huge plot point is being missed by people in this issue; the message that Scott left behind in case all of the New Xavier School's staff was killed.
The thing is, they were. The fact that one of his students changed the timeline so that it didn't happen doesn't matter much because she told Scott what happened. He knows that he failed, so he's enacting the plan he created for that scenario, despite the fact that he's alive again. He knows this plan doesn't work, so he's killed the New Xavier School plan before it can kill more people and its time to move on to the next one.
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My view of the end of the current UXM arc is that...
its not about Scott being right or wrong, hyper competent or insane. Its about the fact that Scott fails. All of his plans, all of his work, and what he ends up with are two universes. One in which he is killed and one in which one of his students takes from him that the lesson is "Do whatever the hell you want." Neither of those are what Scott set out to do, and they are not the results he was looking for. He failed.
What's important at this point is where Scott goes now. I think one of the huge points of Bendis' run is that Scott plans for his loss. I think there is a really huge plot point is being missed by people in this issue; the message that Scott left behind in case all of the New Xavier School's staff was killed.
The thing is, they were. The fact that one of his students changed the timeline so that it didn't happen doesn't matter much because she told Scott what happened. He knows that he failed, so he's enacting the plan he created for that scenario, despite the fact that he's alive again. He knows this plan doesn't work, so he's killed the New Xavier School plan before it can kill more people and its time to move on to the next one.
And just a few things you correctly pointed out would have been better in this finale if
Eva doesn't berate Scott for really confusing reasons, but points out he lost in terms of having a plan. It would work a lot better with Eva going "I know you believe what you were doing is right, even I trusted you, but this is what happens," as opposed to "rah you're a stupid face I'm angry rah probably something with my own time travel issues but won't get addressed."
That alone is a super effective way to get across to Scott no matter if he's right or wrong, the current path isn't working so he needs to temporarily give the reigns of his students over to Storm. The master planner in a lose lose situation so he doesn't even play the game to change it all, that's good stuff.
Now the only thing I wonder is if they're going to sync up what Hickman showed us in Avengers or not with Cyclops.
I really feel like Bendis doing this horrifically long arc and basically ignoring the events of the Death of Wolverine and Axis is a hugely missed opportunity. I mean, I know everybody hates event tie-ins, but I think an arc about Cyclops finally realizing that he is on a bad path would have been much better served incorporating those events.
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I was sort of expecting Axis to be the thing to kick Cyclops back to the good side, or at least Marvel using it as a way to bury the hatchet. Especially with Havok staying bad, at the easiest you make Cyclops just realize he needs to revise his strategy.
...Axis started after and ended before this UXM arc, wowza.
Scott Summers will always be right and the Marvel universe will be unable to handle it. His problem is that he often takes on more than he can handle, and sometimes it's too much and beyond him and his wish to not dirty anyone else's hands but his.
That said, Hickman's short glimpse of him in Time Runs Out was perfect.
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Finally got around to reading Black Vortex Alpha, probably sit this event out unless people say it gets better. It might be me but Bendis feels like he's borrowing pretty heavy from Saga in terms of the GOTG/space side of things.
Finally got around to reading Black Vortex Alpha, probably sit this event out unless people say it gets better. It might be me but Bendis feels like he's borrowing pretty heavy from Saga in terms of the GOTG/space side of things.
That's humphries writing the alpha / basically his event. Not very surprising that it reads like that.
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it is humphries, my mistake.
I thought the person writing ANXM and GOTG would also be writing this event.
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json is such a fucking lazy character, oh my god i can't get over it. that xmen video about the black vortex did a fine job of making me not want to read it too.
i think my whole problem with the new gotg run is that is nowhere near the level of greatness the whole annihilation through to thanos imperative run was and i read through that again recently before catching up with the bendis run and its like aw man.
You...you realize that Json has been around since the '77, right? He's not a Bendis creation, he was actually created by Chris Claremont in a Star Lord issue of Marvel Preview Presents as Peter Quill's father.
Also, I find Bendis' Guardians to be very enjoyable, and hope he stays on.
You...you realize that it's still the dumbest fucking thing regardless of year, right? Bendis is just boring the characters right off the page. so far its all been a waste of ink and paper.
You...you realize that you're opinion is YOUR opinion, and not universal, right? The fact that your tastes don't align to Bendis' writing does NOT make Bendis' writing bad. It just makes your tastes different.
shrug, i dont even buy it anymore, its been relegated to marvel unlimited 6 month delay so hey, maybe that whole venom stuff is totally amazing and justifies what you are saying. i doubt it but we'll see whenever it turns up on the service.
The Avengers have a history at beating some of the most powerful empires and cosmic entities in the universe, and this guy has the gall to treat them like a bunch of peasants (can't think of the right word right now so let's just go with that)
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But he is not cool as
That said, I haven't read today's guardians yet. I'll let you know if my opinion changes.
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his Guardians has not been really bad, per se
It has however been boring, un-eventful and generally pointless
This is my controversial opinion.
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I thought the Symbiote issue was pretty terrible.
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They're really cool looking, but...
I can't help but look at that chestplate and see Brainiac's 3-linked-circles-in-a-V-formation emblem, and it's totally a Mega Man Zero/EXE style outfit. Which is why it looks so good, but still.
way better than GRRRR WE ARE EVIL SYMBIOTES WHO ARE EVIL AND PSYCHOTIC
1. Greenland (Planet Hulk)
2. Dystopia (Future Imperfect)
3. Domain of Apocalypse (Age of Apocalypse)
4. Egyptia (New Warriors: Forever Yesterday)
5. Technopolis (Armor Wars)
6. CLASSIFIED
7. Spider-Land (Spider-Island)
8. Regency (Spider-Man: One More Day/Renew Your Vows)
9. King James' England (Marvel 1602)
10. Weirdworld (Weirdworld)
11. K'un-Lun (Iron Fist)
12. Utopolis (Unknown)
13. New Mars (Unknown)
14. CLASSIFIED
15. Higher Avalon (Captain Britain)
16. Arachnia (Spider-Verse)
17. Marville (Marvel Babies)
18. Eye of Agamotto (Doctor Strange)
19. CLASSIFIED
20. Manhattan
- 616 Manhattan
- 1610 Ultimate Manhattan (Ultimate Universe: The End)
- Attilan (Inhumans: Attilan Rising)
- Monster Metropolis
21. The City (Unknown)
22. The Warzone (Civil War)
23. New Quack City (Howard the Duck)
24. The Far East (Where Monsters Dwell)
25. Valley of Flame (Unknown)
26. The Hydra Empire (Unknown)
27. 2099 (Marvel 2099)
28. Hala Field (Captain Marvel)
29. The Monarchy of M (House of M)
30. Sentinel Territories (Years of Future Past)
31. The Wastelands (Old Man Logan)
32. Mutopia (New X-Men: E is for Extinction)
33. Westchester (X-Men '92)
34. Killville (MODOK: Assassin)
35. Arcadia (A-Force)
36. Bar Sinister (Unknown)
37. Limbo (Inferno)
38. The Deadlands (Marvel Zombies)
39. Perfection (Age of Ultron)
40. New Xandar (Infinity Gauntlet)
41. The Wall (Unknown)
I'm getting more and more curious about those three CLASSIFIED zones.
One is probably the Squadron Supreme universe. One is probably something 10 Realms related. I dunno about the third one.
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I was kinda hoping one of the worlds would be
EDIT: Hmm..
I really enjoyed it, actually. It's the first time in a long time that the symbiotes as a species have been seriously addressed, since the rather lame Planet of the Symbiotes back in Spider-Man.
And frankly
I only hope the change sticks, and if someone else wants to tell a story with evil villain Venom they just use Brock/Toxin.
Speaking of those guys-
That could've made for some good scenes, with her waking up on the planet of the people who killed her homeworld - the last survivor of the Great Society. Missed opportunity, I think.
Mom tells her the story of how Pa and her met...
(Avenger's World this week was an awesome Smasher/Canonball issue.)
Edit: Also, if anyone reads X-Men comics besides me, Eva Bell is now my number one favorite mutant. She's been rising in my personal ranks since her introduction, but damn....
Edit #2: Initial rush over. Cyclops still #1. Eva solidified #2.
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I'm not sure I agree with changing a character's origin needs to be in a specific book. The symbiote isn't 1 character per se, it's a part of other characters and I think it was quite refreshing to give them that background and history. I also think in GOTG is a perfectly fine place given they are from space and I'm not sure what solo book it would fit in better with. It makes me as a reader care about them more, and honestly takes them from the 90s EXTREME BAD GUY vibe to something I find pretty unique and cool. I also love Flash so I'm pretty ok with this story. Not sure if you just hate Bendis but he certainly didn't destroy any cherished version of a character for the sake of a story. imo he strengthened and explained past iterations of the symbiote and made an interesting story going forward for the character.
That arc stretched on wayyyyyy too long, and sucked all the life from Uncanny, but I felt the ending pretty much nailed it.
Yeah, Bendis belabored it like crazy by dragging out a pretty simple moral issue for so long and by using the long lost secret super-kill-everything mutant to get that point across (things that have both been done plenty better and plenty quicker in X-Men lore), but it was a fitting cap to the Scott Summers is an Asshole saga.
I expect the last few issues of Uncanny to revolve around straightening up the status quo a little more for the next writers, and for possibly setting up a new project for Bendis to jump onto (he's not a franchise writer anymore, but maybe he'll take a couple characters or a sideteam).
Scott is clearly not the ideal influence for the kid, but given that SHIELD are straight up villains and everyone else (Bobby & Beast in particular) basically just sit around being petulant, he's sort of the least-worst option as presented. And crucially, is Eva even aware of the sketchier parts of Scott's handling of the situation, like the sniping with Magneto or "maybe humans really are just dumb"? Or is she just pulling the same "Scott Summers is bad and wrong because I guess that's our premise" routine? The story seems to be trying to give her a crowning moment of awesome here, but as I'm reading it she's mostly just belatedly following Beast's lead. Which, um, yikes.
SHIELD jumped the gun like always and kills Scott, which dominoes into the kid now killing everyone because the one nice guy he knew had his point proven.
How Eva, who seemed like a smart, knowing, on-Scott's side character, jumps to Scott being evil puppet master and now threatening to unborn Scott, is ridiculous. She seemed to forgive Xavier as the instigator more.
I could understand if this was a brand new writer trying to finish up the arc because Bendis had to focus on ending the Ultimate line or something and just plow through an ending to resolve things in future issues for Secret Wars, but it seems like Bendis just didn't even look back at what he wrote.
Again, we see Scott being right, but everyone ignoring that because they're so ignorant and biased he's always the bad guy.
Like, Havok is literally still a bad guy, can't they go pick on him if they need a Summers brother to hate?
What's important at this point is where Scott goes now. I think one of the huge points of Bendis' run is that Scott plans for his loss. I think there is a really huge plot point is being missed by people in this issue; the message that Scott left behind in case all of the New Xavier School's staff was killed.
The thing is, they were. The fact that one of his students changed the timeline so that it didn't happen doesn't matter much because she told Scott what happened. He knows that he failed, so he's enacting the plan he created for that scenario, despite the fact that he's alive again. He knows this plan doesn't work, so he's killed the New Xavier School plan before it can kill more people and its time to move on to the next one.
And just a few things you correctly pointed out would have been better in this finale if
That alone is a super effective way to get across to Scott no matter if he's right or wrong, the current path isn't working so he needs to temporarily give the reigns of his students over to Storm. The master planner in a lose lose situation so he doesn't even play the game to change it all, that's good stuff.
Now the only thing I wonder is if they're going to sync up what Hickman showed us in Avengers or not with Cyclops.
...Axis started after and ended before this UXM arc, wowza.
That said, Hickman's short glimpse of him in Time Runs Out was perfect.
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That's humphries writing the alpha / basically his event. Not very surprising that it reads like that.
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I thought the person writing ANXM and GOTG would also be writing this event.