X-MEN LEGACY #228

Review by: ohcaroline

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Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 4 - Very Good

Comments

  1. I completely agree on all counts.  I never read Gen X, I loathed that era of comics, and I still love what Carey is doing with these characters!  Also, Dr. Nemesis is always, always awesome.

  2. This is really my ideal way to use backstory — use villains and concepts that already exist, but do it in a way to make it relevant within the present story.  

  3. I’m really loving Acuna’s art, especially all the scenes in Emplate’s world. His style really accentuates the weird environment there. It reminds me of reading an issue of Heavy Metal.

     

    And you only made it a quarter of the way through the review before the X-Force bashing. Come on, you’re better than that! 🙂

  4. From now on all my reviews will start with, "As you know, X-Force sucks.  This book, however,. . ."

    Better?

  5. I just think it would’ve carried more weight if Emplate kidnapped someone we know about.  I’m all for retracting the usable characters in the X-Universe, Fraction and (lately) Carey seem to be all about rapid expansion

  6. Great review by the way.  I like the piece about writers being able to split up an issue between decompression and action

  7. It’s possible they could have used one of the better established kids just as effectively, but I don’t know anything about the kids anyway so it makes no difference to me.  And the kids are going to be part of this book, which I think is important because that’s a part of the story that needs to be told. 

     

  8. I just wish New X-Men was still around to tell that story.  Kyle and Yost were crushing that book over its last year

  9. @sig: Actually, this story reminds me a LOT of the old Generation X stuff, so if you like this so much maybe you shouldn’t be so prejudiced against that old stuff.

    Not that I was a HUGE fan of Gen X. Not that I was a HUGE fan of this issue, but it was decent and cool enough to make me stick around for another issue.

    If this series turns into Gambit and Rogue’s "relationship" going nowhere fast, though, I’m out.

    And I hope Rogue leaves Utopia soon. I’m tired of Cyclops all the time.

  10. @cutty  Kyle and Yost decided they’d rather go to a book where they could torture teenage girls with chainsaws.  Go team.

  11. Apparently I’m reading the wrong x-book s and should be reading this and X-Factor instead.

  12. @ ohcaroline – yet a book where a teenage girl is having her arm eaten is all good?  I hear you, sometimes X-Force is way too violent, but there’s been a very good story in that book….at times

  13. @cutty – There’s a whole paragraph in my review (which is on the top of this page) addressing that issue.

  14. This was the issue that convinced me to drop this title, ’cause I don’t care anymore. I like that Carey has fixed Rogue, but I got zero interest in this story…unless it ends with X-Force slaughtering Emplate. 🙂

     

  15. If you have not read Gen-X, I would not strongly recommend doing so for background on Emplate. The Emplate/Monet backstory is a total cluster*&$# of strained, convoluted nonsense. I liked Emplate here with minimal reference to all that. He seemed both genuinely terrifying and tragic.

     However if Monet shows up in this storyline, then I would run. Run!

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