Post by cerebro on Jun 27, 2004 10:35:11 GMT -5
"all-new, all-different x-men imbraking on a new era and direction that will make sure you never look at the world of mutants the same ever again!!"
how many times have we heard this from those that bring us our favorite mutants? in the last four years alone i can count half a dozen times when everything was revamped and new secrets revealed that seem to conteract facts that we already took as part of the gospel of xavier. this new so-called re-load is no different.
not only are their new creative teams on every x-book, including our favorite vampire maker on annostishing x-men, but there are completely redone lineups. after the death of phoenix (sorry red) and the revelation that xorn was magneto we find that the xavier school for mutants is rebuilt but without xavier, who is in genosha and has declared the dream dead. cyclops and emma frost now continue the dream of co-existance and the x-men are deputized enforcers of the law as it involves homo superier. and there is a whole new class of new mutants training to be future x-men, (one hopes that this title gets better treatment and stories then the first new mutant team), and old new mutants are on hand to teach the up and coming generations, (do i smell a crossover storyline in the future?). canadas weapon x is in a state of civil war, cable is mia, and former x-man and weapon x-er marrow has gone back to being a rogue and set herself up as the leader of gene nation, (a poor mans morlocks). even the side book exiles, which has more in common with the old title what if... then any tradtional x-men book has been hit with the re-load bug, by bringing beak on board to our unhinged heros, a character who one prays will evolve into what we saw during this last possible dark future that we witnessed in the storyline leading up to the re-load.
change is not always a bad thing. this major restructuring is proof that marvel comics is attempting to regain its strength and title as house of ideas. lord knows that its been a while since i felt any excitement for any of the titles, x-men foremost included, that hooked me into reading comics since i was a pre-teen to now where i am pushing 30. heres hoping that this change is going to be just the herald of even better things.
--rif
how many times have we heard this from those that bring us our favorite mutants? in the last four years alone i can count half a dozen times when everything was revamped and new secrets revealed that seem to conteract facts that we already took as part of the gospel of xavier. this new so-called re-load is no different.
not only are their new creative teams on every x-book, including our favorite vampire maker on annostishing x-men, but there are completely redone lineups. after the death of phoenix (sorry red) and the revelation that xorn was magneto we find that the xavier school for mutants is rebuilt but without xavier, who is in genosha and has declared the dream dead. cyclops and emma frost now continue the dream of co-existance and the x-men are deputized enforcers of the law as it involves homo superier. and there is a whole new class of new mutants training to be future x-men, (one hopes that this title gets better treatment and stories then the first new mutant team), and old new mutants are on hand to teach the up and coming generations, (do i smell a crossover storyline in the future?). canadas weapon x is in a state of civil war, cable is mia, and former x-man and weapon x-er marrow has gone back to being a rogue and set herself up as the leader of gene nation, (a poor mans morlocks). even the side book exiles, which has more in common with the old title what if... then any tradtional x-men book has been hit with the re-load bug, by bringing beak on board to our unhinged heros, a character who one prays will evolve into what we saw during this last possible dark future that we witnessed in the storyline leading up to the re-load.
change is not always a bad thing. this major restructuring is proof that marvel comics is attempting to regain its strength and title as house of ideas. lord knows that its been a while since i felt any excitement for any of the titles, x-men foremost included, that hooked me into reading comics since i was a pre-teen to now where i am pushing 30. heres hoping that this change is going to be just the herald of even better things.
--rif