Week of January 14, 2015
In which we continue to be frustrated by Cyclops, but everything else is pretty great.
Reviewed:
- Wolverines #2 (00:23)
- X-Force #14 (2:23)
- *Amazing X-Men #15 (4:59)
- Cyclops #9 (7:26)
- Nightcrawler #10 (9:39)
*Pick of the week (11:24)
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Colossus: What would Wolverine do?
Trance: He’d team up with a teenage girl and go kill bad guys.
Damn right he would.
WHY ARE SO MANY X-BOOKS ENDING?
At least three of them are ending within the next two months? Are we getting more to replace them?
I assume it’s part of streamlining into whatever massive upheaval’s happening around the upcoming Secret Wars stuff.
On one hand: I will miss some of these books. On the other hand: I am really excited about the idea of at least one month without an eight-X-issue week.
I googled but couldn’t find anything about which specific books are ending. R&M mentioned Nightcrawler in the reviews, which others are ending?
All-New X-Factor and X-Force are both ending. Nightcrawler *may* be continuing, but Claremont and Nauck’s run on it is confirmed to be ending. No news yet on who, if anyone, is following G. Willow Wilson’s run on X-Men, so that could conceivably be ending too.
Thanks for the info!
If you’d read solicits, you’d also have the Shogun twist ruined for you before it happened. 🙁
I’m not sure I’m actually capable of caring enough about Ogun to have any twists related to him “ruined.”
Someone posted this on FB this morning. I’m trying to not do the panicky flail thing:
http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/01/20/the-marvel-universe-is-coming-to-an-end-in-may-2015
Please talk about this soon!
Wolverines, X-Force and Amazing were all SO GOOD this week. I love reading Storm when she isn’t characterized as super likable, and I think both Wilson and Yost have a really good handle on her grimmer mindset after the Death of Wolverine.
And yeah, that X-Force issue was a triumph. I’m not sure there was a single page that wasn’t excellent. I liked the end of Legacy a lot, but Spurrier is on a whole different level with this X-Force ending.
Wolverines is really fun (and I really like the art!), but probably needs about 4-5 fewer characters.