The latest issue of New X-Men

[avram]

OK, I like as good surprise twist as much as the next guy, and I never did buy that Magneto could have been killed by Sentinels, but what the fuck? Has Morrison had this planned all along, or is he pulling it out of his ass?

Xorn has a bunch of powers that Magneto’s never demonstrated. Look back at the annual in which he was introduced. “This is what a three second exposure to the face of Xorn does to a living being.” And we’ve seen him heal; how did Magneto fake that? And that big gravity-event-horizon thing at the climax. And disrupting G-Type on the Shi’ar cruiser: “My core is in flux. There is an unknown gravitational source interfering...”.

How did Magneto fake all the background around the facility where they found Xorn? The Chinese officials who seemed to believe it had been there for decades? How did he fool Emma’s telepathic scan?

This has all the signs of a sloppy ret-con.

Comments

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

I would insert a snarky comment about Marvel here, but:

1. Whatever floats yer boat, and


2. Like I should talk, since I am doggedly sticking to Cerebus till the bitter end.

[avram]

I don’t think of it so much as a Marvel book as a Grant Morrison book; I didn’t read it before he started writing it (well, not since I was a teenager anyway), and I’ll probably drop it when he does.

Does it make sense to follow comics based on what company publishes them, rather than what creators work on them? Would you pay more attention to the publisher’s imprint than the author’s name on a novel?

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

No, of course it doesn't. It's an Ancient Prejudice on my part, back when I was a little kid discovering comics, had only a quarter (we never missed a meal, but there wasn't much cash left over) and noticed that I had to read $1.25 worth of comics monthly to get the story. Bummer.

Fast forward: I gave the John Byrne Superman a try - same thing happened.

I buy self-contained stories. Watchmen. Cerebus. Rising Stars. Wolff & Byrd. Bone.

I like the Marvel characters a lot; I just don't like having to buy an entire world to follow a single story. Am I missing good stuff with that attitude? Of course, but I gave up trying to read Everything about 1980.

Perhaps things have improved on that front recently, and I can get self-contained stories from Marvel/DC. I'll give a look next time.

[mojo-iv.livejournal.com]

And, Damn, is that going to be a bitter ending...

--m4