Seems like I'm the only one reading anything these days. Sigh.
Sorry mate, I'm still trying to catch up on my "family invasion" that occurred over the past 3 weeks and now trying to cram trips to the LCS before I lose my "in"
I posted a few days ago on last weeks reads, but trying to get to this week has been a bear
But real fast ... (okay, not real fast at all)
I did hit the LCS yesterday to get a stack going and well, I got to this one -
Marauders #1 - I was about an eighth of the way through this comic and was thinking
"Maybe Jeff and I are going to disagree with this title, it's okay so far"
but then, right after that, this book continued to fall right before me. It became a total copy of what the X-Men titles have been over the last few years, excluding the Rosenburg run; a crap fest of story and art combined with a pitiful exploration and exercise for the brand X-Men.
Is it horrible? Yes, well okay, maybe not. Not truthfully. But perhaps it is worse than horrible. It is forgettable. The way Pyro became a "team" member, with no discussion or banter? No "go screw yourself" or "I don't know about this" ... or ... something? What the hell? I know we are now under a do no Mutant harm rule, but come one guys. They still should react to someone they have not liked with some form of statement or question. And a crew of X-Men sailing the seven seas that does not include THE swashbuckling mutant Nightcrawler? I say FOUL!!!!
Plot wise I kinda like the idea. Kinda. It seems as though it is something Hickman would do; add an issue for a part of the whole, adding conflict via something beyond control, as of now, but this execution was not Hickman like at all. And I like Duggan's writing, but this was a mess in flow and substance.
I even thought maybe I could make it through the issue and keep reading in the hopes it will get better, but all I kept thinking after reading it was
"YUK"
Like Jeff, this is off my list.
