McCheese
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Fine I'll start the damn thread. Lazy bastards.
Messiah CompleX kicked off today with chapter one written by Ed Brubaker. This is a thread to discuss all things Messiah CompleX. Yes the X is inappropriately capitolized. I checked. This crossover is supposed to change the X-books for the foreseeable future. And if it's half as entertaining as the last event to change the X-books forever, House of M, it won't be entertaining at all. In fact it may be negative entertaining, if such a thing exists. But since this is the first post I'm forced to summarize and review this comic in the first ever...
We start with the X-gang (a hodge-podge of X-men from Uncanny and Astonishing) heading towards a mystery town for a mysterious reason. Except anyone who's read anything about this event knows what the mystery object is. NEW MUTANT BABY! Eat that Scarlet Witch with your "No more mutants." and your one-piece swimsuit that you try to pass off as a superhero costume. Back on topic, Emma can't sense the town. Wolverine theorizes that there's a trap waiting for them. He actually provides a decent arguement for it. And I thought he was only capable of smelling stuff, cutting stuff, and drinking beer. I've been mislead. Damn you Whedon. Two digressions already. This is getting ugly. Anyway the town is on fire. The X-men switch to rescue mode. But wait, we have an special interruption from the actual story for an unnecessarily long set up for our current situation. 4 pages to say a new mutant was born and it was so powerful it fried Cerebra and gave Prof. X a nosebleed. Back in the actual story, Nightcrawler Bamfs a lot. Wolverine finds the corpse of Blockbuster (Marauder). They also find the bodies of a handful of Purifiers (Mutant hating religious zealots) and Prism (another Marauder). Emma reads the mind of a woman who is holding the smoldering corpse of her own daughter. Seems the Purifiers rolled into town first and started wasting everything that hasn't hit puberty in hopes of destroying the NEW MUTANT BABY. The Marauders show up next. Also looking for the NEW MUTANT BABY. Gambit speaks. Boo. But he doesn't say anything in his annoying accent. Yay. The Marauders and the Purifiers faced off in a hospital. Emma finishes reading the woman's mind and the X-men head that way now. They find that the Purifiers killed all the babies in the hospital's baby holding pen. All of them except one. DUN DUN DUNN. Everyone takes turns saying "Damn it." before deciding to call it a day so they can go home and sulk. Predator X, a mindless monster from the pages of New X-Men shows up too late for the new baby, but decides to eat the remains of the dead Marauders. The back up to this is called X-Men Datafiles. It's just Cyclops introducing all the big players in this crossover. Not really much to say. Kaare Andrews' Purifiers pic is awesome. Land's Things To Come pic is ugly.
The Breakdown
Meh. Set-up. Needed to be done, but we've known all this stuff was going to happen for months. Relatively well executed I suppose. The art is pretty good. Silvestri's Emma makes me feel dirty. In fact, all the women in this issue make me feel dirty. I wish the real world had this ratio of ridiculously hot women. All in all, a pretty good start.
3.5/5
Messiah CompleX kicked off today with chapter one written by Ed Brubaker. This is a thread to discuss all things Messiah CompleX. Yes the X is inappropriately capitolized. I checked. This crossover is supposed to change the X-books for the foreseeable future. And if it's half as entertaining as the last event to change the X-books forever, House of M, it won't be entertaining at all. In fact it may be negative entertaining, if such a thing exists. But since this is the first post I'm forced to summarize and review this comic in the first ever...
McCheese's Weekly Messiah CompleX Review
We start with the X-gang (a hodge-podge of X-men from Uncanny and Astonishing) heading towards a mystery town for a mysterious reason. Except anyone who's read anything about this event knows what the mystery object is. NEW MUTANT BABY! Eat that Scarlet Witch with your "No more mutants." and your one-piece swimsuit that you try to pass off as a superhero costume. Back on topic, Emma can't sense the town. Wolverine theorizes that there's a trap waiting for them. He actually provides a decent arguement for it. And I thought he was only capable of smelling stuff, cutting stuff, and drinking beer. I've been mislead. Damn you Whedon. Two digressions already. This is getting ugly. Anyway the town is on fire. The X-men switch to rescue mode. But wait, we have an special interruption from the actual story for an unnecessarily long set up for our current situation. 4 pages to say a new mutant was born and it was so powerful it fried Cerebra and gave Prof. X a nosebleed. Back in the actual story, Nightcrawler Bamfs a lot. Wolverine finds the corpse of Blockbuster (Marauder). They also find the bodies of a handful of Purifiers (Mutant hating religious zealots) and Prism (another Marauder). Emma reads the mind of a woman who is holding the smoldering corpse of her own daughter. Seems the Purifiers rolled into town first and started wasting everything that hasn't hit puberty in hopes of destroying the NEW MUTANT BABY. The Marauders show up next. Also looking for the NEW MUTANT BABY. Gambit speaks. Boo. But he doesn't say anything in his annoying accent. Yay. The Marauders and the Purifiers faced off in a hospital. Emma finishes reading the woman's mind and the X-men head that way now. They find that the Purifiers killed all the babies in the hospital's baby holding pen. All of them except one. DUN DUN DUNN. Everyone takes turns saying "Damn it." before deciding to call it a day so they can go home and sulk. Predator X, a mindless monster from the pages of New X-Men shows up too late for the new baby, but decides to eat the remains of the dead Marauders. The back up to this is called X-Men Datafiles. It's just Cyclops introducing all the big players in this crossover. Not really much to say. Kaare Andrews' Purifiers pic is awesome. Land's Things To Come pic is ugly.
The Breakdown
Meh. Set-up. Needed to be done, but we've known all this stuff was going to happen for months. Relatively well executed I suppose. The art is pretty good. Silvestri's Emma makes me feel dirty. In fact, all the women in this issue make me feel dirty. I wish the real world had this ratio of ridiculously hot women. All in all, a pretty good start.
3.5/5
