New Comic Day hangover

Let’s get right to it.  This week, we’re looking at…

• Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #3 in which a lot of talking is done.
• Justice League: Generation Lost #10 in which we learn what Max Lord is up to.
• Uncanny X-Force #1 in which the badass team gets relaunched with a not-so badass name.
• Uncanny X-Men #528 in which Hope does exactly the same thing as the last two issues.
• And X-Men Legacy #240 in which we get a kidnapping and a wedding.

There will be details past the jump and they will have SPOILERS in them.  You have been warned.

New comic day hangover

I’m back from my trip to yesteryear, complete with new comics!  This week we have:

Justice League: Generation Lost #3 in which the JLI fights a bunch of OMACs.

Booster Gold #33 in which Booster goes after Max Lord in the past.

Uncanny X-Men #525 in which the X-Men run around fighting.

X-Men Hellbound #2 in which different X-Men run around fighting.

Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #2 in which I consider dropping the title.

SPOILERS will be included should you decide to join me after the jump for a look at these comics.

Retro Comic Day hangover

I have no new issues coming out this week, so as to keep the reviewing flow going, I’ve decided to hop into the time-mobile and travel back 11 years and take a look at what books I would have bought back in June of 1999.  Jeez – 1999 was 11 years ago?  Ouch.  This (that) month, we have (had)…

Uncanny X-Men #371 in which we get a needless crossover with the tech characters of the Marvel U.

X-Force #92 in which we take a brief moment to bring in a character from X-Men 2099.

Generation X #54 in which we get a big fight scene.

X-Men #91 in which we get more tech character crossover.

And that’s it.  By this point, both X-Factor and Excalibur had mercifully received the axe and neither X-Force nor Generation X would make it another two years.

I usually would warn of spoilers, but come on – these are 11 years old.  I’ll have them behind the jump anyway.

New Comic Day hangover

Big week for the Marvel U as the Real Big Event closes up.  Elsewhere, new DC runs launch and the X-Men plow on through Second Coming.  Here’s what’s on this week’s list:

Booster Gold #32 in which way too much dialogue sets off not a whole lot of story.

Justice League: Generation Lost #1 in which four of the JLI reunite for a Real Big Story.

Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1 in which the X-Men look weird.

New Avengers Finale in which New Avengers ends before a new New Avengers launches.

New Mutants #13 in which Hope meets the rest of the class.

Siege #4 in which a universal reset button is pressed.

I’ll be covering the Siege event as a whole in a separate post, so we’ll leave that one alone for now.  As for the other five, my thoughts (with SPOILERS included) will follow after the jump.  So jump already.

Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis launches

Even though Astonishing X-Men itself is trapped in limbo (according to Marvel’s website, it’s been pushed back to June 3), writer Warren Ellis has an Astonishing mini launching next week called “Xenogenesis”.  In case you hadn’t seen it, it’s where this…thing came from:

Featuring the all-new 4-foot tall Emma Frost!

According to their solicit info, Marvel has this to say about the book:

THE HEROIC AGE IS HERE! The superstar team of Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews (SPIDER-MAN: REIGN) take X-Men into the Heroic Age! Something’s happening in the tiny East African city of Mbangwi. Something that requires immediate investigation. A newborn sprouts metal electrodes and explodes, taking out an entire hospital. Is this the first wave of mutant rebirth that the X-Men have been praying for…or something very, very different? Something sinister?

So Marvel’s trying to pass this off as the X-Men’s intro to the Heroic Age (conveniently launching the same week as Siege wraps up), much like Ellis’s run on Astonishing started the ‘Manifest Destiny’ period of X-Men when they moved to San Francisco.  Except that if you actually look at the book, that doesn’t work at all.  For one, Beast is still on the team.  He’s been gone for months now and is set to join the cast of Secret Avengers.  Also, this team is still based in San Francisco and doesn’t seem to have the ‘messiah child’ Hope around…which is all the rage in the X-Books at the moment.

No, this seems to be a side-feature to the current (albeit heavily delayed) story in Astonishing ‘eXogenetic’.  See the corresponding titles?  Ellis did the same thing in his first story with an alternate reality two-parter called ‘Ghost Boxes’.  Marvel’s trying to make the best of the situation created by Astonishing‘s staggering delays and pretend that it’s not like a year behind the rest of the X-Books.  Perhaps they should put more effort into GETTING THE BOOK OUT.