A New Era

So I started reading more X-Men again. Of course the dead have risen again, and Apocalypse came back to make more X-Men into his Horsemen. Which, you know, seems very improbable, them having all seen what he did to Angel way back in the day. I also didn't care for how at sometimes the X-Men are ready to throw down with the Sentinels outside, and then they team up with them to fight any bad guy that comes along. I'm sorry, I know they are trying to draw parralells with both their own Days of the Future Past, and the Holocaust, but do you really think the Jews ever teamed up with the Nazis to fight the Soviets? Since the X-Universe is so big I try not to get too into it as you pretty much need to pick all of up to understand it. Of course, when you do pick all of it up, it only highlights how badly the X-Men are treated by the rest of the Marvel universe. Which I have never understood to be honest. All the time you see the other Marvel heroes like Captain America talking about how the X-Men have saved the world time and time again, but does he get up in public and say this? No. When all of the mutants are herded into Xaviers and refused permission to leave, does he go on national TV and decry it? No, of course not. And why? Well, I think Cap doesn't like mutants.

Anyways, I'm getting away from myself. What I wanted to do was to give you some of my thoughts on several of the different series out there, why I like them or don't, what they are doing right, and what I think they are doing wrong. I expect this to take a little bit of time and go over maybe two, three blogs tops, but I think you will enjoy it. Okay here we go:

Astonishing X-Men: My favorite out of them all. I am glad to see Emma revealed as the villain she is, and has been portrayed as in the other X books, but more on that later. I hope that Scott comes through this stronger, and someone starts writing him as a normal guy and have him smile once or twice, which would have to be explained at some later point as a clone or something. Other then that, I can't really think of much to say about this book. I am glad to see Kitty and Lockheed(my fav), and glad to see her not being written as a leather clad tough who just wants to fight and then whine about it(*cough*cough*X-treme X-Men*cough). Keep up the good work.

Uncanny X-Men: The new Brubaker arc is very good. I always liked the X-Men going into space, it just seemed right for them. Besides, they got enough mutants at the mansion as it is. I like that Scott is still pissed at Xavier, and I hope he stays that way for a while in all of the books. Good to see that another of the third generation, Warpath, has taken up the mantle of X-Man. I don't know why they don't do this more. They have characters who have been heroes since they were 14, but instead of using them, they have to reform some villain to be the new team member. Though this has worked to some degree of success in the past, such as Rogue.

-Dan