jonesy10

I don't like Daniel Acuna's work on Uncanny Avengers. Too muddy, indistinct

I am not impressed by Simone's work. Her writing is neither creative or intelligent enough to interest me. I received WW: Ends of the Earth, as a gift, but couldn't get through the first few pages. Same with her recent Batgirl arc. The first person narrative is played out and the same lame vigilante scenarios are just boring. It doesn't help that she is paired with these 90's Image lite artists. They all look like they took the Jim Lee How To Draw Stiff Figures course. The bigger problem that DC insists on this middle of the road stuff. they sergEllll It's safe and the fAns like it. I'm just not a fan.

Lame. Not worth buying. First off, why does her inner dialogue sound like a normal human? And then why does she sound like an Asgardian when she speaks out loud? She apparently knows nothing about Thor's powers or how to use Mjolnir. I don't like the idea of an amateur pretending to the the God of Thunder.

Worse of all they dumb down the dialogue to the contemporary Marvel lingo, making everyone sound like a moronic hipster. "Hel Yes!" was cringe worthy and certainly not Thor worthy.

I miss the days when comic books tried to teach you something new and expanded your vocabulary; now they just scramble for the lowest common denominator

Basically Bendis has turned Hank McCoy into an impotent mad scientist. This extends to all three versions he has given us. And like every other character in Bendis' X-Universe, he's also sexually frustrated. Again, we have the idea that Jean is perfect and unattainable and it's implied that Hank bent the rules of time and space so he could pine away at his old crush. Or something like that. Which is why I have retcons of established relationships. Anyone who followed Claremont and Morrison X-Men knows that Hank and Jean are best friends and deeply respectful of each other. The problem with Bendis is that he only understands male/female relations from a sexual POV. He has no idea that people get together for reasons other than hormones. What can you say about the lame/incompetent mutants he features in UXM? The healer dude lusts after the Cuckoos. The fat one basically a non entity. The skinny one who vaguely turns into other people (wtf kind of power is that?) is also a non entity. Hijack? Who cares? Tempus could be interesting because her powers are cool, but all we know of her is she's Aussie and has a knucklehead for a brother. Do these people have parents or friends? Are we to believe to these people would drop them just because they are mutants? These questions of integration, which have always been central to the X-Men mission, are completely and utterly ignored by Bendis. He hasnt' bothered to give the UXM team an external threat to bring them out of their seclusion. The closest we get is Scott's speech at the university and then....nothing. He rather conveniently uses Magik as their personal "mutant greyhound" to teleport them in and out of trouble. Oh, and if anyone gets killed on his watch, he's got a healer for that. Therefore we have no consequences. SHIELD has conveniently become super stupid, allowing a known terrorist to impersonate an agent and generally letting Maria Hill get owned by Cyclops at every turn.

And the reasons all of these characters act this way is because the man writing them is narrow minded. Then again, I think we're seeing the backlash to Grant Morrison and Peter Milligan, who each gave us ideas of what the X-Men could be. Marvel has spent the last nine years undoing the things they disliked about Morrison's run. We still have to put up with Scott/Emma despite the fact that they shouldn't still be together. They kept the Cuckoos and Quentin Quire, sexing up the teen girls and making Quire significantly more cool, having forgotten the trauma of death and enlightenment. Gone is anything that might me yucky. No more Ernst, U-Men, Beak, or low class Angel. They're far to creepy for the Hollywood mutants. Better to have the generically appealing Armor and Wing, one dimensional enemies like 'Danger' and the incredibly one note Breakworld. And while we are at it, let's dispense with intelligence and wit, what we need is 'snark', immaturity, and no consequences.

Whedon wouldn't have bothered with X-Men and at least half of his story ideas were inspired by E Is For Extinction. He readily admits that Morrison's work got him back into the X-Men after the cluster***k that was the '90's. The biggest problem I had with Whedon's run was his insistence on making Kitty the hero of the day. Usually at the expense of every other character. I actively dislike his version of Kitty and his pop psychology Cyclops was underwhelming. Also, Colossus is still a boring character

The worst team was that one Jean Grey put together during the Eve of Destruction storyline: Northstar, girl Sunfire, some transparent loser, and Paulie, the Italian American stereotype, and Dazzler. Thank you, Scott Lobdell. I saved so much money by quitting X-Men during your lame run

Kitty Pryde and Icman is the worst pairing ever. It worked in the movies because they made them the same age. In the comics, Bobby is many years older than Kitty and even so, he's often portrayed as an immature dumb-**s. What could a certified genius like Kitty see in Iceman? It felt like his attraction to her was out of the blue and out of character. And Storm and Wolverine is just.....wrong. I liked when the X-Men got it on with regular humans....luckily, it looks like we've seen the last of these lame couples

Whedon's run was directly influenced by Morrison's New X-Men, but his take on the concepts were boring. He pretty much repeats the Beast's story arc from E is for Extiction, even having Hank complain about his lack of human fingers. The conflict between Kitty and Emma gets old really quick. For some reason his Emma is emotionally unstable. Wolverine is comic relief. He resurrects. Collosus mainly so he can get it on with Kitty. For some reason Cyclops say 'gonna', like he's a dumb teenager.

Whedon's use of existing protagonists doesn't work well. A memory of Cassandra Nova is enough to fell a powerful telepath like Emma Frost? Whu? His new mutants are lame white bread ciphers with unimaginative names and powers. Armor? Wing? really? Hey look, I walk on two legs! My name mutant name is 'Foot'! Danger is the stupidest idea for an X-Men villain ever. Is that really the worst thing Xavier has ever done? 'Enslaving' an AI system? Oh. My. God. Charlie, you are a monster!

And don't get me started on the 'Breakworld'. A bunch of one dimensional bruisers who shouldn't be a threat to the lamest X-Man. Yeah, I don't look back fondly on Whedon's 'Astonishing X-Men'. If not for Cassaday's artwork, this would be average at best.

I've always considered Asian Psylocke to be a stereotype and a gimmick. She's another bad-a** , scantily clad character marketed to teen boys. Originally, Betsy Braddock was a white Brit, underestimated by the X-Men because of her upper class background. It felt like a cheat to suddenly make her into this ninja psychic, without any of the work you'd have do to get there. And as far as I know, the writers have never bothered to explore what it's like to suddenly change race. I suppose her status as a mutant trumps racial and class issues.

Because it looks stupid on a guy who is supposed to be a bad a@#*. Is he supposed to be Tony the Tiger? The return of that costume (in the early 90's) represents everything wrong with the character. He went from being someone interesting, to just another mixed up psycho. But I guess it sells, so whatever......