Hickman's Avengers - Worth Reading?

Hickman's Avengers - Worth Reading? Nov 10, 2015 16:00:07 GMT -5

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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 10, 2015 16:00:07 GMT -5

Nov 7, 2015 6:38:48 GMT -5 @coldwater said:

Nov 6, 2015 23:39:49 GMT -5 wildfire2099 said:

Bendis' X-Men isn't bad... as long as you don't mind that it never actually gets anywhere plot-wise.

It slugs around FOREVER.
And the sad thing is, we all fell for it, at least for a bit.
We thought, for whatever reason, that this book would all of sudden start going somewhere from, like, zero to a million in the turn of a page.
And it never happened. Ever.
In my opinion, it was a book that never did anything but complain. And a lot of time spent getting little digs in at each other. And making Emma look even worse than Emma did already.

That's a fairly good way to describe Bendis' run, I agree. I thought he might do as Morrison had done in the early 2000s, and really send the X-men into a different direction. Then I had some hope for Scott Summers as a Mutant Malcolm X. But eventually what we had were X-people arguing in perfect bad faith for God knows what reason, characters acting in completely uncharacteristic fashion, and "surprising" manufactured revelations that went against decades of continuity. (Hank is in love with Jean? Bobby is gay? Xavier would ever, ever consider marrying the psycho-killer that is Mystique?)

Fair is fair, he also gave us a few great bits of dialogue. But that's not quite enough to compensate for the rest, which apparently wasn't meant to lead anywhere.