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onefinemess | December 3, 2009

Thor Giant-Size Finale – Wow.  Ouch.  Not just Bill – but Kelda too?  Urk.  I suspect at least one will come back.  Building up some great supporting characters only to throw them under the plot bus is downright insulting.  Seriously.   Making minor characters ONLY to kill them & tug the strings is dumb.  Even if [...]

a good week for comics

onefinemess | October 29, 2009

One splash, as expected, and lots of unexpected goodness.  Good times.

X-Factor 50 delivered on at least 85% of what was expected – and there was a lot riding on it, so I’ll call it good.  It may actually be closer to 100%, but the final sequence with Doom and what?whereishe? left me confused.  If this [...]

Marvel is turning into SNL…and other Comic Notes

onefinemess | August 27, 2009

re: Dark X-Men : The Beginning 3:
Once upon a time, a great creative team made Jean Grey interesting as the Phoenix, then killed her, ending that arc wonderfully.  Then Marvel thought it would be fun to do again, and again, and again.  Each time it is less interesting, and more likely to make me not [...]

New Mutants #1

onefinemess | May 8, 2009

Is this volume 3 or volume 4? I forget.  Anyway, they’re back!  Yes, it is true – Marvel seems to be at an all-time high for # of x-books again.  The bloat is so bad I’m actually NOT buying as many as I am buying… I think.  Somewhere in there.
Anyway, so, was this any good?
Sort [...]

NY Comiccon X-news

onefinemess | February 6, 2009

Looks like Marvel is looking back to the 80s (a “new” New Mutants book with the actual New Mutants finally ) and 90s (a really weird quasi-what if X-Men ?series?) for the new round of X-books.
I’m glad Young X-Men got canceled.  It sucked.  The storylines sucked, and it introduced probably the worst X-character ever.  Yes, [...]