X-MEN

Any X-Men movie that would cut out its scenes of mutants hanging out at the mall fundamentally misunderstands its source material.

there was maybe five minutes of 'normal life at the mansion' scenes which recalled the spirit of claremont but they got dumped double-quick in favour of poor oscar isaac joylessly teleporting around the world and giving people haircuts which turned them evil

what I got out of this movie is that mutants have powers, and they fight a lot

Bryan Singer does not get the appeal of the X-Men. But his movies make money so this is probably as good as cinematic X-Men are going to get.

(TBF, though, half the people who write X-Men comics don't seem to get the appeal of the X-Men either.)

there are a few angles of appeal and somehow singer made at least two films without finding any of them

A general rule with films like these is if that if I have to have someone explaining to me what is happening on screen with some variation of "in the comics, it is explained that..." which was the case with this film, then the movie can fuck off.

imo additional context makes this one worse

there's so much terribly delivered exposition in this

Rose Byrne gets saddled with some particularly horrifying dialogue

I just remembered that Havok's death was so unclearly depicted that the movie was almost over by the time I realized that he'd actually died.

Is anyone still reading Krakoa X-Men or have we all tapped out

I was deep into mutant stuff in 5th-10th grades and then dropped out. Started following a x-men cover thing on twitter and I'm stunned at how awful some of the 90's stuff looked. Just... ugh. The logos themselves are hideous, and seeing the bastard children of Jim Lee and Rob Leifeld barf barf barf was Slimer from the Ghost Busters in there at some point?

Did it actually get good again?

That was Doop.

Doop is awesome.

I'm reading more of it than I expected, I'll read nearly anything by Kieron Gillen and Ale Wing, and the current crossover (taking the three main titles 10/100/1000 years into a future where Sinister has succeeded in infecting the immortality process so that everyone is Sinister) is pretty wild.

Cow_Art - this is the foundation for the modern X-Men, if it sounds like something interesting - "Mutants can't die" as a foundation stone is at least an interesting start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_X_and_Powers_of_X

Is Gambit still around? Gambit suuuuuuuuuuucked

First X-men I remember reading was on a road trip with my parents and I got it from a spinner rack in a gas station. I think the entire issue was Cyclops and Madeline (fake Jean Grey?) stranded in the ocean after their plane went down and fighting off a shark. The mix of action and soap opera really got to me.

I read whatever came out till March 2020 and enjoyed it. Then, during the pandemic, I subscribed to a bunch of comics in order to support my local comic store during the "strange times", and finally got them delivered to the house in a bundle sometime in 2021. By that point, there so many of them, it was too exhausting to comtemplate starting them. I have, like, the Jimmy Olsen series, some Ale Wing and Chip Zdarsky minis, the last year of Immortal Hulk, and way too many Hickman Krakoa X-Mens. I'll read them sometime, probably!

My desire to catch up was put off, somewhat, by the news that Hickman left.

Also I find Leinil Yu's work annoying to read!

My desire to catch up was put off, somewhat, by the news that Hickman left.

― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, March 26, 2023 8:49 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This

Plus there are constantly more and more and more series!

I may wait until this whole direction ends and then trawl to figure out which storylines are best regarded and buy those trades

good luck having those trades still be in print by the time you figure it out obv

Meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv3Ss8o9gGQ