Ned hated Flash more than anyone at this point for sleeping with his wife repeatedly and then punching him in the face when confronted. A sad state of affairs for the title that was previously the jewel in the comic world's crown.Īn even more obvious clue that Ned isn't the Hobgoblin is when the Hobgoblin congratulates himself on thinking of framing Flash and thinks that it wouldn't have occured to him if he hadn't seen Flash mouthing off on TV. Years later, when I came back to the X-books, I picked up all the issues I'd missed (for the sake of completeness) and I honestly hated this stretch of stories.
When he took over on X-Factor, I was just glad to have something different to Bogdanove's dire artwork! With hindsight, I can now see all the horsefaces and Manga inspirations in Whilce's pencils, but I'm also of the opinion that he's a much more capable artist than Liefeld. Portacio's art was something I didn't have much of a problem with back in the day. I dropped Adjectiveless around issue 10 as well - the X-books were simply nothing like they used to be in my eyes. It was all just so nonsensical and random, and filled with characters who appeared to have no real motivation. By the time 283 came out, I'd dropped this book completely. I thought it was a bit of a waste of the Reavers, but such is life. I bought UXM 281 the day it came out and I enjoyed it. There's really no good solution for it, other than to just not think about it very often - which, of course, is difficult when it's being commented on in the text of the issue, as with Beast here. Now the Gen X kids get aged up into their early 20s, and everybody else has to move back as well, etc. Then the New X-Men come along in the 00s. Which pushes the original X-Men back closer to their late 20s, if not early 30s, in a short amount of time (both real world and Marvel). The original X-Men being in their mid-to-late 20s (still not "just shy of 30, that just doesn't work) is fine that allows the old New Mutants/X-Force to be in their late teens at this point.īut then Generation X comes along, making them the new teens, so X-Force gets bumped into their early 20s. One of the (many) problems with the X-Men's ages is all the "new generations" of students that come along necessitate bumping up the ages of each previous generation faster than is realistic. It may just be fortuitous timing (since they needed Moira around for the Illyana/Legacy Virus stuff), but I kinda like that Moira left the mansion in the wake of Magneto's apparent death, but returns to the mansion just before his return (at a time when, once it's fully revealed he's back, we'll know he was active and in operation). His run is a classic, but in places feels semi-amateur. I assume he wasn't subject to editorial interference, but his own editorial duties must have cut into his time and energy for writing.
Gru had years to do something with Viper, but he didn't. The Fangs feel like Gru trying too hard: reusing old villains is good, but bringing Razorblade back was unnecessary, and the team is so random and unimpressive it makes Viper seems silly: she's fallen far from taking over the Serpent Society and serpentizing Washington, DC. And why would Viper settle on this, rather than stealing nukes or something? And her plot, by the standards of Marvel villainy at this time, when Carbage is chopping people up throughtout NYC, just seems quaint: blowing up TVs so whoever is tuned in happens to get blinded? Sure, it's evil, but it just doesn't feel real.
It seemed like a big deal when Gru had the Skull and Viper start collaborating, and it's weird that the subplot never developed, only to end abortively here, with the Skull deciding Viper is too nihilistic after all.
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