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[Primetime]

Cancelled after 8 issues, impressive.

I had money it'd be cancelled after 4.5 issues.

Still, thanks for wasting our time on a book that did nothing for TChalla, didn't showcase any Wakandas still collecting dust on the shelf, and prioritized characters no one gave a fukk about

 

[Primetime]

Jean


Finally a book fully embraces that Jean and Logan are fukking

Is this the first time ever, canonically, that the "real" Logan and the "real" Jean have actually fukked?

For eternity it seemed the inside joke was to have Logan able to screw every girl but Scott's, because that was Scott's forever umad: shtick to Logan.

Logan basically done gathered all the infinity stones now



... assuming Hickman doesn't have Moria erase this entire timeline at the conclusion of his run

 

[Jmare007]

... assuming Hickman doesn't have Moria erase this entire timeline at the conclusion of his run

Life 11 gonna have Logan being completely miserable :again

 

[BXKingPin82]

Kamala got her own lil symbiote story.

 

[Primetime]

Did Covid slow down the excitement for Hickman's x-men run or were things losing steam before the hiatus? Or are you still as excited?

Is it too early to give it your mid season/quarterly grade?

Letter grade for each series and for the overall Hickman era to date

 

[Jello Biafra]

Did Covid slow down the excitement for Hickman's x-men run or were things losing steam before the hiatus? Or are you still as excited?

Is it too early to give it your mid season/quarterly grade?

Letter grade for each series and for the overall Hickman era to date

I lost a lot of my interest in it because so many of the books that came out of House of X were meh.

I'd give the whole thing a C. It's just middle of the road as fukk with some interesting concepts sprinkled on top of it.

 

[Jmare007]

Did Covid slow down the excitement for Hickman's x-men run or were things losing steam before the hiatus? Or are you still as excited?

Is it too early to give it your mid season/quarterly grade?

Letter grade for each series and for the overall Hickman era to date

Covid slowed it down for sure because they were about to launch new titles and have an "event" (X of Swords). Also, with Empyre getting delayed, Hickman's main book got delayed the most as there are a couple of tie ins that had to wait for Empyre to begin to keep the Dawn of X story going.

I think it's way too early to judge the run as a whole but there were no doubt some books that weren't needed or that went too long. Overall, X-Men, X-Force and Marauders were the books that I give a damn. New Mutants had some moments but it lost me eventually. But overall, I'm all in on the story Hickman wants to tell.

Hellions looks like it will be interesting, issue #1 was dope. We'll see how it keeps going.

Also, there's clearly some continuity issues across all books that are head scratching. Specially the Kitty situation.

 

[Primetime]

I lost a lot of my interest in it because so many of the books that came out of House of X were meh.

I'd give the whole thing a C. It's just middle of the road as fukk with some interesting concepts sprinkled on top of it.

That's how i feel. Raw and Smackdown were must-see-tv (moreso Raw, iirc) and setup some great and intriguing conflicts with the greater MU.

However, the execution since has been kinda scatter-brained and lacking fluidity. The F4 aspect should've been a subplot continuing in the main book, with a more convincing catalyst for Franklin possibly switching sides than the all around character-induced-stupidity (approaching AvX levels) that they used to piecemail the miniseries. A mini that will be an after thought to what the F4 will be doing in Empyre now.

Not to mention, the political ramifications of Krakoa with Atlantis, Wakanda, USA (Squadron Supreme), and Russia (Winter Guard). And of course the Avengers. All these potentially cool interactions and reactions i thought we would see, that would make the MU seem more cohesive.. but it's all still segregated and scattered.

 

[Dillah810]

Did Covid slow down the excitement for Hickman's x-men run or were things losing steam before the hiatus? Or are you still as excited?

Is it too early to give it your mid season/quarterly grade?

Letter grade for each series and for the overall Hickman era to date

Truthfully, I haven't liked much of any of Hickmen's X-Men run. I dropped all the X-books shortly after the House of X and Powers of X books ended. D-

 

[Jmare007]

That's how i feel. Raw and Smackdown were must-see-tv (moreso Raw, iirc) and setup some great and intriguing conflicts with the greater MU.

However, the execution since has been kinda scatter-brained and lacking fluidity. The F4 aspect should've been a subplot continuing in the main book, with a more convincing catalyst for Franklin possibly switching sides than the all around character-induced-stupidity (approaching AvX levels) that they used to piecemail the miniseries. A mini that will be an after thought to what the F4 will be doing in Empyre now.

Not to mention, the political ramifications of Krakoa with Atlantis, Wakanda, USA (Squadron Supreme), and Russia (Winter Guard). And of course the Avengers. All these potentially cool interactions and reactions i thought we would see, that would make the MU seem more cohesive.. but it's all still segregated and scattered.

I think you were expecting too much way too soon to be honest. Specially with a guy like Hickman that literally takes fukking years to pay things off. Which doesn't mean anyone should like it, but expecting different is bound to disappoint imo. Dawn of X basically stopped in month 6 of the run due to the pandemic

 

[Primetime]

I think you were expecting too much way too soon to be honest. Specially with a guy like Hickman that literally takes fukking years to pay things off. Which doesn't mean anyone should like it, but expecting different is bound to disappoint imo. Dawn of X basically stopped in month 6 of the run due to the pandemic

Ironically, I think the F4 stuff happened too soon... and was something I expected to be a more well written slow grind by Hickman (in typical Hickman fashion), instead of delegated to someone else as a meh mini.

And I don't find seeing early diplomatic reactions/tensions depicted with Atlantis, Wakanda, Latveria, etc as being hurried or payoff.. esp since they already recognized that it happened, but did so offscreen in essay-fukkin-format

I'm well aware of HickMcmahon's MO, which is why I didn't even touch on the central plot with Moira or his fetish with alien alphabets and super saiyan blue albinos.

 

[Jmare007]

super saiyan blue albinos.

 

[Red Shield]

Did Covid slow down the excitement for Hickman's x-men run or were things losing steam before the hiatus? Or are you still as excited?

Is it too early to give it your mid season/quarterly grade?

Letter grade for each series and for the overall Hickman era to date

This covid popped off and I forgot when new issues came out. so I'm behind

 

[R=G]

Did Covid slow down the excitement for Hickman's x-men run or were things losing steam before the hiatus? Or are you still as excited?

Is it too early to give it your mid season/quarterly grade?

Letter grade for each series and for the overall Hickman era to date

I cant wait for X Factor..i need to read the Sinister title..something is up with Apocalypse.

 

[parallax]

Cancelled after 8 issues, impressive.

I had money it'd be cancelled after 4.5 issues.

Still, thanks for wasting our time on a book that did nothing for TChalla, didn't showcase any Wakandas still collecting dust on the shelf, and prioritized characters no one gave a fukk about

they had a livewire crossover. a team i hadnt heard from in years. for what fukking purpose?