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Fukk your corny debates
So Bendis leaving X-Men after Secret Wars. He's still got a couple more months, but can we all agree his legacy and work on it was 
? Almost Chuck Austen levels of Well, not quite, but it was bad.
He started off with Cyclops using cheesy old school Magneto-esque rhetoric about a mutant revolution. That leads to one of the dumbest most inexplicable plot lines ever, Beast acting completely out of character and pulling the original X-Men into the present on the hope that somehow seeing them would make Cyclops rethink his vague "mutant revolution." It made no sense because...
1. Someone as smart as Beast would know better than to fukk with the timestream like that.
2. Where is the logic in hoping that their presence would make Cyclops reconsider, and why is he so convinced of this hair-brained scheme that he would disrupt the space-time continuum in order to do it?
3. Exactly what is there for him to reconsider? Cyclops never explained what his mutant revolution would consist of.
4. Of all the shyt the X-Men have been through, Apocalypse, Cassandra Nova, Dark Phoenix, Bastion, Operation: Zero Tolerance, Onslaught, Proteus, Magneto various conquests, the Schism, etc. THIS is what finally makes Beast decide to do something as drastic as bringing the original X-Men into the future? Cyclops moving into a secret lair and making mild threats on television?
The move fails because it doesn't faze Cyclops and his views at all and they original X-Men get stuck in the present, making Beast look like a reckless complete moron. The rest of Jean Grey school just accepts this colossal, disastrous fukk up from Beast like it was nothing and goes about their business.
This leads to one of the shyttiest, most pointless books ever, All New X-Men. And it later leads into the worst X-Men crossover event of all time, Battle of the Atom. Not one word of one panel of one book of BOA was remotely compelling. 100% pure garbage.
Then he does another pointless ill-conceived plot, The Trial of Jean Grey, for the sole purpose of forcing a crossover between the two teams he writes, X-Men and GOTG. Trash.
Probably one of the most interesting thing he did was have this plot about these mystery Sentinel attacks on the X-Men by a disguised figure in a helmet. There was a decent amount of suspense in figuring out who the villian was. It turns out to be, wait for it....
Dark Beast!!!!
Who gives a fukk about Dark Beast? A mid-level retread villain. The only villains he uses are Dark Beast, Sabretooth, and Mystique, like we haven't seen enough of them.
He made Magneto more
than ever with a bald head and an ugly new costume.
He did bring back Dazzler, who is not an A-lister, but a pretty cool character imo.
Eva Bell seem like an decent character. And he writes a good Magick. That's about all I can say he did good. This Matthew Malloy thing is eh. It's not bad, but we've seen the whole disturbed uber-powerful mutant who can't control his powers plenty of times before...Legion, Proteus, etc. Nothing new here.
And what makes it all even more dumb is after all that, CYCLOPS DID NOTHING. All this talk about a mutant revolution and Beast desperately violating the laws of physics and all this time traveling bullshyt, Cyclops didn't do anything but go live in a hole in the Canadian wilderness and indoctrinate kids while hiding from the federal government like some paranoid right wing militia cac cult leader in army fatigues with a two-way radio, an AR-15, and a Bible.
F-.
It's a shame because Kieron Gillen had UXM going before his quality run was unceremoniously ended.
? Almost Chuck Austen levels of Well, not quite, but it was bad.He started off with Cyclops using cheesy old school Magneto-esque rhetoric about a mutant revolution. That leads to one of the dumbest most inexplicable plot lines ever, Beast acting completely out of character and pulling the original X-Men into the present on the hope that somehow seeing them would make Cyclops rethink his vague "mutant revolution." It made no sense because...
1. Someone as smart as Beast would know better than to fukk with the timestream like that.
2. Where is the logic in hoping that their presence would make Cyclops reconsider, and why is he so convinced of this hair-brained scheme that he would disrupt the space-time continuum in order to do it?
3. Exactly what is there for him to reconsider? Cyclops never explained what his mutant revolution would consist of.
4. Of all the shyt the X-Men have been through, Apocalypse, Cassandra Nova, Dark Phoenix, Bastion, Operation: Zero Tolerance, Onslaught, Proteus, Magneto various conquests, the Schism, etc. THIS is what finally makes Beast decide to do something as drastic as bringing the original X-Men into the future? Cyclops moving into a secret lair and making mild threats on television?
The move fails because it doesn't faze Cyclops and his views at all and they original X-Men get stuck in the present, making Beast look like a reckless complete moron. The rest of Jean Grey school just accepts this colossal, disastrous fukk up from Beast like it was nothing and goes about their business.
This leads to one of the shyttiest, most pointless books ever, All New X-Men. And it later leads into the worst X-Men crossover event of all time, Battle of the Atom. Not one word of one panel of one book of BOA was remotely compelling. 100% pure garbage.
Then he does another pointless ill-conceived plot, The Trial of Jean Grey, for the sole purpose of forcing a crossover between the two teams he writes, X-Men and GOTG. Trash.
Probably one of the most interesting thing he did was have this plot about these mystery Sentinel attacks on the X-Men by a disguised figure in a helmet. There was a decent amount of suspense in figuring out who the villian was. It turns out to be, wait for it....
Dark Beast!!!!
Who gives a fukk about Dark Beast? A mid-level retread villain. The only villains he uses are Dark Beast, Sabretooth, and Mystique, like we haven't seen enough of them.He made Magneto more
than ever with a bald head and an ugly new costume.He did bring back Dazzler, who is not an A-lister, but a pretty cool character imo.
Eva Bell seem like an decent character. And he writes a good Magick. That's about all I can say he did good. This Matthew Malloy thing is eh. It's not bad, but we've seen the whole disturbed uber-powerful mutant who can't control his powers plenty of times before...Legion, Proteus, etc. Nothing new here.And what makes it all even more dumb is after all that, CYCLOPS DID NOTHING. All this talk about a mutant revolution and Beast desperately violating the laws of physics and all this time traveling bullshyt, Cyclops didn't do anything but go live in a hole in the Canadian wilderness and indoctrinate kids while hiding from the federal government like some paranoid right wing militia cac cult leader in army fatigues with a two-way radio, an AR-15, and a Bible.
F-.
It's a shame because Kieron Gillen had UXM going before his quality run was unceremoniously ended.
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