impressions on comics read

[salinea]

Wolverine: First Class
Cute and good fun overall; though there's a trend of portraying girls hating on their girl friends that is a little bit off putting. Also is that bashing for the scans_daily debacle I spy? Not classy PAD! XD

Weapon X : First Class
*scratches head* was there a point to that? It's kind of okay as some summary introduction to some characters but it doesn't feel like it fits with the rest of the series.

Agents of Atlas v1 & v2
I like the characters, I like the atmosphere, but I don't like the plot. The storytelling is often overly confusing and has way too much exposition and I just... can't manage to pay much attention to it. Really annoying. Does that improve or should I just give up on it right now?

Comments

[eisen]

That's just how it's written, I'm afraid. I'm a fan of the Agents often in spite of their stories' pacing. Though I didn't find it all that confusing; it's the kind of comic you have to step back and consider, sometimes, and I'm not knocking that being a problem - it can be a pretty significant jolt to the investment for lots of people - but it's something I don't have a problem with doing. But it's probably why the series never really took off the way its creators wanted it to - there's a learning curve to it that the nostalgia-evoking premise is at odds with, so it had a confused identity on the stands.

I never really got into the First Class stuff because I was always a bit confused on the necessity of those comics in the first place, since - at least the Wolverine ones - they didn't seem like they were going to be any good anyway, and I was never that nostalgic for the pre-Claremont X-stuff to begin with, which is all the "First Class" moniker seems meant for when Logan's not involved.

[salinea]

I think I'll just give up on Atlas. Maybe i'll try again if they get another writer, cuz I actually dig the characters and premise, but yeah :)

First Class I've been genuinely liking. Not as my favourite thing ever, but they're cute, fun, witty stories, told in either one or two issues. It feels like it's definitely something that's not given by many other comics, especially not X-Men comics, and is enjoyable outside of the whole issue of nostalgia (which I'm wayyyyyy too new to comic books to feel myself XD). A shame they feel they need to fit that sort of stories in the past; I could totally use another New/Young X-Men on going with that sort of tone (especially since i love the kids from New X-Men and they don't have their own on going right now ^^; and they've been going through enough rough shit to enjoy a lighter break)

[eisen]

They won't get another writer; the series is Jeff Parker's baby through and through, and Marvel isn't interested in an Atlas book if Parker's not at the helm AFAIK ... which is at least part of the reason the book's been canceled and the characters are in limbo again, 'cause the premise isn't selling, and for once, Marvel isn't interested in a drastic revamp to try and make it sell. (Yet.)

Looking at the Academy X kids and the damage done to that roster is sometimes terrifying, yes. I think that's part of the reason doing a "lighter and softer" comic isn't really on the table right now, not for them; after you've put characters through the kind of wringer they've been through, pretending they're not all a tiny bit PTSD's more of a suspender-snap than whatever weirdness they're dealing with over in X-MEN: LEGACY right now, and superbooks don't really know how to fit "PTSD" and "fun" in the same concept. It could be done, but it requires a level of awareness and/or subtlety few writers currently in the employ of the Big Two actually have, I think.

[salinea]

Oh, I dunno; Steph Brown went through some bad shit; but now she's got to have one of the lighter and funnier books over the Bat/Gotham lot.

[peacewish.livejournal.com]

Quickie translation beg time! What's the best way to say this in French:

How much longer is this going to go on?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Combien de temps est-ce que ça va encore durer ?

[peacewish.livejournal.com]

Muchas gracias!

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

though there's a trend of portraying girls hating on their girl friends that is a little bit off putting. Also is that bashing for the scans_daily debacle I spy? Not classy PAD! XD
Tiens c'est PAD ? Un des problèmes que j'ai eus avec le début de X-Factor, c'est justement que j'avais l'impression qu'il n'écrivait jamais de relation positive entre deux personnages féminins, c'était toujours de la rivalité, de la manipulaton ou de l'indifférence molle... (pas lu ça, sinon)
Mais peut-être que le "trend" ne vient pas que de là...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Tiens c'est PAD ?
Euh, la moitié en fait...

Un des problèmes que j'ai eus avec le début de X-Factor, c'est justement que j'avais l'impression qu'il n'écrivait jamais de relation positive entre deux personnages féminins, c'était toujours de la rivalité, de la manipulaton ou de l'indifférence molle...
Maintenant que tu le fais remarquer... ouais ya un peu de ça dans x-factor. Hmm.

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Au fait, dans cette série, ça concerne quels persos ? J'ai un peu peur, en fait... ^^

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

... de quelle série on parle là?

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Wolverine: First Class (désolée ^^)
Parce que vu l'époque, je vois pas mal d'amies que je n'ai pas du tout envie de voir se détester. :-(

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

euh Logan (quelle surprise) et Kitty, avec occasionalement Terry et Dazzler. (ok je sais plus si Dazzler apparait dans plus d'une ou deux issues).

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Donc les filles qui s'engueulent, c'est qui ?
Terry, c'est Siryn, c'est ça ?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Kitty et ses copines d'écoles (qui ne sont pas des persos que je connais ailleurs de ça), Kitty et Siryn (mais elles deviennent qd même amies pour le coup, c'est juste qu'il y a de la jalousie traitée de façon légère pour l'humour et les complications mélodramatiques). Oui Terry c'est Siryn.

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

Copines de l'institut Xavier ou de l'école normale ? *est un peu perdue sur le point dans la timeline*

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

de l'école normale.