Final impressions on AvX
3 Oct 2012 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
salineaWell, that was horrible.
The whole event was just a mess. Too many writers, too many characters, too many concepts.
My biggest issues with it all is that they took the conclusion of years of X-Men storylines; and made it about how the Avengers came and saved the day from the evil minority stand in. Urgh.
I think they should have done a story about Avengers vs X-Men; or a story about the Phoenix and the re-powering of mutants; but trying to do both at the same time was a terrible mistake. As it stood, the re-powering of mutants became a mere afterthoughts in the last issue after having gone unmentioned for 12 issues despite being the main stake the X-Men had in the game.
Too much character assassination to be worth mentionning. Killing Xavier after he's been barely in X-Men comics for years is stupid - you don't do a dramatic death when you try to get rid of a character. Iron Fist's role in training Hope turned into the most ridiculous anti-climax ever. There just was... no story there. I actually like Hope but she came across as the most stupidly moody teenager ever overall in this event. Though that's nothing to how much I hate Wolverine right now. fuck that guy.
So much anticlimax everywhere.
UXM was the highlight of it. Gillen is brilliant and I am so disapointed he won't be writing X-Men anymore. The Avengers Academy tie in were good too. The rest was merely meh (although seldom as crappy as the main miniseries).
It's funny because I'd be looking forward to Hickman's Avengers and Remender's Uncanny Avengers, but Marvel has basically done its best so that it'll be hard for me to read it without feeling very, very sour. And I can't say how much I dread Bendis on X-Men. So yeah, way to go Marvel.
The whole event was just a mess. Too many writers, too many characters, too many concepts.
My biggest issues with it all is that they took the conclusion of years of X-Men storylines; and made it about how the Avengers came and saved the day from the evil minority stand in. Urgh.
I think they should have done a story about Avengers vs X-Men; or a story about the Phoenix and the re-powering of mutants; but trying to do both at the same time was a terrible mistake. As it stood, the re-powering of mutants became a mere afterthoughts in the last issue after having gone unmentioned for 12 issues despite being the main stake the X-Men had in the game.
Too much character assassination to be worth mentionning. Killing Xavier after he's been barely in X-Men comics for years is stupid - you don't do a dramatic death when you try to get rid of a character. Iron Fist's role in training Hope turned into the most ridiculous anti-climax ever. There just was... no story there. I actually like Hope but she came across as the most stupidly moody teenager ever overall in this event. Though that's nothing to how much I hate Wolverine right now. fuck that guy.
So much anticlimax everywhere.
UXM was the highlight of it. Gillen is brilliant and I am so disapointed he won't be writing X-Men anymore. The Avengers Academy tie in were good too. The rest was merely meh (although seldom as crappy as the main miniseries).
It's funny because I'd be looking forward to Hickman's Avengers and Remender's Uncanny Avengers, but Marvel has basically done its best so that it'll be hard for me to read it without feeling very, very sour. And I can't say how much I dread Bendis on X-Men. So yeah, way to go Marvel.