Once a Stranger

Uncanny X-Men, Claremont's run; up to UXM #166
Started reading mostly out of curiosity (and perhaps contrariness), and at first wasn't very impressed with it though it made good reading late at night for helping falling asleep but the writing of the characters and their dynamic really grow on you and the qualities of the stories overall improve greatly despite a lot of crackful dorkiness (and I think, also the quality of the translation team since I got this one from my public library). So by now I'm rather hooked. It's especially weird to see Logan being so... refreshingly likeable; and to see Storm being awesome; contrasted with more recent stuff I've read. Also Kitty is adorable. And Moira is badass (best intro to a character ever).

flo_nelja who lent me her trades of New Mutants asked to post reviews of them more frequently. And now that I've finished the first one, i'm remembering why I usually wait until I've read a finished or large chunk of stuff before posting my impressions (and why I stopped trying to do WIWs) : I suck at writing detailed, raw reviews. It kind of makes me want to squirm with embarrassment. Oh well. The introduction to the characters is pretty good. There's a certain amount of "wow, what a series of really dorky superpowers". Dani is especially nice and badass; and Roberto especially adorable. Asides from that, i'm amused by how homely Cannonball looks like in contrast with more modern depictions. Heh. Major kudos for how diverse the team is - I don't even think any modern superhero teams manage having so much gender & ethnicity diversity. Which is kind of sad. Also it's amusing how awkward and not very successful they are at the whole superheroic. I kind of appreciate it, it's refreshing. Though the last few stories were a bit too uninteresting (wtf is this team bmx bandit and why should we care about them?!).

God Loves, Man Kills
Good story. Somehow I was expecting it to be much closer to the movie.

Magik
While I'm not quite as much into it as Yo!; I do really love stories about young girls (well people in general, but it works especially well with young girls because of the contrast) having to go through hell but triumphing in term of finding inner strength but at great cost of *angst*; so it shouldn't be surprising I loved this Also one story Claremont's kink for corruption really worked well for the story.

There! detailed reviews. *squirms*

S.W.O.R.D.
Hectic mayhem. Very entertaining.
I admit I enjoy Gillen's take on Whedon's run's space op elements much more than I did on Whedon's run. Wonder if the shift is in myself or in Gillen's writing.

MODOK's 11
Meh. Okay-ish at best, though there's a couple of good moments.

Wolverine & Jubilee

That was surprisingly fun, actually. Also I loved the art, a lot. Though sometimes Immonem's writing still makes my brain goes crosswire, but, yeah, overall a good story.

Once more, I have 50-ish icons on my harddrive, so post!

2xMiscelleanous DC
2xWolverine First Class (Kitty, Terry)
1xX23
1xDaken
2xMagneto/Xavier
4xDeadpool
15xfabulous Cable&Deadpool/Thor fancomic
17xLoki Balder Thor
8xGame of Thrones / ASOIAF

( pretties under the cut )

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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?