AoA question: Anybody else mildly annoyed by Sinister's return?

[west3man]

I just felt that his "death" in AoA all those years, ago, really meant something or represented something. Bringing him back cheapens that story oh-so-much, imho.

Of course, this isn't limited to Sinister's resurrection, but it's one that struck me and struck me, again, recently. Just like when he got frigged-up at the end of Inferno... then returned later claiming that the all-powerful being that was blasted hard enough to flay the meat from his bones... was some kinda doggone automaton. *sigh*

Sinister makes a really interesting villain (or he has, at times). Killing and bringing such characters back is particularly ... umm... not cool n stuff.


Anyway, anybody else bothered by his return?

[EZMOHR]

Listen....AoA was the greatest comic event of my life. And I've read comics since 1984. AoA is still the first great comic event I loved. It is just sad to hear that Sinister is alive in some AoA world. When he was blasted by X-Man, looked at the blood on his hands and the bleeding mid-sectio, and he uttered that line, "......Curious" (I think that was it.), that was one of the top moments in a story event filled with "TOP MOMENTS!!"

[TimGunn]

yeah it also cheapened the whole thing that everyone survived the bombs being dropped, stupid AoA Jean Grey

[LoneWolf21]

There were many, many moments that annoyed me in that mini. And yeah, that was one of them.

[MythicBrawn]

It made no sense that Sinister was brought back. X-Man killed him. It was perfect. Sinister killed his mentor, Forge, and X-Man avenged his death. And, what made it worse was no explanation was given for why he was brought back. The only reason that I could see was as a plot device. I sucked and it shows that at times Marvel cares little for its fans.

[fishtaco]

The whole mini annoyed me. That was the worst X-Men story ever. Ever.

[west3man]

The mini has grown on me. Of course, like EZMOHR, I'm a big-time AoA fan. Maybe that's got something to do with it. Oddly enough, being a big AoA fan also lead to some of the problems I had with the mini.

As someone else mentioned, bringing Sinister back wasn't cool (although it certainly wasn't unprecedented), but not giving us the slightest explanation regarding how he was even able to survive? Very uncool.

It's nice that they at least acknowledged the fact that he was "supposed" to be dead, but they shouldn't have stopped there. Even if, as I suspect, this is just the first in a new wave of AoA arcs/titles, it would've been a good idea to devote a tiny bit more time/space to the fact that a dead man's walking around. *shrugs*

I enjoyed X-23's presence, even if she was slightly different (in appearance, as well as origin).

[Erik Lehnsherr]

Yes. In the AoA reality, Sinister should of certainly stayed dead. He was overpowered and beaten by his pawn but got his way in the end. What's more perfect than that?