X-Men, #36

[CBR News]

Brian Wood and David López continue their excellent X-Men run that effortlessly blends big ideas and more intimate character work into good solid superhero comics.


Full article here.

[motherofpearl1]

How many bets once Wood and co. have left this comic will end up on the cancellation list?

Can't have an X Men comic that's actually good can we?

[rawhidekid]

I think the book is well written I just don't like the backdrop. The background art is plain. Last arc took place on a boat in the sea so not much you can do with that. Also the giant plane is boring to look at. Otherwise a solid book.

[mystery_saw]

I really don't want Wood to leave this book. This is one of the books I'm consistently excited to read each week. Why do you hate me so, Marvel?

[chakal]

Anyone knows who are Seth Peck & Paul Azaceta? Because they will take over after Wood's run.

[Deep_Sleeper]

David Lopez art...needs more exposure!

[BBeeryan]

Brian Wood and David Lopez have been the best team to touch an X-book for the entirety of 2012. Real talk!

[Imraith Nimphais]

Brian Wood and David Lopez have been the best team to touch an X-book for the entirety of 2012. Real talk!

...with one more issue to go...*deep, sad sigh*

[bskell]

I like the book well enough. It was nice to have an X-men book that felt like an X-men book. The other titles of late have felt like single characters where the rest of the X-men are dropped to supporting cast, one title going so far as to title the X-men as if they were a backup band: “Wolverine and the X-men”, and don’t get me started on Rogue’s solo book disguised as a team book.

The only issue I have with this book is the premise of ancient mutants. The concept just doesn’t feel solid to me. The pretense that there’s a chance we could discover a whole different evolutionary path for mutants would be more interesting and ground breaking in the real world. In Marvel’s earth it seems like almost every alien race has had a chance to muck with the human race, from the Kree to the High Evolutionary. To discover someone else has might have done it, or something else might have evolved just doesn’t feel like anyone outside of an archeologist would care. I’m personally not sure how that’s supposed to cause me to rethink everything I’ve ever known about the X-men.

Having said that, I will continue to support the book as it does what I really want in an X-men book.. have a team of X-men be X-men. Not a backup band for Wolverine, or trying to insert international politics into a superhero book, just a team attempting to make the world a better place as they go along.

[vampiric_cannibal]

Anyone knows who are Seth Peck & Paul Azaceta? Because they will take over after Wood's run.

Azaceta has done some Spiderman and Daredevil, as well as Irredeemable. Peck did Fear Itself:Wolverine and some other stuff I've never heard of.

Y'know, Wood is still on Ultimate X-Men, and hinted towards more 616 stuff in the future, editors be willing.

[Windrider]

Brian Wood and David Lopez have been the best team to touch an X-book for the entirety of 2012. Real talk!

Quoted For Muthaf%^&in' truth! Far too short of a run.

[Meehl]

Brian Wood and David López continue their excellent X-Men run that effortlessly blends big ideas and more intimate character work into good solid superhero comics.

That's the problem. The X-men don't work as a "super hero" comic. Readers have never come to the X-men for that. That was Avengers fare. It doesn't really work here. I wonder what sales are like?

How many bets once Wood and co. have left this comic will end up on the cancellation list?

Can't have an X Men comic that's actually good can we?

And we don't have one now. We have a dumb Avengers kind of story with X-men characters fighting a race of people that were called the Eternals in the 1990s.

[Imraith Nimphais]

That's the problem. The X-men don't work as a "super hero" comic. Readers have never come to the X-men for that. That was Avengers fare. It doesn't really work here. I wonder what sales are like?

Wot the bloody hell...?

[LooneyKoala]

I'm starting to think I should have stuck with this now that I keep hearing good things about Wood's work on the title. I dropped shortly before he was announced to be taking over because it really was quite boring, really should have stayed. Might try and get the back issues at some point

[Deus ex Chris]

That's the problem. The X-men don't work as a "super hero" comic. Readers have never come to the X-men for that. That was Avengers fare. It doesn't really work here. I wonder what sales are like?

While I prefer the Morrison approach, the X-Men were pure superhero for four decades before him. Of course, this story wasn't even a straight superhero comic. It definitely played more to elements deeply rooted in the X-Men world.

And we don't have one now. We have a dumb Avengers kind of story with X-men characters fighting a race of people that were called the Eternals in the 1990s.

A story about evolution and the sociological role of mutants isn't a dumb Avengers story. It's pretty solidly X-Men.