You gave each a half star more than I would.
Wolverine & The X-Men #1 vs Uncanny X-Men #1
Written by Last Angry Geek Wednesday, 09 November 2011 02:23
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11.09.2011 - 05:13 | David2
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11.09.2011 - 06:59 | SolidGoldCEO
Ive seen Wolverine say more then once that children had to fight by saying something like "we were all innocents once" in response to people saying that some mutants were too young to fight. I Understand Wolverine is the biggest X-name but this Schism break up is just retarded especially since Wolverine recently decided to carry on X-Force without Cyclops knowing about it.
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11.09.2011 - 08:47 | LHGYes this just in, after screwing over spiderman's home life, Marvel is pleased to announce that Project: Cyclops is an *** has just been completed.
Meanwhile, Power Girl is still appealing her new heroic name "Booty Call".
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11.09.2011 - 20:45 | Bayonetta
I am pretty sure the Power Girl thing is a joke but with the way comics are going nowadays i would believe it.
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11.09.2011 - 09:21 | Cferra
Cyclops has always been kind of a jerk. It's in his character. I guess it takes things to new levels. I do admit that this change isn't nearly as drastic as the Morrison/Quietly change in 2000. The books were interesting. I do like Wolverine and the X-Men a bit more. Once I get past the fact that he's heading up the school now.
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11.09.2011 - 09:39 | That Anime Chick
Wait... so Wolverine's taking over Professor Xavier's school and it's mission of peace, while Cyclops is in charge of a city of mutants and defending them?
Wow, talk about your role reversal...
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11.09.2011 - 10:21 | Darkcloud1111
Kitty has a pet dragon? Really the only thing I know about the X-men are from the TV shows/movies, but a pet dragon with no explanation in the video really confused me
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11.09.2011 - 14:07 | DustLockheed - it and the Bamfs are early 80s survivors of Claremont at his goofiest.
If I remember right, they were both in a X-Men fairy-tale lullaby adventure Kitty told Colossus' sister.. and then they just started showing up in the 'real' world without explanation.
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11.09.2011 - 10:25 | Shinigami
I kinda disagree with LAG. I think that Uncanny X-men #1 had better art than Wolverine and the X-Men #1.
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I find it interesting that Marvel would take this kind of radical shift in tone, IN TWO DIRECTIONS, mind you.
Also, unless they just end up doing something completely out of established character, having Wolverine lead the peaceful part of the mutants and Cyclops lead the Rugged Survivalist Camp just seems to me to be a cheap attention grabbing technique.
But, I can see Wolverine/Logan eventually going this route. According to most of the Marvel Canon, Logan has been alive for about 150+ years, and lived through several historic battles. You don't get to that point without either becoming a hermit, going Spider-Carnage level insane, or realizing that you either try to help the problem, or you're just part of the problem.
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11.09.2011 - 13:56 | The_Awesometeer
number ones where you need to know everything from the past are awesome
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11.09.2011 - 15:08 | NaturallyBaked
With the shortness of modern comic book issues how can you really rate a single issue. Either filler will be shoehorned in or the story will be rushed from issue to issue. I think a story arc needs a little time to be developed before a proper review should be done.
I say turn this into a series where you review 6 different comic titles or more, but review a longer story arc.
P.S. Don't do anymore Dr. Who vids. I have seen the show and know what I think of it. We don't need someone telling us what to think of a show we saw the night before, and we don't need a reviewer compiling complaints and criticisms for other sources in his own review.
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11.09.2011 - 16:08 | LastAngryGeek
There's been an awful lot of #1 issues lately. I'll get back to arcs sooner or later.
PS. I'm going to keep doing YOU KNOW WHO as new eps arrive. Feel free not to watch.
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11.09.2011 - 15:47 | Themonsean
Wow I have missed a lot. I know of Danger and the death of Mr. Sinister, but how is Kitty not stuck in a Bullet? and holy crap talk about over powered, Colossis is the Juggernaut? yesh. I remember fights over who would win if a fight and who was stronger but guess thats settled since the C man has the crystal now.
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In the pamphlet that says Avengers Academy vs. Jean Grey School Football game? That's actually is getting into the motions of being made. Christos Gage, writer of Avengers Academy, got such a positive feedback on the idea, and every other Marvel writer is all for it, so we're going to get it! Isn't that AWESOME?!
...you liked the Hellfire babies? Why?
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11.09.2011 - 18:18 | Void2258
I'm pretty sure the enemy at the end of Wolverine and the X-men is Krakoa.
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11.09.2011 - 20:13 | nickromancerI do agree that the brood mutant needed a formal introduction in the comic to have people that were just starting to read this new reboot would understand him being there, but he was introduced and placed in the school on astounding xmen comic.
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11.09.2011 - 22:07 | HibrydWait, Nightcrawler is dead and Colossus is alive again? Apparently it's been a while since I paid attention to any X-Men lines...
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11.09.2011 - 22:14 | JdRavnos
I didn't read Uncanny, but I did pick up Wolverine & the X-Men because it sounded right up my alley and didn't disappoint. Personally, it worked for me a lot more then it did for you, LAG. The story seemed pretty coherent to me, and while I read some of the side books like X-Force and X-Factor I haven't regularly read the X-Men since the early 2000s, but I found this pretty easy to follow. Some characters, like Quentin Quire, I may not know, but they're easily decipherable in the context and they're all brief enough so that they can all to the main crux of the story: Wolverine tries to be the mature adult, and he utterly fails. The aliens, the Bamfs (which, as mentioned in a earlier comment, is an old concept), etc, I think are supposed to overwhelm you, because Wolverine is supposed to feel overwhelmed. He's got the suit on, he's trying to be pleasant to the school people, but that's not Logan and that's doomed to fail. I suspect that much of the first arc will be Logan figuring out how he wants to run the school and it will be different than how Charles, Emma, Scott, Banshee, etc has done it in the past.
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(Unh! Must, resist, MvsC memes! Really hard to do what with two "god-tier" members on Cyke's team!)
Still, you're firing on all cylinders with this one Bri! Well, the two Transformers refs proved that to me anyway.
Ah, X-Men. Never stop making my brain hurt don't you?
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11.10.2011 - 04:40 | BooRat
The Wolverine one sounds like something more up my alley! That Black King kid remined me more of the Movie Tony Stark in his mannerims!
Also is it just me or did Emma Frost look like Christina Reicci in a few pannels!
I've been out of comics for a while I guess I never new Collosus was the new Juggernaunt!
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11.10.2011 - 07:10 | TheRolfyeah ! Civil war for mutants? the Wolverine and X-men was total shit! Art was crap and story was lame.
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11.10.2011 - 09:44 | Monte
Wolverine and the x-men really annoyed if only for the complete lack of common sense. Wolverine as headmaster, the dangerously incomplete school, a danger room in every room? these are all terrible ideas for having the board of education inspect on it.
In a way, this can be fun to read, but that all depends on whether or not I should be taking it seriously. A frankly, after something like schism it makes me feel that these are supposed to be serious stories; Not to mention you also have uncanny x-men going on at the same time which is taking itself seriously. The universe does have to have some consistency too it, otherwise its just jarring.
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11.10.2011 - 11:44 | LeDuc89
Having read the issue recently; Broo comes from Astonishing X-men #40 and joined the X-men in #42 with 41 being a story set in japan. it came otu a couple months ago.
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Uncanny X-men was another in the long history of X books that are impossible to understand if you haven't been a dedicated reader for a long time.
I had no idea who some of the characters were, didn't get a sense of the personality of any of them, didn't know why magik was alive or why colusus was alive and juggernaut, didn't know why Magneto was alive and why he was with the xmen, why namor was hanging out with the xmen, why the bad cerebro from a throwaway plot like a decade ago is now on the team....
It was pretty damn bad.
Wolverine and the xmen was fun however, fun is good.
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11.18.2011 - 19:39 | robertmillion
The Brood character is from one of the most recent story arcs of Astonishing X-Men, she he kinda bonded with Kitty Pryde I guess he had to come to the school. Plus he's only like a few months old or something. Great ep!
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