X-Men Legacy #251

Cover by Mico Suayan,
Marte Gracia

X-Men Legacy #251 (June 22, 2011)

Writer: Mike Carey

Penciller: Khoi Pham

Inker: Tom Palmer, Craig Yeung, Nelson DeCastro

Colorist: Marte Gracia

Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

My main question here is just who decided it would be a good idea to give Legion a foot-tall flattop hair cut? I was so distracted by this guy’s insane hair that I couldn’t really focus on the rest of the comic.

Also, I am still struggling with keeping all my X-Men straight. Rogue and Magneto were in this, both of which I  am vaguely familiar with, along with Dr. Xavier aka Patrick Stewart but look, this all means basically nothing to me. There is very little about the X-Men I understand and I’m just not that huge of a fan. For some reason, out of the entire Marvel Universe, I like them the least. Well, I probably dislike Spider-Man more but I haven’t read one of his comics yet so I’ll wait to pass total judgment on him.

 

Uncanny X-Force #11

Cover by Esad Ribic,
Mark Brook,
Sonia Oback

Uncanny X-Force #11 (June 1, 2011)

Writer: Rick Remender

Penciller: Mark Brooks

Inker: Andrew Currie, Mark Brooks

Colorist: Dean White

Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

I have no idea what’s going on here. There are way too many X-Men. And way too many references to the rest of the Marvel Universe. Also, apparently everyone’s a clone here. I’m totally lost.

Basically, the X-Force are on some suicide mission to the Age of Apocalypse to retrieve the Life Seed to save Warren Worthington from the entity Archangel. I know, I don’t get it either.

It was very much an ensemble piece, which I normally enjoy a great deal in the Marvel Universe. Here, however, there was so much exposition and surprise character appearances for me to really gain an understanding of the main members of the X-Force. Most of the comic revolved around Wolverine, Deadpool and the rest being taken by surprise by some plot point. There was very little characterization and certainly not a very strong plot.

Uncanny X-Men #539

Cover by Simone Bianchi
Is Wolverine just
screaming in space?

Uncanny X-Men #539 (June 29, 2011)

Writer: Kieron Gillen         

Penciller: Ibraim Roberson

Colorist: Jim Charalampidis

Letterer: Joe Caramagna

For some reason I’ve been avoiding the more famous comic series of the Marvel Universe. Namely, the X-Men and Spider-Man. I think my own indifference towards these characters’ films, television shows and overall pop culture identities has prevented me from attempting any of their comics. I have also been intimidated by the sheer magnitude of their histories and popularity.

I’ve talked a lot about the insanely large number of Batman series and Avengers series going on the same time, but I don’t think anything compares to the X-Men. Seriously, just trying to go through all the available comics starring the X-Men took a long time and by the end, I simply picked up a random one.

Unlike my sister, I’m not a huge X-Men fan. In fact, I rather disliked them. The idea of mutants working together and going to an American Hogwarts never appealed to me; I only saw one of the films and I never watched the Saturday morning cartoon, as my sister did. After attempting to read a couple X-Men comics from the Bronze Age and failing, I essentially gave up on them. Also, something about Wolverine inherently pissed me off. He seemed like a jerk.