It wasn't quite a mini. It was just cancelled early due to low sales.
Also, it was trash.
As for Hickman, it's the best main-series run we've had since Morrison(Maybe since Whedon, depending on your preferences) tbh. The problem is, it's only the actual portion written by him. The "world", meaning the sidebooks, are mostly not good. Hellions was solid, but Zeb is leaving to write Spiderman now. And it seems like Marvel has delayed Hickman's plans, so we're getting this run in a really spread out fashion, which screws up things. We're not even sure if/when he's coming back after Inferno wraps up.
I do agree his characterizations are off for certain characters though. Good writers fail to even write 5 person X-Teams, while Hickman has juggled a cast spanning nearly all corners of the X-verse pretty well.
I definitely have my criticisms too, but I just think the overall writing is a damn sight better than us X-Fans have gotten in a loooooooong time.
Last edited by StyleTime on Nov 13th, 2021 at 06:56 PM
And it was a huge miss that he wasn't cribbed into the Transformers/Avengers crossover.
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Pretty sure Pr and one of the Canadian's are fans (K-M?) Which would make him far more popular on KMC than The Transformers.
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He's one of the few writers that can think big and actually carry it through. He's like Scott Snyder without the crushing inadequacy. He's a great ideas man, and with the proper cast of characters, like in FF, he can put out some good stuff.
His X-Men has an interesting premise, and you can tell he really sat down and tried to plot it all out. The problem, (and this was evident in the Avengers run too) is that he gets carried away, and can't rein himself in. Nor does he adapt his story to the characters as he's writing it. For better or worse, the plot is the plot and the characters don't really matter. Not really.
He hasn't had a great character moment in his runs since the FF run.
The best/funniest part of his runs, imo, was turning Beast into a massive hypocrite. Remember all the shit he gave Cyclops, and then he went and did that with the illuminati.
Did it happen under Hickman's pen? Or was it Benjamin Percy?
You could argue Hickman is supposed to be the overseer, but in practice neither Marvel nor DC controls their writers.
I think it's a good decision, though. Hank is not a saint and he does tend to go crazy every once in a while. This is just another example. Consistent with his character.
But the worst thing McCoy has done was teaming up with Dark Beast, in order to find the way to reverse M-Day effects... and he even tried to work with worse villains than him.
The art makes this look very old. Is it from a modern comic?
Just how long has Beast been a douche, instead of the Bill Nye the Science Guy I remember from the animated series?
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I mean, with the callbacks Morrison style you never can tell.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
The worst thing Beast did was bring the young O5 to the present, jumping off the era where we re-opened already resolved plot lines from 1960's X-Men (literally) about whether Jean will date Angel or Cyclops.
But, you know, young Hank learned magic at least.
Fine literature right there.
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Nov 13th, 2021 06:41 PM
Damn. Genius has its drawbacks I guess.
