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September 02 2004

Review of "Astonishing X-Men" #4 at aintitcool. He believes this issue was the beginnning of the astonishment.

Ghost Spike | X-men | 21:57 CET | 5 comments total | tags: x-men, comics

To me comics shoulld be about storytelling first, visuals second, true it's a dual medium, and both are important, but if a story is written well I can ignore bad art.

Which is partially why I disagree so much with this reviewer, not sure if I would consider reading his future reviews for any titles. He admits that the past 3 issues have had incredible characterisation, good dialog, and plot twists, but then says he is only excited about the title now that there is a big well-illustrated fight.

Just doesn't seem all that important to me, it's a great issue, but mainly for the same reason as the first 3 are.

Oh and the crack at Angel didn't seem right to me.

rabid | September 02, 22:48 CET

Hmm, yes, after re-reading and noticing the Angel crack, it makes me totally disregard the rest of the review.

Ghost Spike | September 02, 23:28 CET

Especially since the Angel crack contains a none-too-subtle wiff of homophobia, yeah, the reviewer loses pretty much all credibility there. Anyway, anyone who really watched Angel knows that Lorne's sexuality was pretty ambiguous...more like non-existent really.

And why does the guy want Jean Grey back? I thought it was popular opinion that most people were tired of seeing her resurrected and that she was never all that compelling a character to begin with...??

Kris | September 03, 01:59 CET

Was I the only one who didn't expect to see Colossus again? Was I not in on something? I mena, I would have rathered Psylocke personally. But not Jean. I mena, I know she'll be back, and I read the Dark Phoenix TPB like, once a month, but her time has gone. Let her rest. and then I remember that Marvel make poor decisions reguarly.

On the review side of things, I disregarded the entire thing after the opening. It was poorly written, uninteresting and bland. Not to mention moronic. Go read some Insert Credit and then learn to review.

Gouki | September 03, 05:51 CET

did the angel crack get removed? i can't find it. edit: nevermind. found it. Very Lame.

[ edited by orphea on 2004-09-03 21:19 ]

orphea | September 03, 23:18 CET

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