Well, since watching X-3 last weekend, I've decided to splurge slightly and pick up some X-trade books. I'm NOT going to be getting marvel books as a rule, but waiting until the trades hit I think. I need to do more of that in any case.
Well, today had a chance to read the 3 "Acedemy X" books (I have the Hellions one left), and have to say that I found them to be quite enjoyable. Since I've been out of X-continuity for awhile, a fair amount of the background is lost on me, but aside from trying to figure out how Scott and Emma are a couple, it holds together enough for me to follow it. (Note, I do have the New Mutants TP, so I knew a fair number of the characters already).
I will say that the first and third volumes were far better than the second. The second book's storylines (especially the "ghost") were rather weak and annoying. What I did enjoy though was the fact that until the Blob's appearance right at the very end, there wasn't a great number of supervillians running around. In fact, you can argue that there weren't any "bad guys" at all until big Fred (ok, the guidence counselor, but he's being set up for stuff later obviously... which I imagine has played through by this point). The Hellions are often the primary "antagonists", but they aren't evil, just a bit cocky.
What that really did was give the opportunity to get into some nice characterization and interplay. As I've said before, those are the things that tend to last for me far longer than the latest Cyclops 173 point bank shot to nail someone in the back of the head.
I have done a bit of reading on Wiki, and it's a shame that they decided to gut the New New Mutants in the aftermath of House of M. Wind Dancer is a good character, and I hope they bring her back at some point.
Well, as you see, even if I post I still don't have anything too brilliant to say. Just consider your boringblogreading quotent fulfilled.
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