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Mar 31 09 1:50 PM
It's good. It's enjoyable. I wouldn't say it's the "best X-Men since Claremont/Byrne" (the phrase is quickly losing its value anyway with everybody applying to their favorite recent runs), but it is definitely worth having and reading. It is somewhat different from the other X-books, but then what did you expect from Whedon? It's different and that's a good thing.
The bad points. One, the original issues never came out on schedule. The delays were absurd. Of course this isn't a problem when you get them in an Omnibus...but the Omnibus might get delayed too, several times. You never know, with Whedon on it.
The more serious concern. And this is the main reason why I would not nominate this for the best X-stuff since Claremont/Byrne. This is one of the X-books that underlines the "racial awareness" aspect of being a mutant. Instead of just using it as a story element, whole story arcs rotate around it. The thing had already been beaten to death by previous writers, it is becoming a major case of dead horse flogging (maybe it was just Casey's Church of Humanity nonsense that killed the horse in question). Yes, by now I already know that it doesn't matter whether you are human or a mutant, both have got equal rights, etc. In fact, I was all too familiar with that concept in the 1980s TUXM stories.
X-books need a crisis that wipes out the CoH, Reverend Stryker's followers, and all other anti-mutant/pro-mutant bigots and hate groups, so the writers must move on and try some new story ideas. In the 2000s, it's been getting worse and more repetitive than Kryptonite stories in SA Superman books.
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