Saturday, January 26, 2013

A+X #4

First review of this Saturday evening is going to be the forth issue of A+X.  Or as JT likes to call it, "Why are you still collecting THAT?!"  This issue has Beast and Spidey teaming up(although this takes place before ASM #698, which sucks), and then Cap and the most overexposed of all the X-Men students, Quentin Quire teaming together...  Yeah, this does NOT look promising...  Prove me wrong, A+X!

A+X #4

 Summary: Ugh...  So two stories as I said in the intro.  Story #1 deals with Beast and Spider-Man getting transported to a future that was being ruled by folks that looked like Beast.  As for the humans?  They're zombies now, because zombies are cool.  The leader of the Beast-people, a woman named Talia, brought Beast and Spidey to her time so she could mate with Beast because... he was the first Beast?  And why is Spidey even HERE?!  The Beast-people throw Spidey to a giant, rabid Beast-guy, who tries to eat Spidey, while Beast fights off the advances of Talia.  He ends up teaming with Spidey(oh-HO!  See that, they teamed up, as is the premise of this series!!  Nice!!!) and defeating the giant, rabid Beast-guy, which pisses Talia off, so she sends them both home...  Huh.  Next story was Cap bringing Quentin Quire with him to take out an AIM base because... Well, from what I gathered, Wolverine asked Cap to bring Quire along because Cap wears the flag?  Or maybe because Cap's human?  I don't know what's happening here...  As expected, Quire doesn't want to help Cap, but comes to his aid and helps Cap defeat a bunch of midget MODOKs...  Yes, really...  Trust me, I couldn't make that up if I tried!  So yeah, the two beat back the invasion of the midget MODOKs, who can only say their names, just so you know, and then Quire goes back to the school, possibly understanding Cap better.  Or possibly not, I gave up trying to figure all this out a few pages ago.

Thoughts: JT?  I get why you dropped this series, mi amigo!  This issue sucked!  And just to temper it for the people who are all, "Wait, this didn't suck, I loved it!!" I'll change that statement to, this issue sucked, in my opinion!  The Beast/Spidey story made little to no sense(Why was Spidey there?  Were the Beast-people Beast's offspring?  If so, why was Talia trying to sleep with Beast?  And of course, why were there zombies?!), and the Cap/Quire story just seemed wrong...  Why would Captain America take Quentin Quire to an AIM base!?  I mean it's not like they were dealing with a band of muggers, or drug pushers, AIM is dangerous!  If he wanted to take Quire out to... show him humans were cool? That Cap was cool?  For whatever reason Cap wanted to take Quire with him, why not pick something less dangerous?!  This issue made my head hurt...

Score: 1 out of 10.
A+X #4
Yeah, sure.  Zombies will make anything better, right??
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9 comments:

  1. JWJanuary 27, 2013 at 9:39 PM

    I have this one in my stack, but then I'm done, if only because $3.99 for this series is ridiculous. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy it, but with "Young Avengers," "Guardians of the Galaxy," and "Nova" coming out, I need to free up some space.

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    1. x-man75January 28, 2013 at 1:36 AM

      I'm leaning more towards dropping Avengers and keeping this title myself. At least with this series, a writer I like may do a story. With Avengers, I know I'm gonna get Morrison-lite.

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  2. TRobbJanuary 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM

    I could see myself picking up a few issues of this series every now and then, but never in a million years would I subscribe. $3.99 an issue, with no idea who'll be writing or drawing? I'll pass.

    I do want to pick up issue 2 at some point, mainly because I like Bachalo and Peter David.

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    1. JWJanuary 28, 2013 at 6:00 PM

      I loved the Beast/Iron Man story in that issue, TRobb. Great stuff.

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    2. x-man75January 28, 2013 at 11:13 PM

      For me, if I do drop Avengers(which will probably happen this week after I read Avengers #4), I still want to read another Avengers book... Avengers and New Avengers are out of the picture, which leaves me with Avengers Assemble and this title... I kind of like one and done types of stories, which is why I'm trying to stick it out with this series... But man... If the next issue or two of this series is as bad as this one? I think I'll be giving Assemble a shot...

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    3. TRobbJanuary 29, 2013 at 6:16 PM

      Thanks JW for the recommendation, I'll pick that issue up for sure then.

      Is Avengers Assemble ending soon? Wasn't sure what the status was, especially after Bendis left the book. I know it's currently being written by Matt Fraction's wife, FWIW.

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    4. x-man75January 29, 2013 at 11:58 PM

      Is it, TRobb? All I know is that it's being written by the same writer who is currently doing Captain Marvel. But I really haven't heard ANYTHING, good or bad, about it since Bendis left.

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  3. jermoxJanuary 28, 2013 at 6:45 PM

    I never really thought about it but Wolverine's point when starting the school was to make his students not fight. So to send QQ with Cap makes no sense.

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    1. x-man75January 28, 2013 at 11:14 PM

      That's a great point, Jermox... That was the entire purpose of the Schism! I can't even make up a reason for Wolverine sending Quire to help Cap here...

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