Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Generation M #1-5

Generation M #1-5
I just read this in one sitting, and it wasn't bad. Sure, there are a couple of glaringly obvious errors, like the identical twins of whom one is a mutant and the other not, but overall, my impression was that this series was OKAY. It definitely could have been better. The stories should have been the focus of the issues, and we really should have been able to read more of them. More appearances from former mutants we knew would have been nice too. I loved seeing Beak post mutancy.
The series started out nicely, but then it devolved into just another murder mystery, which turned into a mutant hunt, which, by the last issue, became a fight with the X-Men. It could have been so much more, but instead it just kind of fell out of the sky like Ned Ralston, the dragon guy who died on the first few pages of issue #1. Sure, it had some nice moments, and some clever moments too - for instance Sally walking out of her AA meeting just before Tony Stark got up to speak. But they were too few and far between. This was a great concept that could have been better.
But I didn't hate it, so I have to rate it as OKAY.

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