Yeah, it's witty and all, but I don't think the comic is quite my speed. Or, more likely, I'm not its speed anymore.
Good stuff in the archive versions
OWaW came out during my most intense period of comic book fandom and I ate that shit up. If I'm not mistaken, it gave us our first instance of Superman doing his temporary level up to his golden state by flying into the sun. It also had that issue with the Human Bomb which was narrated with letters being sent home to the families of soldiers who had died in the conflict. Maxima stayed dead till the nu52, but she was brought back as a lesbian and an antagonist, iirc. I'm not sure if that's been reversed. Other notable deaths included Hippolyta and Lois's dad, who suicided in a nuclear tank on the White House lawn so Black Lightning could redirect the blast into a focused energy beam that melted an Imperiex drone. Oh, and Aquaman "died" fighting one in pretty metal moment, leading to the whole Obsidian Age arc later.
Very based, it really delineates the slop like the MCU from the real patrician shit.
lie /lī/ noun: lie; plural noun: lies - an intentionally false statement.
I had the collected paperback of MC. But all I remember is that I think its after Rogue's team (Rogue, Mystique, Omega Sentinel, Cannonball, Lady Mastermind) splits because Rogue gets betrayed and critically wounded? And then I remember X-23 in some snowy area where she is attacked by Lady Deathstrike.....am I remembering any of this right?For the first time in one volume, the epic trilogy starring mutant messiah Hope Summers!
With no more mutants being born, the future of Homo superior has never looked bleaker. At the seeming end of their evolutionary cycle, a miracle arrives — in the form of the first child born with the X-gene since the tragic events of M-Day! But this sudden source of hope spawns a bloody, violent and tragic conflict for control over the baby girl’s fate. To safeguard this infant, Cable takes her into the future but soon finds himself trapped there — with the relentless Bishop in hot pursuit, intent on killing the child! When Cyclops sends the black-ops squad X-Force forward in time to help, the battle is on! But when Cable finally returns to the present, will the girl he has raised, Hope Summers, prove to be mutantkind’s savior — or its damnation?
COLLECTING: X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot (2007); Uncanny X-Men (1981) #492-494, 523-525; X-Men (1991) #205-207; New X-Men (2004) #44-46; X-Factor (2005) #25-27; X-Men: Messiah Complex - Mutant Files (2007); X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop (2009) #1-3; Cable (200#11-15; X-Force/Cable: Messiah War One-Shot (2009); X-Force (200
I can't speak to the individual books in the archive, as I'm not that much of a fan, but I do own a best of collection that came out a few years back. The digital coloring is fine, imo, but they screwed up Judgement Day. I remember seeing a video in my teens (late 80s) where Bill Gaines is bitching that they wanted him to take out the beads of sweat on the black astronaut's face... I sort of forget what his point was beyond "censorship", but in this edition I have, they didn't take the time to color around the sweat, which in practical effect, does the same thing as erasing them, lol.
It is a failing of my life that I will never hate women as much as a modern male feminist.
The memorial epilogue issue was neat, I liked the JSA playing a round of poker while waiting for Hippolyta's funeral to start, as "they were getting ready to say goodbye to their girl". At this point, the retcon of Hippolyta being the golden age WW was in swing and actually turned out to be pretty good.
"If the women aren't nice and complimentary to each other all the time, I might get cancelled."