Trodorne: On Schism.....egh..
By Trodorne 20 Comments
its a waste of time and money.
The end......
So you guys might not like the off hand opinion with out evidence or justification. Everyone who reads my blogs or seen some of my past reviews knows how I detest the Marvel executives and some of there chief officers in charge of story and character development. while this tends to run into situations where I may be biased it takes me a couple of days to step back and review the evidence that is given.
So lets take a look at this. First and foremost is the return of the Hellfire Club, YES! which I think to myself. "The series will get bad ass again now we have new members of the hellfire club" which is run by a kid whose balls have not even dropped yet. its a diabolical mastermind who dislikes getting cooties out on the playground. It just shocks me that the X-men are getting beaten by a child mastermind. while ive seen stranger things it just really emasculates them.
Second point to all of this is they are making a big event out of D*** measuring contest which has been going on for a better part of two decades between Cyclops and Wolverine. I mean really marvel. you did not need another event outside of Fear itself to tell the story of two characters spliting up an entire group. This could have easily developed better during fear itself and would have saved you more money by featuring a side story, which by the end of fear itself where wolverine takes his mutant followers and forms his own x-men team. To me it just seems that marvel is going about this by treating people like idiots and forcing them to buy new comics which they did not need to tell a story.
Third and final part to all of this is the fact that wolverine has gotten to the point of just being annoying. The man has how many titles in the marvel universe some of them are in regular continuity. I am a man who dislikes over saturation of a single character spread across many comics. One ongoing comic series is all I need to read, with his involvement in the avengers, astonishing x-men, uncanny x-men, Wolverine the best there is, Wolverine (ongoing) and the various wolverine one shots. While I understand there a die hard fan base that would be happy to see him in any series.
But that is how things look in my opinion. it seems like an event like this seems like a waste of time when this whole thing could have just been an aftermath of Fear itself. it just seems like another petty way of marvel trying to trick people into wasting money. I have not spent a dollar on the issues but have read them anyways based on friends who spent the money on the books. Thought I like the line up of the new uncanny x-men but much of it is a needless waste to create more titles and cash in on those poor fans who feel they need to buy into this title. its just another reason why comic companies are slowly killing themselves off.