This Made Me Blue
A good friend of mine found himself disinterested in keeping his individual issues of comics anymore, strictly reading volumes now (as I tend to, but I wasn't about to pass off free comics!). However, despite him saying that this was a fav mini-series of his back in the day, I have to wonder if that's really the case.
This is a pretty old series, dating back to 1997, and it shows, obviously, through the art, writing, etc., and not in a good way. Beyond Beast, the characters here aren't very well known either, which is a good thing and, mostly, a bad thing. It's nice to get a look at some of these older characters, but, let's be honest, the series tells us almost nothing about any of them. Cannonball was the only other character that intrigued me (I'll have to check him out in the new Avengers series), but everyone else felt frustratingly dull and single-minded to the point of absurdity and annoyance.
The plot is bare bones; Karma's younger siblings have been kidnapped and are being tested on, everyone goes to save them, fights ensue. That's really it for the most part. There's some big reveal at the end, but unless you really give two shits about Karma, it's fairly meaningless. Everyone talks very awkwardly, like their robotic plot devices, and it becomes annoying. Beast, more often than not, doesn't even feel like the Beast I enjoy (he being my favorite X-Man), and it all comes off as very campy and irritating.
Don't bother picking up this book today if you had nay mind to. It's age shows, and it's one of those books better left buried in the archives.
