Astonishing x men volume 1 gifted5/31/2023 Kavita Rao sends shockwaves through the mutant community, having supposedly found a cure for the so-called "disease" of being a mutant.Īnd if that’s not enough, there’s aliens! We follow mutants Emma Frost, Cyclops, Beast, and Hugh Jack - err, Wolverine, as they try to train a new generation of students, in the absence of usual mentoring master, Charles Xavier.* Meanwhile, world-renowned geneticist Dr. The plot, at first glance, seems fairly formulaic. To recap: two strikes, and a critic more nitpicky and crass than Statler and Waldorf combined.ĭespite all of this, if you’ll pardon the pun, Astonishing X-Men: Gifted, well, astonished me. Literally, as I opened the book, I muttered aloud, “Show me what you’ve got, Mr. I kid you not, readers, as I flipped to the first page of Astonishing X-Men: Gifted, I was the cynical comic book guy. So, as far as I was concerned, his name on the cover of the book didn't win any prizes from me. I'd heard a lot about Joss Whedon, but never really cared either way about him. All of them, in my honorary opinion, were poorly written, badly drawn, and had all the writing finesse of the back of a cereal box. I've read two, maybe three, Marvel trades. This confession may make you click the red X in the corner of your browser faster than you can say "Excelsior," but hear me out.
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