Comments on: X-Men: Die by the Sword #2 Review

By: david

david — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:59:42 +0000

Okay, I had a look at that blog.

By: Neal

Neal — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:36:32 +0000

I agree - this story has so much potential, and is just way too rushed. It also doesn't really explain much of anything - who is Rouge? Why was she trying to kill Brian? Is she working for Saturnyne, or someone else?

And by the way, that wasn't Jamie Braddock at the end, it was Jaspers, from the old Alan Moore/Alan Davis Captain Britain stuff. Which is good, except in those, one fury and Jaspers took out a whole world; now there are two? It's just getting a little ridiculous.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:05:55 +0000

I'm a big fan of not only "Excalibur" and "New Excalibur," but of Claremont in general, and I thought this was a pretty spectacularly bad issue. It's all just glorious nonsense until the extremely cool final shot.

By: Lucion

Lucion — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:52:32 +0000

My oh my has Psylocke undergone a ton of changes in her career. The Wikipedia page on her is so rediculously long I just looked at all the different pictures and shook my head.

I like that cover. It's great that she is still wearing the same costume she had when I last read the X-books back in the mid-90s even though she has apparently changed her race a few times since. Weird.

By: TF_loki

TF_loki — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:40:42 +0000

Did Longshot actually get married? What issue?

By: M Bloom

M Bloom — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:17:26 +0000

I didn't really read this, just flipped through it for the Longshot and Dazzler bits (even if the marriage doomed Ali to limbo for a decade, I did want to see this reunion). My basic impression stands from the first issue: one big bundle of Claremontisms (still waiting for the mind control).

I think this book definitely wins the "most panty shots obscured by sound effects in a single comic book" award for 2007. That's still one of the Eisner categories, right?

By: km

km — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:16:31 +0000

Boy, that was the most spectacular PR bomb I've seen in ages. 'Regrettably 20th-century sense of propriety." Hee.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:05:18 +0000

This review did not have enough crotch shots.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:41:40 +0000

It's so nice to see Claremont getting the derision he deserves and being exposed as a jerk.