Ultimate X-men # 92 Review
Author: Robert Kirkman
Artist: Salvador Larroca
Colors: Paul Mounts
I haven’t reviewed an Ultimate X-men book in over a year. There is a reason for this. As much as I can’t stand Mark Millar’s Civil War or Wolverine run, his Ultimate X-men run was great. Sure it was a dumb-downed version of old stories, but he kept it fresh and the art by Adam Kubert was phenomenal. Lately both the writing and the art have gone to shit. I can’t believe how easy it is to fuck up a comic that hasn’t been around for even 100 issues, but Kirkman showed me how. This however is Kirkman’s last run on the book and the past two issues have been readable. The art by Larroca helped to ease the eyes too.
Charles Xavier is dead!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Seriously, did anybody reading that atrocious Cable story think he was really dead? Sorry, anyway yes Xavier died and Cyclops disbanded the X-men and just make the mansion just a school for mutants. Meanwhile Bishop formed the new X-men. However Xavier wasn’t dead….he was just taken to the future to be trained by Cable to fight Apocalypse. Turns out that Bishop was working with Cable to resurrect Apocalypse. The Fantastic Four decide to try and help SHIELD. So Cable is really Strife and Onslaught is really Xavier and Cable is really Wolverine and Wolverine lost an arm and I have lost my fucking mind for keeping up with this book. The issue just served as a placeholder between the cliffhanger from last issue and the finale next month. Professor X might be dead again and Phoenix is back!
Just because I said they were readable doesn’t mean they were good. Nothing of relevance happens in this issue and to be honest about 50% of Kirkman’s run felt that way. Cable and Bishop’s motives are just fucking ridiculous. Why lie at all? It doesn’t make any sense; it seems really over-the-top to be taken seriously. Larroca’s art did help some, but I still don’t know why this book just isn’t cancelled? I’m not sure if anybody can save the book. Over the years it certainly has lost its cool and fresh factor and it just seems to be here because it’s an x-book. C-
wait...
Stryfe = Cable= future Wolverine without an arm
Onslaught = Xavier
And Bishop is a bad guy trying to ressurect Apocalypse? So he's bad in both Universes now?
Are there one Cable or two? And what is he, Good/bad?
Wait.. what?
My head exploded reading this review.
Try reading this cluster fuck of a book for a real headache.
This book needs a new team or just canceled. This books is the ass.
The "Cry Wolf" story arc of Ultimate X-Men is one of the first comics I ever read. It got me pumped about the Ultimate universe and in turn comics.
I too have felt the declyne of the book since Voughn and Millar left and it really sucks to see stories that are scatter-brained but bland at the same time as well as art that is consistantly sub-par compared to the amazing work of the earlier pencilists.
I'm sick of Ultimate X-Men these not making up their mind on the type of story they want to tell and it's resulted in it not adding anything to Ultimate Marvel right now.
We have a new writer starting with issue 94 and it's a Heroes writer! Alright, I guess they expect us to be wowing, but I saw Heroes season 2 and they can keep their writers. It would be interesting to see what Chris Claremont would do with these characters.