Getting the #oneweekonecomic treatment today is @ZacBeThompson, @Lon_Monster & @Failla_comics’ AGE OF X-MAN: THE MARVELOUS X-MEN #1.pic.twitter.com/dRpL7vjGB8
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Avengers: No Surrender pulled a very similar trick, but I love the subtle glimpses of how Nate has inserted himself into X-Men history. He appears to have replaced Beast in the OG Five, and was even part of Madrox’s X-Factor team in the ‘00s.pic.twitter.com/BRcrhAAoaY
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I’m a real sucker for superheroes using their abilities in mundane ways, and that goes double for mutants, where powers are just a fact of life.pic.twitter.com/nRgvO0bu9X
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I love that it’s an issue without any traditional baddie, and the X-Men are just rescuing people – and animals – from natural disasters. Always nice to see some superheroics that don’t involve punches to faces.pic.twitter.com/Ziz12qzs3b
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The really smart bit, though, is that the big rescue takes place inside one of X-Man’s Cerebro centres, so we get a chance to see the inner workings of this society. It’s not treated as a big reveal, just background detail, because our heroes already know all about this stuff.pic.twitter.com/SslCWOylef
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The lettering in these panels is genuinely, I think intentionally, overwhelming. The three different balloon and font styles, but three discrete speakers in a single panel, two of them unattributed. It all works to put us in the same position as Jean.pic.twitter.com/7WoLgjhetI
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Similarly, I really like the final balloon here. It’s a simple trick, but having to squint (or, in my case, zoom in) to see what it says makes you a more active participant.pic.twitter.com/A8yJRi7RTB
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This is more or less my first experience of Nature Girl, but … based on this one issue, she seems great?pic.twitter.com/Sux6E8iZmR
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I’ve never really been able to get on board with the X-Men obsession with alt-realities. Like all the alien stuff, I can’t quite see how it fits into the core themes. AoX works because it attacks two vital elements of the X-Men concept:
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1. The X-Men as an x-tended family (which, more than the whole ‘hated and feared’ thing, is what really differentiates them from any other super team –
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The key rule of X-Man’s world is: no relationships. The prologue one shot last week went hard on the romance angle of this, but it’s actually more affecting to see how it stops them from forming a family.pic.twitter.com/AaU2kCh7I7
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There’s something inherently wrong about seeing the X-Mansion, a centre for this community that has been the target of so many supervillains' schemes, just... replaced, with these individual single-person homes.pic.twitter.com/nNLasOlN42
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2. X-Man sez: No more sexual reproduction! Which ties into the part of the mutant concept that’s about evolution, and sets up a nice contrast with, say, the natural selection obsession of Apocalypse (who is playing the freedom fighter role here).pic.twitter.com/30JmEk2J2U
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It's actually helped me understand why clones are such a big part of X-history. (There are two of them on this team alone.)pic.twitter.com/Z37XOmpNKH
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...Which is really interesting, but it all pales in comparison to the single most important thing about this issue – the introduction of my new favourite X-Men character: Fungus the bear.pic.twitter.com/1PZpJtytJ7
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