The Squashed X-Treme X-Men
A/N: Just adding the first issue, which was included in first chapter of this story.
1 #1
Storm, Bishop, Rogue, Beast, Thunderbird, Psylocke: Hi, we're back! Oh no, we've been shot!
Rogue: But ah just fell in the sea!
Sage: I escaped because I'm so darned sexy.
Guy in the shadows with scary twins: Ha-haaah!
#2
To put it short: The X-Treme X-Men minus Rogue and Sage fall into water and get outta it. Beast and Psylocke get separated from the rest. Rogue has a flashback. Then she slams into a building, never mind the repair costs. Vargas gets to show off, and nearly kills Rogue. Beast and Psylocke arrives, and seeing as they're X-Men, they can't just gather up Rogue with Betsy's teke and get the hell outta there. The result is that Beast nearly gets killed, and Psylocke actually does get killed. Sorry, I just can't make this humorous. It still feels like they brought Betsy into the title just to kill her.
#3
Vargas has excited. This issue is a good-bye with Psylocke. Sage sees what Beast will become, finally explaining his form in "New" X-Men. *Sigh* If the titles are separate, why do we have to read all of them to understand what's going on? Beast returns to the main X-team.
#4
Enter: GAMBIT! (So there's where he's at!) He plays cards with Vargas, and steals his diamond. And thinks in French-accented English. Honestly. Somebody ought to thump Chris Claremont on the head.
Lesse… did anything else happen? Oh, yeah. Bishop is Gateway's grandson. (GROAN!!!!!!) And Sage says things like "Cool" and "Way cool"! This is getting sad. Previews in dreamtime of what to come.
#5
Apparently, it is a need for telling us who all these mutants are at the first page. Why!?!?!? They're good drawings, and we know who they are.
As for the story: They watch the news through Sage, the living computer. Gambit's wanted for murder of the viceroy of organised crime in Australia. Bishop plays cop. The rest break into the viceroy's home and check. Bishop arrives later. Rogue gets mad when Bishop hints that Gambit might be guilty, and takes off. She plays good girl in Chinatown, Sydney. Meets Gambit. Gets powers turned off. Gets pummelled by Red Lotus (one of the better new characters). All this in one evening. Phew!
#6
Coroner. Illusions. Storm and T-Bird are on the beach with the viceroy's kids, Heather and Davis (who don't know they're his kids). Rogue and Gambit free themselves. Attack on the beach. Not to mention that finally someone notices that Storm is too beautiful for her own good.
#7
Youpie, Heather's a mutant. They pop up everywhere. Chris Claremont doesn't trust the readers and Salvador Larroca to figure out what Storm and T-Bird do without him telling us. And I like Bishop's little friend, Teri Baltimore. I do not like Lady Mastermind. (Blonde, and Regan Wyngarde in this storyline, as opposed to dark-haired and Martinique Jason in Uncanny.) And the Black King's a snug bastard. Rogue gets pummelled by him and tricked by Lady Mastermind, but Gambit and Red Lotus team up! Yay!
#8: 'Nuff said month
Errr… Dunno, exactly. But they defeat Lady Mastermind and the Black King. Poor Sage, though.
#9
Okay, this one I liked for one thing: This friend-talk between Jean and Ororo. And we find out lots and lots about Heather's powers. Anything to save a life. Pretty cool, really. But just how the hell did Sage know how to use Lifeguard (Heather) to save herself, when they'd never even met? On the other hand, Gambit and Red Lotus fixed all that mess they were in. I like that kid! Hope to learn more about him…
One extremely annoying thing. This issue was the end of one cycle. But I don't feel the summary fitted the story.
I'll leave it off, now, 'til the next cycle is finished. There, I'll rant about how stupid it was to make Davis Cameron a mutant, even though both power and codename was extremely cool (SLIPSTREAM! Wow!). It just feels like he wasn't good enough as he was. But it's a sweet friendship budding between him and Neal, though. Finally we have a guy not afraid to cry against another guy's shoulder when thrown into a war. I still think that another dimension was a bit too much. And what is this thing with Storm and warlords from other dimensions? (Anybody remember Arkon?)
A/N: Just adding the first issue, which was included in first chapter of this story.
1 #1
Storm, Bishop, Rogue, Beast, Thunderbird, Psylocke: Hi, we're back! Oh no, we've been shot!
Rogue: But ah just fell in the sea!
Sage: I escaped because I'm so darned sexy.
Guy in the shadows with scary twins: Ha-haaah!
#2
To put it short: The X-Treme X-Men minus Rogue and Sage fall into water and get outta it. Beast and Psylocke get separated from the rest. Rogue has a flashback. Then she slams into a building, never mind the repair costs. Vargas gets to show off, and nearly kills Rogue. Beast and Psylocke arrives, and seeing as they're X-Men, they can't just gather up Rogue with Betsy's teke and get the hell outta there. The result is that Beast nearly gets killed, and Psylocke actually does get killed. Sorry, I just can't make this humorous. It still feels like they brought Betsy into the title just to kill her.
#3
Vargas has excited. This issue is a good-bye with Psylocke. Sage sees what Beast will become, finally explaining his form in "New" X-Men. *Sigh* If the titles are separate, why do we have to read all of them to understand what's going on? Beast returns to the main X-team.
#4
Enter: GAMBIT! (So there's where he's at!) He plays cards with Vargas, and steals his diamond. And thinks in French-accented English. Honestly. Somebody ought to thump Chris Claremont on the head.
Lesse… did anything else happen? Oh, yeah. Bishop is Gateway's grandson. (GROAN!!!!!!) And Sage says things like "Cool" and "Way cool"! This is getting sad. Previews in dreamtime of what to come.
#5
Apparently, it is a need for telling us who all these mutants are at the first page. Why!?!?!? They're good drawings, and we know who they are.
As for the story: They watch the news through Sage, the living computer. Gambit's wanted for murder of the viceroy of organised crime in Australia. Bishop plays cop. The rest break into the viceroy's home and check. Bishop arrives later. Rogue gets mad when Bishop hints that Gambit might be guilty, and takes off. She plays good girl in Chinatown, Sydney. Meets Gambit. Gets powers turned off. Gets pummelled by Red Lotus (one of the better new characters). All this in one evening. Phew!
#6
Coroner. Illusions. Storm and T-Bird are on the beach with the viceroy's kids, Heather and Davis (who don't know they're his kids). Rogue and Gambit free themselves. Attack on the beach. Not to mention that finally someone notices that Storm is too beautiful for her own good.
#7
Youpie, Heather's a mutant. They pop up everywhere. Chris Claremont doesn't trust the readers and Salvador Larroca to figure out what Storm and T-Bird do without him telling us. And I like Bishop's little friend, Teri Baltimore. I do not like Lady Mastermind. (Blonde, and Regan Wyngarde in this storyline, as opposed to dark-haired and Martinique Jason in Uncanny.) And the Black King's a snug bastard. Rogue gets pummelled by him and tricked by Lady Mastermind, but Gambit and Red Lotus team up! Yay!
#8: 'Nuff said month
Errr… Dunno, exactly. But they defeat Lady Mastermind and the Black King. Poor Sage, though.
#9
Okay, this one I liked for one thing: This friend-talk between Jean and Ororo. And we find out lots and lots about Heather's powers. Anything to save a life. Pretty cool, really. But just how the hell did Sage know how to use Lifeguard (Heather) to save herself, when they'd never even met? On the other hand, Gambit and Red Lotus fixed all that mess they were in. I like that kid! Hope to learn more about him…
One extremely annoying thing. This issue was the end of one cycle. But I don't feel the summary fitted the story.
I'll leave it off, now, 'til the next cycle is finished. There, I'll rant about how stupid it was to make Davis Cameron a mutant, even though both power and codename was extremely cool (SLIPSTREAM! Wow!). It just feels like he wasn't good enough as he was. But it's a sweet friendship budding between him and Neal, though. Finally we have a guy not afraid to cry against another guy's shoulder when thrown into a war. I still think that another dimension was a bit too much. And what is this thing with Storm and warlords from other dimensions? (Anybody remember Arkon?)