7:49pm: Please, congratulate me on another incredibly productive day . . .
Oh yes. That's right. This morning, I woke up with the intention of reading "Earth X", "Universe X" "Heralds" and "Paradise X." That's like, fifty comics. I got half-way through "Earth X," and gave up. Bought "PX" last issue tonight, and decided to just read it.
You know, I hated it. I wrote this 'review' on X-Fan. Here it is.
"I hated it.
Everything felt so out of place. There was no twists, no turns, no nothing. What happened to the child Mar-Vell? What happened to . . . hell, everything? Despite the fact that it was only HALF the size it should have been, I felt like there was absolutely no closure.
In fact, I felt like poor Jim HAD to compress everything he was planning on doing. If there had been the planned size, I'm betting we would have gotten more.
But . . . blah.
The whole "we chose who dies" thing doesn't sit well with me.
BUT - what happened to Reed and Mar-Vell is very interesting and I wish there would have been more to it. Also, the fact that the closing statement was by X-51 was fitting, but it was kinda corny.
I'm sorry, Jim, I tried to like it. I really did. But as a closing chapter in the entire "Earth/Universe/Paradise X" saga, I was just not blown away.
But hey . . . maybe with an open-ended ending like this we can get an on-going. Now that . . . that would be cool."
Jim, for those not in the know, is the writer. We talk to him on a pretty regular basis. So, yeah, other than that crap, I've done shit today.
~W~