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Aperto da Man of Steel, 20 Luglio 2019, 23:54:26

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Man of Steel

Io il numero di Incoming l'ho ignorato tutto e ho letto solo la parte scritta da Hickman (true story! :lolle: :lolle:) e non ho avuto problemi, anche qui spero che sia così.

L'unico evento Marvel che conta per davvero arriverà tra 10 anni. :wub:
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katzenberg

Citazione di: Man of Steel il 25 Gennaio 2020, 14:42:41

L'unico evento Marvel che conta per davvero arriverà tra 10 anni. :wub:

???

Man of Steel

Pero ora no comment, ma poi capirai! :dsi:
We're all searching for enlightenment.
But what is light?
Different for everyone. But everyone looking.

See what we want to see.
No matter how small...or big we are.

katzenberg

Non pensare di cavartela così... :P

Man of Steel

We're all searching for enlightenment.
But what is light?
Different for everyone. But everyone looking.

See what we want to see.
No matter how small...or big we are.

katzenberg


Professor Zoom

MoS ha i contatti nella dirigenza Marvel. :ahsisi:

Man of Steel

If you know...you know! :P
Il post del Prof, col senno di poi, è il top...you know, da dove ricevo le mie info. :lolle:

Probabilmente non verrà mai realizzato, però se dovesse prendere vita, spero che la data 2030 venga rispettata. :zuzu:
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X-Men #5
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Art by R.B. Silva and Marte Gracia
Lettering by Clayton Cowles
Published by Marvel Comics
Review by Justin Partridge
'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10

X-Men #5 marks a few returns to "Dawn of X." Most noticeably, the return of artists R.B. Silva and Marte Gracia, whose rich pencils and colors give Krakoa and her citizens a lush, emotive look once again. X-Men #5 also marks the return of the Children of the Vault, reintroduced during the opening House of X / Powers of X limited series and now branded by Charles Xavier the single most important threat to mutantkind. Retreating into a secondary Vault in Ecuador that fans of Grant Morrison's era of New X-Men might recognize, last surviving child Serafina is now reactivating the Vault and gathering her brothers and sisters for a counterattack.

Though his particular entry into the new X-Men canon might be a bit more dense than the relatively accessible opening arc before it, #5 finds Hickman in full-on world-building mode, pulling from the opening miniseries and elements of his own past work — in particular, his odd and expansive Ultimates run - and building another worthy, time-breaking adversary for the new nation of X. Neatly divided between Hickman's highly designed "info" pages and Silva and Gracia's gorgeously cinematic artwork, X-Men #5 delivers a more metaphysical struggle for the new nation.

Child of the Vault Serafina has led the X-Men on a merry, and violent chase, but now she's made it "home" - namely, the hollowed-out body of a Master Mold that houses a secondary Vault, fit with all the time-shattering technology that makes the Children possible. Though Jonathan Hickman presents the base plot with a real drive, he doesn't shy away from the metaphysical terror that now comes with their more dangerous missions. This thread of the script is where X-Men #5 really succeeds.

Laying out the reasoning and expectations behind Scott's choice of Synch, Darwin, and Laura Kinney's Wolverine, Hickman coldly lays out the pragmatic choices of infiltrating the Vault in a very engaging way. Basically, they are the only people that can survive long enough to make it out and allow Professor X to download their minds for resurrection. Even more horrifying, time works differently in the Vault, so if they are seperated or locked in the Vault, days would pass on the outside, but thousands of years would pass on the inside. Hickman spices up the high drama with choice character moments, mostly centered around Logan and Laura bonding as Wolverines, but still the existential dread of the Resurrection Protocols and the mission itself hangs over it all.

But even with the metaphysical dread, X-Men #5 still looks fantastic thanks to the return of R.B. Silva and Marte Gracia to the House of X. Though the breakout visual motif of the info-text pages is still around, some now even focused on the boot-up sequencing and internal information of the Vault, Gracia and Silva make all the characters and settings of Krakoa pop once again. Though some of the jungle exteriors of Ecuador and Krakoa kind of look similar in some of the establishing scenes, Silva's character models and blocking once again shine, lending a true expressiveness to the dialogue. Gracia's colors also flesh out the interactions well thanks to his rich lighting and eye grabbing color choices for the costuming and lush plant life throughout both settings.

This issue also has a sort of gimmick in the middle section. As Serafina reactivates the Vault, the pages are bisected between coding blocks and real-time action at the bottom of the page. Though it sort of limits the scope of the page's point of view, it's a nice burst of theatricality for the art team's return and evokes the apocalyptic tone of their opening miniseries. Thankfully, the scope opens back up again toward the end of the issue, disrupting its own visual scheme as the team infiltrates the Vault, but it is nice to know that the pair are willing to try new things and new visual language in their return.

While a touch denser than the more user-friendly opening issues X-Men #5 continues the title's aims of expansion. By adding more new threats to Krakoa and continuing to delve into the real deal implications of the mutant's new "paradise," Jonathan Hickman continues to make good on the promise of the "new" for the main X-book. And with the return of Gracia and Silva to the line, we not only keep a relative visual consistency, but we get some more fantastic art from the pair, both of whom seem locked in to their own dynamic and how the X-Men move and fight. It used to be "welcome to the X-Men, I hope you survive the experience" - but with X-Men #5, that survival looks harder to come by than ever.
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Letto #5
Damn, Hickman è andato a riprendere
Spiacente, ma non sei autorizzato a visualizzare il contenuto degli spoiler.
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But what is light?
Different for everyone. But everyone looking.

See what we want to see.
No matter how small...or big we are.

Azrael

X-Men #5 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by Kat Calamia; 'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10):

Three brave X-Men enter the vault... but will they return? X-Men #5 is a solid set-up issue that puts Cyclops' leadership skills on full display as he makes a risky decision to send Synch, Darwin, and X-23 into unknown territory that will either change their lives forever or have them not return at all. Writer Jonathan Hickman focuses on character work to make this adventure into the vault feel even greater and more threatening, but I especially enjoyed Hickman's voice for X-23, who fully embraces the character's growth from her time as Wolverine (Kudos to R.B. Silva who uses Laura's All-New Wolverine costume design for the scene). The art team does a fantastic job at landing these character beats while adding an air of wonderment as we learn more about the Vault. X-Men #5 shows that the A-Listers are not the only characters that will be dealing with the consequences of paradise.
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X-Men #6
Written by Jonathan Hickman
Art by Matteo Buffagni and Sunny Gho
Lettering by Clayton Cowles
Published by Marvel Comics
Review by Scott Cederlund
'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10

Everyone wants something. In Jonathan Hickman's X-Men, most of the mutants want what Charles Xavier wants — or at least what he tells them that he wants. But while this mutant leader wants a better future for members of his race, he schemes and manipulates in ways hidden from those who have almost blindly put their trust in him. Take the shapechanging mutant Mystique, for example: the one thing she wants is the one thing that Xavier will not give her - her lover Destiny, a mutant who can see the future but would destroy everything that Xavier is trying to accomplish. In X-Men #6, Hickman and artist Matteo Buffagni reveal more of the games that Xavier and Mystique are playing as they manipulate one another to get what they want without giving away any of their leverage over the future of Krakoa.

Buffagni and colorist Sunny Gho don't have the pop glitz of Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, and Marte Gracia nor do they have the pent-up energy of Leinil Yu, but none of those artists could as effectively capture the simmering emotions at play in these characters, particularly in Mystique. As the star of this issue, Mystique carries the spiritual weight of this story as she's the snake in Xavier's Garden of Eden. Or perhaps she's the Eve of this story, trying to gain something that the more godlike Xavier doesn't want her to have. In House of X/Powers of X, it was established that Destiny could see behind the veil of Krakoa to catch glimpses of what was really happening, that she could bring everything crashing down around Xavier. As she's the one mutant that Xavier hasn't resurrected, he uses that to manipulate Mystique, to try and bend her to his "benevolent" will.

There are multiple aspects to Mystique at play in this issue and Buffagni captures her skills, her cunning and her frustrations in Krakoa. With a clean, almost minimalistic line, he doesn't give a lot of distractions or disguises for Mystique, a shape-changing mutant, to hide behind. He captures her frustrations at having to play Xavier's games. She also knows that she's being manipulated, and Buffagni draws her spirit but also the pain and loss that drives her. Gho's subdued coloring over Buffagni creates a longing atmosphere that reflects Mystique's own desires. As everyone has secrets in Hickman's comics, he reveals a big one here, establishing that Mystique wants more than her lover back - she wants her wife resurrected. In terms of representation in popular culture, it's a huge moment for Hickman and Buffagni to take this often-implied relationship and finally commit it to canon - and even just for the context of this story, it allows Buffagni and Gho to show a Mystique who's fighting for something more than just her own self interest; she's fighting for the life of the most important person in the world to her.

Carving his story out of subplots, each issue of Hickman's X-Men has concentrated on a different threat facing Xavier's mutants. This issue returns to the Orchis Forge and their fight for mankind against the mutants, but they're not the main threat in these pages. Mystique plays along with the politics of Krakoa because it suits her needs and desires. Hickman writes her from a place of ambiguity - while her motives are anything but ambiguous, he plants enough seeds of doubt in Xavier's machinations. As Hickman's long game plays out, it's already becoming murky about who are the heroes and who are the villains. And planted firmly in the middle of that doubt is Mystique. This issue hints that ultimately she will be the one to burn down the dream of Krakoa, and we'll need to keep reading to figure out if that's a good thing or not.

This issue injects a nice bit of personality into Hickman's X-Men. As he's explored the post HoX/PoX status quo, the X-Men have largely operated as pod people, believing, dying and being resurrected in the dream. Mystique dies and is resurrected, but she's anything but a believer. Hickman and Buffagni portray her as the disruption in this carefully constructed system. The future will tell whether she's on the side of the angels or whether she's the agent of destruction in this story. But either way, Mystique is the one character so far in this series who has shown any evidence of being able to match wits with Hickman's Xavier and stand up to him.
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X-Men #6 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by Justin Partridge; 'Rama Rating: 9 out of 10):

Guest artist Matteo Buffagni fills in for an intriguing look behind the scenes of Krakoa in X-Men #6. Focused on the now-canon marriage between Destiny and Mystique, Jonathan Hickman starts to fill in the gaps of Raven's secret mission to the Orchis Mother Mold as well as what Orchis has been up to since the attack. Though a bit condensed between the "Now" and "Then," Hickman's Raven fits easily into a leading role, working tirelessly to get her wife back amid Charles and Erik's stonewalling while also following Destiny's secret instructions given before her death. Buffagni also brings an expressive, intimately-focused energy to the issue as they render most of the action in tight close ups or densely packed character interactions. It might be a bit slower pace than the previous issues, but X-Men #6 provides some wonderful detailing and character work to the ongoing Dawn of X.
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Letto #6
Ogni tanto vedo le matite di questo Matteo Buffagni e porca merda, ogni volta mi piace un botto.
Per quanto riguarda la storia di Hickman...che dire, buon build-up, il writer sta posizionando le sue pedine, già dal day one con HoX/PoX.
Sarà una cosa lunga, i guess, speriamo ne valga la pena.

Perchè Secret Wars per quanto cool, mi aveva lasciato abbastanza freddo e a distanza di X anni, che cazz è rimasto?
Ma è anche vero, che questo non dipende molto da Johnno, ma la Marvel.
Dovessero i mutanti ritornare allo status quo di prima, sarebbe...i dunno, not good.
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Mister C

Mi sono appena ricordato un nome: Mike Allred, grazie a questo Post!
SPERO VIVAMENTE che NON SONO TORNATI i suoi persaonaggi mutanti... Non ho i buoni ricordi...