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X-Men: Blood of Apocalypse by Peter Milligan, Salvador Larroca
2.0
The last gasp of an overly angsty villain as camp. The tone of the book is set from the first line of dialogue: "I've got an even better idea, Lord Apocalypse. Why don't we kill them all?"
I went back to this to remember where we stood with Apocalypse at the beginning of Uncanny X-Force. Milligan is talented, but his characters act in bizarre, over the top ways. Putting all of this into the villain of Apocalypse ends up being a good match. In many ways, though, the plot's a rehash, a cover version of previous storylines. Apocalypse looms large, transforms some X-Men characters and newly introduced characters into his Horsemen, pronounces doom for humanity, and gets defeated. But in retrospect, he never returned in this form again. Remender's X-Force took Apocalypse into new and unprecedented territory. Right now, this stands as the strange last run of the guy with the big "A" on his belt. On its own, however, the book isn't a satisfying read. Salvador Larocca's stiff art does little to aid the equally stiff characters going through the plot motions. Like so much of Milligan and Larocca's run on this title, the old fun elements are present, but don't come together in a satisfying way.
I went back to this to remember where we stood with Apocalypse at the beginning of Uncanny X-Force. Milligan is talented, but his characters act in bizarre, over the top ways. Putting all of this into the villain of Apocalypse ends up being a good match. In many ways, though, the plot's a rehash, a cover version of previous storylines. Apocalypse looms large, transforms some X-Men characters and newly introduced characters into his Horsemen, pronounces doom for humanity, and gets defeated. But in retrospect, he never returned in this form again. Remender's X-Force took Apocalypse into new and unprecedented territory. Right now, this stands as the strange last run of the guy with the big "A" on his belt. On its own, however, the book isn't a satisfying read. Salvador Larocca's stiff art does little to aid the equally stiff characters going through the plot motions. Like so much of Milligan and Larocca's run on this title, the old fun elements are present, but don't come together in a satisfying way.