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A review by pickett22
X-Men: Battle of the Atom by Brian Michael Bendis
1.0
So, the best summary of this book can be found < href="http://waitingforthet.tumblr.com/post/67352075909/this-is-my-impression-of-the-end-of-the-battle-of"> here (with some moderately adult content).
There were a number of things I didn't like about this book, but mostly I feel that the psychic battle was the biggest disappointment of 2013. And not just in comics. I mean generally, it was the thing that lived up to the excitement it created the least. I LOVE psychic battles, so I was willing to give this one lots of leeway. I thought "I can overlook Emma's broken vocabulary, if he just writes the action well in this." But alas. We all know Bendis just doesn't like Emma, but if four Frosts and a baby Jean can't take on Jean-from-the-future, how does baby Jean do it by herself? Emma has the training, and I'm pretty sure she was as powerful as Jean (sans Phoenix,) and even though she doesn't have her own power any more, there are three Emma clones right there, so I'm thinking the Frost clan alone has her licked.
Plus I'm still not really clear on what baby Jean saw that made her change her mind. Wasn't the point of the plot twist that the future was actually pretty rosy and the people were actually the bad guys.
Overall the whole plot was an exercise in futility, as it changed nothing. The future people came back to do something that (it turns out) can't physically be done. Well shoot.
And there's lots of whining about who likes who (teenagers, man!), and more finger pointing (blah, blah, blah, Scott's a murderer, we get it).
I do kind of like that Kitty is on Scott's side, because it seems like SOMEONE is finally acting like themselves. Although it kind of makes me sad, because since Bendis doesn't like Emma/cannot write Emma there will be no wonderful Kitty/Emma Frienemy moments. I miss those.
Well, I miss Emma just generally, but you know.
(ALSO, I know this is from the issue after BotA ends, but DIGS ABOUT WARSONG/ENDSONG ARE NOT OKAY! THEY'RE NOT FUNNY, THEY'RE NOT GOOD BURNS, AND THEY'RE NOT OKAY! YOU CAN'T JUST DISREGARD IMPORTANT MOMENTS FROM THAT BOOK AND THEN HAUL BITS IN TO INSULT CHARACTERS YOU DON'T LIKE!
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There were a number of things I didn't like about this book, but mostly I feel that the psychic battle was the biggest disappointment of 2013. And not just in comics. I mean generally, it was the thing that lived up to the excitement it created the least. I LOVE psychic battles, so I was willing to give this one lots of leeway. I thought "I can overlook Emma's broken vocabulary, if he just writes the action well in this." But alas. We all know Bendis just doesn't like Emma, but if four Frosts and a baby Jean can't take on Jean-from-the-future, how does baby Jean do it by herself? Emma has the training, and I'm pretty sure she was as powerful as Jean (sans Phoenix,) and even though she doesn't have her own power any more, there are three Emma clones right there, so I'm thinking the Frost clan alone has her licked.
Plus I'm still not really clear on what baby Jean saw that made her change her mind. Wasn't the point of the plot twist that the future was actually pretty rosy and the people were actually the bad guys.
Overall the whole plot was an exercise in futility, as it changed nothing. The future people came back to do something that (it turns out) can't physically be done. Well shoot.
And there's lots of whining about who likes who (teenagers, man!), and more finger pointing (blah, blah, blah, Scott's a murderer, we get it).
I do kind of like that Kitty is on Scott's side, because it seems like SOMEONE is finally acting like themselves. Although it kind of makes me sad, because since Bendis doesn't like Emma/cannot write Emma there will be no wonderful Kitty/Emma Frienemy moments. I miss those.
Well, I miss Emma just generally, but you know.
(ALSO, I know this is from the issue after BotA ends, but DIGS ABOUT WARSONG/ENDSONG ARE NOT OKAY! THEY'RE NOT FUNNY, THEY'RE NOT GOOD BURNS, AND THEY'RE NOT OKAY! YOU CAN'T JUST DISREGARD IMPORTANT MOMENTS FROM THAT BOOK AND THEN HAUL BITS IN TO INSULT CHARACTERS YOU DON'T LIKE!
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