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A review by invertible_hulk
Earth X by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger
3.0
A quasi-Nietzschean approach to the Marvel Comics canon that was supposed to tie up all of the loose ends, but only caused more headaches -- causing the Marvel editors to place it in a parallel timeline instead.
It started out decent, but seemed to be too ambitious for just twelve issues: for this part of the series, at least (follow-ups Universe X and Paradise X were twelve issue arcs as well). It quickly devolved into rather incoherent psychobabble and psuedo-Existential rhetoric.
And the overly wordy, strict dialogue of the appendices bogged down the plot more than it expanded upon it.
I'm not quite sure exactly who this series was intended for -- there's too much reliance on Marvel character history for the casual comics reader to follow, and it plays with the established canon a bit too much for any hardcore Marvel fan to enjoy.
It started out decent, but seemed to be too ambitious for just twelve issues: for this part of the series, at least (follow-ups Universe X and Paradise X were twelve issue arcs as well). It quickly devolved into rather incoherent psychobabble and psuedo-Existential rhetoric.
And the overly wordy, strict dialogue of the appendices bogged down the plot more than it expanded upon it.
I'm not quite sure exactly who this series was intended for -- there's too much reliance on Marvel character history for the casual comics reader to follow, and it plays with the established canon a bit too much for any hardcore Marvel fan to enjoy.