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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2019 14:53:12 GMT -5
I had been meaning to get to Grand Design, but I had been waiting for them to hit Marvel Unlimited and had forgotten about them. I read the first 2 issue series last night and then started reading through the annotations, and wanted to say great job Dizzy. These and the Wildstorm annotations are fascinating reads. I have to catch up on both series (I was trade waiting on the Wildstorm stuff but will likely pick up WildCATS as it comes out) so I can read the more recent annotations in these threads.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 31, 2019 17:04:40 GMT -5
Well, the artwork is still weird. Like something from old Cracked or Mad Magazine I agree, it’s an uncommon style for an X-book. That’s probably in part why the project was greenlighted: a more indy sensibility is something we don’t see all that often in superhero comics, and it makes this series something more than a simple retelling of old tales. I kind of like the style, even if it is far removed from Kirby, Roth, Cockrum and Byrne! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2019 14:28:51 GMT -5
Marvel has collected these minis into 2 (soon to be 3) oversized Treasury Edition trades. They MSRP at $30 each, but one dealer at the con I went to this afternoon had bout a half dozen copies of each and was selling them for $10 a pop or $15 if you bought both. I picked up both Vol. 1 and 2. I loved the oversized treasury collection of Hip Hop Family Tree, Piskor's art is well suited for the oversized format, so I looked forward to checking his X-Men stuff out in that format after work tonight.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 11, 2019 14:46:18 GMT -5
Issue #6: or X-tinction, issue #2. The final issue, dealing with everything from Inferno to X-tinction Agenda to Days of Future Past with a few steps backwards.
Somebody else can go do Fantastic Four: Grand Design by Tom Scioli when it comes out.
Credits: Ed Piskor, who else?.
The Cover: Our center figure is Kitty, the left half in her blue Excalibur costume, the right in the Days of Future Past prisoner garb. The Claremont/Lee X-Men on the left: Cyclops, Jean, Rogue, Jubilee, Asian Psylocke, Archangel and Gambit. On the right, the DoFP version of Wolverine and a lot of gravestones.
Title/credits page: Same title page as in X-tinction #1.
Page 1: Cyclops explains to Logan why Jean is still alive. Things go exactly as they originally did: the Avengers find a cocoon in Jamaica Bay while looking for Namor, the Fantastic Four open the cocoon and find Jean. Jean's body, almost completely destroyed by radiation had been piecing itself together back inside the cocoon. Cyclops asks what happened to Xavier.
Page 2-3: Remember how last issue I said that skipping the trial of Magneto was a pretty big change? Well, here it is.
And a lot of differences: No Gaby Haller as attorney this time, Xavier took it upon himself to defend Magneto. The trial of Magneto ignites mutant hatred beyond anything seen before. Xavier receives death threats, but they are dismissed by the authorities. It's acknowledged that Magneto could escape at any time but willfully submits himself to the court. During the proceeding the court room is destroyed by a bomb. No Fenris looking to address their father's defeat at Magneto's hand, instead it's an anonymous janitor. Magneto protects Xavier and the judge with his force-field but all others are killed. Magnus decides to go into exile and rebuilds Asteroid M. Authorities question Xavier to find out what happened, but Xavier changes their minds in his usual way.
Page 4-5:President Kelly answers public outcry by introducing the Mutant Registration Act. The results are grim: in Springfield a mutant woman is murdered, mutant children are barred from public school unless proven to not be a danger and a doctor is declared not guilty after terminating pregnancies of his patients without their consent when they were carrying mutants. Xavier's speech at NY University ends with an attack on him, but he's found and saved by the Morlocks, but the wounds are deeper than the Healer could heal. Xavier discusses his injuries with Lilandra and she suggests contacting the Starjammers. Xavier is taken to the Starjammer for surgery and is healed, but the Starjammer has to flee Deathbird's armada and Xavier is cut off from Earth for the foreseeable future.
Notes: Kelly and the mutant registration act differ from the original version, there was talk about it at the time, but Kelly was still a senator. Xavier did get attacked at NYU and was healed by the Morlocks, but it was a different attack during the fight with Fenris that triggered the Starjammers to come and save him. By the way, the captions state that this happens before the Mutant Massacre, so this all happened earlier in the series.
Oh and a small difference, but Piskor's version of the Starjammer looks completely different from the Starjammer as drawn before.
Page 6: All new stuff now: Without Xavier to publicly advocate for mutants, nobody openly opposes Kelly (Thanks Richards, Rogers and Stark!): mutants need to be registered, children will be tested and use of powers without authorization is forbidden. Punishment is sterilization and death for violent offenders. Other countries follow America's policy, project Nimrod is started, Sentinels are build and demonstrations are controlled and limited to specific zones.
Notes: Pretty much the backstory of what happened in Days of Future Past, now shown in gruesome detail.
Page 7-9: The X-Men offer X-Factor sanctuary at their hidden camp in Australia, but X-Factor refuses and wants to openly fight the new system. The X-Men return home through Gateway's portal. Logan takes a few extra moments to say goodbye to Jean (off-panel) and arrives last in Australia and immediately recognises Pierce's smell. The Reavers shoot Logan. He wakes up, nailed to a cross (or rather an X) and Donald Pierce asks him where the other X-Men fled through the Siege Perilous to. Logan has a flashback to Psylocke leading the entire team through the gate to escape from the Reavers' ambush, but doesn't tell Pierce, who destroys the mirror without knowing what it is.
Notes: Several issues condensed into one here: the Australia time was slowly losing members over a longer period of team before Psylocke led the final members through the Siege to escape the Reavers. This time seven members enter the Siege including Storm (who was kidnapped by Nanny in the original), Rogue (who entered the Siege separately during the fight with Nimrod/Mastermold) and Longshot (who left the team to find answers to his past).
Pages 10-12: Tortured, Logan manages to nevertheless escape the cross during the night and is helped into hiding by a young girl. The girl introduces herself as Jubilee and explains how she followed the X-Men through a gate after a shopping trip to an American mall and had been in hiding since. Once he has recovered enough Logan takes revenge on the Reavers and escapes (Jubilee taking out Pierce to save Wolverine).
Notes: The capture and save is pretty similar, though the escape is different. Logan and Jubilee never entered into open combat with the Reavers but escaped through Gateway's portal. Also Jubilee thinks that she just knocked out Pierce, but the large pool of blood and Wolverine's words clearly state otherwise. In the original comics, Pierce would only die much later when attacked by Trevor Fitzroy's Sentinels, so that is big change. Also noteworthy, Lady Deathstrike is never seen among the Reavers, while she was always pretty prominent in the original story, even if she had little love for the other Reavers.
Pages 13-14: In a series of panels we are updated on the status of all the X-Men. Instead of just scattered around the world, some of the X-Men are all moved into alternate dimensions. Dazzler ends up in a world where she is still famous and popular as a singer and actress. Colossus enters a world without mutants and becomes a famous painter. Rogue ends up in another Savage Land with Magneto but has no powers and thinks herself a native to this land. Ororo is changed into a child and escapes from a hospital. Psylocke has been found by the Ninja-clan known as the Hand and turned into their assassin, which includes a physical transformation. Havok ends up in Genosha, but is protected still by Roma's spell which hides his mutant gifts from detection by the Genoshan technology. We get a quick introduction to Genosha: a small island of the East-Coast of Africa, whose immense wealth and prosperity is bought by mutant slave labour. Mutants are kept under control by the Magistrates and Alex Summers is now one of them.
Notes: As said, the three X-Men ending up in different dimensions is new. It is never said where Longshot ends up. The others end up mostly where they ended up in the original comics (even if not in another dimension). Genosha was by this point already introduced (shortly before Inferno), but it was one of the stories skipped, so Piskor brings us up to speed to what Genosha is. I usually have seen Genosha as near Madagascar, but it's placed higher up North here, near the Seychelles (but a bit of googling does show other comics that placed Genosha at the same place Piskor puts it.
Page 14-18: Forge sees Storm in a vision and contacts Banshee to get help. Banshee believes him and tells him that they have saved Polaris, no longer possessed by Malice and physically changed: larger and stronger than she ever was before. At this point Muir Island is attacked and Forge speeds to rescue them. He arrives late though and Legion already defeated all the attackers: the remaining Reavers.
Genoshan refugees arrive at the X-mansion, now home to X-Factor, who greet them and give them shelter. Banshee and Forge arrive later and Jean informs them that the X-Men are indeed alive. Genoshans attack then to take the two refugees back to their nation, but are easily defeated by X-Factor, Banshee and Forge.
Notes: Lots of changes here: Polaris transformation was triggered by Zaladane stealing her powers in the original, but Zaladane and the Savage Land never appeared here, so her transformation remains a mystery. The Reavers are more of a threat to Muir Island, because Legion toys with both sides, playing them against each other. Forge evens the scales by bringing Freedom Force with him. In this version, Mystique never turned her Brotherhood into Freedom Force, so Forge arrives alone. Legion never turns on the other people on Muir Island but kills all the Reavers in a way that really disturbs both Polaris and Jamie Madrox (he made all their heads explode). This means that Destiny does not die on Muir and neither does Stonewall (but Stonewall never appeared in this version) or Sunder (also does not appear).
The two Genoshan refugees are not Philip Moreau and Jenny Ransome, they are both mutates in this version, the numbers tattooed on them (996 and the other I can't really read. It could be 028 or 928 or 021 or 921 or something else even) don't match Jenny's number (9817) and they end up in the US with X-Factor instead of with the amnesiac Piotr Rasputin. X-Factor is also not staying inside the Celestial Ship, but in Xavier's cellar.
Page 19: Hiding out in Madripoor, Logan is on the look for one of the missing X-Mens, but instead she finds him. Psylocke attacks Wolverine on behalf of the Silver Samurai, but regains her memory when she hits him with her psychic blade.
Notes: Some differences here. The setting is Madripoor, in the original it was Hong Kong. Psylocke works for the Silver Samurai here, in the original it was the Mandarin. This does save Piskor time and space to introduce/explain the Mandarin. No Hand Ninjas, Matsuo Tsurabaya and Mandarin here to interfere in the battle, neither are there Logan's hallucinations of Carol Danvers and Nick Fury. The Hand are lucky this time; they are not getting punked by Jubilee.
Page 20: Kelly complains to Hodge that they now have Genoshan troops in custody for attacking people on American soil. Hodge is in his human head on a huge cybernetic body form. Kelly releases the Genoshan troops back to their home country. Beast and Iceman understand the Genosha will not face any consequences for their actions.
Notes: With Hodge decapitation happening in X-Factor, it's completely ignored in this series, but did happen off-screen (in some way or another). So readers of only this title will wonder why Cameron Hodge suddenly is 95% robotic monster. Then again, is anybody reading this who didn't read X-Men before?
to be continued next post.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 11, 2019 16:08:02 GMT -5
Grand Design: X-tinction #2, part 2. Near the finish line.
Page 21: Young Ororo Munroe survives as a thief, she meets up with Gambit and together they fight the Hounds. Ororo regains her memory when she is knocked out by one of the Hounds and Gambit agrees to help her.
Notes: in the original these were minions of the Shadow King, who for some reason (one of Claremont's manu nebulous interlinked plots he never got around to actually work out) are dressed exactly the same as the Hounds from Rachel Summers timeline (including Rachel herself). Here they just are the enforcers of a local drug lord that both Storm and Gambit try to rob, but I'll call them Hounds anyway. No Shadow King chasing Storm and setting traps for her. Good, I dislike the Shadow King (Legion TV-series excluded).
Page 22-24: Storm and Gambit meet up with Jean who helps Storm recover all her memories. The New Mutants (Dani, Cannonball, Sunspot, Rahne and one woman I don't recognise) are also here now, lead by Cable, gathered by Jean, when the X-Mansion is attacked again by Genoshans. This time they brought reinforcement, including Alex Summers, and heavy equipment and they manage to capture five of the mutants. The battle has drawn attention of the media, the local authorities and somebody else: Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D arrives, none too pleased with foreigners assaulting and kidnapping people on American soil, even if they are mutants. The president wants to meet the X-Men's leaders to discuss how the issue.
Notes: Piskor just focuses on the Uncanny X-Men Title during this whole series, as said before, which does lead to surprise changes in X-Factor and the New Mutants. The New Mutants here are all still dressed in their original school uniforms instead of their "graduation" costumes they were wearing at this point in time, but Cable is with them. One of them is a brownhaired woman with a green bandana, but I don't really recognise her. She is about as tall as Dani Moonstar (who is still with the New Mutants). It could be Kitty, but she is probably too tall and green bandana does not scream "Kitty" to me. No Rictor and Boom-Boom around, no X-factors protegees or Warlock. (Which is weird as Warlock plays an important role in the original X-tinction Agenda).
Nick Fury was earlier portrayed as having a problem with mutants and he still has, but he considers America's laws and autonomy more important than his personal dislike.
Oh and the two Genoshan mutates are called Jenny and Phillip, so I was wrong. In that case, the differences: they now are both mutates (Phillip was human), Jenny is not as big as she is in the original (and probably not as strong and invulnerable) and both are still bald even though they escaped some time ago.
I'll refer to the combined X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants as just the X-Men from this point on, as it is a lot easier to type out.
Page 25: The X-Men leaders (Cyclops, Jean, Cable, Banshee and Forge) arrive at the Oval Office, but President Kelly talks to them through a monitor (why bring them to the Oval Office then? Easier to keep the President there and the mutants to another location), not trusting mutant telepaths around him with the state secrets he has. He explains that the US is dependent on Genoshan oil (and does not care when Jean tells him that that oil was found and extracted with mutant slave labour), but like Fury, he is enraged by Genoshan disregarding America's laws and his own power. The US will not interfere in the X-Men retrieving their comrades, but they will disavow them if they are captured.
Page 26: The X-Men arrive in Genosha and are attacked by Havok and the Magistrates. Havok openly uses his powers against them, knocking out most of the X-Men, but Cyclops is of course immune. Cyclops punches Havok and like with Storm his memories return (bah, modern medicine, a good boink on the head cures everything.), but he plays along with the Magistrates for now.
Notes: Not too different. Banshee and Forge being there is a bit of a change.
page 27: Wolverine, Psylocke and Jubilee arrive at the Genegineer, Genosha's lead scientist, lab disguised as Genoshan soldiers, but Cameron Hodge turns up while they question him.
Notes: The Genegineer looks different: bald with a beard.
Page 28: Hodge releases a video of four X-Men killing Genosha's president. Behind the scenes we see that the four X-Men are in fact mutates disguised as the X-Men. Hodge thanks them and poisons them to keep the death of the president a secret. Kelly condemns the X-men's actions and activates Project Nimrod: the activation of the Sentinels.
Notes: Kitty and Nightcrawler are watching the news, so the woman I saw before was not Kitty. Mystique is also watching the news (probably telling herself that she should have shot him years ago). Hodge did plan to take control over Genosha in the original, but the details are a little different.
Page 29-32 The X-Men's public trial is a farce and they are found guilty. They get the choice: submitting to the mutate process and being turned into mindless slaves or death. All of them chose death. Alex races to save his friends and kills the mutate Wipeout who is blocking their powers. With their powers active again the X-Men fight back and manage to capture a plane. At this time, Hodge discovers something on his surveillance system: a threat to Genosha far greater than the X-Men: Kelly has decided to deal with both the danger of the X-Men and the problems of Genosha by nuking Genosha. The nuclear missiles hit the island and a large white explosion is all that can be seen.
Notes: Yeah, here we are diverging greatly from the original comics. Of course in the original, the X-Men, X-Factor and the New Mutants unite. Storm is returned to her adult form and they manage to defeat Hodge and overthrow Genosha at the price of Warlock's life. A mostly happy ending with a sad tone for Warlock's fate. Here things are much more grim: no New Mutant makes it out alive.
Page 33: in the following year, the Sentinels have taken over America, the remaining mutants are incarnated in camps (Nightcrawler, Callisto, The Blob and Mystique) and then executed (we see a pile of skulls, but one of them has Mystique's skull jewelry on its forehead, leaving no doubt the fate of our heroes. A year later, people have noticed the disappearance of the mutants and the other superheroes start fighting back. Two years later and they too are defeated (not said whether the Sentinels manage to kill them, but we see pictures of Spider-Man, Captain America, Daredevil, Reed and Susan Richards, Iron Man, Namor, Hulk, Thing and Dr. Strange). The only resistance left alive after 4 years are a few mutants striking from the shadows: Wolverine, Rachel Summers and Bishop.
Notes: As said, we have jumped from X-tinction Agenda straight into Days of Future Past. The fates of some mutants is different: Nightcrawler was said to be one of the first victims in the first story. The other superheroes are not mentioned. Bishop was not part of the original story (he also would not be born for many years in the original story)
Page 34-36: The Sentinels have completed their mission, but they do not stop. They now start to exterminate all humans that are different and those that had mutant offspring. Then they started to exterminate those who potentially give birth to mutants. One of their victims is President Kelly himself. The hidden mutants (the three mentioned before plus an older Forge and Kate Pryde) plan against the Sentinels. Forge needs a power source, so Logan takes out a Sentinel and takes its source. The Sentinels are alerted, but Forge has what he needs. Cable died years earlier, but not before teaching Forge the secrets of timetravel. The plan is to try two different tactics: one tactic is to send Rachel and Bishop back to key moments in time to alter them as they were not alive during these time periods (meeting another version of yourself can cause a paradox with enormous consequences). The other is projecting Kitty's mind back in her younger body. Forge and Wolverine hope that their plan pays off as the Sentinels find them and kill them.
Notes: Changes here: No Magneto among the last survivors is a pretty big change. No Franklin Richards either. Rachel originally did the mind projecting, but here Forge's devices do that part. Forge's helmet is a lot more painful than Rachel's powers though.
Page 37-39: Kate takes over Kitty's body at Jean's wake. The X-Men think she is mad, but once Xavier scans her mind, they know better. Disguised as a high-ranking officer, Logan seeks out Carol, but is too late: Rogue has attacked her and Mystique has taken her place. Mystique steps onto the stage with Senators Stern and Kelly, but Xavier's powers prevent her from shooting either of them. Due to Kate's knowledge, the other X-Men exactly know what the other members of the Brotherhood will do and take them out. The Brotherhood is bound and left for Nick Fury to find, but Mystique escapes, leaving U.S. operative Raven Darkholme in her cell, who claims she was trying to interrogate Mystique (SHIELD never realises that Raven may have been Mystique all along).
Page 40:Xavier calls Cyclops on the phone. Foiling the death of Stern has changed the future: Kate Pryde's mind was erased from Kitty's body. Xavier wonders how Scott is dealing with Jean's death and he tells him that he is moving on. He is going to see Captain Lee Forrester about a job tomorrow. The Watcher finishes the story, telling us that humanity will continue to evolve and mutate.
Note: Chosing to go to Lee Forrester instead of Madelyne Pryor at this point implies that the story will now follow the X-Men comics as they actually were published. This is confirmed by the final line.
The final line is "To Be Continued in Uncanny X-Men Issue 143 March 1980"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2019 23:49:49 GMT -5
I love that you are doing these Dizzy, but since I am trade waiting on these, I will have to wait until the collected edition for the third volumes is released to really dig into them.
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 11, 2019 23:53:02 GMT -5
I finally read this series. Piskor's art's interesting, if something of a mixed bag for me, and I suppose as a condensation/streamlining of four decades of X-Men storylines, it does its job well. Thing is, even condensed/streamlined, I consider the post-Byrne/Cockrum X-Men unenjoyable garbage, so Grand Design did nothing for me.
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Post by rberman on Aug 6, 2019 13:20:34 GMT -5
I finally read this series. Piskor's art's interesting, if something of a mixed bag for me, and I suppose as a condensation/streamlining of four decades of X-Men storylines, it does its job well. Thing is, even condensed/streamlined, I consider the post-Byrne/Cockrum X-Men unenjoyable garbage, so Grand Design did nothing for me. You like the Moses Magnum and leprachaun stories more than BWS' "Lifedeath" or the Logan in Japan stories? Flame On!  Mostly kidding. I know everyone has their favorites, for a wide variety of reasons, and a good case exists that Cockrum/Byrne was the apex of X-Men. |
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Post by Duragizer on Aug 7, 2019 0:20:19 GMT -5
I finally read this series. Piskor's art's interesting, if something of a mixed bag for me, and I suppose as a condensation/streamlining of four decades of X-Men storylines, it does its job well. Thing is, even condensed/streamlined, I consider the post-Byrne/Cockrum X-Men unenjoyable garbage, so Grand Design did nothing for me. You like the Moses Magnum and leprachaun stories more than BWS' "Lifedeath" or the Logan in Japan stories? Flame On! Don't know if I ever read those stories, actually. I quit reading the title in the middle of the Kulan Gath storyline. I don't doubt there're good stories post-Byrne/Cockrum, but for me, the X-Men lost their verve after the Brood storyline, and the writing was on the wall with that moronic "Jean-wasn't-really-Phoenix" retcon. |
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Post by rberman on Aug 7, 2019 8:56:23 GMT -5
You like the Moses Magnum and leprachaun stories more than BWS' "Lifedeath" or the Logan in Japan stories? Flame On! Don't know if I ever read those stories, actually. I quit reading the title in the middle of the Kulan Gath storyline. I don't doubt there're good stories post-Byrne/Cockrum, but for me, the X-Men lost their verve after the Brood storyline, and the writing was on the wall with that moronic "Jean-wasn't-really-Phoenix" retcon. "Logan in Japan" was the Claremont/Miller Wolverine mini plus the two issues about the non-wedding to Mariko, during Paul Smith's tenure. I'm not a fan of the Phoenix retcon either. That was on Shooter (and surprisingly, Busiek), over the protestations of Claremont and Byrne. But what was on Claremont was the endless returns to Phoenix. Kitty's fairy tale would have been fine by itself, but not when followed by the X-Men/Titans crossover, the Maddie Pryor debacle, Rachel Summers, Cable, etc. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 3:05:57 GMT -5
I don't doubt there're good stories post-Byrne/Cockrum, but for me, the X-Men lost their verve after the Brood storyline, and the writing was on the wall with that moronic "Jean-wasn't-really-Phoenix" retcon. X-Men lost appeal to me with the return of Cockrum around the 150s - after Byrne's fine line work, Cockrum looked like he was drawing with a table leg dipped in ink (and I had been a bit Cockrum fan previously); came back a bit because Paul Smith's art was so lovely, but had utterly jumped the shark by the time he left. Gave up with #201 after an unbroken 100+ issue reading streak. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 22, 2019 5:50:32 GMT -5
Kinda wish this series went a little farther. I quite liked a bunch of 2000s X-Men stuff: Morrison, Jason Aaron, Bendis/Bachalo... I only read a little bit but the X-men team that was all X-Women. (Was that Brian Wood?)
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 25, 2019 11:45:01 GMT -5
Have debated whether to do this and if to do this where I would put it.
So, here it is:
Fantastic Four Grand Design #1 by Tom Scioli
This is not going to be an annotation post, there are many here who would be far far better at this thing. X-Men was always the title I grew up with and the number of Fantastic Four comics I have are limited to only a few runs (mostly Hickman... please put away those pitchforks). Anyway this is Tom Scioli doing the same thing as Ed Piskor did for the X-Men: a retelling of the early adventures of a Marvel title, streamlining it to a single narrative. Where Piskor's story ran from Lee&Kirby's X-Men till Claremont&(another)Lee's final X-Men issue, as those were the comics he grew up with, this one will be Tom Scioli doing Lee&Kirby's Fantastic Four. As far as I can tell, this will be just 2 issues and only limited to Lee&Kirby, but X-Men Grand Design were in the end 3 series of 2 comics each, so who knows? I'm not daring to go into the woods of Comic Journalism to find out exactly what Scioli is planning.
The biggest hurdle this project faces, in my honest opinion, is that Piskor's project works because the X-Men at its core works on a single premise: mutants are born with powers and humanity feels threatened. Excising all parts that do not fit that overall narrative therefore makes a decent amount of sense. The Fantastic Four on the other hand, are explorers and scientist, encountering and even creating new places and creatures every time. Slimming it down seems opposed to the big idea behind the comic. Scioli does an admirable job of making it all work though.
I recently complained about Mark Waid's History of the Marvel Universe. Despite liking the art in it, it's not a real comic book; there is little to no sequential storytelling and nearly every panel, while good-looking on its own, is an isolated idea, narrated by a box of text. Why do I like FF and X-Men Grand Design then and not History? Because there is sequential art here. Scioli pulls of 20-30 panels each page and spends his first 2 pages on 4 explorers leaving their planet in a rocket ship that is hit by cosmic radiation. This journey is more ill-fated than we expect though: the ship crashes, killing 3 of the four and leaving the last one dying of radiation disease. The man's death is observed by the silent Watcher, who after long deliberation, finally takes pity on the dying man. Uatu, no longer a Watcher, but now an Actor, summons his wondrous devices to heal the last explorer. Filled with radiation and/or the power of the Watcher's machines, the man stands up, now as tall as the Watcher and a familiar purple and pink armour forms around him. The Watcher looks on pleased: he has saved a life, what is the worst that could happen?
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 5, 2019 10:59:34 GMT -5
Fantastic Four Grand Design #2
This is a 2 issue series, the second issue is everything from the coming of Galactus to Days of Future Past (and once again we get a timeloop to the actual FF timeline like X-Men GD looped back to a new timeline that followed the actual X-Men Series).
Like the issue before it, this one is dense. It takes plenty of liberties and moves beyond the Lee&Kirby years (the original Secret Wars, Days of Future Past, the Thing cartoon and many more get their short appearance).
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