Archive for the ‘Sabretooth’ Category
February 18, 2015
Scott Lobdell & Mark Waid // Roger Cruz
June 1995
****
Magneto sends a time-tossed hero into a cosmic crystal to restore the true X-universe. Waid’s tense, dramatic script masks Cruz’s errors (an unoriginal Ameri-manga artist, he’s the weak link here). Lobdell, the crossover’s mastermind, has done commendable work. Tho’ individual minis may’ve faltered, his cumulative plot & vision makes AoA the pinnacle of mutant mags between Claremont and Morrison.
continued from The Amazing X-Men #4 of 4
continued from The Astonishing X-Men #4 of 4
continued from Factor X #4 of 4
continued from Gambit and the X-Ternals #4 of 4
continued from Generation Next #4 of 4
continued from Weapon X #4 of 4
continued from X-Calibre #4 of 4
continued from X-Man #4 of 4
continued from X-Universe #4 of 4
continued in X-Men Prime #1 of 1
Tags:Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Scott Lobdell
Posted in Angel (W. Worthington), Apocalypse, Bishop, Blink, Bolivar Trask, Colossus, Cyclops, Dark Beast, Destiny, Gabrielle Haller, Gambit, Havok, Holocaust, Iceman, Infinites, Jean Grey, Jubilee, Karma, Kitty Pryde, Legion, Magik, Magneto, Moira MacTaggart, Morph, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Psylocke, Quicksilver, Rex, Rogue, Sabretooth, Shadow King, Storm, Strong Guy, Sugar Man, Wild Child, Wolverine, X-Man | 1 Comment »
February 15, 2015
Howard Mackie // Ian Churchill
June 1995
*
Generally, Age of Apocalypse is best when it implies a backstory as intricate as the actual X-books; X-M:C negates that feature by filling those gaps. #2 plays out the love triangle of Gambit, Rogue, & Magneto while their team fights a brute with ill-defined powers. The hammy script makes it impossible to care about these emotional adolescents; the era-standard art is awful settings and hypertrophied bodies with tribal tattoos & bad hair. This low point for the AoA doesn’t justify its existence.
last issue: X-Men: Chronicles #1 of 2
also indexed for Jun. ’95
The Amazing X-Men #4 of 4
The Astonishing X-Men #4 of 4
Factor X #4 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #4 of 4
Generation Next #4 of 4
Weapon X #4 of 4
X-Calibre #4 of 4
X-Man #4
X-Men: Omega #1 of 1
X-Universe #2 of 2
Tags:Howard Mackie, Ian Churchill
Posted in Colossus, Gambit, Holocaust, Iceman, Jean Grey, Magneto, Quicksilver, Rogue, Sabretooth, Storm, Wolverine | Leave a Comment »
February 14, 2015
Howard Mackie // Terry Dodson
March 1995
**
Chronicles replaces the quarterly X-mag for the Age of Apocalypse, a sort of What If…? riff on Days of Future Past, w/ a remit to provide backstory. The first mission of Magneto’s team: to prevent an evil mutant, Apocalypse, from stealing US nukes. Mackie, a hack, writes flat characterization & generic bombast. He fumbles the death of Scarlet Witch, meant to be a pivotal sacrifice & the end of innocence. Dodson, however, draws in a buoyant style that owes a quite a bit to ‘good girl’ art.
next issue: X-Men: Chronicles #2 of 2
also indexed for Mar. ’95
The Amazing X-Men #1 of 4
The Astonishing X-Men #1 of 4
Factor X #1 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #1 of 4
Generation Next #1 of 4
Weapon X #1 of 4
X-Calibre #1 of 4
X-Man #1
Tags:Howard Mackie, Terry Dodson
Posted in Apocalypse, Bova, Candra, Colossus, Gideon, Holocaust, Iceman, Jean Grey, Magneto, Mystique, Quicksilver, Rogue, Sabretooth, Scarlet Witch, Storm, Wolverine | 2 Comments »
January 20, 2015
Fabian Nicieza // Andy Kubert
June 1995
**
Read all the other issues first: the penultimate issue of AoA ties the various minis’ plots together. The ish also takes the time to moot a few moral choices. Unlike last ish, however, the noble sacrifices (Banshee & Madrox both kamikaze) are over-melodramatic & executed by supporting characters.
continued in X-Men: Omega #1 of 1
last issue: The Amazing X-Men #3 of 4
also indexed for Jun. ’95
The Astonishing X-Men #4 of 4
Factor X #4 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #4 of 4
Generation Next #4 of 4
Weapon X #4 of 4
X-Calibre #4 of 4
X-Man #4
X-Men: Chronicles #2 of 2
X-Men: Omega #1 of 1
X-Universe #2 of 2
Tags:Andy Kubert, Fabian Nicieza
Posted in Abyss, Banshee, Bishop, Blink, Colossus, Dazzler, Destiny, Exodus, Gambit, Iceman, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Lila Cheney, Magik, Morph, Multiple Man, Quicksilver, Rogue, Sabretooth, Storm, Wild Child | 4 Comments »
January 16, 2015
Scott Lobdell // Joe Maduriera
June 1995
**
Following its video game plot, AoA mini #1 ends w/ a defeat of its Boss, a generic nihilist baddie w/ undefined powers. A teen teleporter, on the other hand, shows chutzpah in facing him down. But Sabretooth shouldn’t be alive: his survival is a failure of nerve by Lobdell, too fond of his heroes.
continued in X-Men: Omega #1 of 1
last issue: The Astonishing X-Men #3 of 4
also indexed for Jun. ’95
The Amazing X-Men #4 of 4
Factor X #4 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #4 of 4
Generation Next #4 of 4
Weapon X #4 of 4
X-Calibre #4 of 4
X-Man #4
X-Men: Chronicles #2 of 2
X-Men: Omega #1 of 1
X-Universe #2 of 2
Tags:Joe Maduriera, Scott Lobdell
Posted in Blink, Iceman, Magneto, Morph, Rex, Sabretooth, Sunfire, Wild Child | Leave a Comment »
January 15, 2015
Scott Lobdell & Jeph Loeb // Joe Maduriera
May 1995
***
As Lobdell labors over emo melodrama, Madureira gives this ish its juice. The supervillain, a ranter, is all visual: Kirby krackle in plastic orange armor, he looks like a toy! Then there’s Morph, a Plastic Man type who smuggles the X-Men into a base via its aqueduct—in the form of a talking whale!
last issue: The Astonishing X-Men #2 of 4
next issue: The Astonishing X-Men #4 of 4
also indexed for May ’95
The Amazing X-Men #3 of 4
Factor X #3 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #3 of 4
Generation Next #3 of 4
Weapon X #3 of 4
X-Calibre #3 of 4
X-Man #3
X-Universe #1 of 2
Tags:Jeph Loeb, Joe Maduriera, Scott Lobdell
Posted in Bishop, Blink, Magneto, Morph, Rogue, Sabretooth, Sunfire, Wild Child | Leave a Comment »
January 14, 2015
Scott Lobdell // Joe Maduriera
April 1995
**
In a mirror universe, Sabretooth stands in for the X-Men’s Wolverine; he’s even mentoring a teen gal, Kitty Pryde style. A suggestive beat here, a fine expression or gesture there, hint at creativity squandered by clichéd thinking. W/ carte blanche, why write a strike force punching generic cyborgs?
last issue: The Astonishing X-Men #1 of 4
next issue: The Astonishing X-Men #3 of 4
also indexed for Apr. ’95
The Amazing X-Men #2 of 4
Factor X #2 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #2 of 4
Generation Next #2 of 4
Weapon X #2 of 4
X-Calibre #2 of 4
X-Man #2
Tags:Joe Maduriera, Scott Lobdell
Posted in Apocalypse, Bishop, Blink, Magneto, Morph, Rex, Rogue, Sabretooth, Sunfire, Wild Child | Leave a Comment »
January 13, 2015
Scott Lobdell // Joe Maduriera
March 1995
***
In a clever editorial fillip, this mini replaces Uncanny for a few months. A mutant has altered history; now Prof Xavier’s premat death sparked a eugenics war, w/ the X-Men as an underdog guerrilla force led by Magneto. Lobdell adroitly implies a rich backstory for his revised characters.
continued from X-Men: Alpha #1 of 1
next issue: The Astonishing X-Men #2 of 4
also indexed for Mar. ’95
The Amazing X-Men #1 of 4
Factor X #1 of 4
Gambit and the X-Ternals #1 of 4
Generation Next #1 of 4
Weapon X #1 of 4
X-Calibre #1 of 4
X-Man #1
X-Men: Chronicles #1 of 2
Tags:Joe Maduriera, Scott Lobdell
Posted in Apocalypse, Banshee, Bishop, Blink, Gambit, Iceman, Magneto, Morph, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, Rex, Rogue, Sabretooth, Storm, Sunfire, Wild Child | Leave a Comment »
January 12, 2015
Scott Lobdell & Mark Waid // Roger Cruz & Steve Epting
February 1995
****
Think What If… Magneto formed the X-Men? The dystopian alt timeline is fun, & the era’s portentous prose & posturing panels lend themselves well to the sturm und drang (even if the project labors in Claremont’s shadow). Magneto, a glowering man of action, looks unhappy to be stuck into the Rogue/Gambit soap opera; Cyclops is a mutant princeling who awakens to the genocide & misery under Apocalypse.
continued from X-Men #41
continued from Cable #20
continued in The Amazing X-Men #1 of 4
continued in The Astonishing X-Men #1 of 4
continued in Factor X #1 of 4
continued in Gambit and the X-Ternals #1 of 4
continued in Generation Next #1 of 4
continued in Weapon X #1 of 4
continued in X-Calibre #1 of 4
continued in X-Man #1 of 4
continued in X-Men: Chronicles #1 of 2
also indexed for Feb. ’95
Cable #20
The Uncanny X-Men #321
X-Men #41
Tags:Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Scott Lobdell, Steve Epting
Posted in Angel (W. Worthington), Apocalypse, Beast, Bishop, Blink, Captain Britain, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Gambit, Havok, Iceman, Jean Grey, Karma, Madelyne Pryor, Magneto, Morph, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, Rogue, Sabretooth, Storm, Wild Child, Wolverine | Leave a Comment »
January 8, 2015
Fabian Nicieza // Andy Kubert
January 1995
**
Time-traveling amnesiac X-Men putz around post-war Israel as their modern comrades learn that mission failure means universal collapse. Nicieza artificially inflates the stakes via a chorus of Watchers, while the better Kubert son does mainline ’90s X-art (his Legion is unrecognizably off-model).
continued from The Uncanny X-Men #320
continued in The Uncanny X-Men #321
last issue: X-Men #39
next issue: X-Men #41
also indexed for Jan. ’95
The Uncanny X-Men #320
Tags:Andy Kubert, Fabian Nicieza
Posted in Angel (W. Worthington), Beast, Bishop, Cable, Cyclops, Domino, Gabrielle Haller, Gambit, Iceman, Jean Grey, Legion, Lilandra, Magneto, Professor X, Psylocke, Rogue, Sabretooth, Shi'ar, Storm, Watcher, Wolverine | Leave a Comment »
November 27, 2012
Grant Morrison // Chris Bachalo
early August 2003
****
Gloomy Scott Summers gets drunk w/ Wolverine at the Hellfire Club (now a mutants-only gentleman’s club). Tho’ Bachalo’s nose-heavy toons, strong outlines, & sense of pace are great, fine acting is his short suit. GM doesn’t give Wolvie the Zen wisdom that he’s had previously, but his Cyke is strong.
[last issue: New X-Men #141]
[next issue: New X-Men #143]
Tags:Chris Bachalo, Grant Morrison
Posted in Cyclops, Fantomex, Sabretooth, Sebastian Shaw, Wolverine | Leave a Comment »