X-Men: Here Comes Tomorrow
Oct. 30th, 2005 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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43duckies's kind loan), Ive read the last arc of Grant Morrison's X-Men run, "Here Comes Tomorrow. Wow. Even by Grant's standards, that was incoherent and pointless. 4 issues of alternate future, only impacting the present timeline in one subtle way that the present characters don't realize, and then erasing its own existence.
He also seemed to be seriously channeling Jack Kirby, which I think writers should generally avoid doing. I mean, yes, it's impressive to just toss off a dozen or so brand-new characters, plus some radical re-interpretations of existing ones, plus an entirely new setting, plus a brand-new species or three. But when you don't take the time to *develop* any of it, it just comes out as a confusing muddle.
Ironically, there was an advertisement in one of those issues for a statue depicting the cover from the first issue of "Days of Future Past", which covered much of the same thematic territory, back when it still seemed like a fresh new idea. I am reminded of Alan Moore's description of Image Comics as (paraphrased) "refined and concentrated, like crack cocaine".
43duckies's kind loan), Ive read the last arc of Grant Morrison's X-Men run, "Here Comes Tomorrow. Wow. Even by Grant's standards, that was incoherent and pointless. 4 issues of alternate future, only impacting the present timeline in one subtle way that the present characters don't realize, and then erasing its own existence. He also seemed to be seriously channeling Jack Kirby, which I think writers should generally avoid doing. I mean, yes, it's impressive to just toss off a dozen or so brand-new characters, plus some radical re-interpretations of existing ones, plus an entirely new setting, plus a brand-new species or three. But when you don't take the time to *develop* any of it, it just comes out as a confusing muddle.
Ironically, there was an advertisement in one of those issues for a statue depicting the cover from the first issue of "Days of Future Past", which covered much of the same thematic territory, back when it still seemed like a fresh new idea. I am reminded of Alan Moore's description of Image Comics as (paraphrased) "refined and concentrated, like crack cocaine".