Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities "House of M"

I think the latest issue was the best in the series so far. Some things I liked:

- Copiel's art. Damn, that guy can draw. Loved the image of all of the 'underground' lined up next to one another. Bendis's love for the 70's is annoying at times to me, but I like seeing Iron Fist, Moon Knight, Cloak, Dagger, Cage, Wolverine, Hawkeye, etc. all lined up.

- Peter remembering. Those who know me know of my love for Spidey and that Spider-Man is my hero. I love his history, and two-page spread by Copiel was very touching for me.

- I like Hawkeye's central role. I feel that this series will eventually come down to Clint and Wanda, especially after the Pulse issue. I'm waiting for Bendis to not let me down and prove to me again how good of a writer he is. Clint will have to decide- save them all, but in doing so, ensure he once again does not exist? Can Wanda save him? Can he, just maybe, save her in some way? I admit to having high hopes, but this is the crux of my interest, not the 'mutant-central' stuff.

Now, I want scenes with Wanda and Pietro. Bendis still has time, but I'm ready for them now. And I see how far Magneto has gone, to sacrifice Xiavier, unless that was Prof X's wish all along.

I liked the latest issue as well. I felt bad for Spidey.. I did.
It just seemed it took forever to build up to where the story is currently.

Now I am not impressed with the Iron Man and Fantastic Four House of M mini series. So it will be unlikely that I pick up the follow ups.

I love the art..Im simple

I don't like how easily all of these heroes are so willing to just kill Wanda. I mean, even the X-Men who have known her are just willing to kill her, and have been since issue 1. I mean, c'mon... this is the Scarlet Witch, one of the longest serving Avengers. She has fought to save the world countless times. I mean, I can see being practical, but they have no qualms whatsoever in putting a bullet in her head.

The old X-Men wouldn't have been that cold.

I miss the old X-Men

You know, Bendis has set this up as a kill/no kill situation with Wanda. That guarantees some other solution will be used. I've got a feeling Wanda's powers are going to be used to remove her as the threat, sort of depowering her and other mutants in the process. I like the idea of Hawkeye helping her come to that decision; that she restores him when she repairs the world.


Either way, I'm not reading any more Bendis work. The pacing here is too slow for my $3 each issue. Not poorly written, just feels like the story is being stretched out.

i miss my old x-men too, kitty pryde seems to be carrying the torch no matter who writes her. except some writers forget she is a genius.

i love emma frost when she's written well and i think she is here. shes a cold hearted *itch. and thats how she is being written here.

have you noticed how the story has become about magneto and his chidren or daughter. they keep refering to wanda as "magneto's daughter" like thats all she is. the better to kill her i guess.

so who's on maggies side so far in the battle to come. polaris, magneto, quicksilver, scarlet witch is depowered?, wonder man or vision, dr. doom?, not storm but she could be an in between character.

it's looking pretty tough for the martial arts heavy good guys.

The whole issue was devoted to restoring the memories of the heroes. This used to be done in one splash panel with little inset panels showing other heroes around the world remembering simultaneously.

Wow $3 for this! Now I know Bendis isn' paid by the word. When this is over someone has to do a count of the double page splash panels with less than 4 lines of dialogue in this mini to see if it breaks a record.

The art is gorgeous. I don't remember any of Copiel's stuff looking this good.

I wish I could buy this, I love Oli's work and would love to support his career. Fat chance of that, though, as long as Marvel's putting him on crap like this.

From the sound of things, I'm glad I skipped it.

I tell you true, Lashie-- I got #1 for 75% off through DCBS, and I thought I paid too much...

At the time I picked up #5, I was wondering why I was doing so. The first four issues didn't impress me. But I liked this issue. Like you, I felt really bad for Spider-Man, but that so-called haircut was hideous.

I don't pick up any of the other minis and it doesn't seem like I'm missing anything from the main story.

Lorna Dane has switched to the side of evil? Can it be that she is really Magneto's daughter after all? I thought she was being duped in the beginning...

Let the parodies BEGIN!!!

You're not. The Spider-Man mini is definitely before the regular HoM thang and I'm thinking the Iron Man one must be as well. Not so certain about the Fantastic Four or Mutopia X but... whatever, right? Just a giant What If...? and all that jazz.

If Marvel stays true to thier word and some of the changes are permanent, the only book you'll likely need is the "Secrets of the House of M" to give you a brief description of what's been changed.

And even then, they'll likely explain the new "post M" universe anyway in the individual issues to get people caught up. The mini seems like a huge waste of time to me so far (though it is pretty).

I like the Spidey mini. It's nifty... (Gwen *sob*)

And I'm enjoying the Iron Man and FF minis as well. Mutopia could be better but whatever. The New X-Men HoM arc is really neat, imho, the Uncanny one is... meh. I really liked The Pluse and Black Panther tie-ins but the New Thunderbults did nothin' for me.

All in all, I'd say that this is a relatively entertaining divergence, if not a bit on the unnecessarily wangsty side. But that's Marvel for ya, I s'pose.

Anybody want to play spoiler for me? I'm not reading but would be interested to hear about what is happening. Here or an IM. Thanks.

You only just found that?

That's not even his most recent cartoon

This one actually tells it better. House of BM indeed.

and

"Somehow, I don't think this panel worked out right." (Poor Olivier! )

Don't forget to read the "sequel" .

I love the Wolverine accent

FTR, Canadians don't talk like that, eh.

I'm surprised they don't have Wolverine drinking a Labatt Blue during the whole thing!

(We New Englanders love our Canadian neighbors )

Tabarnak, Ouin un Bleu s'til plait

In the Matt Gardner cartoon i just watched , why does Wolverine have an Irish accent?