This was a decent story. It was interesting, and it presented some neat ideas. But . . it was extremely long winded. Long story short, Vision, M-51 and Ultron are all working to undermine Cerebro. Somewhere along the line Cerebro got into it's processors visions of conquest. He wanted to take over the world, and eliminate all organic life in favor of robotic life-forms. So it launched a neutron attack which wiped out all biological life forms. However, before that happened, Hank Pym realized what Cerebro was going to do and downloaded his own mind into computer neural nets. With the Visions help they then went to the android factories and reconfigured the machine-men robots there to 'receive and contain massive energy stores'. When the population was wiped out, their synaptic charges were downloaded into the machine-men for later retrieval. With the arrival of the Exiles, they can continue their plans and attack Cerebro's central core. If any machine tried to attack it, they would be over-ridden by Cerebro. The android trinity had already worked to shut-down all pathways out of the core, the just needed some biological cannon-fodder. It's a good thing the Exiles showed up when they did. Anyways, they complete their mission, so now the android factories can be recommissioned to build LMD's and they can download everybody's psych into one. Actually . . it was a pretty simple story, but . . most of the issue was spent on explaining what was happening and why. And, on top of that, the team wants to go back to the world of their first mission and finish what they started there. Basically they have to drive a wedge between the Xavier gang and the Brotherhood types. If they can do that, they can still save this world. But to tell you the truth . . I don't really care. I'm sorry but I just don't think that this book is up to the standard that was previously set by Chris Claremont. When Jeff Parker took over, I'm not sure if he was aiming for a younger audience, or just trying to create a more light hearted story. But either way . . it didn't work. I'm also not thrilled with Casey Jones' pencils. Although . . they are ok, but not fantastic. The best part about this whole book is the Dave Bullock cover. Now . . I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but . . next issue is billed as the last issue. Was this a mini-series, or was it just cancelled? I'm looking around but I can't find any news items anywhere. Plus, I don't know if it's done for good, or if it's just getting a new creative direction. The last page left me with a ton of questions. Does anybody know anything that I don't? I guess I'll just have to wait for the next issue, and hopefully they'll give us some more answers. Maybe!
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Exiles #5 - Marvel
This was a decent story. It was interesting, and it presented some neat ideas. But . . it was extremely long winded. Long story short, Vision, M-51 and Ultron are all working to undermine Cerebro. Somewhere along the line Cerebro got into it's processors visions of conquest. He wanted to take over the world, and eliminate all organic life in favor of robotic life-forms. So it launched a neutron attack which wiped out all biological life forms. However, before that happened, Hank Pym realized what Cerebro was going to do and downloaded his own mind into computer neural nets. With the Visions help they then went to the android factories and reconfigured the machine-men robots there to 'receive and contain massive energy stores'. When the population was wiped out, their synaptic charges were downloaded into the machine-men for later retrieval. With the arrival of the Exiles, they can continue their plans and attack Cerebro's central core. If any machine tried to attack it, they would be over-ridden by Cerebro. The android trinity had already worked to shut-down all pathways out of the core, the just needed some biological cannon-fodder. It's a good thing the Exiles showed up when they did. Anyways, they complete their mission, so now the android factories can be recommissioned to build LMD's and they can download everybody's psych into one. Actually . . it was a pretty simple story, but . . most of the issue was spent on explaining what was happening and why. And, on top of that, the team wants to go back to the world of their first mission and finish what they started there. Basically they have to drive a wedge between the Xavier gang and the Brotherhood types. If they can do that, they can still save this world. But to tell you the truth . . I don't really care. I'm sorry but I just don't think that this book is up to the standard that was previously set by Chris Claremont. When Jeff Parker took over, I'm not sure if he was aiming for a younger audience, or just trying to create a more light hearted story. But either way . . it didn't work. I'm also not thrilled with Casey Jones' pencils. Although . . they are ok, but not fantastic. The best part about this whole book is the Dave Bullock cover. Now . . I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but . . next issue is billed as the last issue. Was this a mini-series, or was it just cancelled? I'm looking around but I can't find any news items anywhere. Plus, I don't know if it's done for good, or if it's just getting a new creative direction. The last page left me with a ton of questions. Does anybody know anything that I don't? I guess I'll just have to wait for the next issue, and hopefully they'll give us some more answers. Maybe!
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