I love comic books, and I picked up the first issue of Wolverine and the X-men after it had been up and going for a few months. I read the first issue and loved it! I ran back to the store to get the rest of them. I've reread them and I still love the stories. It's only natural for me to have favorites. But let's start with the design of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
I love the school, I think it just looks really amazing and is a very cool reboot to the old Xavier's. The art work makes me want a poster of it to put on my wall because I think you could spend hours just looking at all the little details and quirks of the campus, but that's just me. I think they utilize a lot more of the school now, the danger room spans the entire campus and that makes for quite a wild ride. I think that the staff really intrigues me, if you've never read the first issue, there is a course and activity list in the back of the book. "Professor LeBeau-- Sex Ed, Headmaster Logan-- The art of fighting without fighting. ect." Dare I say it? I would much rather go to JGS than Hogwarts! I've been in the Marvel world longer than the Potterverse and I love it too much to quit.
I miss Nightcrawler. So much. I didn't even know he had died until I started reading Wolverine and the X-men. But the bamfs make up for it, a little. I mean who wouldn't love little Nightcrawlers that steal booze and watch karate videos? They also come in at the BEST times to save the day. They have teleported friends and foes to their fitting ends, whether that be safety or a hundred feet above the ground so that the villain will plummet to his demise. The last issue I read left off with a tantalizing cliff hanger; THE RETURN OF NIGHTCRAWLER?!!?!?!? I'm so excited, so there will be an update when I read this, all about my love of Kurt Waggner.
I also have this thing for polar opposite kinds of guys. Like Quentin Quire and Evan, or Genesis, the clone of Apocalypse. Quentin is a jerk, but he's a crazy smart jerk that made the Omega Gang and caused the fall of the house of Xavier (Sorry, I always try to work in a Poe reference around Halloween). He needs a one-shot origin story or a min-series just because I can't get enough of his pink hair and political t-shirts. I honestly photocopied the scene where he's in detention and has scrawled "I'm a political Prisoner" on the floor. and put it up in my room. He's the only real choice for class President, because he's just kinda the leading student of the comics. But let's get down to Evan, it's on my "to buy" list but I want to get the story arc of the Uncanny X-Force where Wolverine and the crew find Evan, just because I think that he, Evan, has the ability to set the world on fire or protect it from the universe and I'm excited to see which he chooses. He is a sweet boy from Kansas cloned from a mass murder's DNA. It's really and interesting thought, I mean, what if we cloned Hitler, or some other crazy murderer, would the clone be screwed up like the donor DNA was, or is it all in the rearing of the child. But I'm getting to far lost in science / moral issue and I just want to talk comics.
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