Well that just sucks
It's over. And dammit it's just not very good.
I'm about to spoil the living fuck out of Identity Crisis, so if you haven't read it yet you should go do that, and then when you're as pissed off as me you should come back.
wheeee.
OK, you ready?Here's what I wrote after issue 5 of 7:
"Jean Loring
ugh, I hate doing this, because I don't think it's a hero and so far the only happy thing to come out of IC has been the reconciliation between Jean and Ray, but here we go:
Pro: Considered "safe" by the JLA security systems. Jean's story, as retold by Green Arrow in issue 4, doesn't jive with what we see in issue 3. There's a broken mug of coffee, in addition to the phonecall to Ray, which simply don't macth up with having just walked in the door and been attacked. Most damning is a panel on the second to last page of issue 3 which shows her gag being tied by hands from the front, not from behind. Could Jean have staged the attack?
Con: Why? Why why why? There's really just no motive."
I stand by all of that.
And I guess I never said it on the internet (or at least I can't find it now) but I always discounted Jean (and Ray) because a crime of passion like that (for love, but not in the heat of the moment) seems highly unlikely. Especially from Jean, who is the one who ended the relationship. All she had to do was flirt a little and she could have had Ray back. She didn't think of that?
Anyway, they explain a lot of this away with the rationalization that the first murder was an accident ("I also brought some extra weapons along" WTF?), and the rest was cover-up. The more I think about it the more that would work in a normal mystery novel, but in the superhero world it seems completely wrong. And maybe that's the idea. But I don't think it works.
So yeah, how anticlimactic was that?
I'm so sad.
And I didn't even buy the Astonishing X-men trade because I know they'll release an oversize hardcover of Whedon's entire run. Dammit.
I'm about to spoil the living fuck out of Identity Crisis, so if you haven't read it yet you should go do that, and then when you're as pissed off as me you should come back.
wheeee.
OK, you ready?Here's what I wrote after issue 5 of 7:
"Jean Loring
ugh, I hate doing this, because I don't think it's a hero and so far the only happy thing to come out of IC has been the reconciliation between Jean and Ray, but here we go:
Pro: Considered "safe" by the JLA security systems. Jean's story, as retold by Green Arrow in issue 4, doesn't jive with what we see in issue 3. There's a broken mug of coffee, in addition to the phonecall to Ray, which simply don't macth up with having just walked in the door and been attacked. Most damning is a panel on the second to last page of issue 3 which shows her gag being tied by hands from the front, not from behind. Could Jean have staged the attack?
Con: Why? Why why why? There's really just no motive."
I stand by all of that.
And I guess I never said it on the internet (or at least I can't find it now) but I always discounted Jean (and Ray) because a crime of passion like that (for love, but not in the heat of the moment) seems highly unlikely. Especially from Jean, who is the one who ended the relationship. All she had to do was flirt a little and she could have had Ray back. She didn't think of that?
Anyway, they explain a lot of this away with the rationalization that the first murder was an accident ("I also brought some extra weapons along" WTF?), and the rest was cover-up. The more I think about it the more that would work in a normal mystery novel, but in the superhero world it seems completely wrong. And maybe that's the idea. But I don't think it works.
So yeah, how anticlimactic was that?
I'm so sad.
And I didn't even buy the Astonishing X-men trade because I know they'll release an oversize hardcover of Whedon's entire run. Dammit.
2 Comments:
Oh good, it wasn't just me. I thought I was missing something since I didn't actually own the other issues (I actually bought this one) and hadn't looked at them again since reading them on the shelves, but it all just seemed waaaaaay too pat. It's just like "Nope, she's just BONKERS!" Um, when did that happen? Well, at least this way I saved money on the trade.
I'm also waiting for Astonishing hardback goodness, but then again Leslie buys all the individual issues. That hardback will look great next to my New X-Men hardbacks, and then I guess I'll be done with the X-Men for the forseeable future.
-Jeff
re: x-men... Same here my friend.
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