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Post by mitchcrane on Mar 1, 2009 20:45:50 GMT -5
Well my first issue of Exiles is up, I hope everyone likes it. Basically I took the cut off point from just before Claremont's run began. Definitely not a fan of Claremont's run.
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Post by Erik on Mar 2, 2009 11:00:50 GMT -5
I don't think you're gonna find many. I think Claremont robbed the Exiles of their uniqueness by bringing back all mutants and especially 2 of them from 616. There's NO reason why a team that not only travels the multiverse, but gains their roster FROM the multiverse should have ANYTHING to do with 616. Even crossing the Exiles over with the X-Men years back that gave them Beak was too much, but in the end harmless enough to mean anything.
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Post by Derrick on Apr 16, 2010 8:15:20 GMT -5
It could be entirely possible that a series like EXILES isn't built for a reader like me. First off, I've never read a single issue of the Marvel comic book because the concept sounded like "Sliders with mutants" and I was never a fan of the "Sliders" TV show. My wife was as well as the "X-Files" so I was pretty much hijacked into watching 'em both but "Sliders" bored me most of the time and so as I've said, the Exiles concept didn't hold any interest for me.
But this is fan fiction and I don't believe in passing up reading the work of a potentially interesting and entertaining writer so I decided to give EXILES a try because I've read Mitch's work at Marvel Omega and enjoyed it. And I was pleased to see some characters I really enjoy showing up in the first issue. The Mimic is a character who simply just doesn't get used enough in fan fiction as far as I'm concerned. Power Princess is another character I enjoy reading about. As is Longshot. Everybody else I'm kinda indifferent about but that's probably because I don't know anything about them.
And despite the energetic drive of Mitch's writing I didn't find any reason in the story to care about what happened to the characters. This is a series very much aimed at readers who are familiar with The Exiles, their backstories and their personalities who can jump into the story head first and not get lost. Mitch's writing is strong enough that it kept me reading by the fact that he's good enough with dialog and description to make me want to follow his string simply to see where it was going but outside of me wanting to see what happened to Longshot, Power Princess and The Mimic, I was lost as to who a lot of these other characters were or why I should be interested in what happens to them.
Not that I mind being thrown into the middle of a series and have to use a bit of brain power to find my way around and figure out what's going on. Matter of fact, that can be a lot of fun. But this is a first issue so designed for fans of The Exiles that I wonder if maybe Mitch hasn't cut off a lot of potential readers who read the first issue, scratched their heads and moved on to something else more accessible.
But as I said in my opening line, maybe it's just me. It's entirely possible that I'm in the minority and I'm just not getting it. But I hope to as I continue reading Mitch's series. I like his writing enough to read the following issues to see how this plays out.
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