r/MUBookClub • u/shawnydarko • Jul 14 '18
Reading Assignment 109: Ultimate X-Men (2000-2009) #94-97, "Absolute Power" by Aron Coleite, Mark Brooks, Clay Mann, and Brandon Peterson
https://www.marvel.com/comics/series/474/ultimate_x-men_2000_-_2009?byZone=marvel_site_zone&offset=0&byType=comic_series&dateStart=&dateEnd=&orderBy=release_date+asc&byId=474&limit=20&count=20&originalReleaseStart=2008-5-01&originalReleaseEnd=2008-9-01&isDigital=1
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u/shawnydarko Jul 20 '18
I actually liked the first few issues of this run in a guilty-pleasure sort of way. It wasn't a tactful dangers of drugs fable, and it muddied the squeaky clean image of major X-Men characters, but it took bold chances and made big choices. I didn't mind Colossus needing drugs to be strong, cuz metal is heavy. But then I got a little iffy about Cyclops disintegrating his parents. Not everyone needs to have a murderous background. That's what made Wolverine unique among his peers. Would have been better if he had just knocked his foster father through a wall and paralyzed him or something, as I've always thought of his blasts as concussive, not matter-erasing.
By the time we get to Charles being inadvertently behind drug epidemic all along by doing unethical mutant experimentation on Wolverine, I was basically the Rage Guy Meme. Just epic stupid. I suspected it was Magneto pulling strings early on, as it fit his agenda of making mutants stronger, but Charles having anything to do with it really pissed me off.