I'm aware I'm one of the show's last remaining supporters, but I still maintain that it's good, soapy fun - and that was there in spades this week. But there really should be more female voices on the team.īut all in all, this was a remarkably strong start to a book which promises to hit exactly the right balance between brutality and fun.After a bit of a break, Pan Am was back in style last night. God knows that Domino is a remarkably complex character fully fleshed, with complicated motivations and Brisson is a deft enough writer to convey that complexity. They’re capable of as much brutality as men. This team was initially formed during a time when certain ideas about gender were rigidly fixed - and that isn’t the case anymore. I do not think that the writer is a sexist. I don’t believe that this was intentional. She kills without really thinking about the implications. Even if Tabby had stuck around, she’s more careless than anything. Even with Tabby, this would be problematic, the implication being: there aren’t as many women who are willing to commit the level of violence required by this team. Without Tabitha, the balance is five men and one woman. I did have one major problem with the book as it currently stands: the lineup.
Burnett is doing something very interesting, here, and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next. They function from a perspective which is considerably more brutal than the one that the X-Men usually inhabit. These are complex, dangerous people who are willing to do terrible things to get what they want.
I know that opinions are going to be divided on this subject because many readers are used to more conventionally ‘pretty’ line work in their X-Books, but this series is not supposed to be ‘pretty’.
It’s Ed Brisson) and the pacing was nearly perfect, but I really want to talk about the art. The plot featured our guys seeking out Kid Cable and, along the way, simultaneously uncovering and facilitating a military coup by a rabid anti-mutant general (whose grudge against mutantkind is as obvious as the scar on his face) who just cannot wait to get on with the genocide. This story was primarily a set up for the upcoming arc (getting the band back together, mutant-style) but it was absolutely packed with characterization and intrigue.
Reader expectations and anxieties have been simmering high for the last couple of weeks and I am happy to say that the book has gotten itself off to a highly satisfactory start. The relaunch of X-Force has a great deal going for it.
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