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X-Corp #1-5
X-Corp, Vol. 1
Krakoa is for closers! The deals have been made. Mutantkind is safe on its new island nation. As the Reign of X continues, what are the wants of the mutants who have everything? Leading the charge is X-Corporation, headed by CXOs Monet St. Croix and Warren Worthington — a duo as cutthroat and ruthless in the boardroom as they are on the battlefield. But X-Corp needs more than just its figureheads. And as Monet sets out to staff their team with some of the brightest and most devious mutant minds available, Warren finds himself in a tense meeting with one of Krakoa’s first allies, who wants to know the truth: on Angel’s wings, will X-Corp crash or soar?
COLLECTING: X-Corp (2021) 1-5
COLLECTING: X-Corp (2021) 1-5
152 pages, Paperback
First published November 23, 2021
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November 19, 2023
The Krakoan mutants have turned the world upside down and following this path X-Corp looks at how mutant corporate business would make it's mark and cleverly angles X-Corp at the provision of bandwidth on a unimaginable near-infinite global scale. But human business aren't going to just stand still, and the introduction of a pair of interesting antagonist with 'villain' mutant support strive to outdo X-Corp. On top of this X-Corp features mutants from across the first four generations in Angel, Madrox, Monet and Selene(!), alongside 'Mastermind(!) and Trinary. It does feel though that the series is rushed as it strives to do so much in such short space; in addition the art is hyper-digital and looks very cartoonish, although the clear lines does give the art a lot of impact. Not necessarily a must-read, but an interesting and thought provoking 6 out of 12, Three Star rated limited series
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June 3, 2022
Despite what one may think, business dramas can be entertaining. One with mutants involved should be entertaining. Enter Tini Howard to make this the most boring comic of the Krakoan era. Angel and Penace bumble around for five issues looking for board members and repeatedly let this Brazilian businessman get the better of them. Everything about this book is just "Meh".
September 24, 2021
Someone thought it would be a good idea to throw together the X-Men's richest mutants so we could watch them conduct business deals. This was the answer to the question nobody was asking-- "How can I make comic books more about business practices?"
The art is pretty bad. The messaging is worse, as we watch the richest 1% lord their wealth over everyone else.
Monet is repeatedly shown shifting into her Penance form at will, but no one ever felt the need to explain why she can now do that. It's not one of her powers. Emplate cursed her with the Penance form using magic. Her mutant powers are just flight, strength, telepathy, etc. I'm not disputing that mutants gain new powers (sometimes through magical or technological intervention) all the time. But you at least need ONE panel where people comment on how this is a new ability.
The art is pretty bad. The messaging is worse, as we watch the richest 1% lord their wealth over everyone else.
Monet is repeatedly shown shifting into her Penance form at will, but no one ever felt the need to explain why she can now do that. It's not one of her powers. Emplate cursed her with the Penance form using magic. Her mutant powers are just flight, strength, telepathy, etc. I'm not disputing that mutants gain new powers (sometimes through magical or technological intervention) all the time. But you at least need ONE panel where people comment on how this is a new ability.
October 24, 2021
SAVE YOURSELF THE PAIN AND DO NOT READ THIS.
I've read the single issues as opposed to the collected edition but I felt it only right to warn people off.
Art fluctuates between ok and drunk toddler levels, story is so eminently forgettable and turns interesting characters into a bland mush and most of all it's 5 issues that have zero impact or dent in the main arc. Reading this will just be putting yourself through awful tedium for absolutely zero benefit.
Howard having a job with Marvel gives me hope, having not penned a story since I was about 10 which was around 27 years ago, that I can still make it as a marvel storyteller if the bar is so appallingly low.
I've read the single issues as opposed to the collected edition but I felt it only right to warn people off.
Art fluctuates between ok and drunk toddler levels, story is so eminently forgettable and turns interesting characters into a bland mush and most of all it's 5 issues that have zero impact or dent in the main arc. Reading this will just be putting yourself through awful tedium for absolutely zero benefit.
Howard having a job with Marvel gives me hope, having not penned a story since I was about 10 which was around 27 years ago, that I can still make it as a marvel storyteller if the bar is so appallingly low.
September 22, 2021
I would really like to know why is Tini Howard still working at Marvel when she's so obviously untalented and isn't able to write a single decent issue? Literally evertyhing she touches turns to crap.
September 15, 2022
I honestly wanted to enjoy this - when it was announced I was rooting for it, the X-Men negotiating the world of business is a weird but intriguing idea and the Krakoan books are the only time it’s likely to be relevant. But ooof, no, this didn’t work at all.
Two basic problems. One is that the real world of business invests a lot of time and effort into making itself seem heroic and exciting on its own terms of big initiatives and bold decisions, but those terms are pretty bland. So the best business stories - think 80s TV like Dallas - acknowledge the pretension, the hubris, the exploitation, the farcical gaps between claim and reality, the sheer amount of greed and bullshit that animates business. You don’t have to endorse those things (again, see Dallas) but without them you’re left with project management, and Tini Howard largely leaves them out. X-Corp is shown as an honest business trying to launch actual tech products, and Howard writes like the puff pieces you read in Forbes or Fast Company are accurate accounts of business deals and motivations.
The second problem is that the book wastes its premise. Business stories are about big personalities trying to outmanoeuvre each other, and the Marvel Universe has plenty of those including lots with an established business background. We know who the mutants’ tech competitors would be, from Roxxon to Stark Industries, and we’ve rarely had a story about what it’s like to be in a commercial battle with someone like Tony Stark. But instead of Marvel’s existing tycoons X-Force gives us new anti mutant human villains who don’t have a tenth of their charisma. It feels like Howard wants to write a story in which the Good Business People beat the Bad Business People, but the bad business people are cyphers.
And the Good Business People are, uh… well. X-Corp gets credit for grasping one of the hot plot pokers of the Krakoan age: if Krakoa is for all mutants and there’s an amnesty, what do you do with characters whose charge sheet reflects real world bigotries not the anti-mutant metaphor for them? For instance avowed Nazi sympathisers Fenris - do they get a pass? Howard fudges the question slightly by making sure we get that they don’t want a second chance, but it serves to show that there’s at least a line to be drawn.
But this is happening in a comic with Mastermind as a good guy, the guy with the line in mental rape whose powers are just too useful to pass up. Again, there’s a stronger story lurking here about business in the MeToo era where the question of powerful creeps and the people who throw money at them is very much live. And maybe it was a story Howard planned to get to - a book about business is a perfect one to think about how much compromise is too much. But on the very softball evidence of X-Corp’s one arc, that doesn’t look too likely.
Two basic problems. One is that the real world of business invests a lot of time and effort into making itself seem heroic and exciting on its own terms of big initiatives and bold decisions, but those terms are pretty bland. So the best business stories - think 80s TV like Dallas - acknowledge the pretension, the hubris, the exploitation, the farcical gaps between claim and reality, the sheer amount of greed and bullshit that animates business. You don’t have to endorse those things (again, see Dallas) but without them you’re left with project management, and Tini Howard largely leaves them out. X-Corp is shown as an honest business trying to launch actual tech products, and Howard writes like the puff pieces you read in Forbes or Fast Company are accurate accounts of business deals and motivations.
The second problem is that the book wastes its premise. Business stories are about big personalities trying to outmanoeuvre each other, and the Marvel Universe has plenty of those including lots with an established business background. We know who the mutants’ tech competitors would be, from Roxxon to Stark Industries, and we’ve rarely had a story about what it’s like to be in a commercial battle with someone like Tony Stark. But instead of Marvel’s existing tycoons X-Force gives us new anti mutant human villains who don’t have a tenth of their charisma. It feels like Howard wants to write a story in which the Good Business People beat the Bad Business People, but the bad business people are cyphers.
And the Good Business People are, uh… well. X-Corp gets credit for grasping one of the hot plot pokers of the Krakoan age: if Krakoa is for all mutants and there’s an amnesty, what do you do with characters whose charge sheet reflects real world bigotries not the anti-mutant metaphor for them? For instance avowed Nazi sympathisers Fenris - do they get a pass? Howard fudges the question slightly by making sure we get that they don’t want a second chance, but it serves to show that there’s at least a line to be drawn.
But this is happening in a comic with Mastermind as a good guy, the guy with the line in mental rape whose powers are just too useful to pass up. Again, there’s a stronger story lurking here about business in the MeToo era where the question of powerful creeps and the people who throw money at them is very much live. And maybe it was a story Howard planned to get to - a book about business is a perfect one to think about how much compromise is too much. But on the very softball evidence of X-Corp’s one arc, that doesn’t look too likely.
November 19, 2021
Monet and Angel need to establish the new Krakoan nation as a brand, and that means destroying all of their business competition. But when you're mutants, and X-Men to book, nothing is ever that simple.
X-Corp is a clever experiment. It's corporate espionage and maneuvering, with an X-Men twist, which is probably why it didn't last any longer than it did. It's a great idea on paper but the execution boils down to a lot of people posturing on paper and not a lot of actual stuff happening. It'd be exciting on TV, but as a comic, it's a little flat.
There are some glimmers of excitement when the claws come out (both literally and metaphorically), and I can read about Monet sassing her way through board rooms forever.
The art's fairly pedestrian. I think, again, it's trying to be something else but it doesn't quite work. Alberto Foche's pencils give me Jorge Fornes vibes, or perhaps Valentine De Lando, but again, there's only so much that can be done with talking heads in a board room. Some of the double page splashes have some good innovation to them though.
X-Corp was probably a book that made perfect sense in concept but not in execution. I applaud the attempt, but I see why it didn't work.
X-Corp is a clever experiment. It's corporate espionage and maneuvering, with an X-Men twist, which is probably why it didn't last any longer than it did. It's a great idea on paper but the execution boils down to a lot of people posturing on paper and not a lot of actual stuff happening. It'd be exciting on TV, but as a comic, it's a little flat.
There are some glimmers of excitement when the claws come out (both literally and metaphorically), and I can read about Monet sassing her way through board rooms forever.
The art's fairly pedestrian. I think, again, it's trying to be something else but it doesn't quite work. Alberto Foche's pencils give me Jorge Fornes vibes, or perhaps Valentine De Lando, but again, there's only so much that can be done with talking heads in a board room. Some of the double page splashes have some good innovation to them though.
X-Corp was probably a book that made perfect sense in concept but not in execution. I applaud the attempt, but I see why it didn't work.
March 20, 2022
There might have been some potential in a comic focused on the business dealings of the Krakoan mutants. Unfortunately, this comic isn't it. I'd been wondering what Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man, was up to in the new mutant society, and now I know: working as a scientist for X-Corp. What? The artwork throughout this is quite variable and little more than serviceable. All in all, a wasted opportunity all around.
December 30, 2021
Grateful to be done with this crap. Howard’s writing is one thing, the stupid premise of this entire series is another, and lo and behold we find these corporate utopia mutants fighting evil nazi business foes who they leave sniveling after being provoked without cause. Board member hugs and high fives all around! What a pile. Don’t waste your time with X-Corp.
October 21, 2021
David Aja covers were phenomenal. And the Multiple Man centered issue (issue 3 I think) was fun. I really liked the Multiple Man heist.
But man this was a chore to read.
But man this was a chore to read.
July 23, 2022
2,5*
An interesing idea all things considered but financial thrillers are not very adapted to the comic format--> looots of talking heads all over, all the time.
A bit of action at the end but not enough to make it a thrilling read.
Oh, I almost forgot: art sucks for 4 issues out of 5 (only De Landro is worth something).
All in all I give it 3* for an actual good idea but wouldn’t really recommend it anyway because the execution is far too mundane and bland-ish to make it truly entertaining.
An interesing idea all things considered but financial thrillers are not very adapted to the comic format--> looots of talking heads all over, all the time.
A bit of action at the end but not enough to make it a thrilling read.
Oh, I almost forgot: art sucks for 4 issues out of 5 (only De Landro is worth something).
All in all I give it 3* for an actual good idea but wouldn’t really recommend it anyway because the execution is far too mundane and bland-ish to make it truly entertaining.
May 17, 2022
I have no idea how a book like this even got greenlit. If a book about a small group of mutants creating a business and then making pharmaceuticals and an ionospheric bandwidth generator sounds interesting to you, then boy, did this failure of a book need your support. I found this to be the most boring book out of the entire Dawn of X line-up, in stiff competition with Falling Angels for worst overall. I only read this for the Hellfire Gala tie-in issue, and I wish I'd just left it at that and avoided reading the rest of this.
The bulk of the series follows the heads of the new X-Corporation, Angel and Penance, as they interview various mutants to try to determine who will be on their board of directors. There are no surprises here, as most everyone they interview ends up on the board. The rest of the series deals with a rival human pharmaceutical company that is trying to discredit and sabotage the work of X-Corporation. What's most hard to swallow about all of this is that the human competition are treated as a credible threat to a group of mutants who have varying telepathic powers (Penance, Mastermind, Selene) in addition to a technopath (Trinary) and one who can create dozens of duplicates of himself (Multiple Man). Despite the fact that the mutants outclass their human competition in every way, the humans are constantly pulling one over on X-Corporation, breaking into their base to sabotage or steal information. Author Tini Howard wants us to view them as a threat despite never effectively setting them up as such--they only succeed because of how our heroes bumble around in her storytelling hands.
Most of the art in the book is by Alberto Foche, and it is competent and pleasant enough to look at, but nothing about it particularly stands out as interesting to me. The third issue was done by fill-in artist Valentine de Landro and was downright hideous by comparison. It's a very jarring difference that just hits you right in the middle of the book.
I would not recommend this book to anyone--even those who are trying to read the complete Hellfire Gala event. Just read the tie-in issue and don't bother with anything else.
The bulk of the series follows the heads of the new X-Corporation, Angel and Penance, as they interview various mutants to try to determine who will be on their board of directors. There are no surprises here, as most everyone they interview ends up on the board. The rest of the series deals with a rival human pharmaceutical company that is trying to discredit and sabotage the work of X-Corporation. What's most hard to swallow about all of this is that the human competition are treated as a credible threat to a group of mutants who have varying telepathic powers (Penance, Mastermind, Selene) in addition to a technopath (Trinary) and one who can create dozens of duplicates of himself (Multiple Man). Despite the fact that the mutants outclass their human competition in every way, the humans are constantly pulling one over on X-Corporation, breaking into their base to sabotage or steal information. Author Tini Howard wants us to view them as a threat despite never effectively setting them up as such--they only succeed because of how our heroes bumble around in her storytelling hands.
Most of the art in the book is by Alberto Foche, and it is competent and pleasant enough to look at, but nothing about it particularly stands out as interesting to me. The third issue was done by fill-in artist Valentine de Landro and was downright hideous by comparison. It's a very jarring difference that just hits you right in the middle of the book.
I would not recommend this book to anyone--even those who are trying to read the complete Hellfire Gala event. Just read the tie-in issue and don't bother with anything else.
May 8, 2022
Holy cow this was bad. I got it because I like Angel and I’ve enjoyed Tini Howard’s Excalibur a bit (though not my favorite current title). Plus, I kept hearing good buzz leading up to it. The whole concept falls flat, though.
There is SO much focus on the corporate intrigue aspect that at times I felt like I was back at work WHILE READING A COMIC BOOK. Like…that takes effort to make something feel like that much of a chore to read.
On top of that I didn’t like any of the characters. Monet has always been tough for me because she’s so convinced of her own perfection. There wasn’t much exploration of her new transformation ability into Penance. Trinary was basically there as a plot device. Mastermind was brought in to be sympathetic despite what a vile person he is. Selene same (though I don’t think I’ve read much of anything with her in it, she has quite the reputation). The only one that I found endearing was Madrox.
The art was mediocre at best. The covers by David Aja were gorgeous, but had almost nothing to do with how they looked on the inside.
Overall, this was a swing and a miss. One of the few that have happened since HOX/POX, but it still was rough.
There is SO much focus on the corporate intrigue aspect that at times I felt like I was back at work WHILE READING A COMIC BOOK. Like…that takes effort to make something feel like that much of a chore to read.
On top of that I didn’t like any of the characters. Monet has always been tough for me because she’s so convinced of her own perfection. There wasn’t much exploration of her new transformation ability into Penance. Trinary was basically there as a plot device. Mastermind was brought in to be sympathetic despite what a vile person he is. Selene same (though I don’t think I’ve read much of anything with her in it, she has quite the reputation). The only one that I found endearing was Madrox.
The art was mediocre at best. The covers by David Aja were gorgeous, but had almost nothing to do with how they looked on the inside.
Overall, this was a swing and a miss. One of the few that have happened since HOX/POX, but it still was rough.
May 17, 2022
It seems like the X-tended universe has used every genre under the sun as a leaping-off point. As the title suggests, X-Corp is a tale of corporate espionage via mutants. Angel and Penance have taken over X-Corp and their first order of business is to recruit board members. This plot point brings in some amusing characters (Multiple Man!) and some forgettable characters (pretty much everyone else).
The Multiple Man hijinks are vastly more understandable than the convoluted plot in X-Corp. Some Brazilian rich guy is being swindled, Angel and Penance don't like each other much, X-Corp is struggling to identify itself (both in the plot and to the reader - what does this thing even do???). There's a fight in the end - it's dull. The best issue features the X-Corp team tackling cocktail hour at the Hellfire Gala. Otherwise, this is classic Tini Howard: dense plotting and dense dialogue matched with mediocre artwork.
The Multiple Man hijinks are vastly more understandable than the convoluted plot in X-Corp. Some Brazilian rich guy is being swindled, Angel and Penance don't like each other much, X-Corp is struggling to identify itself (both in the plot and to the reader - what does this thing even do???). There's a fight in the end - it's dull. The best issue features the X-Corp team tackling cocktail hour at the Hellfire Gala. Otherwise, this is classic Tini Howard: dense plotting and dense dialogue matched with mediocre artwork.
January 20, 2022
I had high hopes for this based on the concept and the characters. I even came to appreciate Howard more in the last few volumes of Excalibur. But this was just a boring waste of the premise. I mean, I knew I was in for it after the first issue's title page when I was suddenly hit by a HUGE wall of text. The comic stayed at that low ebb for at least the first three issues, only picking up in the last couple.
I mean, yet another fight against an evil human corp wasn't a great place to start the comic, but somehow Howard also managed to make most of the characters boring. It was only when Selene and Mastermind came in that things turned up, but they weren't enough to save this slow, meandering mini-series.
I mean, yet another fight against an evil human corp wasn't a great place to start the comic, but somehow Howard also managed to make most of the characters boring. It was only when Selene and Mastermind came in that things turned up, but they weren't enough to save this slow, meandering mini-series.
January 28, 2022
By far the worst of the Krakoa X-men comics since Fallen Angels. Plenty of better written stories have shown that business drama can be interesting, and the same goes for unlikeable protagonists. But Howard proves that business drama can also be very boring and that unlikeable protagonists can just be insufferable. Madrox’s ability to gain his duplicates’ knowledge is interesting and makes me want to read some of his older starring comics, but nothing is really made of that idea here. The art isn’t great and lifeless expressions are way too common, but the coloring is pretty decent and overall it’s still much better than the writing.
December 29, 2021
3.25
Some good moments, but pretty boring story and characterization overall. Krakoa stuff is starting to get stale.
Some good moments, but pretty boring story and characterization overall. Krakoa stuff is starting to get stale.
December 23, 2023
Tini Howard should be commended for taking boring subject matter and making it almost interesting. Over all though, a very boring & dialogue laden arc
March 22, 2024
Bien aburrido y ni se le entiende bien quien es quien ya que cambian los dibujantes de número a número y hacen todo al hay se va ni detallan nada. No se le ven ganitas :/
November 13, 2024
A story about mutants… with jokes about expense reports and liability forms. I’ve enjoyed the Krakoa age and this offers some intrigue but I’m just not sold on mutants in the corporate world.
May 5, 2024
Holy crap that was boring. That seriously was a chore to finish. There isn't soul on the characters, they look like robots saying business jargons. I'm glad this series is done. This had a lot of potential, that was wasted. I don't know what the behind the scenes for this book was like, but yeah... This is the Fallen Angels of Reign of X.
January 10, 2022
This book has some sweet concept art and covers. Unfortunately, it's so boring and perfunctory it took me over a week to read. Nothing in X-Corp is corporate, except the written press releases; it's just Marauders without the personality, all about press conferences and jockeying for board seats and which mutant has transient leverage over which other mutant. All the problems are solved in the laziest and most consequence-free way possible, instead of being discussed and embraced. All the side characters are off model, the new characters are completely indistinguishable, the twists have no impact after 5 pages.
This book has no reason to exist, other than to keep the creative team employed until the next crossover. On the plus side, Layla Miller does get a shoutout.
This book has no reason to exist, other than to keep the creative team employed until the next crossover. On the plus side, Layla Miller does get a shoutout.
April 6, 2022
I believe I was one of the few that actually enjoyed this series. The art was wonderful to see and very much suited the story this book was trying to tell.
It's a shame it was such short lived.
It's a shame it was such short lived.
January 24, 2022
Ok... this is the first of the new X-Books that I didn't love immediately. It was heavily focused on the launch of X-Corp, the official entity of Krakoa that controls creation and distribution of the new medicines for humanity. During the comic, they also take control of a large portion of the telecommunications bandwidth for the world, using the ionosphere directly. As you could guess, a huge part of this book is business and politics... which is what I usually stay away from in all my reading.
Main focus is on Angel, Penance (which I still need to go back and figure out how M/Penance/Emplate fusion began and became permanent), and Multiple Man. I didn't hate it, but it did feel like I had to force myself through it.
Recommend, but with knowledge of what it is and at your own discretion.
Main focus is on Angel, Penance (which I still need to go back and figure out how M/Penance/Emplate fusion began and became permanent), and Multiple Man. I didn't hate it, but it did feel like I had to force myself through it.
Recommend, but with knowledge of what it is and at your own discretion.
January 5, 2022
The most painfully MEH story. The idea of focusing on mutant corporate works was a stretch to begin with, but I thought there was potential in the interesting cast. And I actually do like Tini Howard as a writer. But oh boy did this miss the mark.
AND THE ART. Too often it felt plastic and rushed. I think the only time I really enjoyed it was the issue with Valentine De Landro. Which, coincidentally, was the only issue I enjoyed story wise.
AND THE ART. Too often it felt plastic and rushed. I think the only time I really enjoyed it was the issue with Valentine De Landro. Which, coincidentally, was the only issue I enjoyed story wise.
September 26, 2022
What an absolute mess of a comic book. Impossible to follow, almost no redeeming qualities, and a complete misunderstanding of Multiple Man’s powers (absorbing dead duplicates’ memories was a key plot point in a massive X-Men crossover!), so this book gets a rare 1-star review from me. Mess, mess, mess.
September 23, 2021
A waste of Aja's covers
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February 15, 2023sucks that [redacted] and [redacted] are still ongoing but this never got to grow into itself. reading knights if x made me appreciate this a lot more.
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February 27, 2023If I were half the contrarian people sometimes assume, I'd be obliged to stick up for this much-maligned and swiftly cancelled runt of the Krakoan litter. But no, it really is a stinker. Tini Howard has done comics I've enjoyed, but for some reason her X-books always seem to involve getting her to write material that's clearly not playing to her strengths; in Excalibur and its successors it was magic and Britain, and here it's business. And it is possible to do solid superhero comics about business: Matt Fraction's Iron Man run would probably be the first example a lot of people quote, though for me Joe Casey's WildCATs run is the exemplar. Here, though...yes, Monet in the boardroom inevitably adds a little spice, but mainly it's Warren Worthington insisting that it's possible to be a good businessman and a good person, while caricature evil businessmen hiss and snarl and say the quiet part out loud. And yes, reality is full of plenty of examples to suggest that villains like that are not lacking in plausibility, but the unforgivable sin here is that this is a superhero comic, and yet they're less convincing supervillains than the ones we have in our own flat and flimsy world; the preternatural blankness of a Zuckerberg, undying malice of a Murdoch or misplaced smugness of a Musk would have livened it up no end. Meanwhile, instead of much to test Warren's noble ideals, we mainly get it all working out just like he said, and when you consider that his codename is literally Angel it all has big Marenghi energy. Nor was he the only great thinker of whom I found myself reminded: the opening line "Possibility. A word that can mean literally anything" felt like it belonged in a deleted scene from the Bros documentary. Which, yes, could potentially have been a dig at vapid corporate-speak, but it's hard to take he charitable approach when, during a daring escape, we get the line "Please stay in the recycled air as temperatures out on the deck are measured in kelvin." Where, I can sort of surmise what it might be intended to mean, but come on, any temperature can be measured in kelvins! Hell, I do it myself if people complain about my use of Fahrenheit. By the end, the corporate board has welcomed a few outright villains, but because they're not actually Nazis (who remain definitely bad), Warren seems mostly unruffled by this, more 'Tsk!' than tormented even when it turns out they've all been going behind his back to pull off some pretty shady manoeuvres.
The art is very pretty, though, especially on that opening shot of X-Corp's base, like Tracy Island grew up sexy. Or at least it is for Foche's issues; de Landro's fill-in is horribly, uncharacteristically blobby, to the extent that characters can be hard to distinguish beyond their costumes. Which is a shame, because its focus on Madrox and the implications of his powers is the first time the script shows signs of promise, even if that's still alternating with scenes which read like Mitchell & Webb's Lazy Screenwriters pitching to get one of those new Billions spin-offs.
The art is very pretty, though, especially on that opening shot of X-Corp's base, like Tracy Island grew up sexy. Or at least it is for Foche's issues; de Landro's fill-in is horribly, uncharacteristically blobby, to the extent that characters can be hard to distinguish beyond their costumes. Which is a shame, because its focus on Madrox and the implications of his powers is the first time the script shows signs of promise, even if that's still alternating with scenes which read like Mitchell & Webb's Lazy Screenwriters pitching to get one of those new Billions spin-offs.
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