Also this week:

CABLE #4 - I'm starting to get frustrated by this book.  There are some basically interesting ideas in here, and the premise has potential.  But the pace is sluggish, and we're stuck wandering around a generic dystopian future without any particular reason to care about what happens to it.  I mean, it's okay, and there are some nice details, but I just don't get the feeling that we're making much progress with the story here.  B

YOUNG X-MEN #3 - With this one, on the other hand, I just don't get what they're trying to do.  Presumably we're heading towards a "twist" where it turns out that the New Mutants haven't become bad guys after all, and Cyclops is an impostor.  But that's been lumbering towards us since issue #1.  As it stands, this book is just a bit confused, and doesn't make much sense.  Maybe things will pick up when we get to the presumptive twist, but I can't figure out what we're supposed to make of the book at the moment.  Surely they don't expect us to take it at face value?  It all seems horrendously contrived.  If there's actually a decent idea behind this book, for heaven's sake get on with it.  C-

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and apparently the Ninth Art archive is going to back online at some point...

Next week, Chris Claremont's alternate reality X-Men series continues in GeNext #2.  New Exiles #7 visits a world stuck 400 years in the past.  And X-Force: Ain't No Dog is a one-shot with a double-bill of Wolverine and Warpath stories.

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