Comic Review: Age of X-Man : Next Gen (Marvel)

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Age Of X-Man: NextGen (2019) #1 by Ed Brisson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I have been second guessing a lot of my comic purchases lately.

I guess I have been to the comic store nearly every week for three decades and I still feel the impulse to take a handful of titles home no matter what.

Marvel is running Age of X Men in which everyone is a mutant. Although I have been a Marvel fan for years, there’s not a lot going on there. That the news out of SXSW is that Disney might shut down Marvel Comics is less of a shock of “how could this happen”, and more the news of a race horse with a broken leg.

NextGen takes a look at the Summers Institute of Higher Learning. It reaffirms that Brisson might be one of my recent favorite writers.

You can’t ask any more out of Brisson here. He writes full characters, the dialogue shines and the plot twists and turns.

The same can be said of Marcus To, whose art is fantastic.

It’s just hard to get on board with Marvel at the moment. I considered buying some of the other Age titles, but couldn’t quite do it. I think this might be a great five issue series, but in the overall sense of The Marvelverse and the constant reshuffling and starting over, it’s not the kind of thing that one can get too excited about.



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