Saturday, January 23, 2010

NYX: No Way Home (by Marjorie Liu)


No Way Home loosely picks up where NYX: Wannabe left off, following a few teenaged mutants as they attempt to make a life for themselves under difficult circumstances.  The story is alright, but nothing terribly exciting. There isn't enough sense of where it's going to satisfy me.  Comic trade paperbacks work best when the arc captures a fully formed story, and this one feels  loose-endy.

For teenaged heroes, give me the Runaways anyday.
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  1. philipJanuary 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM

    I've been waiting for this one for a long time, and just read it myself. Did you also have it requested while it was still on order?

    It's interesting that you mentioned Runaways, because this book actually reminded me of them. This is going to sound corny, but I got a strong sense from the NYX kids of "they only have each other" that quite moved me by the end.

    A couple of nice touches I thought were Lil Bro's powers (which admittedly were spoiled by the spot art in the trade's opening page), and the glimpse of a future Kiden hooked up to a machine with Cable in the foreground (nod to the X-Force series, where she meets with X-23 again). Also, I don't know much about Cecilia Reyes, only that she has ties to Beast/Hank McCoy, but her cameo kind of paralleled and underlined the kids's struggle. She didn't like superheroing with the X-Men, and it seems she's fighting in her own way, trying to move on on her own.

    I agree that it was loose-endy. But I want to see these kids again and I think it gives a subsequent writer something to explore, rather than have to answer.

    In terms of art, I really liked Sara Pichelli (incidentally, she was on the latest Runaways, one half of a female creative team with writer Kathryn Immonen , before it was put on hiatus). Kalman A.'s lines looked better uninked in the featured specific page pencils at the end of the trade; his and Pichelli's sketches meld well into each other, but finished I could totally tell when it was Pichelli. / geek out

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  2. aprilJanuary 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM

    You definitely have more of an artist's eye than I do. I'm just starting to pay more attention to what it is I like about particular artists or styles. I appreciated the art, but not with any kind of critical perspective.

    Yes, I'd had this one requested for quite some time as well. And I agree that the ending was bittersweet. I do want to see them come through things all right... I just wish I had more of an idea of what the plot was leading up to. If I see that the series has been picked up again I'll be happy to keep reading.

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