X-Men: Outback #3
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| Writer | Steve Orlando |
| Artist | Stephen Segovia, Roi Mercado |
| Cover Price | $4.99 |
FROM THE QUANTUM REALM, COMES A NEW THREAT! Lying low in the Australian Outback, the X-Men have seemed to find peace - that is until the ancient necromancer YAGA DYARA arrives from the Quantum Realm seeking to end Colossus' Rasputin bloodline for good. How can Piotr and his comrades succeed against this sorcerer's cosmic threat? Will Yaga's undead magic stamp out the Rasputin line for good?
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5.5
Well here we are a few days after release. 3 issues in and not a single review from a critic and 1 user review. despite the book being somewhat fun in issue 1 and a slide on issue 2... issue 3 has exposed this books biggest flaw- what are the stakes? we had an outback era that was perfect and is my favorite X-men arc. injecting "untold parts of the story to fill in what little gaps there are" isn't needed and it comes off as such. Colossus painting landscapes only to have a necromancer named Yaga Dyara come after him is just unneeded.the villain IS AWFUL. I mentioned before the biggest flaw, each battle we know the x-men will win because we saw them in the actual run. for that reason none of these stories matter or have any stakes. the more
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3.0
Considering the X-Men are dead to the world, villains don’t seem to have much trouble finding them. First Sabretooth in issue 1, now this Yaga Something guy. Speaking of which, Orlando is pretty much ripping of the classic Uncanny X-Men 231, even naming his villain after the antagonist of that same issue, Baba Yaga. The two even look very similar. Now why would you do that, and even mention that very story, that, chronologically, happened shortly before this one? I really don’t know.
Now, it probably was meant to be a homage to Claremont and Leonardi’s tale, but it would have been more effective to create a follow-up to that story instead of a cheap and unimaginative repetition of the same themes and visuals, but without the dept more
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