Blah Blah Flowers

I bought New X-Men #153 yesterday, the penultimate issue of Grant Morrison's run. In common with most of his recent output I've found it disappointing, the continued repeating- sorry, reimagining of old themes. It's clearly supposed to be a story about evolution but the characters, almost all of which by now are Morrison's own characters (only Wolverine isn't if you want to be technical, as Morrison reimagined Beast as soon as he came on board) seem clumsy grafted on to it, as though this was something Morrison would have prefered to explore as some crazy project of his own. No real attempt is made to justify what happens any more, so Esme is a traitor. Why? Because she is. So Magneto is able to take over New York with no difficulty from all the super-heroes that live there because he managed to lure them out of the city with a fake bomb scare. Why? Because he did. And let's not go anywhere near issue #150 when the most powerful telepath on the planet isn't able to stop his sworn enemy, in a weakened and exhausted state, from killing a creature who is supposed to be a goddess. The story is driving the characters, not good.

After the last issue comes out I'm thinking of writing an essay on the entire series. You've been warned.