{"id":1359,"date":"2005-03-28T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/danger_is_her_m\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:11:44","slug":"danger_is_her_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/danger_is_her_m\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger Is Her Middle Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spoiler queens take note! I\u2019m about to rant a bit about the latest issue of Astonishing X-Men<\/i>. Proceed at your own risk, if you’re the type to get all uppity about that stuff.<\/p>\n

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When we last left the X-Men, we were told that \u201cthe Danger Room is angry.\u201d After we stopped rolling our eyes, we closed the book and remembered the awesome musical episode<\/a> of Buffy<\/i> and tried to have faith in Joss Whedon\u2019s ability to take a hopelessly ill-conceived idea and actually make it work.<\/p>\n

A couple pages into this issue, and he\u2018d won me over again. A goofy premise like \u201cthe Danger Room is angry\u201d developed into a cool head-trip of an idea that Warren Ellis<\/a> could be proud of, and managed to lighten it up with witty banter, such as Logan saying (as the mansion is destroyed again<\/i>), \u201cNext time, guys, we should just rebuild this place outta Lego<\/a>.\u201d I bought into it, right up until the last panel:<\/p>\n

\"Danger<\/p>\n

A chick? The Danger Room discovers its sentience and breaks free from its programming safeguards, and it becomes a robot chick? That\u2019s so disappointing. The best thing that ever happened to the Sentinels was when Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely realized they\u2019d be likely to take on any form<\/a> they possibly could, since they really had no reason to look humanoid at all. Same thing with Danger Girl here \u2014 after giving us this whole set-up about being a sentient environment able to create a whole deadly world (not to mention one that can control other machines), it seems like kind of a cop-out to end of as yet another variety of two-legged, two-armed punching bag.<\/p>\n

I hope Joss has a way to salvage this, because I want to keep loving the hell out of this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spoiler queens take note! I\u2019m about to rant a bit about the latest issue of Astonishing X-Men. Proceed at your own risk, if you’re the type to get all uppity about that stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76906,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/76906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}