>>99820929Tell me, exactly what's interesting about an evil Galactus head eating time? How is that novel conceptual hook for Exiles? It's just incredibly lazy. "Oh time is being eaten away? Let's make it Galactus." This was done, sort of, more interestingly thirty years ago when the FF travel to the future to see why time sort of just stops at certain point in the future and learn that Galactus is literally eating everything in the universe and when he's done time simply seizes to exist because there'll be nothing left. This even less interesting than Exiles killing bunch of evil Xaviers.
Criticizing the book for doing a godawful job at a) establishing the team properly (dragging your feet on it always ruins team book launches), b) introducing appealing premise and c) generally failing to get the voices right on several fronts in the first issue are valid points.
When will writers fucking learn the appeal of Exiles is random alt. version characters jumping on different Earths, always doing odd mission objectives like buying a single bagel at a specific shop at a specific time, that will somehow ultimately lead to saving the multiverse? Trying to make the entire book from the start be about defeating an overpowered, under developed villain is fucking boring and misses the point. You build up the final boss over time, and make its threat intriguing by slowly unfolding it as a mystery. Throwing forgettable evil alt. version and saying "defeat that" is SHIT!
Even Ewing's Contest of Champions with Maestro knew how to do this right, and that was a game tie-in with generic mortal kombat gimmick!
