{"id":979,"date":"2009-04-10T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=979"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T02:47:57","slug":"ultimate-x-men-cry-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate X-Men: Cry Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/51uDlyT-dXL-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/51uDlyT-dXL-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/51uDlyT-dXL.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>I am really ambivalent about my latest X-Men, <a title=\"Ultimate X-Men Vol. 10: Cry Wolf by Brian K. Vaughan, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Ultimate-X-Men-Vol-10-Wolf\/dp\/078511405X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cry Wolf<\/a>. On the one hand, it was a good story that hung together well and shifted around several of the character elements in new ways, such that I am looking forward to what comes next. Also, unlike the last time he showed up, Gambit got a proper introduction and seemed like a real person. Which is good, because he&#8217;s apparently a favorite, but I don&#8217;t really know of him from anywhere but these books.<\/p>\n<p>But on the other hand, too many of the events seemed forced for the sake of hitting key plot points from the original run. It&#8217;s all good and well for there to be a triangle between Bobby Drake and Kitty Pryde and Rogue, but build it up a little bit, yeah? I&#8217;ll care more if it doesn&#8217;t seem to be performed by rote. I&#8217;m willing to reserve judgment on the Fenris Corporation, as I assume they&#8217;ll be relevant later and this wasn&#8217;t just a whirlwind but ultimately pointless mention.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m not leaving out the actual plot on purpose, it&#8217;s just that it was a hanger for the character interactions and changes, and thus seems less important than the other stuff I talked about.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really ambivalent about my latest X-Men, Cry Wolf. On the one hand, it was a good story that hung together well and shifted around several of the character elements in new ways, such that I am looking forward to what comes next. Also, unlike the last time he showed up, Gambit got a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,17,38,22,40],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-brian-k-vaughan","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-superheroes","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}