Comments on: Is Schism Taking Too Long To Happen?

By: I like change

I like change — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:29:33 +0000

When your protagonist is trying to get from area A to area C, you know everything in Area B is pointless filler. it can be well made filler that is fun to read, but that does not change the fact that it didn’t need to exist. We know about utopia and we know wolverine is leaving. everything in between is pointless. They could have done this all in one comic.

By: gmdcma

gmdcma — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:53:53 +0000

Too long? The main series is only 2 issues?! Vs. something like Messiah War/Complex over 3 years and counting.

By: SageShini

SageShini — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:11:56 +0000

It’s because we heard about it first like, in April. And they danced around it for three months before we got the first issue. Now they’re getting ahead of themselves again by telling us what comes post-Schism when we shouldn’t have heard about that until the solicits forced them to spill.

That said, understanding Schism isn’t difficult at all. Once I read issue 3, that’s when I got what they were fighting over. Cyclops needs to be checked before he goes full-on Magneto.

By: justsaying

justsaying — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:24:03 +0000

What is really taking time is the crappy slow leak of who is on what team. Boring.

By: Adam Lipkin

Adam Lipkin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:47:25 +0000

After seeing the headline, I expected the article to read, “duh!”

That said, compared to some other recent Marvel events, it almost feels tightly-edited.

By: Funk Doctor

Funk Doctor — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:10:17 +0000

The nature of the business says that they couldn’t wait until the end of Schism to start promoting Regenesis. You would have had to suspend most of the X-Books for a few months to do that, and you know Marvel can’t afford to do that.

Also, when it was announced I thought Schism was supposed to be on an accelerated release schedule, like every 2 weeks That’s why you had 5 different high profile artists.

By: BDmob

BDmob — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:41:40 +0000

While Gillen stated it much more clearly that I would have, the nature of the conflict has been obvious to me, if not from Schism #1, then at least #2.
That being said, yes, I do think that this reveal risks undercutting the drama of the story, especially if you draw out your schedule to make sure it wraps with Fear Itself. But I’m still interested in the why of it, and how that leads to the new split status quo.

By: Mechagamera

Mechagamera — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:25:23 +0000

I think it would have been better if Marvel just had “Schizm Month” in the regular titles: the event that triggers the schizm occurs in the first X-title that month, soul searching and short tempers in most of the rest of the books, Cyclops vs. Wolverine in the second to last book of the month, and the teams break up in the last book.

By: Martin Gray

Martin Gray — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:29:09 +0000

I’m enjoying it too, far more than Fear Itself, which has been even worse at explaining what the conflict is about – I’ve heard theories that the Marvel writers spend so long thinking about these stories beforehand that they forget the readers AREN’T intimate with the core conflicts. Makes sense.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:52:55 +0000

I thought this was pretty clear from the way the last issue ended. I’m enjoying it.

By: Kirby

Kirby — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:10:33 +0000

That epic waste of time ‘Prelude to Schism’ really didn’t help either.

By: Jane A

Jane A — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:07:04 +0000

Yes, it’s taking tooooo long.

And no, you’re not the only one thinking so.