I had two objectives in going to Isotope Comics yesterday. The first was to pick up Captain Britain #4. Paul appears to still be into the ADD scriptwriting thing, but I’m happy to forgive him because at the end of that issue he does something so utterly awesome that I’m now hoping there will be a wrap-up of the storyline before the end of the year so I can nominate something for the trial Graphic Story Hugo next year.

The other reason for popping in was to check out this X-Men move to San Francisco thing. There are now a gazillion different X-Men titles, so I asked the every-helpful James for advice. I ended up with a copy of Uncanny X-Men #500, which is the main scene-setter for the move, and Astonishing X-Men #26, which also features the main team. The former is written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction, and suffers from the same weird scripting disorder that has afflicted Paul. Then again it also has the x-Men duking it out with Magneto in SF MOMA, so I can’t complain too much. The latter is scripted by Warren Ellis and is much more coherent. It also features some very interesting art by Simone Bianchi who I think I rather like.

As to the team, I think I have a lot of catching up to do. It entirely makes sense that Warren could just buy a huge chunk of Marin on which to build a new HQ. As to the whole Scott and Emma Frost thing, I have to admit that my jaw dropped. I had no idea. But the boy does look a lot more relaxed and happy these days, so maybe it is a good development.

And should you happen to be in The City next Saturday, Mark Millar and Tony Harris will be doing a signing and launch party for their rather interesting new series, War Heroes. More details of the event from the Isotope web site.