So lets start with the good, the universe is awesome. Yes parts of it were lifted wholesale from the X-men, but so what the X-men are awesome. There are a lot of great ideas like Humanity First and the Goodkind family, while we had characters like Senator Kelly and Graydon Creed from the X-men, I liked the idea that there was an entire political machine devoted to the perpetuation of the anger. Another cool idea was the addition of the Cthulhu Mythos. Also I like the idea that the School is supported by both superheroes and supervillains and is thus neutral is cool.
But these good parts are held back by a few things. The first is that 2 of the 5 characters are just boring (Chaka and Fey). And one of the characters has the potential to be interesting if her author was better (Tennyo). One of them is ripe with unfortunate implications about how women should act (Jade) but while we are meant to sympathize with her, she is also quite obviously unstable, so that may be the point (if so kudos for subtlety). Ayla's the most interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that her writer is decent. The second is that Ayla is the most involved with the world as a whole, so her stories tend to focus on the best parts of the setting.
Now on to the bad, the authors keep getting confused as to how much the discrimination exists. Take Ayla's first story, she is a member of the most powerful anti-mutant family in the world they have a small army, lots of political clout and a huge grass-roots organization. Then Ayla when Ayla learns of Whateley (from a random police officer) says that her family has never heard of Whateley. There are lots of other odd inconsistencies like this, mostly that were are told that this discrimination is a big problem but it never really manifests and no one seems to care that mutants exist if they aren't part of the whole Goodkind thing. Oddly discrimination seems worse at the school where everyone hates everyone else (Actually that was kind of cool, because you could see that many of the people victimized by the Goodkinds might blame it on supervillains and take it out on their children, causing them to join together etc.). But a big problem is that a vast majority of the student body exists to be a jerk for no good reason (especially nameless characters).
Great Ideas that are hindered by poor execution.
So lets start with the good, the universe is awesome. Yes parts of it were lifted wholesale from the X-men, but so what the X-men are awesome. There are a lot of great ideas like Humanity First and the Goodkind family, while we had characters like Senator Kelly and Graydon Creed from the X-men, I liked the idea that there was an entire political machine devoted to the perpetuation of the anger. Another cool idea was the addition of the Cthulhu Mythos. Also I like the idea that the School is supported by both superheroes and supervillains and is thus neutral is cool.
But these good parts are held back by a few things. The first is that 2 of the 5 characters are just boring (Chaka and Fey). And one of the characters has the potential to be interesting if her author was better (Tennyo). One of them is ripe with unfortunate implications about how women should act (Jade) but while we are meant to sympathize with her, she is also quite obviously unstable, so that may be the point (if so kudos for subtlety). Ayla's the most interesting for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that her writer is decent. The second is that Ayla is the most involved with the world as a whole, so her stories tend to focus on the best parts of the setting.
Now on to the bad, the authors keep getting confused as to how much the discrimination exists. Take Ayla's first story, she is a member of the most powerful anti-mutant family in the world they have a small army, lots of political clout and a huge grass-roots organization. Then Ayla when Ayla learns of Whateley (from a random police officer) says that her family has never heard of Whateley. There are lots of other odd inconsistencies like this, mostly that were are told that this discrimination is a big problem but it never really manifests and no one seems to care that mutants exist if they aren't part of the whole Goodkind thing. Oddly discrimination seems worse at the school where everyone hates everyone else (Actually that was kind of cool, because you could see that many of the people victimized by the Goodkinds might blame it on supervillains and take it out on their children, causing them to join together etc.). But a big problem is that a vast majority of the student body exists to be a jerk for no good reason (especially nameless characters).