Geek Syndicate Issue 6 | Page 7

Geek Syndicate
Image © Marvel 2013 Old meets new in All New X-Men.

I would have it all there in my mucky mits. So what if chapter one only sets the scene? I have the rest of the book to read! At first I thought that this was a symptom that only Millar had contracted, that he had changed as a writer and it was something to accept. Maybe I wasn’t his audience anymore? A lot of people seemed to enjoy the issue, so that was all well and good. Yet, the pitch factor appeared once again. Nick Spencer came along with Bedlam. The pitch to Bedlam was: what if The Joker was rehabilitated back into society? Interesting I am sure you agree. Issue One was double-length, allowing for more story-telling to take place. Yet when the issue is finished, where do we end up? Only with the knowledge that our Joker-like character, Madder Red, has been rehabilitated. I was once again disappointed, especially as I had read forty pages to get to this place - the place where that one sentence pitch ended. Yes the dia