Andre’s Reviews > X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back > Status Update

And another pointless miniseries finished. What little character development could have been there was completely pointless, what we had about Pixie's background is partially contradictory within this series and could have been covered in one issue. Not to mention that we had the whole soulsword thing several times already, so who cares?

Sigh... why does this comic have Cecily falsely claim that an octopus has no brain? And why is it that cultural and biological inaccuracies are the only noteworthy elements about this story? So far it was pretty pointless, no character development and Pixie's parentage could have been cleared in a one-liner.

Wow, the very first time these idiots managed to use "Fräulein" realistically, as a way to talk down to a woman... at least I hope they did. And I have my doubts since they spell "a" instead of "ä", and say "der little sparkles"... which is really dumb as "sparkles" is clearly plural so the correct article is "die."

German trolls are not so ugly as the Mastermind sisters? Maybe I would consider this funny if Geman folklore actually had trolls. And surprise, it does not. You are more likely to find vampires there than trolls.

Oh great, the writers try to be funny by adding things into the boxes like "the demons are coming to the end of their contract."

This story is now just throwing things at you and I really cannot care about the characters or the story. I think this story moves way too fast and so characterization suffers from it.

We have a problem with the whole specialness of Pixie "running" towards her "mutant deformity" as she is basically a human sized pixie, with pink color, butterfly wings, pointed ears and even pixie dust. Why would that something you "run way" from? Also if she is able to restructure the illusion now, her behavior lets her come along like a jerk. Plus they have been in this illusion for 10 hours and no one noticed?

So the "reveal" is there already for the characters? Well sadly for the readers it was spoiled pages ago. So unless this red demon here is some know X-men foe, his reveal was completely pointless.

"Mama wants her Liebling"? Liebling either means darling, favorite, honey (when referred to a spouse or so) or a priced and famous person. And considered that neither Kurt nor Betsy have ever seen her, Kurt has no reason to belief Pixie is Mrs. Gwynn's favorite or anything. What do the writers think "Liebling" means? And I see they still haven't figured out how "Ach" is used.