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Captain Nash · 06-30-2016, 07:24 AM

Backing up a few posts, I had the (mis)fortune of reading the Celestial Quest as well, I agree with TBM, it was awful. It was also my second introduction to Mantis because while I had heard of the Celestial Madonna storyline, I had not collected the back issues that far back to that point (I think I had gotten overwhelmed with the amount of Avengers issues and was trying to take it slow, had only collected back to around issue 250 or so with a few spotty issues.)

What that means of course is that my actual introduction of Mantis was during The Crossing storyline. Enough said, I think. Adding in both CQ and The Crossing as what I knew about the character it's easy to see why I'd be put off by her. However the CM storyline is not that bad, despite what the intentions may have been for her originally, and redeemed her somewhat in my eyes. Not enough to follow her further but at least I didn't loathe the character anymore.

So yeah, just skip Celestial Quest. If it had not had Scarlet Witch in it, who was being REALLY well written by Busiek by that time, I likely wouldn't have even cared. So I advise..just don't care LOL!

Oh I also did a small store run last night....TRU once again disappoints completely on their exclusives and I think the very same figures were still hanging on the pegs at Walmart and Target. Glutted with the Absorbing Man wave (no Spider-Gwen or Venom), the freaking Odin wave, and Captain America wave 1. One store DID have the Captain America wave 2 or most of it, no Nick Fury or Panther, which if I had seen Panther at very least I would have picked up for an arker. Oh well, such is life.

06-30-2016, 07:24 AM	#16759
Captain Nash Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Middle Tennessee Posts: 5,464	Backing up a few posts, I had the (mis)fortune of reading the Celestial Quest as well, I agree with TBM, it was awful. It was also my second introduction to Mantis because while I had heard of the Celestial Madonna storyline, I had not collected the back issues that far back to that point (I think I had gotten overwhelmed with the amount of Avengers issues and was trying to take it slow, had only collected back to around issue 250 or so with a few spotty issues.) What that means of course is that my actual introduction of Mantis was during The Crossing storyline. Enough said, I think. Adding in both CQ and The Crossing as what I knew about the character it's easy to see why I'd be put off by her. However the CM storyline is not that bad, despite what the intentions may have been for her originally, and redeemed her somewhat in my eyes. Not enough to follow her further but at least I didn't loathe the character anymore. So yeah, just skip Celestial Quest. If it had not had Scarlet Witch in it, who was being REALLY well written by Busiek by that time, I likely wouldn't have even cared. So I advise..just don't care LOL! Oh I also did a small store run last night....TRU once again disappoints completely on their exclusives and I think the very same figures were still hanging on the pegs at Walmart and Target. Glutted with the Absorbing Man wave (no Spider-Gwen or Venom), the freaking Odin wave, and Captain America wave 1. One store DID have the Captain America wave 2 or most of it, no Nick Fury or Panther, which if I had seen Panther at very least I would have picked up for an arker. Oh well, such is life. Last edited by Captain Nash; 06-30-2016 at 07:29 AM..