Post by Erik-El on Feb 20, 2011 17:08:28 GMT -5
Uncanny X-Men 532
Matt Fraction/Kieron Gillen - Story
Greg Land - Pencils
Jay Leisten - Inks
Justin Ponsor - Colors
One thing I do not really care for with Uncanny is those little character description boxes. It is not that they are there every single issue, it is that they are made to be 'cute' and sometimes, it ruins the mood of the issue. Now that that is out of the way, we can get to the issue itself.
We open in Xin Jiang Province, China with Kitty, Emma and Fantomex flying in his symbiotic ship looking for Shaw, who in the previous issue was released by Fantomex so he did not have to listed to Emma whine about how her life has been so hard. So they are looking for Shaw and he is very successfully preventing Emma from getting a mental bead on him. He gets the drop on them and we cut away to Chinatown, San Francisco where the Collective Man is actually beating the crap out of to teams. One a thrown together X-Men team and one consisting of X-Men fanboys that paid the Sublime Corporation to get their favorite powers.
I actually took a little bit of an issue with 5 men combining their human level strength into one person so they can punch the ticket of Jean-Paul, a mutant who has the superhuman durability to survive speeds up to mach 10 without injury. As far as the Collective Man beating the piss out of the fanboy team? Yeah I can get behind that. The fanboys have the original team powers at the original team power levels. On top of that, they are uncoordinated as a team. But Dazzler, Pixie and Angel are able to pull it together and knock Collective Man out.
The writing was not bad. It was not excellent but there were things that I did like. I am a huge fan of Pixie. Kind of a strange choice to get all giddy about but I like her. I also really think she works well with Dazzler. The humor is pretty good overall as well.
Something else I do not really care for is that every time the X-Men hold a press conference, it seems like the only people there are the most bias, ignorant shit faces I have ever even read about. It kind of gets a bit old that Marvel shows non-powered humans in that light constantly.
But we do get to see what the Sublime Corporation is up to with the fanboy team, we get to see Danger, who is another character I like and we get to see Wolverine pull off the scary.
Overall, this is a middle of the story issue so if you have not been reading the last two issues in the series, you will be a bit lost. I personally like what is going on right now and this issue did push the plot along pretty decently but there were little things that a fanboy like me did not like. Overall I give this issue a 7 out of 10. It got major points for how they portrayed Team Fanboy. I got I kick out of it.
Matt Fraction/Kieron Gillen - Story
Greg Land - Pencils
Jay Leisten - Inks
Justin Ponsor - Colors
One thing I do not really care for with Uncanny is those little character description boxes. It is not that they are there every single issue, it is that they are made to be 'cute' and sometimes, it ruins the mood of the issue. Now that that is out of the way, we can get to the issue itself.
We open in Xin Jiang Province, China with Kitty, Emma and Fantomex flying in his symbiotic ship looking for Shaw, who in the previous issue was released by Fantomex so he did not have to listed to Emma whine about how her life has been so hard. So they are looking for Shaw and he is very successfully preventing Emma from getting a mental bead on him. He gets the drop on them and we cut away to Chinatown, San Francisco where the Collective Man is actually beating the crap out of to teams. One a thrown together X-Men team and one consisting of X-Men fanboys that paid the Sublime Corporation to get their favorite powers.
I actually took a little bit of an issue with 5 men combining their human level strength into one person so they can punch the ticket of Jean-Paul, a mutant who has the superhuman durability to survive speeds up to mach 10 without injury. As far as the Collective Man beating the piss out of the fanboy team? Yeah I can get behind that. The fanboys have the original team powers at the original team power levels. On top of that, they are uncoordinated as a team. But Dazzler, Pixie and Angel are able to pull it together and knock Collective Man out.
The writing was not bad. It was not excellent but there were things that I did like. I am a huge fan of Pixie. Kind of a strange choice to get all giddy about but I like her. I also really think she works well with Dazzler. The humor is pretty good overall as well.
Something else I do not really care for is that every time the X-Men hold a press conference, it seems like the only people there are the most bias, ignorant shit faces I have ever even read about. It kind of gets a bit old that Marvel shows non-powered humans in that light constantly.
But we do get to see what the Sublime Corporation is up to with the fanboy team, we get to see Danger, who is another character I like and we get to see Wolverine pull off the scary.
Overall, this is a middle of the story issue so if you have not been reading the last two issues in the series, you will be a bit lost. I personally like what is going on right now and this issue did push the plot along pretty decently but there were little things that a fanboy like me did not like. Overall I give this issue a 7 out of 10. It got major points for how they portrayed Team Fanboy. I got I kick out of it.
