quote: Well, I'm glad that they are breaking up the artist stints so that one artist draws a complete story.
But the next story arc is only two issues long. So that scuppers that idea, then.
quote: I liked this chapter, overall, but I have to admit squirming a bit at Cyclops' "mercy killing". It didn't strike me as fitting with the rest of his boy-scout image. I guess Morrison's looking to move away from that, but it was one of the traits I found most interesting about Scott.
I'm with Clontle. And, I would add: Grant's run? It's the "X Men as grown ups"; and Scott made an "adult" decision.
Loved this issue, but, as Cameron points out, some of the art is a little....... well, not lame, but... ummm, slightly "off". Example: It's really cool when you suss that it's a flying fist crashing through the top floor of that tower in Genosha. But it takes a few rereads before you distinguish it as such.
And, as Cameron also points out, this is probably the fault of the inker (and, perhaps, the colourist?).
Quitely, however, is fantastic - he realizes, so effortlessly, all the little background details Grant loads his script with.
gud stuf i luykd:
1. Master Mold, vast, mindless, motionless God of death, uncomfortably hollow inside.
2. "Nest"? Urrghh. Nasty, evil bug things. And did you see the little ones?
3. "You know what I like most about you, Summers? Your icy calm lunacy under pressure."
Yes. It's about time a comics writer reflected on the "incredibley calm and well adjusted" lunacy of some of the more anal superheroes.....
Yeah, everyone knows Wolvie's nuts, but, y'know that's just soooo obvious. It's all: "Look at him, he goes into 'beserker rages', and he's got claws.... he must be mad as a loon!"; not "Check out the insane bastard, all calm and composed while a hundred bug Sentlinels try to kill him, buzzing like chainsaws!"
3. I have a thing for auto destruct buttons and ejector seats.
4. "Kid...! Any mutant talents we can use?"
"I got three faces, mate, and they all look like pigs."
5. Sentinel taking shape inside the mold, tiny builders welding its armour; a tank (as opposed to the guns assimilated by the smaller machines) incorporated to serve as its "face".
6. Head putty.
7. Manowar terminating Piggy. There's something so horrible about those empty "helmets".
8. "Bacon?"
9. The vacant seats. The nightmare classroom.
10. Flying fist crashing through tower.
11. Sentinels, having adapted en route, are now the size of...... eh? what? A city? Fuck me. Putting out Genosha's lights once and for all.......................
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