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I think Art Adams wouldn't suit the new look of the X-Men very well. He's more suited to old school Claremont X-Men, I think. Like Asgardian Wars...wow. that's one nicely drawn comic.
I'm just glad that Frank drew the silent issue. He's one of the only artists who I think could make a silent issue 'read' just as well as a scripted issue.
Were this up to me, I'd just try to get it so that Frank would draw two full storylines a year, and have one or two other storylines drawn in full by another artist of similar quality. Van Sciver and Kordey are okay, but just can't compete with Frank, and everyone knows it. It's best to have someone who is an excellent illustrator on their own merits handle the interim stories.
You know who would have really done a great job illustrating Germ Free Generation, getting the 'feel' right, but also being of a high calibre of talent...?
Steve Dillon.
I'd love to see them snag Dave Gibbons as a fill-in. That would fucking rule.
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oh, in related news: did anyone see Ron Garney's first issue of UXM? Far too mainstream superhero for the comic as it is now, but not entirely offensive. Some pages were rather nice...at best, the guy reminds me of Paul Smith.
They really need to figure out what the hell UXM is supposed to be...Casey's writing is weak, there is even less artistic consistency than NXM, the cast is poorly chosen second-stringers with Nightcrawler thrown in for starpower, and it just lacks identity altogether. It's pointless. At least X-Treme X-Men, as crap as it, has a separate mission and reason for being that has nothing to do with NXM or UXM...UXM is just a weird limbo.
They should just cancel X-Treme, put Storm, Rogue, Kitty, and Gambit over in UXM with Nightcrawler, and get someone more exciting to write it.
That would at very least make the cast lineups make some kind of sense. It's true that Grant got most of the truly essential characters, but he didn't get ALL of them.
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