COVER BY: Greg Land
WRITER: Matt Fraction
PENCILS: Greg Land
INKS: Greg Land
COLORED BY: Justin Ponsor
LETTERED BY: VC - Joe Caramagna
Magneto’s much anticipated yet wholly unexpected arrival has certainly shook up our hero’s in this week’s Uncanny X-men. The issue begins by showing us what happened to Scalphunter after he was captured by the band of obviously traced, recycled, and posed villains. Also returning is a certain silver skinned predator species that we thought had been obliterated from the face of the earth. Magneto’s arrival has caused some division on the island of Utopia, with many of the mutants taking Scott’s side and…Beast on the Professor’s. The book leaves us hanging as Scalphunter and a small herd of predators fly toward the new island paradise.
Fraction’s story is fantastic and it is exciting to see where he is going with this series. The re-introduction of Magneto as well as this plethora of new characters is just what this book needs after the chaos created by the Dark Avenger’s crossover. But, for all the story’s strengths, it has some major weakness. Firstly the dialogue is horrendous. The professor lapses in and out of Shatner speech throughout the issue. The conversations are filled with horridly cliché phrasing such as “Battle Stations” and the infamous “It’s a trap!” a phrase that should remains out of any comic book at risk of the reader beginning to chuckle manically. (If you didn’t get it… good luck with life.) The artwork was pretty well balanced between crappy and fantastic. Characters like Scalphunter, Magneto, Scott, and Emma were pretty well drawn and not too obviously recycled or traced. However, everyone in the background was horrid and it was pretty easy to tell what each pose came from. The worst of all the posing had to be the new villains the premiered last issue. What I will give Land and colorist Justin Ponsor is that they consistently pull off making Emma Frost’s diamond form absolutely beautiful and as it should be. 3 out 5
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