Comics Official UNCANNY X-MEN Discussion Thread

[Manic]

I just hope he handles the large cast of characters better than Fraction currently does. That's really my only complaint about Fraction, outside of the Sisterhood arc.

 

[Specter313]

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UNCANNY X-MEN #528


STORY BY Matt Fraction
ART BY Whilce Portacio, Ed Tadeo
COLORS BY Brian Reber
LETTERS BY VC - Joe Caramagna
COVER BY Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
COVER PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE DATE: Wed, September 22nd, 2010

“THE FIVE LIGHTS”
SECOND COMING is nearing it’s end, so you’ll soon get all kinds of info as to what’s coming from Matt Fraction (IRON MAN) and Whilce Portacio (HULK). Here’s something to whet your appetite- Kitty Pryde & Emma Frost’s first encounter since Kitty took her trip in a bullet. Part 3 (of 5)

 

[JP]

So ugly.

 

[Havok83]

looks better than the lst issue though. I like his Storm here

 

[bobaban]

I can't make a new thread. But can someone explain to me why Bishop even remembers Hope as the baby that destroyed his future. I thought his future was caused by the death of the X-men. So does he gain new memories as the past changes?

 

[Manic]

It's a retcon. They're ignoring all the stuff about Bishop's future changing and saying Hope caused it instead of Onslaught.

 

[Specter313]

UNCANNY X-MEN #531
Written by MATT FRACTION & KIERON GILLEN
Pencils & Cover by GREG Land “Quarantine”
The X-Men on Utopia are getting sicker and sicker and their powers are shutting down one-by-one. Wolverine’s healing factor is down and he’s suffering adamantium poisoning, but he’s much better off than the mutants whose mutation defines their bodies, like Rockslide and Mercury. And if that weren’t bad enough, The Collective Man has Chinatown in the palms of his many hands and the Sublime Corporation is kicking the plan they’ve been hatching since #515 into high gear!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

[alexdunn]

The art on the current arc is pretty bleh. I want Terry Dodson back on the pencils. He's great. Greg Land is good, but I just can't respect his art as much due to all the tracing. However, it'll be a step up to what we have now.

 

[Manic]

It's like the editors are doing Portacio a favor. He was big back in the 90's, but he had a stroke, lost the ability to draw, and now it seems like they're throwing him a bone to keep him from being unemployed. That's fine. Just don't put him on one of the top selling comics.

 

[Havok83]

It's like the editors are doing Portacio a favor. He was big back in the 90's, but he had a stroke, lost the ability to draw, and now it seems like they're throwing him a bone to keep him from being unemployed. That's fine. Just don't put him on one of the top selling comics.

LOL..you just decribed CC's relationship with Marvel following his return to Uncanny back in 2001

 

[Manic]

It's like the editors are doing Portacio Claremont a favor. He was big back in the 90's 80's, but he had a stroke, lost the ability to draw write, and now it seems like they're throwing him a bone to keep him from being unemployed. That's fine. Just don't put him on one of the top selling comics.

 

[El Bastardo]

It's like the editors are doing Portacio a favor. He was big back in the 90's, but he had a stroke, lost the ability to draw, and now it seems like they're throwing him a bone to keep him from being unemployed. That's fine. Just don't put him on one of the top selling comics.

This is horrible. And funny. Horribly funny?

LOL..you just decribed CC's relationship with Marvel following his return to Uncanny back in 2001

Also horribly funny.

But c'mon. Portacio's artwork hasn't been that bad. It's a little off-and-on sometimes, but the line art has still for the most part been very clean.

And please, there's more actual flow of the medium in one panel of a Portacio issue than in an entire Land issue.

 

[javi1024]

well it is pretty difficult to create flow when your using red carpet shots of Vin Deisel and Carmen Electra, and O-faces from last month's Hustler.

 

[Havok83]

This is horrible. And funny. Horribly funny?


Also horribly funny.

But c'mon. Portacio's artwork hasn't been that bad. It's a little off-and-on sometimes, but the line art has still for the most part been very clean.

And please, there's more actual flow of the medium in one panel of a Portacio issue than in an entire Land issue.

IA. The only issue I thought was off was 527. The art there looked rush. Other than that, Ive been enjoying his issues

 

[Specter313]

Careful, Marvel will see the complaining about Portacio and then put Stroman on this book.

 

[El Bastardo]

Oh no. You take that back, Spec.

 

[Havok83]

Careful, Marvel will see the complaining about Portacio and then put Stroman on this book.

they saw the complaining about him and put Land back on the book. Stroman? Yikes. He's one of the reasons why I was confident about dropping X-factor and wasnt tempted to go back. I loved his art back in the early 90s but he's another artist who has since gone downhill

 

[Specter313]

UNCANNY X-MEN #532
Written by MATT FRACTION & KIERON GILLEN
Pencils & Cover by GREG LAND
“QUARANTINE”
When your very body is betraying you, and you see life leaking out of your friends drop by drop, what would you give up for the cure? Cyclops discovers what the Sublime Corporation wants. Can he afford to pay it? Meanwhile, Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw reminisce over old times VIA THE STRONG LANGUAGE OF PUGILISM. Part 3 (of 5)
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

 

[Havok83]

I have to say that cover looks good. One of Land's best

 

[javi1024]

i have to agree. it feels very Steranko/James Bond.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

It's also hot as hell. t:

 

[Havok83]

LOL...who's the girl in the corner? Kitty, aqua-Loa or somenoe else?

 

[Specter313]

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UNCANNY X-MEN #529


STORY BY Matt Fraction
ART BY Whilce Portacio, Harvey, Tolibao, [more...]
COLORS BY Frank D'Armata
LETTERS BY VC - Joe Caramagna
COVER BY Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Mike Mayhew
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
COVER PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE DATE: Wed, October 27th, 2010

“THE FIVE LIGHTS”
If “Light #4” registered in Kiev, Ukraine, then why the heck isn’t he there? The X-Men race to find the latest of the new mutant activations while things come to a head between Emma Frost and her prisoner Sebastian Shaw! Part 4 (of Four)

 

[Havok83]

Loved the art on teh last issue. It looked really good.

I also like that it looks like Cecilia is finally in the X-club. Loved seeing her and Rao together and hope she figures prominetly in the next arc

 

[javi1024]

its just great to see Fraction address some of those hanging plot threads people thought he forgot. even though weve seen alot of her in his run im really excited to see what he has planned for Emma.