X-Men - Part 4

[BoredGuy]

Yeah, Bachalo's good when he fits the title he's on
W&TXM looked really good, then Bradshaw came in and fit even better
Uncanny doesn't seem like the place for him though

 

[Havok83]

Bachalo's art in Uncanny X-Men his horrible. Not sure why he got this big of a title.

His art was pretty damn good here.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I liked Bachalo on Wolverine & the X-Men, but damn, I really hated his art in Uncanny X-Men. The colors just absolutely ruined it IMO.

 

[Specter313]

UNCANNY X-FORCE #5
SAM HUMPHRIES (W) • ADRIAN ALPHONA (A)
Cover by KRIS ANKA
Variant COVER BY ED MCGUINNESS
• Guest-penciler ADRIAN ALPHONA (co-creator of RUNAWAYS) joins UXF!
• Psylocke digs deep into Bishop’s head and what she finds will shock you!
• One of the biggest X-Villains of the past 20 years threatens the Uncanny X-Force!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

ALPHONA!!!! Yes! LOVED his stuff since Runaways! He needs to work more.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Yeah, I was just thinking about him the other day. His Runaways stuff was fantastic. I'd love to see him on a main book of mine full time.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

What they should do is just bring Runaways back and put him on it.

 

[chamber-music]

I like where your heads at Scarecrow King

 

[Donnie Darko]

Me too.

 

[squeekness]

I'd buy that. I enjoyed the Runaways.

 

[JTStarkiller]

I've never read any of the series, but I've got the first 18 issues on my iPad waiting to be read (gotta love those 99 cent sales). I should probably get on that.

 

[JewishHobbit]

The first 18 issues were really good and the series got better as it went. For me though, the second volume was the height of their comics. It seemed to go downhill once Vaughn and Alphona left after issue 24. I still love the characters but I never really felt attached to them as much as when their creator handled them.

 

[Havok83]

Its too bad that Runaways movie never materialized bc Vaughn's first volume really would have lended itself well to a film plot

 

[JewishHobbit]

I picture it more as an animated film, or cartoon show. I feel like the Giborum (or whatever they're called) wouldn't translate well to film.

 

[Specter313]

Artist Adrian Alphona took the superhero scene by storm when he and writer Brian K. Vaughan created Runaways in 2003. Four 24 issues, Alphona's singularly youthful, highly expressive style endeared readers new and old to the brand new group of super-powered kids, giving Marvel a legitimate modern perennial with Runaways. And then... Alphona was gone. The artist popped up rarely in the comic book biz, drawing a cover here, a one-off single issue of something there, but it seemed that fans hoping for a new Alphona run of anything were out of luck.

That changes in May when Marvel releases Uncanny X-Force #5, beginning the first multi-issue comic book serial Adrian Alphona has drawn since leaving Runaways in 2007. The pairing of Alphona with Uncanny X-Force writer Sam Humphries is very fitting, as Humphries has always been something of a Runaways evangelist, praising the book from the rooftops of LA and loaning out copies to everyone who crossed his path over the years (including myself). Certainly, Humphries' new Uncanny X-Force run recalls some that angst-and-action magic from Runaways.

Alphona's hard at work on his first Uncanny X-Force issue, but we were able to take a look at some of his character studies and talk to Humphries about the new story.

ComicsAlliance: Sam, I know that you're a big Runaways fan from back in the day, and now Adrian Alphona is drawing your big book for Marvel NOW. How's it feel?

Sam Humphries: Runaways by Vaughan and Alphona is one of my favorite Marvel runs of the past 10+ years. I nicked a couple elements from it for Uncanny X-Force -- the marginal, outsider status of the team, the Los Angeles location, and I almost grabbed a character (who may show up down the line. Now we get Adrian, and I couldn't be more psyched. [Current Uncanny X-Force artist] Ron Garney is the co-father of mutant ninja noir and is difficult to follow, but Adrian is a great addition to our twisted little family.

CA: What is it you love so much about his work?

SH: Adrian's got great emotional range for his characters, and that's great for a book like Uncanny X-Force where there's a tendency for characters to be spiky and snarky. But Adrian's also got a fantastical side (if you've seen his gorgeous sketchbooks, you know). So I'm excited to flex that side of his artistic ability as well.

CA: What kind of story have you crafted to fit this auspicious occasion?

SH: Adrian's got a chunk of pages in issues #3 and #4, showing Psylocke on a crucial psychic mission, and his depiction of the mental plane is going to be killer. In issues #5 and #6, Adrian's going to take you on a wild ride into the future as we fill in just what the hell Bishop has been up to in the 68th century, what led him back to the present, and the reasons behind his brutal changes. It's the saga of cowboy Bishop, and it's going to change the way people have thought about him for the past five years. Adrian has got an ability to be versatile without sacrificing beauty, and we're gonna push that to the limit by giving him a ton of weird, alluring, mutant ninja noir stuff to draw.

Adrian Alphona will draw select pages of Uncanny X-Force #3 and #4. His first full issue, #5, goes on sale in May in finer comics shops and digitally from ComiXology.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/...hbook-art-interview-marvel-now/#ixzz2L5v0Ii20
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[chamber-music]

The first 18 issues were really good and the series got better as it went. For me though, the second volume was the height of their comics. It seemed to go downhill once Vaughn and Alphona left after issue 24. I still love the characters but I never really felt attached to them as much as when their creator handled them.

I agree.

Marvel has shown intrest in the past in doing a Runawys film. I believe Vaughn even wrote a draft script but its on hold right now.

I think they could make a pretty good movie out of the first volume perhaps cut out the middle act and came up with something new or reworked it some how. I'm not sure the vampire or cloak and dagger stuff would work in a film version although it would in a tv series of runaways.

Its a shame Allan Heinberg and Brian K.Vaughn's tv work took over their comic work because I think they could of cemented Young Avengers and The Runaways as the best two teen hero titles of the last decade if they did more stories.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I agree with that... especially the Young Avengers.

They were the two best properties created by Marvel in decades. Sadly, future writers couldn't do Runaways justice and Marvel let Young Avengers die for years.

 

[Specter313]

I agree with that... especially the Young Avengers.

They were the two best properties created by Marvel in decades. Sadly, future writers couldn't do Runaways justice and Marvel let Young Avengers die for years.

I thought that Kathryn Immonen actually did a very good job with doing the characters justice and had some real potential for more stories, (and was incredibly flattered when I told her so at Baltimore Comic Con just after her run was finished), but sadly, I think the damage was done, what with Whedon's overall disappointing run, followed up by the horrid arcs done by Moore and Ramos directly before her and Pichelli came on.

And as far as the Runaways movie, I would actually prefer it as a tv show. Vaughn just did such a great job of developing the characters over time and many issues, that I'd hate to see them try to cram it into down into just a couple hours and sacrifice some of the development that made the series so special.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I didn't get as far as Immonen's run. I dropped during Whedon's, then tried again with Moore but dropped it after 3 or 4 issues. I hear Immonen was the next best after Vaughn but I never got around to reading it.

 

[Hawkingbird]

I see The Avengers are coming up in the next All New X-Men issue. Slightly irritated it's the MMU lineup...
I'm very glad that the MMU X-Men hasn't really effected the X-Men team recently. I know they changed it for the first film, but I've never noticed a dramatic change.

 

[Havok83]

Don't you mean MCU? Besides there is no MCU version of the Xmen

 

[JewishHobbit]

And wouldn't it mean more if two of the Avengers who come are Cannonball and Sunspot, them having moved on from the X-Men? There's more story there.

 

[Havok83]

its my understanding that those two haven't even joined the Avengers yet

 

[Hawkingbird]

Don't you mean MCU? Besides there is no MCU version of the Xmen

I call it MMU, but Fox's MMU t:

 

[Havok83]

I call it MMU, but Fox's MMU t:

in any case there is no movie "team" for the books to mimic. Its not the same situation that the Avengers got going on. Maybe that might change when DoFP is released, but definetly there's not much to work into the books at the moment

 

[Manic]

If they wanted to use the team from the last X-Men movie, they'd be looking at 2 dead character (Banshee and Charles), a villain (Mystique), someone who lost their powers (Angel S.), and Beast, Darwin, Havok, & Magneto. As much as I love those characters, I don't see Marvel tripping over themselves to put that line-up on the page.