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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785119821
ISBN number: 0785119825
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 120
Printing Date: January 23, 2008
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 60362
Studio: Marvel Comics
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The X-Men are back from space! Well, half of them, anyway. The team is shattered, broken and separated. The group that has returned to earth is finding it much worse than how they left it? especially underground. Attacks in the Morlock Tunnels immediately grab the X-Men's attention. What do these attacks have to do with the future of the mutant race? Maybe special guest-star Storm can get to the bottom of all this! Collects Uncanny X-Men #487-491.
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picked this up from the library....and pretty glad i didnt drop some moneys on this. its an average story at best....not what i expect from the writer that brings me amazing captain america stories every month. bru's last arc on uncanny was also a let down. its weird.
the book never really gets going...the morlock threat never really seemed...well, threatening. masque is a cool character, but all the dialogue seems cookie cutter and uninspired. nothing against brubaker himself, but this seems like he's phoning in his scripts on this one.
the art itself...my very first exposure to larroca. at first, i was impressed by how he handled the characters...but about a quarter of the way thru the book, i started noticing some things.....like how he would photoshop REAL photos into the art. real photos of grass, real buildings, real people. seems like he got lazy or didnt know how to draw some of those things. the art reeks of photoshop. not only that....but if u look at the way he draws characters....it really does look like he's tracing photographs of real people. very little cross hatching, or shading with ink. i couldnt help but picture him with a light table or wacom tablet tracing over photos. it took me out of the story. with artists like Greg Land and David Mack tracing photographs and passing it off as "art", its a shame i have to add larroca to this list. remember when artists used to draw?
i cant recommend this volume to anyone. at best, do what i did, and pick it up at the library.
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Awful AWFUL art by Larroca. I hated it. More terrible than this only Igour Kordey's art from X-MEN # 119, 120, 124, 125 and 128-130! I bought this in comic book format and I felt robbed. I can't understand how can Marvel publish art like this! It's the X-MEN!!!
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After a year in outerspace, Ed Brubaker brings the Uncanny X-Men back to Earth. Warpath, Nightcrawler, Xavier, and Storm don't get to spend much time on the surface, however, as Morlock extremists draw their attention to the tunnels beneath New York City. The change of scenery benefits Brubaker, who hits one out of the park here in a story that echoes some of the classic Claremont stories of the 1980s.
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Set after the rise and fall of the shi'ar empire, the x-men are back on earth and dealing with the death of Corsiar. The morlocks re appear, and have seperated into splinter groups based around a mutant religion (well almost), anyway you get the idea. It has obvious real world parrallels, which is something the x-men comics have always done well. The Morlock extremists start making terrorist attacks against normal folk in ways only mutants can. Also Professor X begins the search for magneto, something the extremists are also doing.
The Art is excellent, possibly Sal Larrocca's best ever, and Brubaker as always is an excellent writer, the relationships between characters are well handles. Perhaps the Hepzibah/warpath thing is a little heavy handed at times but this is a smill gripe. That and the complete no show of Darwin who was so prominant in the previous story, it seems odd he doesn't show up at all.
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In response to previous reviews, I thought this was an excellent story. Yes, it might just be a short story for the build up to "Messiah Complex", however it does two things for me that just blow me away. The very first would be the return of Storm actually working with the X-Men, rather than her current escapades with the Fantastic Four and the Black Panther. I have always thought that Storm was one of the coolest characters ever amongst the ranks of X-Men, and it's awesome to get her back where she belongs, even if it's only for a little while (let's hope not). The second would have to be the reemergence of the Morlocks after M-Day. I love the Morlocks, always have, and always will. Maybe it's due to the attachment I made with them a long time ago during the mutant massacre. I love Caliban and Leech, but when did Masque become evil? It's strange how one earth shattering event like M-Day can change anyone's philosophies. The one major thing that this story made me ponder was how and when Skids became an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Oh well. A great story all around. Bring on the "Messiah Complex".
Peace and Love,
Jake
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