Uncanny X-Men

[mookie75]

I have a question that I would like to place before the members of this forum.

Has anyone been into the storylines in Uncanny X-Men since Marvel decided to take their "new direction?" I thought Poptopia was a pretty boring storyline. I'm somewhat happy to see Chamber in the X-Men (out of all the Gen X-ers...I suppose he's the best for the job...except Jubilee perhaps), but the storylines haven't been interesting me. For example, take this week's issue (#402). I've always thought Banshee was pretty cool...but this whole X-Corp thing....where the heck did that come from?

Then again, I suppose I've been asking that about a lot of things since the X-books took their new directions.

I think the best thing to come out of the new X-direction is the way they're pumping up Jean's power over in New X-Men. I keep reading those issues and thinking, "Yeah! That's the Jean I've always wanted to see!" In the past she has been somewhere between the Jean we are seeing now and the whiny pass-out-after-lifting-a-nickel-off-the-ground Jean that we all remember from the old cartoon series.

Anyway, let's hear what other people think of these Uncanny X-Men issues.

Later
Marc

[halinar]

Sean's new group just popped up last month but I refused to pick up the book. After flipping through yet another brilliant scilent book where they just took out the word bubbles and didn't adjust anything else I refused to pay for that kind of dribble. The team was started in the last Uncanny when Sean broke Avalanche and Blob out of jail. We can assume that he's working on something because he's still grieving over Moira's death but we were not allowed that bit of knowledge because of our lovely silent month.

[Flying Grayson]

I think their okay, but they play down their powers a bit. I mean look a Poptopia, Mr.Clean( I still laugh when I hear that name, he even looked like him when churchill drew) took out Nightcrawler, Iceman, and Angel. I mean iceman alone could take him. He temporarily turned Legion into soild ice for crying out loud. I think he could have taken that punk. But I still read and hope for something.


now I have a question what was going on with the artist for a while?

[James Harvey]

Casey did mess up abit on the POPTOPIA storyline. Then again, the unstable rotating artists didn't help the book that much, either. It worked against it more than anything. Ian Churchill was a ghood pick for the title, but he just didn't match Casey all that well. But Casey will be gone in 8 issues, so I don't really care. I am intereste dto see what Austen will be cooking up. Definatly.

[Samhaine]

Issue #402 was definately better than most of the rest of Casey's run, but it still had it's flaws. Such as how Blob was used. I wasn't a big fan. And I think Churchill's art is horrid. He is a Liefeld/Lee clone, and neither of them have produced good art in years. I mean, none of Liefeld's characters can close their mouths; they're constantly gritting their teeth.

I have a question about the latest issue, tho, and in so doing I put up a
On the last page, in the tank, was that Jubilee?

Thanks, all!