I usually enjoy Uncanny X-men. I started reading it when Brubaker started writing the The Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire.I have enjoyed it throughout his run and was OK with the sneaky switch to Matt Fraction holding the pen.
Lately the art on the book has been by 2 artists. Terry Dodson and Greg Land have been trading art duties back and forth for a few months now.
I LOVE Terry Dodson!!! I really dig his art in everything he does and I like his take on Colossus.
Issue 507 was great. Colossus kicked ass. Emma helped out and there finally was some sadness portrayed pertaining to Kitty Pryde.
I read 508 last night and it has been on my mind all day. I found this issue almost unbearable...I don't know if it was just a bad script( I really don't think it is because Fraction hasn't messed up yet)but, I just couldn't get into this issue. At work today I figured out why...
Greg Land is awful!!!!
If I see one more woman ripped from the scenes of a porno complete with her "O" face I might scream. Unfortunately this entire issue was women. What a cast it was:
SPIRAL!!!
DOMINO!!!
MADELYNE PRYOR!!!
PYSLOCKE!!!
LADY DEATHSTRIKE!!!
And they all looked like Jenna Jameson in the middle of getting filled out like an application!
The only consistency in Land's art is the moaning in pleasure look on all the women's faces.
Whether they are fighting, getting tortured or yelling at each other...
You would think that with X-Men being a flagship book MARVEL would get an artist that could draw the book on a monthly schedule and with some "F"ing dignity!
I don't see how a business that distributes MONTHLY periodicals would hire somebody that does a poor job and takes him 2 months to draw one MONTHLY periodical?!?(That goes for Dodson too...except the poor job part.)
Does that make any sense to anyone? Or am I just the asshole here?
A book that sells as many copies (granted at the lowest it's been in five plus years) as UXM does, doesn't need integrity. See also the Jeph Loeb Hulk book.
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