Jiminez’s art on this title is a welcome, welcome change from Bianchi’s technically beautiful, but out of place work on Ellis’s first Astonishing arc.  The Biological Sentinel  looks far creepier than the nano-sentinels, the insecti-sentinels, or any other sentinel I’ve ever seen, and most of it is due to Jiminez’s pencils.  He also draws some bad-ass Brood.

Lanning’s colors also help the pages explode, when he throws one blue panel in the midst of some major orange.

As for Ellis, he really lets the art tell the story here, and I think that’s to his advantage.  There are a lot of worldess panels, and dialog is kept to a minimum with absolutely NO narration boxes.

This is hands down my favorite issue of an X-Men title since Whedon ended Astonishing.