UNCANNY X-FORCE #19

Review by: glcfarmboy

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Story by Rick Remender
Art by Robbi Rodriguez
Colors by Dean White & James Campbell
Letters by Cory Petit
Cover by Rafael Grampa, Nick Bradshaw, Ron Garney & Chris Sotomayor

Size: 0 pages
Price: 3.99

Now that the incredible Jerome Opena has departed, this instantly becomes just another disposable X-title. Phew, that saves me $4 a couple of times a month. Normally I’m a big fan of Rick Remender, but X-Force, I’m sorry to say, has only been worth buying for Opena’s art. Apart from that, this has been one of the most over-rated books on the market in the last year.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 2 - Average
 

Comments

  1. Avatar photo player1 says:
    December 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    How wrong you are.

  2. Avatar photo diebenny says:
    December 25, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    Tell us why. You may be right, but I can’t tell because you don’t detail anything. We need to know the how’s and why’s of it all.

  3. JoePrice77 says:
    January 10, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    I just want to say three things and then I’m done. #1. glcfarmboy – I could not disagree with your assessment of this book/series more if I tried. In fact, after following iFanboy for several years, I am only now actively joining the community and posting just to say that. (Ron, Josh, Conor and the gang can thank or blame you later) #2. This was truly a masterful end to what has been easily the best surprise run of 2011. I loved the X-Men as a kid and then grew out of them after the Age of Apocalypse (which I have said was the last great X-Men story) – I’ve even emailed in to razz Ron on occasion for his unwavering loyalty to the X-titles, even in House of M times. That said, there have been few, FEW, X-issues that have managed to dovetail a brilliant recent story with decades of mythos. Wolvie finally getting Jean, only to let her go again. Wolvie giving Creed/Sabretooth (his mortal enemy in our realm) his katana as an ultimate sign of a samurai’s respect. Losing Angel. Losing AoA Sunfire and WildChild…while keeping their costumes in our reality and elevating them to heroes of the canon. Apocalypse/Genesis. Psylocke. Even effin’ Deadpool. All SO Good. I laughed. I cried. I put in plastic. #3. The only thing missing was Opena. This was as much his story as Remender’s and it blew my mind that he wouldn’t draw such an important footnote to this tale. Unreal. To that end, I’m going to try to use something like Kickstarter and see if I can build enough consensus/money to get Marvel to re-release that issue with Opena drawing it. Nothing against Rodriguez, but it’s like watching a great baseball player hit a grand slam, and then have another player run from third base into home plate. Opena deserved to bring it home. And I am spent.

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