UNCANNY X-MEN #500

Review by: rwpos

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Price: 3.99

The plot was good and the new direction for the X-Men interests me.  With that said, the dialogue and character interplay felt stiff and there seemed to be something awkward about the overall writing.  It might have been the process of working Fraction into the mix, but it didn’t have a natural flow as I was reading it and I had to work at it more than I prefer.

The art was very uneven and did nothing to enhance the story.  Considering that I already found the writing to be stiff, having ever-shifting art styles, combined with Greg Land’s often-inappropriate facial expressions made the reading experience very unsatisfying for me.  I haven’t enjoyed Land’s art on a monthly since the first 12 issues of Sojourn, and I’m disappointed that he’ll be a regular on X-Men.  From a technical perspective, his still images tend to be well rendered (although in this comic there were numerous panels that appeared rushed and sloppy), but his story-telling tends to be unexpressive, or simply out of synch with the tone and message of the story as written.  His people have these big smiles and the panels look more like magazine collages than fully realized expressions of a complete moment. Considering that the comic book medium works best for me when the artist presents the essence of a moment (rather than a still photographic image), reading a Greg Land visual piece is rarely pleasant for me.  And as much as I felt there were good pieces to this comic, the overall reading experience simply wasn’t that great.

Story: 3 - Good
Art: 2 - Average

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