Matt Fraction’s run on Uncanny X-Men has been a major series of ups and downs; when it’s good, it’s really good, but when it’s bad, it’s really bad.

This issue sees the start of a new arc, ignoring a lot of the Generation Hope stuff currently occurring in the X-Books. This was a delightfully fun issue by Fraction; the premise is simple, but effective and some moments were perfectly written.

But, the art by Greg Land is absolutely atrocious; his cut-and-paste images are substandard at best, and the book suffers horribly for that reason.