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Tweak says, "on a pale horse sighing"

colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-10 14:45:00

Entry tags:

char: cyclops/scott summers, char: dazzler/alison blaire, char: lady deathstrike/yuriko oyama, char: northstar/jean-paul beaubier, char: psylocke/betsy braddock, char: spiral/rita wayword, char: white queen/emma frost, char: wolverine/logan/james howlett, creator: matt fraction, publisher: marvel comics, title: uncanny x-men

Greg Land at his most tolerable

Four scans from Uncanny X-Men #511; Land's first issue was okay by his standards, the next was really awful, this one is back to being mostly okay (again, by his standards).

The X-Men vs. Sisterhood brawl continues. Land's art is terribly undynamic, but there's a rather enjoyable sequence here that has an enjoyably comic feel (feels a bit like a quick-cut TV sequence):

Elsewhere, the various X-Men deal with evil-spirit-of-Psylocke-in-Kwannon's-body, and they succeed in reviving the real Psylocke's mind to compete with the "murder spirit" within her mind:

And the end...

And, in a nice surprise, Terry Dodson drops in for the last two pages, to provide some genuinely good art.

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	freyaeinde 2009-06-10 12:56 pm UTC (link)
	Ugh I'm so sick of Jean Grey teases. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suzene 2009-06-10 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	This. By the time they bring the poor bitch back, I doubt anyone's going to much care. I'd be surprised if many people cared now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	freyaeinde 2009-06-10 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	Right! I mean jeepers this issue was weak. They didn't even bring Psylock back properly or with any thrill. This run on Uncanny continues to be flat soda. It has all the promise of being a delicious fizzy beverage and then it just turns out to be watery syrup. Maybe X-club's journey will be a bit more thrilling but i doubt it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sd_mouser 2009-06-10 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	I suspect that she will return from the dead, everyone will blast her immediately claiming that she's a fake. And the readers will cheer! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hyperactivator 2009-06-10 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	Umm. She is back. She's collecting the shards of the pheonix. She's got this higher being guardian angel thing going on which I hope sticks even if she does reapear more dramaticly. She shows up. Is awsome. Then leaves because she's above all this. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	04nbod 2009-06-10 12:58 pm UTC (link)
	so Jean doesn't show up at all. Excellent, that means I save a couple of coins. (Reply to this)

	foxhack 2009-06-10 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	GRRRRRRRRr HAAAAAAGH WAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH (I thought Psylocke was in Exiles?) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-06-10 01:04 pm UTC (link)
	No, not for a while. What happened to the old team hasn't been explained, but I imagine Parker will get around to that (it's a mystery). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-06-10 01:03 pm UTC (link)
	"Deathstrike." "Logan." "Kill--" "--You!" "Grraah" "Yyyah" "Tired." "Stalemate." "Sex?" "Sure." (Reply to this)

midnightvoyager
2009-06-10 01:04 pm UTC (link)

The Thief: Greg Land tag cracks me right up.

However.

Spiral, honey... your arms... they do not work. As drawn, they are made of FAIL. They are really obviously not arranged on your body the same way in both those panels. The first makes it look like she has a double-ended arm glued to her shoulder in the middle. AUUUUGH *flail* Where's Foxhack?!

...Oh, you posted when I wasn't looking.

Kay, that's all I needed.

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	ar_feiniel_ 2009-06-10 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	Hey cut the man some slack. It's probably hard to find six-armed women he can trace. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	zegim 2009-06-10 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	So Land's porn collection isn't THAT big after all. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	schala_kid 2009-06-10 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	Is Cyclops lazering through the Red Queen's crotch there? (Reply to this)

	ulf_boehnke 2009-06-10 01:30 pm UTC (link)
	"Maddie." "Deathstrike." "Logan." "Duck." "Who's on first?" (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-06-10 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Brad!" "Janet!" "Brad!" "Dr. Scott!" "Rocky!" "GRRAAHH" (Reply to this)

	ARGH stig 2009-06-10 01:43 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Fraction you diabolical TEASE. I AM FREAKING SICK TO DEATH OF PSYLOCKE-TRAPPED-IN-A-JAPANESE-WOMAN'S-BODY! I wish Cornell could have been given the chance to bring back British Betsy in MI:13, even if only for a little while. It never really feels right, having her trapped inside Kwannon. Just very, very creepy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: ARGH scorpiokyle 2009-06-10 01:58 pm UTC (link)
	yes, this. especially if she still have the butterfly psychic effect. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: ARGH ar_feiniel_ 2009-06-10 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	So much motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Re: ARGH

stig
2009-06-10 03:11 pm UTC (link)

Additionally, I'm under the impression that Fraction may not be all that good a writer after all. Between this UXM run - which would be boring and uninspired even without Land, and looks to be getting worse with these upcoming "Dark X-Men" - combined with his unengaging Iron Man and "Celebrity Big Brother With Superpowers", he hasn't impressed me much at all. If not for Iron Fist, he'd probably be one of the worst writers I can think of working at Marvel.

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	Re: ARGH arilou_skiff 2009-06-11 02:50 am UTC (link)
	Hmmm, I kind of like Fraction as a writer... Except that they seem to pair him with the most god-awful artists imaginable. The writing is at least acceptable, the art is eye-gougingly bad. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: ARGH

angelophile
2009-06-11 05:10 am UTC (link)

Different strokes. Fraction got me to quit reading Uncanny. I can tolerate Land when balanced by a decent writer, but Fraction and Land together was a match made in hell for me. I'm not sure whether the dialogue during the scene was meant to be deliberately ironically awful or just awful, though. By this point I'm not sure I care. The sex obsession, horrible, clumsy dialogue and the general lack of understanding of 90% of the characters he's writing already put me off.

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	sandoz_iscariot 2009-06-10 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	I think the writing is actually worse than the art. Jesus. (Reply to this)

	queenanthai 2009-06-10 01:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Kkkkgg--" "Madness." "SPAAAAARRTTAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" (Reply to this)

	evilsneak 2009-06-10 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	Who's the blonde with Betsy in the last panel? Dazzler? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-06-10 02:32 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, she's the one who physically defeats Evil-Psylocke before her psyche is free. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-06-11 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	You aren't serious? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	I actually like this writing here. nefrekeptah 2009-06-10 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	Mainly because it's how people would actually talk in a fight. There's really very little room for one-liners when in a fight to the death. (Reply to this)

	ghosty732 2009-06-10 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	She's wearing the ninja outfit, but she doesn't look very Asian. And thus, I am confused. So what happened to British-Betsy's body? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-06-10 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	Psylocke wins the mental war with the Evil-Psylocke thing, which causes the Kwannon body to shut down; Psylocke's back in her Asian body. As for why it doesn't look especially Asian, well...that's Land for you. He uses the same character faces for everyone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sianmink 2009-06-10 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Dammit whyyyyyyyyy They teased at having British Betsy back and then put her back in Kwannon's body? DAMMIT (Reply to this) (Parent)

	skitty_kat 2009-06-10 02:36 pm UTC (link)
	Hah! For a moment there I thought this was going to be another 'perfect moment' post and found myself wondering what Greg Land's perfect moment would be. Dick Grayson stretched out in his pants? (Reply to this)

	dcanacek 2009-06-10 02:53 pm UTC (link)
	Always surprised that after her power-up, Lady Deathstrike has never looked up Daredevil for his role in the death of her father and fiancee. (Reply to this)

	tahngarth 2009-06-10 03:05 pm UTC (link)
	So what happened with British-Betsy, exactly? I thought Psylocke was going back to her original mode? (Reply to this)

	kali921 2009-06-10 03:18 pm UTC (link)
	Fraction doesn't seem to have a grasp on what Spiral's abilities are. She's been underused in this arc. This is the same Spiral who singlehandedly almost defeated the X-Men by herself? Northstar is fast and all, but Fraction seems to be ignoring Spiral's mystical and teleporting abilities almost entirely. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suzene 2009-06-10 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	This entire fight was pretty uninspired so far as powers-use goes. Of course, Land's visual storytelling is damn near incomprehensible beyond "Er...they're hitting each other. Or possibly having sex", so for all I know, the fight was brilliantly paced in the script and this is the best translation that Land could deliver. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lencannon 2009-06-10 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I can't really blame Fraction for the incomprehensible fight scenes here. When you're stuck with Land you either can have your issues be porno faces talking constantly to avoid the rubber armed fight scenes or vice versa. (Reply to this) (Parent)

lencannon
2009-06-10 04:31 pm UTC (link)

One thing I really DO like about Uncanny X-Men is that it's not really a team book. It's just about mutants surviving and doing what's right for mutants. And of course, whatever shit people who hate the x-men get them caught up in.

As a result you don't end up with really arbitrary and boring "teams" that can't ever be adjusted. You have as many mutants as you need being used constantly and being put into combat when it best suits them. Basically I really like the San Fran x-men a lot.

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	proteus_lives 2009-06-10 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	Still ick in my book. (Reply to this)

	moneyless_jew 2009-06-10 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	It does my heart very good to see Psylocke away from Claremont, under Fraction and hugging Ali Blaire. Those two haven't been together in a loooong time. I so wish she'd stayed British though. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-06-11 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	I wish either of them were recognizable. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blackdocs 2009-06-11 01:23 am UTC (link)
	grrr, i don't care how smoking hot Psylocke looks, fuck you Greg Land. please go away forever!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	angelophile 2009-06-11 05:18 am UTC (link)
	Please avoid making personal attacks. There's a line between being critical of, or even attacking a creator's work and attacking them personally. The "fuck you" is unnecessary and goes beyond criticism to break one of the community's most important guidelines. Try and tone it down in future, please. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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