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

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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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	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)

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