Genoshan intrigue only midly intriguing
Summary
This issue follows Magneto as he arrives in his newly christened kingdom of Genosha to find that his chief resistance may not be humans, but a rebel mutant.
Story & Script
Writer Joe Pruett quickly assembles a who's who of Magneto's supporting cast in Quicksilver, Rogue, Amelia Voght, Alda Huxley, and on-again off-again flunky Fabian Cortez. Magneto's reliance on Cortez is convenient, as by all rights Mags should kill his former captain on sight (he even admits as much on-panel).
Rogue's romantic fixation with setting Magneto straight rather than finding missing X-Men seems overly convenient, and at this stage in the plot the rebel mutant Zealot is more a prop than a character. Still, the plot continues the thread of intrigue sewn by Ambassador Alda Huxley, and sets up a conflict that can be believably resolved in the compressed three-issue format.
Artwork
I am not a fan of the artwork in this issue. The combination of Brandon Peterson and inker Matt Banning makes for fussily over-detailed faces filled with shading lines. The pair is better on helmet-wearing magistrates, though at least they worked out a family resemblance between Magneto and Quicksilver. Every woman's face looks the same.
Everyone looks gawky except for Magneto, who is at his Jim Lee super-body-builder peak, with an anatomy-lesson worth of muscles festooned onto him in every panel.
Bottom Line
This serviceable story really did deserve its own mini, because the details of Genosha's power-shift would have been lost with an X-team mooning around trying to be heroic. Still, this issue is average, on the whole.
This issue follows Magneto as he arrives in his newly christened kingdom of Genosha to find that his chief resistance may not be humans, but a rebel mutant.
Story & Script
Writer Joe Pruett quickly assembles a who's who of Magneto's supporting cast in Quicksilver, Rogue, Amelia Voght, Alda Huxley, and on-again off-again flunky Fabian Cortez. Magneto's reliance on Cortez is convenient, as by all rights Mags should kill his former captain on sight (he even admits as much on-panel).
Rogue's romantic fixation with setting Magneto straight rather than finding missing X-Men seems overly convenient, and at this stage in the plot the rebel mutant Zealot is more a prop than a character. Still, the plot continues the thread of intrigue sewn by Ambassador Alda Huxley, and sets up a conflict that can be believably resolved in the compressed three-issue format.
Artwork
I am not a fan of the artwork in this issue. The combination of Brandon Peterson and inker Matt Banning makes for fussily over-detailed faces filled with shading lines. The pair is better on helmet-wearing magistrates, though at least they worked out a family resemblance between Magneto and Quicksilver. Every woman's face looks the same.
Everyone looks gawky except for Magneto, who is at his Jim Lee super-body-builder peak, with an anatomy-lesson worth of muscles festooned onto him in every panel.
Bottom Line
This serviceable story really did deserve its own mini, because the details of Genosha's power-shift would have been lost with an X-team mooning around trying to be heroic. Still, this issue is average, on the whole.