The Uncanny X-Men #534
The Uncanny X-Men » The Uncanny X-Men #534 - Quarantine: Part 5 released by Marvel on April 1, 2011.
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Review: Uncanny X-Men #534 1
With the flu saturated to its worst intensity, Emma and Cyke get more aggressive about putting Shaw and the Lobe down. The Good John Sublime and his U-Men were some of my favorite villains from Grant Morison's New X-Men run, so I'm so pleased to see their threat mutating into these "designer casual" mutant huffers. While Emma's bloodless solution to Shaw was really cool, it's Cyclops nasty counter maneuver on the Lobe's virus play that really made this for me. Nothing like turning you enemy's ...
15 out of 17 found this review helpful. -
A Surprisingly Solid Read From Fraction 4
Matt Fraction brings his Quarantine story arc to an end in this issue, completing what is probably the most satisfying story arc of his Uncanny X-Men run. When it comes to Fraction's Uncanny X-Men run, I have not been a big fan. The one word I would use to describe it all is underwhelming. His stories tend to drag along and feel unfocused, obscuring whatever interesting ideas happen to be in them. He often seems more interested in writing his science team, Pixie and Namor rather than... the act...
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The Uncanny X-Men #534 Review 0
Uncanny X-Men this month is great storytelling. That’s nuts. Uncanny X-Men is known for that but... not always. So the writing is good and it makes it fun automatically. A lot of stories like to show different perspectives or tell individual stories, this story shows that concept in a classic way. Fantastic! Wolverine is hilarious. He had these weapons right for the battle? Wow it was funny. They didn’t even mention it. Characters of the Utopia era are well-defined. The personalities are off bu...
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I don't often read X-Men 3
I picked up this issue somewhat randomly tonight just to check it out and I mostly liked what I saw. I liked how I, the unitiated, was caught up almost immediately by the lead-in page. This is an excellent feature to have in a comic. The first panel actually made me laugh with Emma trying to run away from Sebastian Shaw, and complaining that she shouldn't wear heels. Incidentally I felt that this was the better two of the subplots. In the other one Lobe has stolen the X-Men's powers and t...
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The X-Men Don't Have Powers, But Aren't Powerless 0
This issue of Uncanny X-Men concludes a story arc revolving around a virus that weakens and takes away mutant powers. Cyclops has lost his ability to shoot optic blasts, Logan has lost his healing factor and is now suffering from adamantium poisoning, and very few X-Men still have their powers. When the X-Men confront the man who has created the virus, they discover that he's sold a different version of the virus to normal humans in order to sell rich people the X-Men's powers. It's a group of p...
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"Now...who shall I be today?" 0
After almost six months of build up, we are finally here--the end of the "Quarantine" story arc and the resolution of a few plots which have, it seems, been dragging on for a while now. This, the 534th issue of Uncanny X-Men, adequately delivers in its resolution, and has a few great scenes, but I feel like it is pretty "surface level" entertainment. Nothing shocked me. Not even the last scene, which I have been expecting for a few issues. All in all, the issue works well and accomplishes its go...
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We´re the real X-Men! 0
This was a perfect conclusion to an amazing and fun arc story. Quarantine proved that it´s not the quantity of mutants that counts in the field, but how you use them and Cyclops sure knows how to be a leader, he rocked in this issue (and I´m not a big fan of him). Lobe´s plans backfiring after the X-Men - weak, powerless and carrying knives, hammers and cannon - crashed into his party was the perfect way to wrap up this story. It was so good that I even didn´t mind that Paul Renaud helped Land d...
4 out of 5 found this review helpful.
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