Ishmaelbbc's Ultimate Comics X-Men #16 - United We Stand; Chapter One review

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    Not yet united

    Somehow I thought the crossover was "Divided We Fall", but here's "United We Stand", which seems to be even bigger. But let's not discuss crossover politics, this doesn't matter anyway for this issue. The story is okay, but feels a bit like a filler between important events. It's nice enough but it doesn't feel like there's actually much going on. And somehow the addition of Nick Fury feels like a distraction for me. It's meant to connect the different comics but it feels like this is the only reason why he is there. About the art: I always accepted Medina's art but never completely enjoyed it. But the use of flares was so intrusive here, I couldn't but be annoyed by it. It even lead me to observe even more digital effects that bothered me. I'm not an expert on drawing techniques, so I don't know how much is digitalized (I suppose a lot) but doing it so offensively and for such pointless results, really distracted me.

    I still enjoyed the comic, though, this is more nitpicking than anything else. Compared to a lot of other comics, Brian Wood always manages to actually write intelligent comics.

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