renchamp's Uncanny X-Force #14 review

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    Still Very Good

    *My spoiler blocking option is gone. So, beware of spoilers.*

    What is Cluster doing on the cover as if she is part of this not-actually-a-team team? I still don't get the approach, Marvel. Oh well.

    Cover aside, this issue magnificently maintains Humphries's very interesting psychological assault of Psylocke. This lady has already been through enough but he finds a way to squeeze just a little more pathos out of her. Without spoiling too much, Psylocke is offered something that even her toughened persona can't shrug. I don't blame her for her pause, even though as a reader I can't help but wonder if the whole thing is a ruse set up by the Revenant Queen.

    The art finally seems to be returning to where the series started with Ron Garney: it is attractive and precise. The character features are clear. I loved Alphona, but this current story needs exactness in its execution. It matches the immediacy of the story, which is also dancing on a razor's edge. This book could have teetered into the absurd so many times but Humphries has done a fantastic job balancing it all and giving us a really good story to look forward to each month.

    And I did not expect Psylocke and Puck falling through to the world of the revenants. Isn't that exactly the opposite of what is supposed to happen? Revenants come out to us, not we go down to them. I am excited to see what happens next.

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