Uncanny X-men # 474 Review
Author: Tony Bedard
Penciler: Roger Cruz
Inker: Victor Olazaba
Cover: Mark Brooks
Looking back at my comics and rereading Uncanny X-men 174, never in a million years would I have suspected 300 issues later this title would be this bad. I understand that Bedard is just trying to wrap up Claremont's story, but shit, it really feels like he gave up halfway through it.
So the First Fallen isn't really a bad guy? And Jamie Braddock isn't either? What the hell was all the build up for? I'm quite sure this is not what Claremont intended, with the exception of the last two pages which continues into Uncanny X-men Annual 1. I don't know if Bedard understands that Jamie is crazy or not...this book just read so bland. But alas it's finally over...Claremont didn't even get to say a proper goodbye to his characters do to his time off.
I still think Roger Cruz is a bad artist, even if this is one of his better days. I have never seen so many faces change in characters since I read the last book he drew. He is so inconsistent with his faces that on the same page in four panels Psylocke looks like a different character. A bad finish and I'm actually looking forward to the overly hyped Brubaker run. D+
Read it, liked it. Given, the resolution for the story was a letdown but, the artwork was good and the story isn't as bad as some stuff that has been coming out lately. Though it did seem a little stupid to go on and on about how Betsy is special and then when she is about to throw down her brother figures...eh screw it, I'll send her back.
I have to agree with the reviewer. To see Chris go out like this was disheartening, and after all those appearances by Jamie and the whole reason for Betsy being "resewn" and brought back from the dead was to face the First Fallen, Jamie's change of heart did not make sense since it had been his plan from Day One supposedly. Oh well, bring on the Bru!