Uncanny X-men # 488 Review
Author: Ed Brubaker
Endangered Species Writer: Mike Carey
Art: Salvador Larroca
Endangered Species Art: Mark Bagley and Andrew Hennessy
I'm going to make this quick and easy. Just like the book read. It's your basic plot of X-men trying to find Masque and his gang of Morlocks. Although I enjoyed the last issue, this issue felt really bland.
I think my problem with this particular X-book is that none of the characters have evolved in the years that they have been around. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. I'm not talking about pulling out your adamantium turning you into a fucking ogre evolving, but just a simple character development would be nice. How long is Storm going to be afraid of going into the sewers and mention it to every fucking X-men? We get the point; Storm is strong for conquering her fears. But this is something that every writer has done with the character. Does anyone know what to do with Skids anymore? You know she used to be one of the good guys, before Liefeld decided to brain fuck her. By the end of the day (whenever a new writer comes along) Warpath and Hepzibah will be back to the land of C-list characters or X-factor.
This issue is just another comic rehashing X-men stories. First we have Destiny and then the Destiny Diaries. Now we have someone who likes to tell the future on walls. Brilliant! $3.99 to get a piece of shit back-story of Beast running around in snow? Seriously Marvel way to give it to the fans! They should have made Endangered Species an annual, because already it's not reading well as 8 page little entries. C-
PS: I always thought Hepzibah was a hot skunk; why does she look more like a cat now?
