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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Chuck Austen lets good guys be good guys.,
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This review is from: Uncanny X-Men Volume 1: Hope TPB (Paperback)
The above review is about a different story. This story centers around an x-men story told partly from the point of view of a fish boy looking mutant recruited to Xavier's school(issues 410-412). He gets to ride along as the X-men investigate a distress call only to take on Juggernaut. Meanwhile we see a nurse who has fallen in love with one of her patient who is in a vegetable state, but a news report shows her that her patient might be a missing X-man. Back at the island a weakened Jugernaut explains that he called the X-men to help his best friend, Black Tom, who is undergoing a freakish secondary mutation. This is a touching story about friendship, love, and hope. I think Morrison's run on The New x-men is cool, but it makes everything sordid and icky. Morrison does this well, but too many comic writers try to do this and aren't as good. Austen just lets the good guys be good.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed Feelings about this one, and its author,
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This review is from: Uncanny X-Men Volume 1: Hope TPB (Paperback)
I read this TPB once, kind of shook my head over the bizarre direction that Austen took the merry mutants, and then...actually read it again.
"Hope" is an interesting arc of Uncanny because of all the new characters that are introduced into the mansion and to the team. Unlike most X-Fans, I actually kind of like Annie Ghazikanian, Havok's nurse after he becomes vegetative. Yes, her relationship with him (i.e., a nurse that becomes emotionally attached to him while she is taking care of all of his needs) is a little creepy, but she herself isn't a bad character. Annie doesn't like mutants (which we don't see justification for until "Dominant Species"), yet she is willing to take on the duties of seeing to the medical needs of Xavier Institutes entire gene-advanced population, no matter how bizarre they all are. She is a vulnerable character, and a nice foil to Northstar. She also had some excellent dialogue written for her right off the bat. Even though Austen made the X-Men more angst-ridden than they were before, and definitely more potty-mouthed, he also gave some of the characters more depth than they had before. The addition of Juggernaut to the book was something I never saw coming. But as we saw from previous X-books, Cain Marko is hysterically funny when he wants to be. (Note: Best book on Austen's run in regard to the development of Juggernaut's character is "Day of the Atom." Especially his ongoing fights with Iceman.) Other standout characters in this book are Sammy (Squidboy) and Northstar. I like Northstar much better on this title than I ever did on Alpha Flight. I wasn't crazy about Annie's son Carter, since his age was indeterminate from how he was written, I couldn't tell how old he was supposed to be. Stacy X is a little too over the top for me, I didn't think the team needed a quasi-porn star with pheromone powers who literally (and figuratively) sheds her skin on the roster. Some of the other things about this book that grabbed me were the narrative blurbs here and there, and an unexpected change in Nightcrawler's character. He's darker and more sarcastic. He actually has something meaningful to say in most frames instead of just exclaiming "Unglaublich!" when anyone gets attacked. I love the character descriptions of the team as they were flying in the Blackbird to answer Cain's distress call: "Iceman: Used to being the team's comic relief." Villains like Black Tom were revamped and made much, much more psychotic. This is a good thing. I never really had much of an opinion about Black Tom before, but he's amazing in this issue. There were some throwaway bits in this book. Iceman has a fling with a Genoshan refugee in the mansion, who is both vapid and airheaded, not to mention ridiculously drawn. Warren and Husk start to ackowledge each other's feelings, but they're just not an interesting couple. Logan doesn't have much time in the spotlight in this book, so if he is your favorite character, you will be disappointed by his reduced status. Again, Chuck Austen is not my favorite author, at least not for this title, but this was not boring reading. My general thinking is that he is good with dialogue, but perhaps not plot development. It just seems like he hates anyone to have a happy ending, in any of the issues that comprise this novel. Bring on the angst, Chuck! Time to make the mutants suffer!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
pretty good. beginning of chuck austen's run.,
By spacedog "spacedog7" (boston, ma United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Uncanny X-Men Volume 1: Hope TPB (Paperback)
this collection includes UXM#410-415. the first three (and also the fourth) form a story arc involving juggernaut soliciting the help of the x-men and a nurse named annie caring for the catatonic havok and joining the staff at the institute to care for him. the fifth issue focuses on northstar, who joins the the institute also. the issue w/ northstar is extremely well-done and makes the whole book worth reading, in my opinion. the last issue focuses on iceman and northstar.
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