…to have really talented friends that draw comics. Cause then you get birthday presents like this!
MOST. ADORABLE. ROGUE. EVER.
Courtesy of my good friend and supremely talented writer and artist Ross Campbell.
Thanks Ross!
xoxoxo, Kelly
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“The X-Team, currently a bizarre mix of Professor Xavier, Magneto, Rogue, Gambit, Legion, and Frenzy continues to hunt down Legion’s escaped personas which are wreaking havoc wherever they go. Our heroes spend most of their time fighting Chain, a persona that can turn everyone he touches into a duplicate of himself, and who has turned a large part of London into himself by the time the X-Men arrive. Also on the loose is Susan in Sunshine, who is dispatched with clever somewhat mean-spirited tactics by Frenzy. The X-Men defeat both personas and Legion is able to re-absorb them with relative ease — although anyone actually at ease with that whole “digital watch that holds powerful personas in check” is insane — but Styx remains on the loose and may in fact be hunting the X-Men…”
Read the rest of my CBR Review of X-Men Legacy #251 here.
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“Uncanny X-Men” is a solid and pretty book, and there’s nothing especially wrong with it. However it’s also not anything you’ll think about a half hour after you’ve finished reading it. This means that it’s better than a whole lot of comics out there, but certainly not living up to its potential with the current creative team..”
You can read the rest of my CBR Review of Uncanny X-Men #538 here.
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Check out my CBR Review of X-Men #12 here.
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This week on CBR I reviewed Wolverine & Jubilee #4 and Generation Hope #6…and loved them both, click to find out why!
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Every once in a while I enjoy some funny bit of writing so much that writing wins out over art and takes panel of the week (or in this case, page of the week). This is from Kieron Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men #535. The art, which is lovely as always, but not some crazy mindblowing something (talking heads rarely are) is Terry and Rachel Dodson.
I just love Dr. Nemesis* and his bitchy little better than everyone else attitude…which must just be a thing I like, because it’s one of the reasons I enjoy Emma Frost so much as well. In fact, it might just be the writer in me knowing how deliciously fun those characters are to write. Suffice to say that when Dr. Nemesis and Emma trade witty bitchy barbs I am in HEAVEN. Anyway, Gillen nails it here, as Dr. Nemesis talks to Magneto in a way almost nobody talks to Magneto. I love when comics are fun. LOOOOVE IT.
Bonus points for use of “Nazis”, “Science sticks”, “Foolish Space Tin”, and referring to Cyclops as “The one-eyed visir” all in one awesome page. HI-LARIOUS.
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PS – Ross, this is Dr. Nemesis! 😉
If you love the X-Men, you love alternate reality stories, and you love me (or even just mildly tolerate me) then head on over to the Age of X Dialogues on Comics Should Be Good, as CSBG blogger Chad Nevett and I discuss Mike Carey’s so far excellent Age of X storyline. And in part five we get into a fight! You don’t wanna miss that!
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I’ll be honest, I’m such a fan of Bachalo’s work, it’s going to be hard for others to win on weeks when a book he’s penciling comes out. This week is no exception. Though I didn’t love X-Men #8, I still crazy love some of Chris Bachalo’s really excellent exaggerated cartooning work, it’s so expressive and fun and layered and full of detail. Plus look at Wolverine’s tiny mean head?! Awesome!
In today’s 3 Chicks Podcast we spend some time talking about “grouchy old-man Wolverine” versus “badass Wolverine” (and then “grouchy dickish Batman” versus “huggy Batman” and I talk about how much I prefer the former in Wolverine’s case. The panel below is mostly badass…with just a hint of grouchy…so fun.
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Panel of the Week this week goes subtle (if you can call anything about Emma Frost – or the way Kaare Andrews draws her, subtle) with a panel from Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #5 by Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews.
There wasn’t much that wowed me this week, but I love it when Emma is all grouchy and pretends that being a hero (and an X-Man) doesn’t agree with her, add to that Kaare Andrews crazy fun rendering of her – look at those crazy awesome hips and insane hair! – and we’ve got total win here. So fun.
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So we’ve got a tie this week, mostly cause I just love me some Emma Frost and Chris Bachalo. First is this great splash page panel by Daniel Acuna of Luke Cage (POWERMAN!) and his wife Jessica Jones (POWERWOMAN?) having dinner in New Avengers #8.
I love it. It’s really fun and smart and has great attention to detail from the clothing of our heroes, to the one slightly falling sock of our waitress…it’s just damn fine looking comics. And really, this scene goes on for several pages and with the exception of one very weird Jessica Jones expression panel it’s pretty fantastic. I miss Stuart Immonen like crazy on this book already and am horribly disappointed that he’s no longer on the book…but Acuna is a good replacement if I have to have one. I’m really bummed that I have to drop the book when Deodato (and Chaykin?) come on board…but maybe Acuna will stay? Maybe I can keep reading? In fairness to Deodato, I thought his cover to New Avengers #8 was pretty good, and very restrained in his depiction of Jones…which is usually where he loses me (his depiction of women).
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But I couldn’t resist Chris Bachalo’s great cartoon-y fun take on the X-Men and especially Emma Frost in this panel from X-Men #7. Apologies to Mr. Bachalo for the liberties I took (I had to crop a bit as it was an unwieldy shape – also the crease is terrible – double sorry!) but look past it please to the beautiful extremely detailed personality filled artwork there. The combination of lights and darks, the highly complex detailed work, the great composition, character design and acting. FABULOUS. Also, Emma, you so funny. 
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And now for the fun stuff…
Apparently Emma’s clothing is SO CRAZY all the damn time, that even though Bachalo has made an effort to put Emma in pants (and thank you for that Mr. Bachalo) colorists DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS PANTS.
They probably went to color it and were like…”No…just regular pants? That can’t be right…This is EMMA FROST! I bet it’s some kind of weird underwear thigh-high boots situation…!”
And that is how you end up with something that looks like this:
Yeah. That’s just wrong. Even for Emma.
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