View Full Version : Uncanny x-men annual #3
-K-M-
02-16-2011, 02:44 PM
Jeffries appears and looks like he builds a gateway to the Negative Zone.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30860
Ugh.
I really hope that's all he does, cos I don't wanna haveta pick up the other 2 annuals...
Flightpath07
02-16-2011, 05:47 PM
Ugh. Put Nick Bradshaw on my list of artists whose style I do not care for.
-K-M-
02-16-2011, 05:57 PM
Looks like Jeffries gets knocked out soon as the portal opens and looks like everyone else has to step up to rebuild the it *shrugs*
Flightpath07
02-16-2011, 06:09 PM
Here is to hoping that when he comes to, he has a strong urge to return to Canada!
Le Messor
02-17-2011, 03:14 AM
I don't hate that art.
Flightpath07
02-17-2011, 04:21 AM
I don't hate that art.
You're not me. Or...are you...? (Perhaps you and The Master have cloned and de-aged me and made me a cyborg, and I don't know it...)
Le Messor
02-17-2011, 04:32 AM
You're not me. Or...are you...? (Perhaps you and The Master have cloned and de-aged me and made me a cyborg, and I don't know it...)
Just putting my own five cents out there.
I'd never create a clone of me. One is more than enough.
(But if I did, de-aged is the way I'd go.)
- Le Messor
"I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms."
~ alleged resume
Bill P
02-18-2011, 01:58 AM
Oh is so agree with you
Ugh. Put Nick Bradshaw on my list of artists whose style I do not care for.
Bill P
02-18-2011, 01:59 AM
oops bad english - Oh I so agree with you.
Oh is so agree with you
Flightpath07
02-18-2011, 04:22 AM
Thank you, Bill P !
I feel Vindicated now. Or should that be Guardianed? Heathered? Mac'ed? Mack Daddied? Ah, Puck it...
MistressMerr
02-18-2011, 04:56 AM
I remember seeing his stuff on some Curse of the Mutants story somewhere, I think. Reaaaally don't like it, either. I like the amount of detail he puts into his work, but the awkward smushed baby faces do nothing for me.
I'm not fussed either way by the art, I just don't fancy paying 3 lots of $3.99...
Flightpath07
02-18-2011, 06:57 AM
diggin' that avatar, Phil!
Lettered preview is up; http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=42143
and joy... incompetent Jeffries...
rplass
03-11-2011, 08:02 AM
Incompetent? Perhaps less graceful than we'd like... but it looks as if his sparkly energy contraption is making lots of sparkly energy thingies. I'll reserve judgement until we see the rest of the book.
That's fair enough. I just felt that page 5 was one step away from an "Ooops." speechbubble.
But it's not necessarilly a bad thing. If I'm being honest I'd rather he be full of mistakes than a genius Dr. It'd make him more like the character when he was first introduced.
I don't think he'll be in much of the issue afterwards as it doesn't look like he goes into the portal.
I'll still be buying it and enjoying it as an appearance.
Le Messor
03-11-2011, 03:07 PM
Hmm... I might have to go with 'you're right, Phil'... but not for the obvious reasons.
He's tinkering around like a joke, without thought to others. The really incompetent thing is to take away the power from an entire city, one that's perpetually in the dark in the deep, deep, deep water off San Francisco Bay (just how deep is it there, really?) because they don't want to 'go to all that trouble' to build a cyclotron of their own.
Which Jeffries should be able to do in about five seconds by waggling his fingers.
Also, I think the original had a very distinctive voice, which they've long since abandoned.
Looking at it close-up (which I didn't before), I don't like the art that much, either. Too cartoonish.
... and now I'm all negative. :(
Negative Man, they call me! Then DC sues me for copyright, which ironically, only makes it worse.
- Le Messor
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
~ Winston Churchill
MistressMerr
03-11-2011, 04:10 PM
I thought it was cute. Jeffries tinkering in the back, doing his thing like a kook, nobody really paying attention until it all goes to hell, I dig it. Still not a fan of the art, but oddly, I think Madison looks the best out of all of them.
cmdrkoenig67
03-11-2011, 06:19 PM
I have to agree partly with Mistress Merr....I hate the faces (everyone looks like they're 12 years old), but the rest of the art is amazing...It reminds me a bit of Michael Golden's work.
Dana
DelBubs
03-11-2011, 06:54 PM
I'm, by no strecth of the imagination an artist, but the art is just too distracting for me. It'd stop me getting the comic.
MistressMerr
03-11-2011, 08:52 PM
I have to agree partly with Mistress Merr....I hate the faces (everyone looks like they're 12 years old), but the rest of the art is amazing...It reminds me a bit of Michael Golden's work.
Dana
Yeah, it's just the faces that I really have a problem with. They're just goofy and squashed looking. I love the amount of detail in everything else and the motions and physicality of the characters, but the faces and expressions turn me right off.
Le Messor
03-11-2011, 11:31 PM
It was the faces that turned me off, too. Rest = good. :-s
- Le Messor
"I like to be moved; I don't like to be pushed."
~ John Cage
Jeffries appears in a few panels after the preview, unconcious.
rplass
03-16-2011, 10:01 PM
OH I Loved this issue! What fun! Yeah, too bad Jeffries got clocked and his contraption fizzed out... and sort of caused a hell of a lot of problems, but at least it sent Nemesis away! The art, well, let's just say anything that wasn't an X-Man looked awesome. I also like the idea of the story crossing into other Annuals too- an old Marvel tradition.
Love,
rplass
DIGGER
03-16-2011, 10:50 PM
What happened to Madison being able to create anything out of metal? Why would he have to "borrow" anything in the first place and WHY THE HECK WOULD HE NEED TO USE A BIG FRIGGIN' WRENCH AS...A...HAMMER!!!!!!! Yes when he first appeared he said (if I recall correctly) he dug ditches but was always portrayed as a cool headed individual. I hate when the writers take a character and have them behave or do something that is so OUT of character just for a few laughs. As for the artwork, while not my favourite it looks better than the artwork on most of AF vol 2.
(but that is just my opinion)
DIGGER
rplass
03-17-2011, 01:25 AM
Dr. Nemesis explained the borrowing... that they intend to use the Atlantean cyclotron temporarily to see if it is worth it for Madison to replicate it. I bet it's somewhat difficult to do, or takes a lot of resources, metal mass, that kind of thing and they didn't want to build a 2nd one until they knew the 1st one would work. The giant wrench was just comic relief and yes it was out of character, but not really all that bad.
Love,
rplass
Le Messor
03-17-2011, 04:44 AM
Dr. Nemesis explained the borrowing... that they intend to use the Atlantean cyclotron temporarily
That I get. Taking an entire race's power supply to do it, though...
OTOH, after all the Weapon X brainwork, I doubt anything's out of character for him.
- Le Messor
"I like your approach... now let's see your departure."
Hmm... comicvine lists Northstar as appearing it.
I didn't spot him on my first read through, but I suppose it's possible I missed him.
Anyone with the issue to hand able to confirm?
rplass
03-18-2011, 07:51 PM
There is a highly obscured unidentified male with black hair next to Colossus and likely the same again in another panel but it's impossible to say it's him. His costume has a white element near the shoulder, which is possibly Northstar's white starburst... but the upper part of the costume on the neck is black, not white, so I doubt it's him. It's probably Hellion, since there a few other young mutants nearby.
Love,
rplass
Yeah, that was my original thinking.
However, it does look like the same Northstar from the cover of Protect & Serve #1... and that's Colossus, Cannonball, Moonstar & Magik that he's with so no-one from Hellion's team.
Hmm..
No Alphans in part 2 of the story (Steve Rogers:Super Soldier Annual 01) as far as I can see.
Le Messor
04-17-2011, 07:08 AM
Having now read the issue, put me down for 'hate the art'.
- LM.
"I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded."
Le Messor
04-22-2011, 05:02 AM
... also, why the Phantom Menace would Maddison Jeffries ever need to use a crescent wrench? Ever?
Do they know his powers?
- Le Messor
"I was pumped up for this match. I didn't want to lose to a girl."
~ Amy Perinutter of Manchester (N.J.) high school after the state's first all-female wrestling match
bigbloo
04-28-2011, 01:11 AM
Obviously the writer of this drek has no idea of what Madison's powers are. All he has to do is wave his arms and the machines build themselves! Grrrrrr....
Le Messor
04-28-2011, 06:20 AM
Obviously the writer of this drek has no idea of what Madison's powers are. All he has to do is wave his arms and the machines build themselves! Grrrrrr....
If he could do that in here, we get back to not needing a crescent wrench.
Or any other tools.
- Le Messor
Buffy: I wish we could be regular kids.
Angel: I'll never be a kid.
Buffy: Okay then, a regular kid and her cradle-robbing creature-of-the-night boyfriend.
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