Michael Nguyen's Reviews
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Title: The Uncanny X-Men #367 Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $1.99 US, $2.99 Canada

Writers: Plot-Alan Davis, Script-Fabian Nicieza

Art: Leinil Francis Yu

The Meat
The story has two different situations. The book starts with a group of mutants called the Acolytes who are followers of a mutant leader by the name of Magneto. Apparently, Magneto defended himself in a previous issue against nuclear warheads from Russia, which caused a nuclear storm. This storm almost killed our heroes, the X-men, and the Acolytes decide to attempt to finish the job. Needless to say, the X-men won't stand for this and fight back.

The other part of the story involves Magneto and the situation he is in. A villain named Astra brings along with her a clone of Magneto and hopes this clone (also known as Joseph) will destroy Magneto in her attempts at revenge as well as her attempts to rule the world.
On a side note, the world's leaders are trying to figure out how to stop Magneto from taking over the world.

The Good
The artwork of the story was pretty good in the sense that the figures were proportional meaning that the guys didn't have muscles on their forearms and the girls didn't have boobs bigger than my house.

The Ugly

...EVERYTHING ELSE.
The story tries to be good by applying past knowledge to the current situations that take place in the story. The plot tries to be intelligent but fails. I was quite bored throughout the story. The dialogue and narration are at rock bottom. Every part of writing seemed very fake. It was as if there was this specific outline that had to be followed and the outline was created to be just that, an outline. I felt no attachment between the writer and the story at all.

The Performance
I want my 15 minutes back.

Thoughts
The X-Men have become a powerful name in the comic book industry because of good ideas, excited writing from these good ideas, and well thought up plans for the future. The X-Men today, being the future then, does not reflect what the X-Men were. I feel as if the writer of this story goes in and does his stuff as a job to get paid, not to put out something he can feel attached to or be very proud of. I also feel as if the editors rely on the name of the X-Men to sell books and not what gets put into the book. The characters of the X-Men had depth at one point and I would like to see these characters get that depth back. The X-Men deserve that much.

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