Written by ED BRUBAKER & MATT FRACTION
Pencils & Cover by TERRY DODSON
LOVELORN (1 of 4): In the depths of his heartache over Kitty Pryde, Colossus goes looking for something-- anything-- to stop his pain...and finds a nightmare from the Old Country running rampant in the States. What's their connection? Elsewhere, Angel and the Beast begin a worldwide quest gathering some of the most unique minds on Earth and run across a hero long thought dormant. Emma checks in to a hotel you have to see to believe while poor Scott sits idly by...oh, and then footage showing the Alaskan Massacre that kicked off MESSIAH COMPLEX is released to the media. Just another day in the life of the all new, all different X-MEN!
Date Available: 11/19/2008
REVIEW by Brian Fisher
This is the first issue of UXM that Matt Fraction is writing solo, without his previous co-writer Ed Brubaker, and it shows. For as good as Brubaker was on UXM, Fraction brings something different and, dare I say better to the table. What he brings, and this is not to belittle Brubaker in any way, is a huge imagination and a penchant for more esoteric thought. Brubaker, I’d say is more along the lines of a Greg Rucka or Brian Bendis, more of a realist. Fraction, on the other hand is more along the lines of Warren Ellis or Grant Morrison, someone with a more unique perspective of the world. A perspective that, not to put too sharp a point on it works incredibly well when dealing with characters like the X-Men. Fraction lends a fantastic sense of wonderment and an original bent on the mutant team, reminiscent of what Morrison did on “New X-Men” and what Ellis is doing on “Astonishing,” and it give the line more of a uniform feeling. Brubaker was good on UXM, but I think Fraction has the potential to be great.
