Uncanny X-Men #489 Review

UNCANNY X-MEN #489
Written by Ed Brubaker
Art by Salvador Larroca

Brubaker continues his Search for Magneto arc and this issue proves to be continuing his build up / decompression phase. By this I mean nothing really happens this issue. Lots of sound and fury signifying nothing. Brubaker seems to be suffering from the Marvel mandate to have stories fit into neat little TPB sized packages. He is an excellent writer, but it seems team books, or maybe just the X-Men in particular, are not his forte. This is by no means a bad book though and this issue has some excellent scenes, such as Human Torch's interaction with the team and Caliban's breaking of his Xbox 360 controller. I always get tense fighting Nazi's myself. Nothing to be ashamed of Caliban.

This issue brings nothing new on the Magneto front and only the most die hard X-Men fan will find this issue a must have. Check it out if you are interested in seeing where this storyline eventually ends up. Otherwise simply wait for the eventual trade.

Seeing as this is an Endangered Species tie-in (do not start me on this cheap 90's tactic of using back up tie-ins to sell every ancillary X-title to me), I may as well weigh in on the back up story. If you have been paying attention, you will know that Dark Beast from Age of Apocalypse fame is the mysterious other character beating our Beast to each location on his journey. This issue deals with the fall out of their meeting up in the last part of Endangered Species. Lots of interesting dialogue between these two characters and I am glad to see their relationship being fleshed out more as they are both opposites of the same coin. I feel they wasted the Dark Beast character for all these years since AoA came out. This is an excellent edition to the ES storyline and probably pushes the lackluster UXM issue into the buy category for me.

Verdict - Check It

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