User blog:Johnnybravo44/Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force 2 Review by Johnnybravo44

Good issue, but could have been a litttle better. Still X-Force hasn't even met the mastermind behind all the Purifiers attacks, which I find hard to believe even though I'm reading it. It's similar to how the X-Men haven't found Kade Kilgore yet in Schism. Hell, they don't even know who he is over there. Anyways, pretty good issue here.



I felt like too much time was wasted showing about Jonathan Standish's past, and X-Force sitting on their asses. Not too much fighting until the end, however. This entire story of X-Force seems a little unbelievable to be honest. Where the heck are the X-Men? They don't watch the news? It's not exactly hidden that Purifiers were suicide bombers and raising hell (pardon the pun) all over the place. And here comes X-Force instead in broad daylight, no biggie. All other X-Force stories before now made sense considering their status quo: fighting Apocalypse in space, fighting Apocalypse in another reality, fighting the Reavers on a different continent, hunting down and killing someone for Magneto under covert ops, etc. It all adds up as to why the X-Men wouldn't have heard about them yet (besides Mags clearly).

Still, I guess that's what makes this a bit more interesting. One would think, knowing X-Force, if something like this happened, that they would shy away because they didn't want to be seen, but nope. So that sure is interesting..

I enjoyed Deadpool's (basically) fourth wall breaking, Justin Bieber hate reference, and the rest of his humor. It was cool to see just how awesome E.V.A. really can be. I admire Psylocke even more now for being on the team. Before it was just "I'm saving Warren's mind", now its "I wanna kill this bastard" or whatever. Nice change, and all with no healing factor (as Fantomex pointed out) to keep her alive the entire time.

The art as ever is great. The Simone's have done a wonderful job. And Rob Williams writing may not be considered as good as Rick Remender's, but it's up there for sure. I only had one or two problems in the art, one being where one or two scenes Psylocke seriously had a bad hair day. Other than that, superb. I have to say, the color choices for each individual scenes were incredible. A lot of time must have been spent to get it just right.

Overall, the issue was good, not great. So 4 out of 5 stars from me. It ended a little early, and with the preview of some other book in the back, I was genuinely surprised that it was ending so abruptly. I mean, I doubt Psylocke is dead. Clearly. Anyways, there you have it. Agree? Disagree? Let me know what you think.

Johnnybravo 44 (talk) 03:09, August 11, 2011 (UTC)