Red Dome
What you should know - Bastion and the mutant haters (Human League, Purifiers etc) have cornered the X-Men in Utopia, since Donald Pierce did caused a great explosion in their base (The Blackbirds are gone), and now he prepares for a major assault on the X-Men, and all that just to kill Hope.
The Good in the story - Really liked the dialogues between Cable and Hope,´cause it´s about sacrifice, honor, courage and fighting for what´s right and for the people that believe in you (see pages 6, 17 and 23), the dialogues among the X-Men scientists are very cool too (see pages 1 and 18) and the "coming" of the Avengers (on pages 19 - 21 ) was awesome, I really liked it because had showed that the X-Men are in Marvel's cronology (that´s important) and good dialogues (like Spider Woman with Thor).
The Good in the Art - Greg Land is an amazing artist, he did good drawings in this issue, like Bastion (on page 12), the Archangel scene (page 11), his Cyclops is on of the best I´ve ever seen (pages 7, 11, 16), his Avengers were mighty (pages 19 - 21 - especially Thor), the "coming" of the Nimrods was cool too (pages 24 and 25), liked it his Wolverine releasing the boat on page 15. In Land's defense, the splash scenes (pages 8 - 10) were necessary to show what was happening in San Francisco - the red sphere, also the deep ocean scene - the only thing I didn´t like was a Colossus scene on page 15 (looks like he's fat and wearing large pants) and an Archangel scene on page 22 (showing only his wings).
Overall was a nice issue, really didn´t like the whole plot of "destroying the Blackbirds" 'cause there was no way the X-Men could've run way from the red dome in time - it happened very quickly, so the argument of cutting their scape route was a little fragile for me - it would only had worked if it was some kind of distraction, but I remember vividly that the main thing was to not allow the X-Men to get airborne, and again, even if they had all their jets, no way they could've scaped the Bastion's trap.
4 out 5 Nimrods from the future
The Good in the story - Really liked the dialogues between Cable and Hope,´cause it´s about sacrifice, honor, courage and fighting for what´s right and for the people that believe in you (see pages 6, 17 and 23), the dialogues among the X-Men scientists are very cool too (see pages 1 and 18) and the "coming" of the Avengers (on pages 19 - 21 ) was awesome, I really liked it because had showed that the X-Men are in Marvel's cronology (that´s important) and good dialogues (like Spider Woman with Thor).
The Good in the Art - Greg Land is an amazing artist, he did good drawings in this issue, like Bastion (on page 12), the Archangel scene (page 11), his Cyclops is on of the best I´ve ever seen (pages 7, 11, 16), his Avengers were mighty (pages 19 - 21 - especially Thor), the "coming" of the Nimrods was cool too (pages 24 and 25), liked it his Wolverine releasing the boat on page 15. In Land's defense, the splash scenes (pages 8 - 10) were necessary to show what was happening in San Francisco - the red sphere, also the deep ocean scene - the only thing I didn´t like was a Colossus scene on page 15 (looks like he's fat and wearing large pants) and an Archangel scene on page 22 (showing only his wings).
Overall was a nice issue, really didn´t like the whole plot of "destroying the Blackbirds" 'cause there was no way the X-Men could've run way from the red dome in time - it happened very quickly, so the argument of cutting their scape route was a little fragile for me - it would only had worked if it was some kind of distraction, but I remember vividly that the main thing was to not allow the X-Men to get airborne, and again, even if they had all their jets, no way they could've scaped the Bastion's trap.
4 out 5 Nimrods from the future
