Yea emma is only great when the writer understands her character and I think maybe she use to love scott but maybe she is just losing her attraction. She might just be getting bored with their relationship and missing her freedom. She might just stay with him because it keeps her in a position of power

" ... it seems to me that the popular consensus among most people is that Emma is whiny and bitchy. i really have no opinion on her. what is it with Namor and blond women who are currently attached? this seems familiar... "

Totally agree with all of it. Fair rating.  
 
Emma Frost seemed extremely off in this issue, she was coming off as extremely obnoxious and bitchy. 
  
The interaction between Emma and Tony was awkward somehow, I didn't enjoy that all that much, and Tony seemed to be just as annoying. I didn't like him at all here...seems weird that he is portrayed really cool in his own on-going and here he is totally different, in a bad way (and they are written by the same dude, no?) 
 
I did like Emma's interaction with Namor and particularly Namor's comments about Cyclops, which piqued my interest. By the way...Namor eating sushi isn't so weird, we live with the resources we are given. Just like we as humans eat cows and pigs...Atlanteans would eat fish...not as weird. Food chain...etc.

I totally agree what you are saying Babs. 

Babs I agree completely, in my opinion Morrison wrote Emma so amazingly in New X-Men, that all writers are inferior to him, ESPECIALLY Fraction who writes Emma like she's in a bad fan fiction! 
 
Plus I'm so glad Psylocke and Cecilia (of all people!) had their little moments in this arc. I wanted to know what you thought of them being in the issue though Babs?

Yea I didn't really enjoy this issue, but I am digging the use of Cecilia Reyes character. I feel too much is going on and they're not covering it all well, Hope's crusade to help these new mutants could be much more interesting which is why (although I am not a big fan of them) I think this deserves it own mini series. The last issue left us with a new mutant that had to drop everything and get on plane full people she doesn't know to go to a new location to help a kid just like her. I don't know it just felt to me like a possible character developing moment but they just flew on to the next one.

I know I will have Frost fans chew my head off for this, but I always viewed Emma as self-serving and obnoxious. Even with the X-Men and demonstrating some legitimate care for her students, she has always rubbed me the wrong way. 

I AGREE 100%!!!!
 Emma Frost is only a good person b/c she is a teacher,
 if she doesn't help the people around her she might as 
well go back to the Hellfire Club. 
 
I feel like if she was having nightmares about Kitty, she 
would want to do EVERYthing in her power to help her. 
I also feel like Emma is being torn in 100 different directions.
Much like Jean Grey and Wolverine, i truthfully don't like when
awesome characters are over used b/c they become not so 
awesome anymore.

Namor and Emma make such a great couple. He rules the ocean and her chest can be used as a flotation device.

I could not agree more with you Babs. The way Emma was written during second coming was that she was always beside Cyclops. In this issue she was a bitch and pretty scandalous with Tony and Namor.

"Namor and Emma make such a great couple. He rules the ocean and her chest can be used as a flotation device. "

It's about time they started bringing Emma back to who she really is.  I never liked her being with Scott and playing the school marm gig.   That just doesn't seem Emma-like.   She's way better as the "neutral" character that you never know if she's going to stab you in the back.  I found her affair and flirtation with Scott interesting while Jean was still alive, that was Emma, trying to steal something from someone more powerful then her, but once she won the prize I figured she'd dump Cyclops and move on to bigger and better, I've always liked Cyclops but he's never been Emma material man.  
 
Emma wasn't that bad in this issue, you want bad Emma writing go read the Astonishing X-Men 5 part Xenogenesis series, Emma was so horribly written and the artwork was so bad that I didn't even want part 3 - 5 in my bag.  Emma disturbed me beyond anything in those first 2 issues.

100% agreed Babs.
 
I think there are A LOT of X-Men characters Fraction gets completely wrong, not just Emma, but that is just my opinion. I do not read any Uncanny for this reason.

I could tolerate the writing, I have faith in Fraction. But I hated the art! I could barely tell what was going on.

It was an abysmal issue. Even worst than the last. How Fraction can be so brilliant with Casanova and IIM and then so bad here is beyond perplexing. But that is not the worst of it. The art is some of the worst I've ever seen. And this is supposed to be the main X book?! Good thing they just launched a new X-Men proper volume.

Haven't read this issue, but nonetheless it is disappointing that this character can be so miss-written in just one issue after so much development done to her character the past few years...
I still like Scott & Jean better than Scott & Emma... so this might mean that I probably will like this issue since I think Emma is bitchy anyways!

Heres what i think... Two- person reviews work much better...  
Single reviewers are no fun. I will continue to says so.

I like Emma Frost when she was in the Hell Fire Club. She not that interesting with the X-Men. I want the old evil Emma Frost.

Maybe they're trying to blow up the bitch factor and make her unlikable so when they break her and Scott up, people will be more accepting when Jean returns and reunite with Scott. I think this could work out, maybe now she can finally be a real queen when she runs off with Namor in the process, then they can both sit on their high seahorses together...lol jk  

 But yeah...old habits die hard I guess...?  Kitty and Emma were never friends, and they pretty much hated and distrust each other before the whole Breakworld incident, they have alot of not so happy history lol.  Though I thought they gained respect for each other after that, but guess that's out the window now that shes backlol

Thanks guys! I was worried about how this review would be perceived. It's nice to see so many of you guys agreeing with me. :)

just jumping in to mention that i think namor is a cack!

Fraction has his name stamped on to many stories.

opps i miss read that man i thought u said the did like eachother be4 the beak world stuff, my bad Havoc

If jean comes back she needs to fight Emma...thats just the way god wants it.

ugh. i hate the art. :S

i just now read the issue and i wanted to tear it in half...she was being such a BITCH! you were right babs, this issue kinda sucked...

" 100% agreed Babs.  I think there are A LOT of X-Men characters Fraction gets completely wrong, not just Emma, but that is just my opinion. I do not read any Uncanny for this reason. "

I got that Emma had other things on her minds. Before with SC she put her dirty secrets in the basement in the back of her mind, but what Tony said made her rethink her action. Then Colossus was like can you be a phone between me and my girlfriend, meanwhile she is thinking about a man responsible for many bad times in her life and him being so close. You'd be bitchy in that case too.

I hate Namor so freaking much. He out douches Stark, and that's a decent effort. 
 
I can't wait for Cyclops to nuke him into oblivion. 

Awesome review! Love the rating! 100% agree. Matt Fraction=overrated. Isn't this the same guy who had Magneto bow to Cyclops? That's laughable. He gets a lot of characters wrong. Why doesn't editorial point that out (can't believe I just asked for editorials help... *gasp*)?!?!

 i love this couple, Emma has been with the Xmen for too long

I agree with you!
Emma Frost has been a great character the last couple years and in this issue...nada!

In the latest previews, it seems Whilce Portacio will be leaving the book. Greg Land will be picking up on this title. Now if we could only convince Fraction to leave...

This issue did absolutely nothing for me, the depiction of Emma was a summing up of all the reasons I have never liked the character, I would have thought she would have developed a bit further from that kind of attitude by now but apparently not. Even though I've been following Uncanny for just over a year now i had only really slightly warmed to her but my biggest problem with this issue however was the art which quite frankly I found dire, Emma looks terrible in ninety percent of the story and Colossus's eyes were practicaly none exsistant to name but a few dissatistactory elements. I just skiming to story towards the end as i just couldn't take it anymore, a shame really as i thought as last months issue was fantastic start to the five lights arc. I need to drop a few titles in the next few months anyway, I'm afrade #527 has just knocked X-men from my pull list. 

Here's the problem with Emma, starting with Generation X, she gets redeemed, loses her icy exterior and starts to care, and then the next writer turns her into a cold hearted witch and starts the process over again. So, she was humanized, and then Whedon turned her cold and then humanized her, and now Fraction. But it's weirder with Fraction, since he's been writing her different from this for a while. So, her characterization in this issue feels completely off. Makes me wonder if Fraction wasn't given a direction with her and Scott because they want to bring another character back from the dead.

" Oh you creased that spine and made me cringe  I don't usually read Marvel besides Namor every blue moon and again when he shows up and I was going to check this out but damn a 2.5 haha maybe not. I love the art on the cover can you or someone recommend something that has that artists' work on the inside? "

I agree with babs. I prefer Joss Whedons Emma Frost. i have always liked her up to the point of Dark Reign. but since second coming she has changed and they are making her into the type of person who won't be with scott for too much longer. which pisses me off cause she is far better than jean grey or any woman much similar to jean grey *hint hint*