REVIEW: Uncanny X-Force, #34

**CBR News** · 11-23-2012, 07:45 AM

"Uncanny X-Force" #34 from Rick Remender and Phil Noto is emotional. This is superheroic heartbreak set to the tunes of sliced skin and pounded flesh.

Full review here.

**Atomiq** · 11-23-2012, 08:12 AM

The only emotion I felt was pervasive annoyance at all the condescending, nudge-wink humor from Remender.

**SovereignPrince** · 11-23-2012, 08:23 AM

4 1/2 stars? Really. This arc's been a little touch and go to be honest. I think Remender's kinda set the bar too high for himself with the Dark Angel Saga. This just hasn't been as epic as I imagined. Maybe it'll read better in trade.

**Home made ectoplasm** · 11-23-2012, 08:24 AM

Was this issue really 9 times better than Legacy? I doubt it.

**Omega Alpha** · 11-23-2012, 08:45 AM

Yeah, I didn't think this issue was bad, but 4 1/2 stars is ridiculous. But now that Remender is writing the big editorial pet book (Uncanny Avengers), they have to give him good reviews.

**metalgorgomon** · 11-23-2012, 08:56 AM

I'd give it a tad lower than 4 1/2. But it's still a very good issue IMO. I just wish the art has more dynamic and cinematic effect as Opena/White's in DAS.

**semicyon** · 11-23-2012, 09:15 AM

All the condescending nudge wink humor? OK, whatever. Luckily, I don't have the superhuman senses to read the story that way and my ignorance is 4-star bliss with this issue. It's not quite as strong for me, but it's mostly because Marvel has oversaturated the market with Wolverine stories that it's hard for me to really be as invested in the mental state of his character as I could with the other members of Uncanny X-Force.

**Filthy Mutie** · 11-23-2012, 10:41 AM

Another over-the-top "please, please, please return my love" review from CBR. It was a mediocre issue of the worst, or second-to-worst arc in this series--depending on how you feel about the Otherworld arc.

Originally Posted by Home made ectoplasm

Was this issue really 9 times better than Legacy? I doubt it.

No. It wasn't 1x as good as the first issue of the new X-Men Legacy.

**JamesProudstar** · 11-23-2012, 01:44 PM

lol garbage review. Legacy #1 was better than this. Hell Hawkeye #4 was better than this. What is up with this sites review system?

I feel like I'm realizing Remender's drama is often smoke and mirrors. He comes up with a tale about revenge and killing that he wants to tell and then he just plugs in characters to those square and circular holes he has already built. The bad part is that I don't feel like he actually checks to make sure the characters/pegs he is plugging in are square shaped or circular. It is like forcing puzzle pieces to fit together

**slacker** · 11-23-2012, 02:16 PM

I really think Noto was the problem here. While great in his own way, it just didn't fit the book. There is no movement and the action is really flat. There was a lot going on at the end of the DAS, but it all looked amazing and had the sense of a final chapter. But Noto's work here on Genosha and the base looked like a slideshow. I think I remember having better action sequences in the old Spiderman Comic Creator on my first Windows PC.

There could have been a lot going on with the grotesqueness of the scenes, the grandeur of the Astral Plane, and the duel with Daken. Yes the story is a different issue, but Opena/White added a lot with their art, even Tocchini with Otherworld (which I loved), but unfortunately Noto's art really took away from the whole thing.

**Juggernaut Punch** · 11-23-2012, 04:17 PM

The whole thing felt rushed and anti-climatic. Sabretooth just walking away and laughing his ass off at the end made the whole thing extremely anti-climatic and just seem like a bad joke.

It'd be like Green Goblin going "Well, this was fun. I'm gonna take off, I have a manicure in 10 but we should totally do this again, I'll call you" after throwing Gwen Stacy off the bridge.

**slacker** · 11-23-2012, 04:26 PM

It's nothing new. Villains are let off the hook. The Horsemen abandoned Archangel in an instant. Besides, it's not like Remender is done writing Wolverine. And their big fight was an issue before, wasn't it? He was about to kill him, couldn't rehash that in this issue. Letting him go was the whole point that the book was making.

**Valeria Kementari** · 11-23-2012, 04:27 PM

can't wait for this crap to be over so the real Uncanny X-Force begins

**Juggernaut Punch** · 11-23-2012, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by slacker

It's nothing new. Villains are let off the hook. The Horsemen abandoned Archangel in an instant. Besides, it's not like Remender is done writing Wolverine. And their big fight was an issue before, wasn't it? He was about to kill him, couldn't rehash that in this issue. Letting him go was the whole point that the book was making.

It was still anti-climatic. Not to mention completely and utterly retarded. The point the book was trying to make was that revenge is bad and it creates a horrible cycle and that you can't make the world a better place by doing bad things.

Even if Logan wanted to teach Evan a lesson, letting fucking Sabretooth, the psycopath thats killed countless people and is currently the kingpin of east asian crime just walk away with no strings attached is ludicrous. He couldn't have arrested him?

**JamesProudstar** · 11-23-2012, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by slacker

It's nothing new. Villains are let off the hook. The Horsemen abandoned Archangel in an instant. Besides, it's not like Remender is done writing Wolverine. And their big fight was an issue before, wasn't it? He was about to kill him, couldn't rehash that in this issue. Letting him go was the whole point that the book was making.

So then why didn't he let Daken go?

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