So another issue of Uncanny X-Men is coming out this week (#449).
Have you ever been channel surfing and you pause on PBS because there’s a concert on? And you think, “That sure is a honking bad (fill in the blank) tribute band.” And you watch for a few more minutes until you realize, “Oh, man, that’s not a tribute band. That’s (fill in the blank). Damn.”
That’s pretty much how I feel when I read Uncanny X-Men. If I weren’t biologically compelled to buy anything drawn by Alan Davis, I probably wouldn’t bother. As for the fill-in artist for the current arc, it’s nice to see the continued improvement of Olivier Coipel’s pencils. (I thought his work on Legion was grotesque and impossible to follow but found he’d improved a lot by the time he took over Avengers. The ridiculous Viper costume aside, his pencils on Uncanny show continued growth.)
But, seriously, as Paul O’Brien noted, Chris Claremont set up a perfectly interesting scenario for Uncanny. Why has he set it aside in favor of a tinny greatest-hits collection?