Also this week... other stuff.

Look, it's late and they shipped seven X-books.  I can't be bothered writing about anything else.

Oh, all right...

WORLD WAR HULK: FRONT LINE #1 - It's not very good.  Urich and Floyd's website operation has been remarkably transformed into a full scale newspaper, thanks to some clunky plotting, and now they're covering the evacuation of Manhattan.  An evacuation which seems to involve almost nobody actually leaving, and the aliens having a nice chat with the local authorities.  I could spend all night listing the ways in which this doesn't match the plot or, more importantly, the tone of the core series.  Basically, though, these characters want to be in a down-to-earth series about journalism, and they're appearing in a widescreen story about the Hulk punching things.  It doesn't fit and it doesn't work.  C

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and if you're desperate for more Article 10 columns, you can always hunt through the archives on Ninth Art.

Next week, Uncanny X-Men #488.  Just Uncanny X-Men #488. 

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