Also this week:

UNCANNY X-MEN #496 - Hmm.  An entire scene with no apparent point, other than to show that Cyclops doesn't know what a Celestial is?  Hmm.  Anyway, this is the second part of the downtime storyline, with half the team wandering around Russia, and the other half dealing with a refreshingly low-level supervillain who wants to turn San Francisco back to the sixties.  Mike Choi's art is back up to his usual standards after a slightly shaky effort last month, and this is thoroughly pleasant stuff.  A-

X-FORCE #2 - This, on the other hand...  I mean, if you're in the market for a grim, violent series about some of the X-Men fighting bad guys in low lighting, well, this does it adequately enough.  It's not a premise I find particularly intriguing, and the whole thing seems to take itself far more seriously than a story about the Purifiers deserves.  Mind you, Clayton Crain does do a lovely version of the old eighties character who shows up at the end, suggesting that he might be one of the few artists who can pull him off.  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, New Exiles visits an alternate Africa, X-Factor continues the "Messiah Complex" fallout, and Wolverine is in Afghanistan looking for shapeshifters.

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