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Uncanny X-Men #449 is the second
half of the Viper/Murderworld mess, and it's junk.
Having gone to the trouble of bringing in
the Murderworld concept last issue, Claremont proceeds to
ignore it completely. In fact, he seems entirely unclear
whether the story is taking place in Murderworld or in London,
or whether Murderworld is London, and in any event, why
Viper has nailed a big Arcade sign to the side of the
perfectly good London Eye which was there anyway.
The resolution of the cliffhanger is, as
many people correctly guessed, that Wolverine was impersonating
Sage with the use of an image inducer. These image
inducers are clearly pretty damned impressive these days,
since you'd have thought the obvious weight difference would
have been apparent when Viper was lugging the unconscious
bodies around. Or the size difference. Or the fact
that Wolverine's apparently been putting on a squeaky voice
for half an issue.
And there's an utterly hideous sequence of
Storm containing a bomb by "generating pressures higher than
on the surface of Jupiter." The hell with that.
The knack of doing these scenes is to have the characters use
their powers in some clever and unexpected way to solve the
problem, not to elevate them to God status and declare them
the winner.
Dross, elevated far above its level by some
fairly attractive artwork by Olivier Coipel - enough to get it
out of the D-ratings, but only barely.
Rating: C-
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