@ The Mothership: Reviews of Uncanny X-Force #3 and Green Lantern #60
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Uncanny X-Force #3 is a step back from the first two issues. Where those were full of witty banter, quick characters and some sexy art, the third issue is one giant fight as X-Force battles the new Four Horsemen of Apocalypse on the moon. With the characters trapped in a one long fight, Remender does not have the room for the flourishes that he had in the first two issues. He kept things moving quickly in those issues so why does this issue just sit there, lumbering along during the fight? To keep the fights going, Remender has to drop a lot of the character interaction and witty banter that made the first two issues so much fun. The little character moments, with two or three of them playing off of one another, are mostly abandoned here or relegated to mere strategy exposition, moving the fight along but having almost no character in their words.
Green Lantern #60So, this book is about rings, Corps, super heroes and entities but it misses big time on one thing— where is Hal Jordan? In the current unending cycle of events, Geoff Johns has effectively taken Hal Jordan out of the book and substituted in a masked character. Even the Flash possessed by Parallax, which could have been an interesting exploration of his fears after his own rebirth, does very little other than run around, looking oddly jaundiced. The costumes and their adventures have overtaken the characters and their development in Green Lantern #60.