1/13/2024 0 Comments Phil noto comic![]() ![]() Cyclops’ cheesesteak, for instance, is just a great visual gag. I just love when robots call people “meatbags” - it’s always laugh worthy. Incidentally, I have to give this comic another point on a singular trope that I personally adore. He is dating all of the Stepford Cuckoos. Cable is not dating one of the Stepford Cuckoos. But this issue of Cable makes that implicit point explicit. Whether it was the ‘adjoining rooms’ of the Summers House, Jean and Logan’s hot tub misadventures, or Cyclops and Emma’s double-entendre ridden innuendo, the Dawn of X team has basically implicitly said that the X-Men aren’t monogamous anymore. Krakoa has had, for a while now, a really unique take on the romantic entanglements of the X-Men. If I was the sort of person with the money to spend, I’d have that page of Esme and Nathan kissing on my wall.Īnd that brings us to the other notable element of this comic. The little hearts in the romantic scenes, the ‘zzzzzz’ to demonstrate energy weapons, the ‘BLAM’ of Cable’s requisite giant guns each bit of lettering really punctuates the comic with a sense of raw energy. I’m not referring to the balloons here – though that lettering is nice, too – but the special effects lettering done in the actual pages. Similarly, the lettering in the art itself is really fantastic. Whether it is the spaceknights, framed against the blackness of, well, space, or Cable and then Cyclops emerging from the shadows of the police station, their glowing eyes providing a distinct focal point for the whole page. His characters don’t exist on their own plane, separate from the background, but seamlessly move back and forth, with the darkness of shadows itself providing a narrative element. Moreover, Noto has a fantastic sense of light and dark.
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