{"id":104,"date":"2007-03-22T17:29:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=104"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:53:01","slug":"uncanny-x-men-alan-davis-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/22\/uncanny-x-men-alan-davis-omnibus\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny X-Men: Alan Davis Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ux.jpg\" title=\"Uncanny X-Men: Alan Davis Omnibus\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/ux.jpg\" alt=\"Uncanny X-Men: Alan Davis Omnibus\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Chris Claremont<\/strong> and <strong>Alan Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Marvel\/Panini UK)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-905239-40-8<\/p>\n<p>(A BRITISH EDITION RELEASED BY PANINI UK LTD)<\/p>\n<p>Alan Davis has been a feature of the US comics scene &#8212; and a source of pride to his fellow Brits &#8212; for over twenty years now, so a compendium of his work is probably long overdue.\u00c2\u00a0It is, then, with mixed feelings that I have to say this is a joy and a disappointment as a package.<\/p>\n<p>As always, his beautiful and influential picture-making is well worth the price of admission, especially when inked by his long-term collaborator, the masterful Mark Farmer, but the editors, by selecting such recent material (<strong>Uncanny X-Men<\/strong> issues #444-447, 450-451 and 455-459, \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all from the last three years) have deprived newer readers of some wonderful tales. Not to mention ignoring the fact that Mr Davis is a writer of no mean ability himself.<\/p>\n<p>Still, what <em>is<\/em> here is pretty good, as Chris Claremont scripts some rip-roaring tales featuring time-warps, Sentinels, an unstoppable robot Fury, a teenaged girl Wolverinette, and an all-out Battle Royale in the antediluvian Savage Land against the dinosaur counterparts of the Mutant superheroes for the fate of humanity on Earth, all of which show the range and versatility of the artist. Now if we can just work on a second volume\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2004, 2005, 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Claremont and Alan Davis (Marvel\/Panini UK)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-905239-40-8 (A BRITISH EDITION RELEASED BY PANINI UK LTD) Alan Davis has been a feature of the US comics scene &#8212; and a source of pride to his fellow Brits &#8212; for over twenty years now, so a compendium of his work is probably long overdue.\u00c2\u00a0It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/22\/uncanny-x-men-alan-davis-omnibus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uncanny X-Men: Alan Davis Omnibus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marvel-superheroes","category-x-men"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}