Salvador Larocca is an unbelievably awesome artist. Not only can he meet deadlines every month, his artwork is sooooooooo gorgeous. I mean, just check out the cover. Has Sage ever looked so hot? Heck, how many cartoon ladies looked so good in a skintight bodysuit, eh?In addition, in this series, the stress is that there is no inking and that the printing is done based on Salva's pencils. However, as it is experimental, quite often the pages can come out too muddy or the colours too strong. Sigh! Still you can see the goodness in the pencils, right?
Now the only odd thing is that until today, Salva is still working at Marvel ... with one big exception. His artwork is becoming more stylized (as is to be expected) ... with the main challenge being that ... it now looks so rush and barren especially on the backgrounds ... almost as if he is merely churning work out and not caring ... see his later X-Men works or even the current stuff ... his last decent run was in Iron Man ...
Okay ... as for the story ... it is a continuation from the first three issues ... where this particular team of X-Men is formed to track down Destiny's Diaries that have been hidden/ gone missing ... and they finally come face to face with another team and their arch nemesis who are also hunting the Diaries ... the X-team came across and paid a heavy price in issue 3 ... now in issue 4, they go all out (not backing down) to trace the whereabouts of the villains ... and we also get to see a cameo by Gambit ... after all, he is a thief, yes?
Who is the villain? Someone named Vargas - rich and powerful living on the borderlines of society in shadows ... we are never quite sure of his powers ... seems to be the case with many new X-Villains, eh? Look at Apocalypse and SinisterRatings: 6/10
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