Milo Manara gives the comics.

5 female members of X-Men spend a week at Kirinos Greece: Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat), Rachel Summers (Marvel Girl), Ororo Munroe (Storm), Anna Marie (Rogue) and Betsy Braddock (Psylocke). During an evening, Rachel is kidnapped by an unknown force. The other X-Women are getting after him and his trail back up Madripoor (a fictitious island wedged between Singapore and Sumatra). The heroines found Rachel in a fortress from which they were expelled after losing their powers, without having recovered Rachel. They are then to thank you from hackers who worship the cargo planes.

American comics suffer from a terrible vis-à-vis the complex Franco-Belgian comics. They envy him his cultural legitimacy (which is not innate, but a hard-earned gains). So, whenever the opportunity arises, the US publisher does everything for a project combining an American artist with a big European name to succeed. The result is not always up to (who remembers the Silver Surfer 2 episodes written by Stan Lee and drawn by Moebius in Silver Surfer?). Through the magic of officers each other, Milo Manara draws a written adventure X-Men by Chris Claremont for the occasion.

Claremont performs its task with a very professional know-how. The plot is linear to perfection, only the order of the plates that part of the plot is a flashback. The story is irrelevant and of no consequence. This is just for the writer to put moments showcasing the talents of Manara: girls in action, girls in slinky outfits and super short, girls beginning to embrace, girls and hampered girls trying to fight. Have I been around? Oh no, he also set the action in the master fond scenery: jungle, crypt and nightlife.

So Milo Manara has a simple scenario allowing it to shine brightly drawing that made him famous (but he can do other things more ambitious too). And from the coverage, we understand that Marvel was well annoyed to market this product. If you look good in the illustration, you will find that each of the four heroines has an open mouth in a very sensual movement that seems out of step with respect to the situation. All situations are good for drawing one and the other in lascivious or ambiguous postures. Kitty Betsy aid to pass through a rockfall: they are both intertwined in great physical intimacy. The criminal charge has a tight shirt with collar and neckline to the navel allowing an advantageous view of his chest. Kitty hanging on a vine catches Storm narrowly falling upside down and here are two young women in a head to tail position more equivocal. Betsy and Kitty are forced to change after the destruction of their costume; no luck there are only a little short T-shirts that reveal their rear with every movement. And it's like that on every page.

Warning, do not make me say what I did not say. Each page is filled with details and each decor is beautiful. Manara was not content to draw pretty girls on every page in empty boxes of decorations. He played the game perfectly and illustrated a comic he did not blush. Nothing is sloppy. He has made himself inking Each drawing is beautiful and each recalls that Manara knows all draw. It is even one of the highlights of this history that powers contemplate clashes have returned to a more normal level and whose layout flows alone. As usual, Dave Stewart performed a setting as sumptuous as nuanced colors.

"X-Men" is based on a very conventional script and beautiful illustrations and very oriented towards a systematic development of the beautiful heroines.