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Chasing Magik In Uncanny X-Men

Published Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:00:19 -0500

Last updated Wed, 03 Jul 2013 05:08:32 -0500

Erik Hollander wrote;

Buying comics, especially lately has been pretty expensive. It helps that a lot of DC books, and a few Marvel titles are 2.99, but the 3.99 price point is becoming more and more regular. Then, to conserve even more, we had two extra pages taken away – reducing a once 22 page comic to just 20 pages.

I've actually not been as bothered by that last fact as I much I might be – mostly because writers these days seem to be actively compressing stories, giving more story in those 20 pages than, for example, Marvel use to have in the course of 6 issues when they where practicing "decompressing" storytelling.

Still — at 3.99, I don't want to be cheated out of those 20 pages. So thats why I was surprised to find in Uncanny X-Men #7, the issue has a two page spread…. OF NOTHING! I counted the pages, excluding that double spread of blackness, and only arrived at 18 pages. Did the artist get paid for that two-page spread of nothing?

But not so fast! While the printed pages appear black with white text, that may not have been intentional. If you squint at the right hand side, you can see… something.

It's easier to see on the digital version (available to download free with the $3.99 print comic so, you know, there's that for your money, Erik!)…