Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Other than an alarming amount of violence against robotic and mechanical entities, this was just amazing.   Especially that issue where no one talks: the amount that both Morrison and Quitely get into that one issue is amazing.   A lot of visual detail, but you can tell a lot of that detail was in the script.   (The script is in the back.)  

The U-Men.   The buildup of the Xorn storyline.  The Phoenix.   Scott being in a weird, weird love triangle.   Morrison takes everything odd and makes it make sense.    He pushes boundaries, and forces the reader to reconsider what they once knew about the X-Men.  

And his buildups.   He slowly builds up everything without letting the reader know what's happening, and then slams you with his revelations.   He's amazing.  

I loved almost everything about this.   Except what happens to Rover.   (Although that scene where Tom calls out for him.   That emotionally crippled me all over again!)   And I'm not a huge fan of the way Quitely stylizes his art.   It's by no means bad, I just find it somewhat aesthetically displeasing.   (It's not a contradiction no matter if it seems so.   He's technically quite good, I just don't enjoy it very much.)

I wish I had more of Morrison's X-Men.