GOOD GOD THAT ART IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

BRAVO!!!!

New DeskTOP Background!

I really dig the way you ink nowadays man, so sketchy, soo nice, keep it up, I'll hit the store this week and grab me a copy.

Nice one, Skottie! Its on this weeks "to get list."

Will you be making an appearance at the NYC comic con this weekend?

-Rick

All I have to say about Victor's story is

THANK YOU!

It seriously was just awesome. You did a wonderful job with the art and the writing. :)


-CWolfeh

Done & done.
good job I really enjoyed it.

the art as usual was amazing but I was also very impressed with the story and you definetley are an impressive writer as well as artist.

Lovely art there Skottie, well done!

HEY SCOTTIE YOUR WORK IS GREAT, I REALY ENJOY, CONGRATULATIONS FROM MEXICO

SLUDOS AMIGO YOUNG ¡¡¡

I picked it up yesterday and man was it good. Your story I liked the best, and the art work was pretty awesome. Bravo man Bravo.

-Joey

Your story was the best one in the lot. The pages were beautiful as always, but you also crafted a really good anole story. Hopefully Marvel will see what you are doing here and give you more room to show off your talents in not only art, but in writing as well. Maybe even an Anole mini sonewhere down the road...

Keep up the great work Skottie.

Nice story man. As always a big fan of your work. Your story and Matt Fraction's story were the best ones I thought. I really didn't feel the art on the Hellion story.

Leaving aside how great the art looked I really have to complement you on your writing chops. What a great take on the X-Men as "child soldiers". That breakfast table scene was awesome.

Dude I would love to see you on the Immortal Iron Fist!

Skottie, dude, that Anole story was fantastic! Art was incredible and the writing was brilliant. It makes me wish they hadn't stopped New X-Men even more now and makes me miss you on the book. You're New X-Men were amazing.

This is a blog review, don't know if you want it but

http://fanboysstrikeback.blogspot.com/2008/04/book-of-week-41608-x-men-divided-we.html

Ey Skottie!

Here's is another review, by Paul O'Brien.

http://www.thexaxis.com/minis/dividedwestand1.htm

Apologies if this shows up twice.
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Hi, Skottie.

It's very seldom that two of my favorite b-listers get the spotlight let alone on the same page so I was really anticipating this story, but I wound up not picking up the book because I thought that Northstar was badly used and the story just didn't work very well because of it. I understand this was Victor's spotlight, but Northstar's voice and characterization were very off and, well, he came across as pretty generic; his dialog would have been better suited to a character like Iceman or Hellion and it seemed as if Victor could have been venting to any X-Man once the OOC platitudes got him going. If there had been more specifics in Victor's dismissal of Northstar when he tries to offer advice (eg: "Shut up. What would you know about anything that's happened? You weren't there!" etc.) instead of greviences that don't apply very well to someone who's been absent from New X-Men since well before the last creative team was replaced, or if he had been aiming his anger about what happened at the school toward a teacher who was actually involved in the more recent events of New X-Men or in the wake of Messiah Complex (such as Emma "Deathmatch" Frost or Scott "Xavier's dead; everybody out of the pool" Summers), I think the story would have had more impact; as it is, the difference was split and the end result just didn't have the force to be the sucker punch to the heart that it came so close to.

I wasn't thrilled with the casual dismissal of Northstar's recent resurrection and repeated brainwashings either. It seemed out-of-place in a story dealing with a realistic take on the kind of PTSD that, by all rights, should come with being part of the spandex lifestyle. I know you only had eight pages to work with, so every single issue between these two simply couldn't be addressed, but I think it would have been better to not mention the extenuating circumstances behind Northstar's punch at all and allow for the possibility that the X-Men had just left the kids out of the loop (again) than to bring it up and just give it a brush off. That's more important considering that, for all of his very understandable upset, the last bit with Victor giving Northstar a sock in the face when he knows full well that his teacher wasn't in his right mind when he threw his own punch comes across as petty and conflicts badly with Victor being upset because he attacked someone who didn't deserve it earlier.

For all of my gripes, I think that this came close to being a very good story. The art set the mood well, there was a strong idea at the heart, and a framework built around addressing issues at Xavier's that really had been let slide. But I still came away from it disappointed that my long-time favorite had been reduced to a convenient warm body and verbal and physical punching bag, and that my new favorite didn't come across as very sympathetic despite having every good reason to be furious at what had been done to him. The execution just didn't come off very well because the forward motion of the story depended on half of the cast acting out-of-character, which wasted a lot of the dramatic potential inherent in having these two characters in the same story.

Sorry for the length of this post, but I'd really been looking forward to this since the preview pages went up and disappointment makes me wordier with the crit than usual. Anyway, take care and best of luck on your next project.

Here's a review from the Weekly Crisis:

http://www.weeklycrisis.com/2008/04/weekly-crisis-quick-shot-comic-book_17.html


I had my doubts about Divided We Stand, as everything post-Messiah Complex in the X-titles seems to be a step backwards from what came before. It didn't help they cancelled New X-Men, which was one of the best titles coming out of Marvel. The Cannonball story was a little lackluster, but everything else was amazing.

The Nehzno and your Anole story were the best of the bunch, but I'm a huge NXM fan, so I'm a little biased towards those characters to begin with. Only complaint from the whole book was the fact we probably won't get to read any stories with these characters from you, Yost or Kyle anymore.

Hi this is Eric from the Review Busters. I just wanted to say if it wasn't for your short story I may have cried. I was fairly disappointed with this issue. Now the only thing I want is either an ongoing series or a mini series with Anole.

Hi Skottie..
Great art yet again and great story as well.. I'm glad your getting a chance to flex your writing muscles in the X-universe..
I want to buy a second issue just to post up some of your art at my job!!
Take Care

Skottie,

Look...opinions, assholes, you know the rest. People will like and dislike stories for many reasons, and while well spoken and thought out, I do believe the above comment by Suzene shows that many have missed another level of this story.

Don't only see this as just a diatribe to Northstar, try seeing this as a tirade against Marvel as a whole...at the constant and recurring fact that they no longer care what the readers want, but only for what will pull people into Borders and the multiplex.

Anole is speaking for every character that they have written off, out, or steamrolled with some shoddy and poorly executed crossover event. Millions of depowered mutants, the dead members of the New Warriors, and the handful of soon to be re dead skrulls-in-disguise can't say it.

Mary Jane PARKER, can't say it.

Captain fucking America can't even say it.

But Anole did. It wasn't only the X-Men that used them, it was Marvel, and through him and the characters written out of mutant lore, sure to be cannon fodder for whatever comes down the pike next, they used us.

I am not a "rabid fan". I didn't buy every issue of NXM...hell, until Skottie's run I don't think I ever bought two consecutive issues (part of the problem, yes, but atleast I know this) of the book.

But unlike MJ, Cap, and the rest we get to know that atleast if Anole is gone, he's off on his own path, on his own terms.

Skottie gave me that with this story. A little peace-of-mind.

Thanks,man.

-JGarren

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