I was expecting the profile to be more interesting.
It might be slightly wordier than the collectors profile but doesn't really add much. They even removed the direct reference to Demon and went with a more indirect hints about "wrath" him using the flames of hell. Not sure what the added indirectness is supposed to accomplish, when the other canonical profiles already spilled the beans.
Also disappointed that they didn't even try to get into the connection with Mercuremon, even if that's the only thing explaining his goofy color scheme.
Perhaps a future poll will get us a DRB entry for the DW3 BlackSeraphimon and maybe that one will get a profile that's actually interesting.
Nice art. I actually like it better than the one from the mobile card game and the other art from the HC card game. Still not sure why they had to make a new art, especially when those X forms last time used card game art but oh well.
To be fair, the X antibody images were likely made as stock Bandai art that was subsequently used for the card game as Bandai artwork had been since the beginning.
The very point of X-Antibody Digimon was to introduce more varied styles from different artists. New art in the standard Bandai style like the rest of the new Reference Book art would lose that part of their identity (unlike BlackSeraphimon) and at the same time, it's unlikely to make sense to re-contract a whole bunch of third party illustrators just for a Reference Book update.
