Sunday, April 30, 2006

Uncanny X-Periment # 26: "Beyond, Spiral, and Nimrod"

The Uncanny X-Men # 202-209

The X-Men face down with the Beyonder, Spiral, Freedom Force, Lady Deathstrike, and Nimrod in what are seven lackluster issues.

Rachel decides that the Beyonder needs to be defeated. In the process, she comes face-to-face with her personal demons and finally deals with 'em . . . sorta. Afterward, Wolverine faces off with Lady Deathstrike, which (while neat-looking) is actually not very exciting at all -- plus Katie Power is there. Why?

The team then battles Freedom Force for no particular reason, and then hang out in the Morlock tunnels so that Wolverine can get healed from his encouters. Rachel, feeling unsure of herself, seeks out Selene and the Hellfire Club with the objective to kill her. Wolverine, not liking this idea (?!), stabs Rachel (apparently its because he's afraid she'll turn into Dark Phoenix since she's exhibiting the Phoenix powers). This leads into a battle between the X-Men and the Hellfire Club, and then an alliance between them when Nimrod shows up. Rachel vanishes with Spiral, leaving the X-Men.

The art is bad (except for BWS), the stories are lame, and we've definetly reached a low-point for the X-Men.

~W~

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