Age of X: Alpha, X-Men: Legacy # 245, New Mutants # 22,
X-Men: Legacy # 246, New Mutants # 23, X-Men: Legacy # 246, New Mutants # 24
All of sudden, everything is different. The last remaining Mutants have taken refuge
in a huge tower built on Alcatraz. They
are led by Magneto and every day, they are assaulted by human forces. Cannonball seems to be the field leader. Legion, Hellion, Unuscione, Psylocke and a
Phoenix-lite character named Reveanant are in charge of keeping a force field
up around the tower. Rogue (now called
Legacy) has the quite grim job of absorbing the powers of everyone who is
dying. Logan runs a bar, since popping
his claws and entering into a high-stress situation will kill him. Scott is married to Frenzy.
In the aftermath of one of the daily battles with the
humans, Legacy finds Kitty Pryde. Kitty
leaves behind a camera, but she is swiftly taken away by Magneto. Magneto keeps her – and other Mutants that
could endanger the tower – locked up in the basement. Legacy takes a look at the camera, but finds
nothing. She uses Box’s powers to get
down into the basement and she finds Kitty – and Danger. She makes a run for it and finds herself in a
cell with Professor X, who is in a coma.
She touches him, absorbs his powers, alerting Danger. She manages to escape, but Magneto sends a
New Mutants hit squad after her. Legacy
hangs out in Logan’s bar. Magneto joins
the hunt. Gambit soon joins her, but
they are soon discovered and squished by Magneto.
In the aftermath, Scott realizes something is wrong. He and Logan conspire to work together to find
out what’s going on. Meanwhile, Gambit
and Legacy are actually alive and well.
Magneto tucked them away. He
reveals that he sent Kitty out to take pictures of a room deep in the fortress
that Magneto has no knowledge about. The
room shouldn’t exist and it serves no
purpose. He sends Legacy and Gambit to
break into it while he and Kitty go find the Professor, who may hold the
answers they’re looking for. In the
room, Legacy and Gambit discover a frozen-in-time still image of Doctor Nemesis
running to a computer, as well as brain scans, and a small box. Legacy opens the box – and it has a universe
inside.
Outside, Cannonball preps his forces to fight the humans
again. Inside, Magneto and Kitty have managed
to convince the New Mutant hit squad to not kill them, but Legion and his gang
show up, branding them as traitors.
Professor X, now awake, tries to talk some sense into everyone.
Meanwhile, Moira shows up (Legion’s god-mother) and demands
that Legacy and Gambit hand over the box.
We soon realize that Doctor Nemesis was working on a way of deleting the
multiple personalities in David’s mind, but in doing so, released one who
Utopia into the Age of X. As Xavier
tries to battle Moira, the humans launch another assault. The Mutants rise to the defense, united at
last. David, who remembers now what
happened, absorbed Moira and ends the Age of X.
Let me tell you. I
loved this story. I was really not
expecting to. Y’know, just another
alternate reality. Yada yada yada. But man, the backstory is cool, the world is
unique, the characters are so radically different, and yet in some ways, the
same. There’s a great sense of mystery
to it. There was no reality hopping, no time travel, none of that. How did this world come about? Why are things the way they are? Once the real world starts to leak through
and the cracks are visible, you can see just how it got to this. This is really phenomenal.
What I also liked about this world were all the new, unique designs. There’s a great level of effort to show just
how different these characters have become in the context of this new reality.
This really feels like the culmination of everything that
Mike Carey has been doing with Professor X and Rogue. Rogue gets a great spotlight and continues to
shine. Professor X finally taking responsibility as David’s father seems just so
perfect for him. And David himself is very well-written. I haven’t read the
new X-Men Legacy, but this felt a lot like David’s best story.
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