X-Men Legacy # 250 – 258
Reality maybe restored, but not everything is status quo for
the X-Men. First, there’s Revenant, who
turns out to be a psychic projection of Rachel Summers, and was trying to reach
out the X-Men for help. She fades back
into her body after a few days. But
there’s also trouble in the form of Legion’s missing personalities, four of
which have gone to Europe. Professor X,
Magneto, Frenzy, Rogue, Gambit, and Legion go after them. Three are absorbed back into Legion, but the
final and most deadly – Styx – resists.
Rogue eventually helps David by absorbing his powers and they reabsorb
Styx. Rogue, armed with these new
powers, uses them to teleport the group (except for David and his father) to
Rachel and the others.
Deep in Shi’ar space, the X-Men find themselves caught at
the top of a massive space station that is slowly being pulled into the
sun. Here, Havok, Polaris, and Korvus
are being mind-controlled by a former slave named ‘Friendless.’ He is leading his fellow slaves into a revolt
against the Shi’ar as punishment for both of them ruining his life. The X-Men and the Shi’ar salvage crew from
before get stuck in the middle. Friendless is eventually defeated and Rogue
(using knowledge absorbed earlier) is able to form a wormhole, taking the
station to Earth and eventually getting her fellow X-Men and former Starjammers
home.
I thought both of these stories were okay, but man, they
dragged on and on. I liked that they
wrapped things up, but there was a lot of unnecessary padding. We didn’t need all of those other
personalities to fight Legion. We didn’t
need the salvage crew on board that station (what happened with that station
anyways?)
But hey, the wayward X-Men are home and Charles and David
are closer than ever. Not bad. Just not good.
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