tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229247642024-03-13T23:45:40.597-07:00Uncanny X-PerimentKHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-17736259372587276342015-05-04T07:49:00.000-07:002015-05-04T07:51:09.904-07:00The four films I want to see after Age of Ultron (but won't happen) *SPOILERS!*<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Like the title says, these are four films I would love to see in the aftermath of Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since we know what's really coming and I'm sure the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in fantastic hands, it's a guarantee we won't see these. But there's nothing wrong with mindless speculation!</div>
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an old enemy (maybe Taskmaster) uncovers Hawkeye’s secret farm and attacks
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hawkeye gains the upper hand – but the
farm is a total loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, until they can
rebuild, he moves the family to New York City (partially to be closer to
Avengers Tower in case trouble comes around again).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Barton learns that the landlord of his
new apartment home is a scumbag, he buys the building, angering the local
Russian mob (bro).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hilarity ensues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Co-starring Aubrey Plaza as Kate Bishop,
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devastating Wakanda; Black Widow is tracking him for closure and security; and
the Hulk is being secretly manipulated by the Leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Hulk spends most of the movie as the
Hulk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s rare that we see Banner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring Liv Tyler back in as Betty and add in Adrianne
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Cap leads a new team of Avengers (seen at the end of the
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KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-24556441363106417222014-07-25T19:11:00.003-07:002014-07-25T19:11:42.096-07:00Uncanny X-Periment # 175: Breaking Point<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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waiting to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Kate Kildare, PR
extraordinaire, comes to the rescue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
has a great talk with Magneto, trying to get him from wanting the humans to
fear and hate him to just fearing and not hating him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is a problem, considering everything he
has done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, the X-Men are going
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</span>Kieron Gillan has a great voice for these characters and knows how to
write an entertaining yarn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Magneto
and Hope/Wolverine stories are far better than the Breaking Point story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breaking Point felt very messy and
convulted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So how did the X-Men get
their powers back?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a population
of aggressive aliens living in San Francisco, along with a fallen, bloodthirsty
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Terry Dodson, Carlos Pacheco and Ibraim Roberson knock the
art outta the park, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each style
features each story well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly, I
would have been happier if Gillian had done some shorter story stuff; single
issues, done-in-one stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reality maybe restored, but not everything is status quo for
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turns out to be a psychic projection of Rachel Summers, and was trying to reach
out the X-Men for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She fades back
into her body after a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
there’s also trouble in the form of Legion’s missing personalities, four of
which have gone to Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X,
Magneto, Frenzy, Rogue, Gambit, and Legion go after them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three are absorbed back into Legion, but the
final and most deadly – Styx – resists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rogue eventually helps David by absorbing his powers and they reabsorb
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Deep in Shi’ar space, the X-Men find themselves caught at
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sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, Havok, Polaris, and Korvus
are being mind-controlled by a former slave named ‘Friendless.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is leading his fellow slaves into a revolt
against the Shi’ar as punishment for both of them ruining his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men and the Shi’ar salvage crew from
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I thought both of these stories were okay, but man, they
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But hey, the wayward X-Men are home and Charles and David
are closer than ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just not good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of sudden, everything is different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last remaining Mutants have taken refuge
in a huge tower built on Alcatraz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
are led by Magneto and every day, they are assaulted by human forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cannonball seems to be the field leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legion, Hellion, Unuscione, Psylocke and a
Phoenix-lite character named Reveanant are in charge of keeping a force field
up around the tower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rogue (now called
Legacy) has the quite grim job of absorbing the powers of everyone who is
dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan runs a bar, since popping
his claws and entering into a high-stress situation will kill him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott is married to Frenzy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the aftermath of one of the daily battles with the
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leaves behind a camera, but she is swiftly taken away by Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto keeps her – and other Mutants that
could endanger the tower – locked up in the basement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legacy takes a look at the camera, but finds
nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She uses Box’s powers to get
down into the basement and she finds Kitty – and Danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She makes a run for it and finds herself in a
cell with Professor X, who is in a coma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She touches him, absorbs his powers, alerting Danger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She manages to escape, but Magneto sends a
New Mutants hit squad after her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legacy
hangs out in Logan’s bar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto joins
the hunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gambit soon joins her, but
they are soon discovered and squished by Magneto.</span></div>
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out what’s going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Gambit
and Legacy are actually alive and well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Magneto tucked them away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
reveals that he sent Kitty out to take pictures of a room deep in the fortress
that Magneto has no knowledge about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
room<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shouldn’t exist and it serves no
purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legacy opens the box – and it has a universe
inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Outside, Cannonball preps his forces to fight the humans
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professor X, now awake, tries to talk some sense into everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Moira shows up (Legion’s god-mother) and demands
that Legacy and Gambit hand over the box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Xavier
tries to battle Moira, the humans launch another assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mutants rise to the defense, united at
last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David, who remembers now what
happened, absorbed Moira and ends the Age of X.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let me tell you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
loved this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was really not
expecting to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y’know, just another
alternate reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yada yada yada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But man, the backstory is cool, the world is
unique, the characters are so radically different, and yet in some ways, the
same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a great sense of mystery
to it. There was no reality hopping, no time travel, none of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did this world come about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are things the way they are?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the real world starts to leak through
and the cracks are visible, you can see just how it got to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is really phenomenal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What I also liked about this world were all the new, unique designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a great level of effort to show just
how different these characters have become in the context of this new reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This really feels like the culmination of everything that
Mike Carey has been doing with Professor X and Rogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rogue gets a great spotlight and continues to
shine. Professor X finally taking responsibility as David’s father seems just so
perfect for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And David himself is very well-written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t read the
new X-Men Legacy, but this felt a lot like David’s best story.</span></div>
KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-9699264165275526102014-02-16T11:17:00.003-08:002014-02-16T11:17:34.701-08:00Uncanny X-Periment # 172: Curse of the Mutants<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">X-Men # 1- 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jubilee is having a lunch with Pixie when suddenly, a dude
explodes and sprays everyone with blood, including Jubilee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jubilee is rushed back to Utopia and it’s
soon discovered that the guy was a vampire bomb and everyone splattered is
transforming into a vampire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men
investigate and discover vampire groups throughout the city and eventually
encounter Blade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blade informs them that
Dracula has been killed and his son, Xarus, has united the various vampire
clans in an effort to take over San Francisco and Mutantkind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops takes a gamble and has Dracula
reassembled in an effort to usurp Xarus and take the vampires away from the
city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As vampire attacks grow, Jubilee
succumbs to the call of Xarus and now, fully vampire, tricks Wolverine into
going after her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vampires turn
Wolverine and then use him to help them attack Utopia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops is then confronted by Wolverine and
he reveals that they used nano-bots to shut down Logan’s healing factor, in
fear that the vampires might be after him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He reactivates the healing factor and Logan goes back to his old
self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After dealing with the forces
attacking Utopia, the X-Men head over to the vampire’s headquarters, were
Dracula proceeds to kill his son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cyclops convinces Dracula that he did something to him while they were
putting him back together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dracula
agrees to withdraw the vampire forces, much to Blade chagrin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He leaves them with a turned Jubilee, whom
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think this one of those rare cases where, to understand
the scope of this, one should include the tie-ins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With only these six issues, it felt like it
was trying to be bigger than it was really was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe those tie-ins would have added more to that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overall, this wasn’t too bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked the use of Blade and Dracula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was neat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was far less gimmicky than I believed it would be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I especially liked the connections between
Storm and Dracula – it was good nod to the history the X-Men have with
Dracula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m not a big vampire
fan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, I’m not a big fan of the
X-Men mingling with supernatural forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There’s not a lot of characterization going in this title,
which is disappointing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Cyclops
feels like he’s nearing a tipping point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shutting down Wolverine’s healing factor?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why didn’t Logan yell at him about that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a big deal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And taking such a huge risk by resurrecting
Dracula felt like ‘oh crap, Scott’s gone insane.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a big fan of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to wonder if we are supposed to see
Scott here as starting to reach a new level of superiority and confidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, when he called the X-Men “soldiers,”
I cringed a little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The art was okay, but every single woman was really
busty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, unnecessarily so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t ever remember Jubilee having breasts
that size. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>Side-Note:</u> Honestly, I can’t include every arc of this
title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t afford it and most of
them are not critical to the X-Men’s on-going narrative (well, Volume Two
is).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, it looked like this was kind
of an “X-Men Team-Up” book anyways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
a while, we’ll be sticking exclusively with Uncanny X-Men and some (but not
all) of X-Men Legacy.</span></div>
KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-86641561293572712562014-02-07T20:47:00.003-08:002014-02-07T20:47:44.471-08:00Uncanny X-Periment # 171: The Apocalypse Solution<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Uncanny X-Force # 1-4</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Angel and Wolverine have formed a new X-Force squad,
consisting of the two of them, Fantomex, Deadpool, and Psylocke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They run it out of an almost X-Men museum called
Cavern X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The team receives word from
Deadpool that’s he’s discovered a new (clone) of Ship in Egypt, containing a
possibly reborn Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The team
rushes in, fights a newly-minted War, and the other new/old Horsemen (the Final
Horsemen, created in the past to take over in the event that others have
failed).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They discover that Apocalypse
has been reborn, his essence gathered into a newly created body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As race to the Moon (where Ship has
teleported), Angel deals with the Archangel side of himself, as well as the
Horsemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They defeat the Horsemen and
then find Apocalypse . . . and discover he’s just a kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A kid in bedroom, playing toys and with movie
posters on his walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A kid who barely
has a clue that’s he’s Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Psylocke insists they can take him in and train him; Logan agrees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warren doesn’t, and as Archangel, prepares to
kill him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But just at the last second,
he realized he can’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fantomex steps up
and shoots the kid in the head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Force
heads home in silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This was pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I loved seeing Psylocke play such a large role in this story, as she has
been on the back-burner for a loooong time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I liked the decision to continue X-Force in secret.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warren’s struggles, the insight into the
working mind of Fantomex and Wolverine’s leadership are all very well done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deadpool, meh, isn’t at his best here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s not a lot of humor to him and really
just comes off as annoying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The scene where Apocalypse killed is so well executed (no
pun intended).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was so much
build-up and so much tension, and just when you thought it was going to end
well . . . it doesn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reactions
from all team members just speaks volumes about this event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This whole arc was just . . . whew . . . it
wasn’t the X-Men, that’s for sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
that’s the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uncanny X-Men # 530-534</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Utopia is stricken with an epidemic – a Mutant Flu, as it
were – which they discover is Mutant only.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scott locks down Utopia, leaving Storm, Pixie, Northstar, Dazzler, and
Angel to serve as the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
pounce on the Collective Man, who is hitting up local stores for protection
money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Mister Lobe (who I
always thought was John Sublime) has developed a means of creating Mutant
Powers and has given these to some super-rich twenty-sometimes to create a New
X-Men team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, they suck, get
pounced by the real X-Men and get shipped to Utopia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They spill rather quickly, and the X-Men head
off to Sublime Corporation and quickly reveal that the Mutant Flu is affecting
these fake Mutants faster than regular Mutants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lobe quickly surrenders, but one of his New X-Men – Penny – slips
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Sebastian Shaw is
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</span>Nice and clean, very effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It wraps up the budding epidemic arc in a nice clean bow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a good follow-up to the Third Species
stuff from Morrison’s run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I especially
the “smaller” team of X-Men, even though Dazzler and Pixie got really
annoying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shaw/Frost material was
not as good, but wasn’t too bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fraction’s run was definitely one that got better once it
got going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of his earlier stuff
was pretty poor, while his later arcs were more interesting and
innovative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seemed to move well past
the whole “let’s throw some X-Men at the problem” pretty well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only they hadn’t given him Greg Land,
whose art I despise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age one-shot, Uncanny X-Men
526-529, Generation Hope # 1 – 5</span></div>
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after the events of Second Coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steve
Rogers shows up and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talks to him for a
while and tries to convince him to bring the X-Men into the fold – as in, come
closer to the Avengers and the Fantastic Four and work tighter with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then arranges Scott to win the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, Hank has a conversation with Molly Hayes about life and
extinction and whatnot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in New
York, Hope is checked by Reed Richards and is encouraged to find out more about
her family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Utopia, during a
celebration of liberating San Francisco, Scott tells Hope “no more
expectations” about her role as Mutant messiah and that he wants her to find
her family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope and some of the X-Men track down Hope’s mother, who
died during the Cooperstown attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope
does end up bumping into her grandmother (doesn’t tell her who she is) and has
tea or something with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then goes
and rescues Laurie Tromette, a Mutant who is currently having difficulty making
the transition into full Mutant-ness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
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speed powers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope then goes to Africa
with Storm to retrieve a cold/hot manipulator named Idie Okonkwo, who feels
she’s a witch or a monster or both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
group then grabs the animalistic Teon from Miami.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, they go to Tokyo, where Logan and
Scott are watching the fifth light and having some beers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fifth light turns into a big creature
and there’s a huge confrontation and battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hope eventually cools him down and then they go back to Utopia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope and her little team learn more about
themselves and eventually, Hope strikes a deal with Scott to basically, let her
do what she wants with her team.</span></div>
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signs of a possible pandemic on Utopia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overall, not bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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happen, then let’s have a resolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really struggled with some of the art – in particular,
Whilce Portacio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason, it
just came across as rushed and sloppy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A year has passed since Messiah Complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men have left their Westchester home
to re-settle with a splash in San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’ve faced down Maddie and the Sisterhood, some revived Predators,
and both Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cyclops has sanctioned X-Force to, basically, kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mutant zombies have shown up and the X-Men
battled Selene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They got Kitty back and
Magneto has joined their ranks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
victories, things have never seemed more dire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Mutant population is now below 190 and with no chance of
repopulation or growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And then Cable and Hope returned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They show at the remains of the mansion and are immediately
attacked by the Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable and Hope
take them down and go on the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cyclops, now alerted to their presence, dispatches the X-Men and the New
Mutants into the field: Dominio and Vanisher are put into San Francisco; Namor
and Rogue remain at Utopia in case of an attack; the New Mutants are sent to
the mid-west to sit in a holding pattern; and Colossus, Wolverine, X-23,
Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Archangel, and Magik are sent to intercept Cable and
Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They track Cable and Hope down,
which leads to a battle with the Sapien League.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cable and Hope go on the run as the X-Men take down the League.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nightcrawler finds out about X-Force during
this encounter and is horrified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops,
meantime, sends the New Mutants to Cameron Hodge’s facility in St. Louis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The X-Men bump into Cable and Hope at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a hotel, where yet another battle with the
Sapien League takes place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable and
Hope head back on the run again while the X-Men clean up the mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Purifiers, who are also there, use some
sort of sorcery to banish Magik to Limbo. Cyclops sends Ariel to them. Meanwhile,
the New Mutants take the fight to Hodge and his Right soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They win and manage to defeat Hodge, but at
the cost of Karma’s leg and Warlock’s vow not to kill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rogue, after sensing some sort of connection with Hope, is
send out into the field with Nightcrawler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They all converge a an abandoned trailer park, where yet another battle
takes place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable agrees to let Rogue
and Nightcrawler take Hope back to Utopia, as Bastian is tracking Cable by his
techno-organic virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately,
Ariel is targeted and killed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bastian himself enters the fray and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fights Rogue pretty hardcore after injuring
Nightcrawler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes towards Hope, but
Nightcrawler interecepts – with Bastian’s arm ending up in his chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With just an ounce of strength left, Nightcrawler
teleports Hope to Utopia, ripping Bastian in two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They arrive, but Kurt is dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The X-Men regroup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone but Dominio and Vanisher are recalled to Utopia and they take
some time to mourn Kurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beast arrives
to help out, but also to pin the blame on Scott.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops is presented with information about
some mysterious towers by Cypher and he sends the X-Club out to
investigate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also worth noting that
Donald Pierce has managed to escape capture, but Danger believes he’s still
there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cyclops sends Pixie, Anole, Dazzler, Northstar, Trance, and
Gambit into Limbo to retrieve Magik.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They discover that the dimension has fallen into chaos and N’stashi is
looking to become the new lord of Limbo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also, Gambit re-manifests his Death look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Vanisher is then targeted and killed by Bastian’s
forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tensions rise at Utopia as a
fight breaks out between Dani and Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pierce then makes his move and destroys all of the X-Men’s jets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men take him down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, at the X-Club, while investigating
one of Bastian’s towers, it activates and they are sent to alternate reality
and then sent back just as it manifests an energy field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A force field cuts off San Francisco from the
rest of the world, encasing it in a big red sphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men head out in the city to help the
citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside of the sphere, the
Avengers and the Fantastic Four both show up to help the X-Club collapse the
Sphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the Golden Gate bridge, a time portal opens and several
Nimrods arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The battle that follows
is intense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hellion loses both hands,
Iceman receives serious burns, and despite a victory, the X-Men are wounded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They discover that Bastian is bringing
Nimrods in from the future and that there are over a hundred thousand of them
waiting to come back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With no other choice, Cyclops agrees to send Cable (who has
one final available time-jump), Wolverine, X-23, Domino, Archangel, and Cypher
into the future to stop them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope gets
pissed at Scott and even somehow manages to manifest his own power for a few seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He places Rogue in charge of protecting
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then asks Charles to release
Legion against the Nimrods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto also
jumps into help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Back in Limbo, Gambit has now influencing Dazzler and
Northstar and is looking to take over Limbo himself, kinda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>N’stashi aslso convinces Pixie to kill Magik.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The battle continues at Utopia as Mutant refugees like
Random, Outlaw, Scalphunter, and Sack have to contend with the Nimrods
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus breaks his arm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in the future, X-Force is confronted by
two Master Molds – one producing Nimrods and clearly communicating with
Bastian; the other just sitting there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Upon infiltrating the active one, X-Force is attacked by the dormant
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable and Cypher get into the
active Master Mold and Cypher manages to sabotage it and destroy both Master
Molds and the Nimrods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately the
time portal won’t allow organic material through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The only way to get through the portal is for Cable to hold
it open by releasing his techn-organic virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the X-Men recover from the immediate threat, Cable holds the portal
open so X-Force can return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then –
the portal closes upon the dying Cable, killing him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bastian then arrives in full glory, engages the X-Men, and
collapses the bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope confronts him
and begins to manifest a myriad of powers, eventually leading into what appears
to be the beginnings of a Phoenix raptor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cyclops and Wolverine leap in and help deliver the killing blow to
Bastian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope blows apart the force
field, then collapses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Pixie betrays the demons of Limbo and frees Magik, then
restores Gambit, Northstar, and Dazzler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the aftermath, the X-Men try and pick up the pieces of
their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine kicks X-23 out
into the real world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops shuts down
X-Force, though Wolverine decides to secretly reactivate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a memorial service for Cable, even
though Scott can’t through it and Hope ends up doing most of the talking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emma begins to suspect something is up with
Hope, as she manifests a Phoenix raptor apparent to only her and says something
that Jean said during the whole Sisterhood story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She runs to Scott, who is ecstatic – five new
Mutant signals have just appeared on Cerebra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love rambling on in these things, don’t I?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These crossovers are always so lengthy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There’s a lot that I like about Second Coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as crossovers go, this one is very
cohesive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chapters interlock and
flow very nicely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The art fits together
and is very consistent (unlike certain other crossovers – I’m looking at you,
Utopia).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story is nicely paced and
the action sequences, as a whole, work really well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overall, it’s a decent story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does a little utilitarian, sorta like, “we
need to bring Hope back, let’s do this crossover.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But hey, I’m all for a nice big crossover, so
I’m okay with rolling with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a
nice parallel to Messiah Complex, in that the Mutants were the major threat to
the X-Men and Hope in that story – and here, it’s the humans that are the major
threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I liked that everything from Messiah Complex onward comes
full circle here. I never would have thought that Pierce’s capture in Young
X-Men would have led to his involvement in Second Coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Necrosha hammered in the fact that every
death matters, even guys like Meld.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
the reign of Osborn set the X-Men up on their little island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’m not sold on the constant slaughter that is the X-Men
these days – including Kurt and Cable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
deaths are very effective and do make sense in the story, but . . . I
dunno.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C’mon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable’s already back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kurt will be right behind him, I’m sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And both Vanisher and Ariel hardly get a
pause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I guess what really sells this story are the small moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dani’s fight with Hope in the cafeteria, the
scenes between Cable and Hope, Hope’s adjustment to being in the present, Scott
and Hope fighting, the Kurt angst, etc etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scott’s grabbing of Logan when Hope manifests the Phoenix raptor was
such a great, dramatic moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having
lost Jean, the two of them are all too aware of what that raptor means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It adds a personal layer to an already threatening
moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These are make this story credible and make it matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Scott’s faith in Hope is a nice driving force for him and
he, of course, is all in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His dependence
on Logan; his tension with Hank; his faith in Cable and Hope; everything about
Scott in this story is great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked to
see his faith pay off at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in
the way we follow Hope through her own emotional journey is very realistic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Overall, I enjoyed this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It wasn’t anything amazing, but it was a solid piece of storytelling.</span></div>
KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-82543276457032207162013-12-31T18:59:00.000-08:002013-12-31T18:59:19.275-08:00Uncanny X-Periment Special: Top 50 Stories - Part Six!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Okay, here we go! Took me long enough! Again, I did ape some of my earlier X-Periment entries, but I've decided that's okay! HAPPY NEW YEAR!<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>10) World Tour</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Uncanny X-Men # 111 – 121)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While Professor X is vacationing with Lilandria, Mesmero
captures the X-Men. When Beast goes to rescue them, however, they are all then
re-captured by Magneto, who takes them to his Antarctic base. The X-Men engage
Magneto, this time both the X-Men and Magneto more prepared for the other. The
fight ends when the base is destroyed and Magneto retreats, weakened.</span>
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The X-Men are separated from Beast and Phoenix, both believing the other dead.
As Phoenix and Beast head back to New York, the X-Men end up in the Savage
Land. Once there, the X-Men fight off Zaladane and her forces by joining with
Ka-Zar and Sauron. Saving the Savage Land, the X-Men get on perhaps the worst
raft ever and try and sail to South America.</span>
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Meanwhile, Professor X is upset of the supposed loss of the X-Men and decides
(after a flashback revealing his first encounter with a fellow Mutant, the
Shadow King) to leave for the Shi’ar with Lilandria. The X-Men are rescued from
their sinking raft by a Japanese freighter, which takes them to Japan. Once
there, the X-Men meet up with Sunfire and Wolverine meets Mariko, who he is
immediately smitten with.</span>
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They save Japan from Moses Magnum and are on their way back to New York when
they are attacked by Vindicator again, this time with the entire Canadian
super-hero team Alpha Flight with him. A battle ensues and eventually,
Wolverine evades capture. Upon arriving at the mansion, the X-Men try to put
their lives together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I can’t stress enough just how good this is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, it really is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the golden age of John Byrne and
Chris Claremont.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each and every
character gets a moment and some kind of development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men are so well-defined – from
Cyclops, being in command and in love with Jean; to Storm, still new to the
western world and the X-Men; and even Colossus, who makes some dumb mistakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine has great moments, pining for Jean
and fighting Alpha Flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X
and Jean are great, mourning the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus, Magneto is written great, Ka-Zar is is bad-ass, Alpha Flight is
kick-ass, and Sunfire is, well, classic Sunfire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aside from the characterization, the fight scenes are exciting
and versatile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get into the X-Men’s
reactions and thought processes as they battle their foes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From the circus to Antartica to the Savage Land to Japan
to Canada – it’s an odyssey that challenges the still-new X-Men in a brand new
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men are well defined,
each<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one getting their moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The threats are substantial, adding gravity
to the situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you had to
pin-point the best of Claremont/Byrne, this might just be it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9) Crossroads</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The post X-Tinction Agenda X-Men are teleported into the
Shi'ar Empire which is in the thores of a civil war. Deathbird, having claimed
the throne, gathers the X-Men to kill Xavier. The X-Men are confused, but
eventually join up with the Starjammers and Lilandra. Deathbird is taken care of,
the X-Men are reunited with Professor X, and Lilandra is running the show again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twist: turns out Xavier is a Warskrull,
basically a warrior class of Skrulls. The X-Men eventually defeat the
Warskrulls, meet up with the real Xavier, and then hightail it back to Earth.
And Lilandra is in charge again.</span></div>
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Meanwhile, Magneto, Rogue, Nick Fury, and Ka-Zar are all involved in a massive campaign
against Zaladane and Magneto's old Mutates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Magneto eventually kills Zaladane, alienating himself from the X-Men
once and for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In terms of what kind of X-Men story this, it reads like
a big, cinematic adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stakes
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are high on both Earth and in space, with huge bombastic villains and great,
dynamic art illustrating it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim Lee
at his best, hand’s down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But honestly, the heart of the story is Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is perfect Magneto; the sum of all his
parts, a reconciliation of all the inconsistencies in his history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holocaust victim, super-villain, teacher, and
now . . . uncertain of his path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
brilliantly done, using his backstory to do a character study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, it’s maybe the best Magneto
stories ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, the Shi’ar stuff is
a blast, but the Savage Land/Magneto material is the best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(X-Men: Children of the Atom # 1 – 6)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mutants have just begun to emerge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott, Bobby and Hank are high school
students at Free Port High School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jean’s being helped by Professor X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Warren spends his nights as a vigilante super-hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hate monger named Metzger is recruiting
students and teenagers into his anti-mutant group ARM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto is sneaky about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agent Fred Duncan is dispatched to
investigate the growing Mutant crisis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor
X begins to gather the boys and is about to recruit Jean, but she’s captured by
ARM, along with one of ARM’s former teenage member, Chad (who is also a
Mutant).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Xavier and Duncan go to rescue
Jean; the boys follow to fight ARM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Magneto shows up and deals with Metzger, Chad dies, and the pre-X-Men
X-Men fight a monster created by Metzger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professor X takes the boys home and soon, Jean arrives at the school for
her first day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The pre-X-Men # 1 origins have been done, but quite
frankly, they pale against this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know
it’s not canon, but I don’t care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way the story brings in
elements from the original back-up origin stories and keeps the X-Men grounded
is great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hints and nods at
established X-Men backstory is fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Casey
uses the media to create a realistic perspective on the emergence of
Mutants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto is used well, as is
Metzger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Age in so many ways, but still keeping modern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a shame that Steve Rude wasn’t able to do the whole book, but Essad
Ribbic, Paul Smith, and Michael Ryan do a good job filling his shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A retroactive origin of the X-Men with grounded
storytelling, great characterization, and fantastic art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s canon as far as I’m concerned.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7) From the Ashes</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Uncanny X-Men # 168 – 176)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kitty refuses to join the New Mutants and demonstrates
this in a team-up with Lockheed against an Sidrian alien in the bowels of the
mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men then encounter the
Morlocks, a community ugly Mutants that capture Angel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storm fights their leader, Calisto, declares
herself their new leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly
thereafter, Rogue comes to the mansion, looking to join the team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men take her in, but are dubious of
her intentions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things change when the
X-Men head to Japan to attend Logan’s wedding – which involves a duel with the
Silver Samurai and during which Rogue earns her keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan is then shot down by Mariko at the
alter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long after this, Scott and
his new girlfriend (and Jean Grey lookalike Madelyne Pryor) decide to get
engaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mastermind shows up, convinces
everyone that Maddie is Phoenix reborn, but Cyclops prevails and they defeat
Mastermind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and Maddie go on a
honeymoon and fight a giant squid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This Chris Claremont in his prime. While he does indeed
tell great stories beyond this, this collection of X-Men issues is perhaps some
of the best - peroid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many ways,
"From the Ashes" is bit on the tragic side for the X-Men, filled with
characters with unfortunate twists in their lives that make them seemed sad and
somewhat doomed. </span>
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The Morlocks - Mutants so ugly and freakish that they must hide in the sewers
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Wolverine and Mariko's wedding - cut short because of Mastermind's
intervention, but ultimately because Mariko finds Logan unworthy and without
honor.</span>
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And Rogue, who cannot touch anyone skin-to-skin without absorbing their powers
and personality.</span>
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In light of this with this, the X-Men are given some character growth. Kitty
proves herself capable of standing on her own two feet when she refuses to join
the New Mutants - as well as kissing Peter. Storm gets that wild mohawk and
becomes a lot more punk.</span>
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Tying together these stories is the subplot of Scott and Madelyne Pryor's love
affair. Maddie, resembling Jean Grey, becomes the new love of Scott's life.
Despite what eventually is revealed about her and her fate down the line,
Maddie is still interesting because she is capable of being her own
character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Claremont writing and
Smith, Romita Jr., and Simonson on the art, this is some of the best X-Men
stories yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The X-Men contend with personal conflicts even as they
deal with lower level, more terrestrial threats that challenge them in new
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6) Age of Apocalypse</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(X-Men: Alpha, Astonishing X-Men # 1-4, Amazing X-Men #
1-4, Generation Next # 1-4, X-Calibre # 1-4, Gambit and the X-Ternals # 1-4,
Factor X # 1-4, X-Man # 1-4, X-Universe # 1-2, X-Men Chronicles # 1-2, Tales
from the Age of Apocalypse: Astonishing X-Men, Tales from the Age of
Apocalypse: Factor X, X-Man # -1, X-Men: Omega)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David Haller – Legion – goes back in time to kill Magneto
in the hopes of saving his father’s dream of Mutant/human peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few X-Men, including the already time-lost
Bishop, go back in time with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charles and Erik were best friends back then and Charles gives his life
to save Erik.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men and Legion
vanish, except for Bishop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apocalypse
then rises and proceeds to either take over or destroy most of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humanity has been sequestered to what’s left
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a psi-connection, Magneto realizes that this reality is not as it should
be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sends Gambit and his X-Ternals
into space to retrieve a piece of the M’Kraan Crystal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus, Shadowcat, and Generation Next are
dispatched with finding Illyana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nightcrawler and Mystique are sent to Avalon aka the Savage Land to find
Destiny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Magneto’s two X-Men
teams assault Apocalypse’s forces on two fronts – one to deflect a mass culling
in the mid-west and another assisting and an evacuation in new England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, Magneto is attacked an the
mansion and both he and Bishop are taken captive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, his and Rogue’s son Charles is
taken too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even as the X-Men plot and
scheme, Sinister’s own plans come to fruition: Nate Grey, the X-Man, is
unleashed upon Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the Human
High Council is prepared for a final ending to Apocalypse: a nuclear strike
that Wolverine must protect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eventually, all of these threads come together as Bishop
journeys back in time and prevents the Age of Apocalypse from ever
occurring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the timeline fades,
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epic, but this one takes the cake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are huge, inter-weaving storylines involving Cyclops, Jean, and
Nate Grey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s new backstory to
explore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old faces pop up in surprising
ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are even new characters that
somehow survive the Age of Apocalyse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
the X-Men, without much hope to hold onto and with their backs up against the
wall, but somehow they achieve the impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In this worst case scenario, where Mutants rule with both an iron fist
and a heavy boot, the X-Men are still fighting the good fight.</span></div>
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the crossover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Familiar landmarks in
both the real world and in the Marvel Universe are broken and shattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fight scenes are often kinetic and full
of excitement; you know that anything can happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are some missteps, but the whole is greater than
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An epic, huge X-Men story that presents the worst case
scenario for the X-Men: malevolent Mutant domination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But somehow, the X-Men win the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In New York City, the X-Men jump into a burning hospital
to rescue babies from dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They bring
them out of the hospital, but are immediately confronted by the cops who have
their guns trained on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X
offers to freeze the cops, but Storm appeals to them, and gains their
trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, in LA, Magneto assumes
the role of a company man whose community center has just been destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He buddies up with the center’s foremen, Joe,
in an effort to get a read on humanity before launching his next big
attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto is surprised to find Joe
fairly passive about Mutants and surprisingly likeable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Joe makes a comment about Hitler,
Magneto flips out, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reveals himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joe then gets in Magneto’s face and blames
Mutants like him for scaring humanity so badly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This single issue defines both Magneto and the X-Men so
very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men are trying to build
bridges with humanity, and get eye-to-eye with those that hate and fear them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t blink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it works out, with the X-Men emerging
from the encounter as heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto on
the other hand, is looking for a reason to burn a bridge with humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, his own feelings get in the way
and he finds his reason, as misguided as it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The stories run parallel and weave together nicely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even though it’s a “prelude” to the
disappointing “Magneto War,” it’s also a great stand-alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t need to know what Magneto is up to,
only that it’s no good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you only saw
the X-Men in the cartoons or the movies, you can still read this and enjoy it.</span></div>
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park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The colors are vibrant and moody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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and X-Men to a tee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Logan is captured to be turned in a fighting
machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s given an Adamantium skeleton,
which reveals a set of claws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s then
stripped of his humanity, becoming nothing more than a killing machine,
subjected to brainwashing and various simulations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, the programming breaks, and Logan
kills everyone before fleeing into the wilderness.</span></div>
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"Weapon X" made me a Wolverine fan. I'm not the biggest Wolverine
fan, simply because a lot of writers don't write Wolverine in a way that I can
relate to him. Writers have taken him on and done decent jobs, but I never
really felt the character was all he's cracked up to be.</span>
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"Weapon X" changes all that. In this story, we learn the secret
origin of Wolverine (well, part of it anyway). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see Logan stripped down from being a human
being into, really, an animal. It really puts Wolverine in a new light for me,
making all of the stories that have come before hand stand on more solid
ground. Within the context of the big picture, this story makes Wolverine into
a better character. We now know that him being a jackass is for a good reason.</span>
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The art is amazing and the way that it flows with the writing is great synchronization.
It's a brutal story. The POV of the Weapon X heads (the sympathetic Hines; the
scheming Doctor Cornelius; and the down-right evil Professor) make it even
darker, given us an insight as to what is happening beyond Wolverine's perspective.</span></div>
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as he struggles to exact his revenge on those that stripped him of his
humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the future, Sentinels control most of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mutants are held in internment camps, not
permitted to breed and restrained with collars that cut off access to their powers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small surviving band of X-Men (Kate Pryde,
Colossus, Magneto, Wolverine, Rachel Summers, Franklin Richards, and Storm)
devise a plan to send Kate’s mind back into her past body to stop the
assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, whose death kicked this all off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The plan succeeds and she convinces the X-Men
to go to Washington DC to stop Mystique and her Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
from doing just that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, in the future, the surviving X-Men attack the
Baxter Building to stop the Sentinels before the humans nuke New York once and
for all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One by one, all are killed
except Rachel and Kate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past,
Kate prevents the assassination, but the fate of the future is left up in the
air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a lot of ways, this is opposite of the “Age of
Apocalypse.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is other worst case
scenario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, we’ve seen a lot of
alternate realities on this list – worlds where humanity is going extinct and
Mutants are the dominate species; worlds where the X-Men don’t exist; worlds
where Mutantkinds rise has ruined the Earth; and worlds where Mutant rule
supreme with an iron fist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this one
represents perhaps the worst possible outcome – where pretty much everyone is
dead and falls victim to Sentinels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
fulfills a lot of what Master Mold’s plan was from his first appearance:
control humanity to protect humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The plan on the future X-Men is desperate, more desperate
than Mangeto’s in the Age of Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And watching them get picked off one by one while watching our present
day X-Men be victorious has a very eerie resonance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to have it left uncertain if the future
is saved makes this all the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A crazy, Mutant-hating reverend by the name of William
Stryker has organized a whole church-load of people against Mutants, accusing
them of basically being devil-spawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
army – the Purifers – kill Mutant children, drawing the attention of
Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then captures Professor X
and brainwashes him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also captures
Cyclops and Storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men investigate
and eventually join with Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
free Cyclops and Storm and confront Styker during a big televised
appearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stryker plans on revealing
all Mutants by using Professor X’s power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyone who gets a bloody nose is a Mutant, basically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men confront him, Magneto gets taken
down by Xavier, and Stryker prepares to kill Kitty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stryker is then shot by a cop, in defense of
Kitty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back at the mansion, Professor X
experiences a crisis of faith and nearly joins Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, he declines and finds himself
humbled by his students dedication to his dream.</span></div>
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with really bad cuss words like bastard, hell, shit, damn, and even the n-word!
Neat! There's guns, not lasers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it
100% embracing the idea of racism; it makes it normal and scary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not just Bastian and John Sublime, it’s
the gang in the alley and the kid in your class.</span></div>
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It's a great story because it's so honest to its self. <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Stryker</span></span>,
as nutty as he was, was <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">sort of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">relatable</span> and interesting. One could
understand his position, even if it was very extreme. I also very much enjoyed
the fact that it wasn't Christianity that was the source of the problem - it
was the use of it to do ones <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">selfish</span></span> bidding. And it blows up on him.<br />
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There's a theme of faith throughout this story. Not only the faith in God
and Christ, but also in Xavier's and Magneto's dream. Magneto and the X-Men are
fighting together because they both want the survival of <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Mutantkind</span></span>
and their friends back - but also because they have faith in their dreams. In
the end, Xavier even falters in his faith, but is brought back to it by his
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rendered story and with amazing art and a great story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After their confrontation with Proteus, the X-Men head
back home and are reunited with Professor X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They soon discover two new Mutants – Dazzler and Kitty Pryde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, these are also targeted by the
mysterious Hellfire Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hellfire
Club capture the team meeting with Kitty; they capture them all but Kitty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dazzler team manages to thwart the
Hellfire Club and, along with Kitty, go after the Hellfire Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They battle their goons and Phoenix fights
Emma Frost, putting her into a coma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The X-Men reconvene at Angel’s house and agree to
infiltrate the Hellfire Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They soon
discover that they are lead by the villainous Sebastian Shaw, cybernetic Donald
Pierce, Mutant Leland, and their old enemy, Mastermind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mastermind has corrupted Jean Grey and has managed
to release her darker side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All but Wolverine
are captured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine, thought dead,
emerges from the sewers and tears through the Hellfire Club’s goons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean is shaken loose after a psi-war between
Scott and Mastermind and helps free the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The X-Men are able to defeat the Hellfire Club and Jean exposes
Mastermind to the vastness of the universe.</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LpLCzgSrzyI/UsODuvgpQrI/AAAAAAAAATo/ATV0Y6kfvYM/s1600/dp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LpLCzgSrzyI/UsODuvgpQrI/AAAAAAAAATo/ATV0Y6kfvYM/s320/dp.JPG" width="171" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the damage is done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean evolves into the Dark Phoenix and takes
down the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then flees into
deep space, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>feasts on a star, which goes
nova and wipes out a planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then
returns to Earth. The X-Men, now teamed with Hank and Angel, track her down to
her parents house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A battle ensues,
including a moment where Jean regains control and begs Logan to kill her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan can’t and the Phoenix gains
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X then enters the
arena and engages in a psi-war with Phoenix, eventually defeatinig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott, overjoyed, proposes to Jean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Shi’ar then arrive and declare that Jean must die so
as to destroy the Phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X invokes
an ancient rite that allows the X-Men to fight for Jean’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so, on the Blue Area of the moon, the
X-Men and the Imperial Guard face off for her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men falter, but the Phoenix rises again
and takes down the Imperial Guard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
X-Men are woken, but can’t stop her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jean regains some control and runs off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scott follows and pleads with her to regain control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, Jean bids him farewell and uses the
Blue Areas ancient weapon to kill herself, ending the threat once and for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the battle, Scott resigns from the X-Men . . . and
Kitty Pryde arrives to join.</span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why It’s # 1:</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the very first issue of X-Men, a teenaged redhead
arrives at the school and demonstrates her telekinetic abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boys fawn over her and she eventually
earns her place by helping them defeat Magneto at Cape Citadel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hundred and twenty odd issues, Jean has
evolved to the status of demi-god, with her powers out of control and becoming
so destructive, she wipes out a civilization and must answer to an intergalactic
empire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teaching Mutants to control their powers and preventing
Mutant villains are cornerstones of the X-Men’s mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here you have Xavier’s first student
succumbing to her dark desires and losing complete control of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the fantastic powers she wields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, it takes her very humanity to
stop herself, and she makes the human decision of all – to give her life so
that others will live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s a story that’s epic in scope and utilizes nearly all
of the X-Men (I really wish they would have brought Iceman in; instead we only
see him at the funeral).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s full
of amazing moments and great insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine’s
brutal attack on the Hellfire Club is among my favorites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The psi-war between Xavier and Phoenix is brilliant
and carefully understated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite
moment, though, is when Scott and Jean are on the moon and all of the X-Men
have been defeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They take refuge in
this little knook and you can just sense the tension and desperation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ultimate moment is a little over-dramatic,
simply because Cyclops drones on for a bit, but it’s still felt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I like to include Uncanny 139, because it brings the history
of the X-Men to full circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was
reading this in context of the X-Periment, I once told<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a friend of mine that “you can just stop with
this story.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s because it is the ultimate
X-Men story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of their own losing
control, becoming a villain, and then their own humanity ending the
threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">It's the best. Ever.<u><b></b></u> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, I know, cosmic entity, clone, whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was still Jean Grey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And that's that! The Uncanny X-Periment will return in proper order shortly! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The X-Men are ambushed by the alien Broods, who proceed
to plant their eggs into the X-Men’s bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wolverine manages to escape and his healing factor kills the egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes and frees the rest of the X-Men, as
well as Binary and Lilandria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They escape,
but are pursued by the Brood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Storm finds out about her egg, she flips and escapes in a shuttle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She nearly kills herself as the
transformation takes place, but is saved by an Acanti space whale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She merges with the Acanti and rejoins the
X-Men in an assault against the Brood and their Queen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men come away victorious (and with
Lockheed!) . . . but soon realize that Professor X has an egg implanted in him
as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men arrive home, fight
the New Mutants, and then are forced to kill the transformed Professor X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X ends up alive thanks to Shi’ar
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m not the biggest fan of X-Men space opera (even though
there’s a lot of them on this list – I’m not saying they’re not good, I’m just
not always a fan).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one is pretty solid and it has great
underlying themes: mortality, morality, violation, invasion, infection, and
survival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s fairly dark and grim, but
it produces some of the best X-Men moments of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine’s exercising of the egg is so well
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storm explosive reaction to her
finding out and then her horrific (and brief) transformation is excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moment when Peter and Kitty discuss the
possibility of death is touching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
action is exciting and the locales are exotic and alien.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels like an alien world, and in turn,
it’s actually pretty scary.</span></div>
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action, and an alien world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heads and
shoulders above most other X-Men space operas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the birth of his son, Nathan Christopher, Scott is
feeling torn between his duties as a husband and father and his loyalty to the
X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storm is powerless, Professor X
is in space, and Magneto is running the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scott feels like he has to stay and lead the them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Madelyne disagrees, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storm proposes that she and Scott duel for
command of the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fight, Scott
loses, and Storm retains command.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aside from the gorgeous art and well-paced script, this
an issue of tiny moments and one big one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The X-Men playing baseball is a fun scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The introduction of Nathan is heartfelt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel’s scene with Jean’s crystal orb is
touching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But obviously, the emotional
core of the story is Scott’s decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
a big moment for Scott and there’s a great line from Maddie where she accuses
him of being so hollow that life without the X-Men would have meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cuts deep and the silence after it is so
realistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You feel like you’re really
in a fight with these two characters – each side has valid reasons for what
they want and need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The duel itself is
great, and it’s cool to see Scott get taken down a few pegs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can just feel his humiliation and shock
at being defeated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The mysterious and deadly Stryfe is out to seek revenge
on all those that he believes wronged him: he captures Scott and Jean; he
frames Cable for an attack on Professor X; and he tries to kill
Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men and X-Factor
attack X-Force and drag them, hoping to get some answers out of them about
Cable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop and Wolverine hunt down
Cable and after discovering that he didn’t attack the Professor, they go
searching for Stryfe, Scott, and Jean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eventually, X-Factor and the X-Men find the Mutant Liberation Front and
defeat them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apocalypse arrives shortly afterwards, recovering from his battle with Stryfe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He promises to help cure Professor X of the
techno-organic virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gang then
head up to the moon to save Scott and Jean, and we’re lead into a huge battle
with Stryfe’s forces and the Dark Riders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eventually, finally confronting Cable, Havok, Cyclops, and Jean Grey,
Stryfe ruptures time and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable
and Stryfe are dragged into a time vortex and seemingly perishing, leaving
Scott to wonder if Stryfe was in fact Nathan Christopher, his time-lost son.</span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rix6O_kQGTE/UsBFH7_P7wI/AAAAAAAAAOc/0X_uc-eXPS0/s1600/2021315-190483_10150132287548856_829193855_6492351_4179156_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rix6O_kQGTE/UsBFH7_P7wI/AAAAAAAAAOc/0X_uc-eXPS0/s320/2021315-190483_10150132287548856_829193855_6492351_4179156_n.jpg" width="207" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you look at the whole Cable/Stryfe story as a trilogy,
then part one would be the X-Factor storyline “Endgame.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part three would be the aforementioned
“Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This would be part two and it’s far superior that the other two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a lot of scheming and plotting, a lot
questions and ambiguity, and manipulations galore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-teams are left trying to figure
everything out and are doing so very slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are some great shocking moments, such as when Cable/Stryfe shoots
Professor X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fight in particular
are amazing : X-Men/X-Factor vs X-Force in particular, and most of all,
Apocalypse vs Stryfe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The central
characters to this story (Cable, Stryfe, Cyclops, and Jean) are all
well-defined and have very fitting roles to play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of the other characters get strong
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by Genoshan Magistrates and taken back to Genosha for the X-Men’s crimes
commited against<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Factor and the remaining X-Men and New
Mutants launch an attack, but are ambushed by an amnesic Havok and his Magistrates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They capture the Mutants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly thereafter, Jubilee, Psylocke, and
Wolverine arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jubilee is tasked with
keeping the recently freed Rictor and Boom-Boom save while the others try and
rescue their teammates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Havok captures
them too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warlock is killed, Wolfsbane
and Storm become mindless slaves, and the X-Men are forced into some heinous
acts – including a deathmatch between Wolverine and Archangel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually Havok snaps out of it and Storm
breaks free from her programming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
gives the X-Men their powers back and they attack Cameron Hodge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A battle ensues and ends with Havok and
Cyclops blasting him apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His head
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an epic Mutant vs human story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The villains are a perfect representation of
the worst of humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The character
scenes are great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The action is amazing
(the art could be better when not from Jim Lee).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s lost of revenge in this story and
great moments of loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole bonding/enslavement/Mutate stuff is
creepy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Warren/Logan fight and the
subsequent Jean/Logan brief hook-up are both raw and emotional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Havok/Cyclops team-up in the end was
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magneto has escaped from the Stranger’s prison planet and
attacks the X-Men (except Iceman).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
throws them into an gondola and sends them floating into space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then greets Warren’s parents, hypnotizes
them and makes them go to sleep so he can harvest their DNA to create an army
of Mutant zombies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iceman, meanwhile, is
contacted by Professor X and, though weak, attacks Magneto and buys the X-Men
and the Worthingtons time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually,
the whole team arrives and Magneto is last seen fleeing the Stranger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Okay, looking past the Silver Age silliness, I see this
as a milestone for the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iceman,
the X-Men’s biggest loser and class clown (as well as youngest) takes on
Magneto and actually has him on the ropes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s something to be said for your weakest student being able to take
on your greatest enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It shows that
X-Men have grown up and come far from the gaggle of teen that first appeared in
X-Men # 1.</span></div>
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of age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(New X-Men # 134 - 138) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When Kid Omega – Quinten Quire – begins to buck under
Xavier’s lessons, he quickly begins protesting and launches and all-out riot on
Open Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cost of stopping him is
high – Esme, one of the Cuckoos, is killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kid Omega himself evolves to a higher plain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In end, Xavier decides to retire and Jean
discovers Scott and Emma’s telepathic affair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before Grant Morrison took over the title in 2001, it was
easy to forget that the mansion was actually a school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the addition of a real teenaged
student body that helped cement this reality and is one of the finer points of
Morrison’s run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, my summary
kinda sucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arc reminded me of
high school – with the popular kids, the rebellious kids, and “special
class.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole event feels like a
disaster, and it carries a very tragic weight to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frank Quietly beautifully illustrates a
great, character motivated story that feels exactly how it should: funny,
upsetting, tragic, and tense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A realistic take on the students of Xavier’s school that
challenges Xavier’s dreams and ideas in a new, deeper way.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14) Mutant Massacre</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Uncanny X-Men # 210, X-Factor # 9, Uncanny X-Men # 211, X-Factor # 10, New Mutants # 46, Thor # 373, Power Pack # 27, Uncanny X-Men # 212, Thor # 374, X-Factor # 11, Uncanny X-Men # 213)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assassins called the Marauders head into the Morlock to
tunnels and almost completely wipe out the Mutant society. This brings the
X-Men into the conflict, as they try and help their Morlock allies. They save a
few and bring them back to the mansion themselves, but they take some heavy
hits themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Callisto and the others take the survivors
they were able to find back to the mansion, Storm dispatches Wolverine to find
the killers and to bring one back for interrogation. The New Mutants deal with
these victims at the mansion. Meanwhile, X-Factor (at the other end of the
Morlock tunnels) try and do the same thing the X-Men did: save as many as
possible. They also confront the Marauders, but fair much better against them -
except for Angel, who has his wings pinned down, then crushed by the
Marauders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thor luckily manages to
rescue him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storm and Callisto struggle with what's happened, Wolverine
hunts down Sabretooth (who is part of the Marauders) and then eventually meets
up with (of all people) the kids from Power Pack, who were friends with some of
the Morlocks. Wolverine and Sabretooth battle it out, allowing newcomer
Psylocke (who appeared out of nowhere) to probe Sabretooth's mind. Angel, on
the other hand, must have his wings amputated. Thor, in the hopes of restoring
some honor to the fallen Morlocks, unleashes a massive fire that burns their
bodies away all Valkrye-style.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a dark story that cuts deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Morlocks are pretty much helpless as the
Marauders attack them – and there is zero mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's an interesting story, prespective-wise. Despite
being centered around the same events, the crossover is split down the middle.
Thor and X-Factor on one of the event and the X-Men and the New Mutants on the
other side. Besides the X-Men catching the occassional random optic blast or
both teams caught in opposite sides of a colapse, neither team interacts with
each other. Power Pack is the only group that makes contact on both sides.
Walter and Lousie Simonson and Chris Claremont did some incredible
coordination, making the stories parallel each other while not exactly
requiring you to read it all.</span>
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It also shows us the massive differences between the X-Men and X-Factor. In
particular, Storm's more aggressive and cut-throat leadership makes for an
interesting comparison to Cyclops' by-the-book style. The X-Men themselves is
composed of a mixed blend, with Magneto, Storm, Rogue, and Wolverine being
fairly dark characters; and Colossus and Shadowcat, who are both so overcome by
the attack on the Morlocks that they contemplate killing. X-Factor, on the
other hand, is comprised of the classic X-Men, each one fairly clean despite tensions
and internal struggles.</span></div>
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X-Men crossover yet with decent story-telling and compelling plot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A group of Mutants are on the run and are eventually
chased into orbit, where they wish to seek sanctuary in Asteroid M with
Magneto. They do so and Magneto allows both the Mutants and their human
pursuers entry into his base. However, the humans strike out against the
renegades, and Magneto’s hatred of humanity is restored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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To avoid an international incident, Nick Fury and Val Cooper get in touch with
the recently reorganized X-Men. The X-Men have formed two teams: the Gold Team
(Storm, Iceman, Archangel, Jean Grey, and Colossus) and the Blue Team (Cyclops,
Wolverine, Pyslocke, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, and Jubilee), with Forge, Professor
X, Moira, and Banshee hanging around the mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>
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The Blue Team goes out and intercepts Magneto as he raises the nuclear sub he
sank years ago, seeking the nukes for defensive reasons only. This
confrontation leads to a radical series of events that eventually end up on the
civil war torn Genosha. The X-Men Blue Team face off with the renegades (called
the Acolytes). The X-Men are eventually defeated and taken back to Asteroid M.</span>
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Magneto eventually discovers that his powers are acting wonky and realizes it
something was done to him Moira when he was de-aged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He captures Moira and Professor X and then has
Moira use the process used on him against the X-Men and he's able to get them
onto his side. The X-Men Gold Team mount a rescue and fight their companions,
only to find out that as soon as they use their powers, the effect is gone. Moira
eventually reveals this to Magneto, but not before Cortez betrays them.
High-jacking a plasma cannon weapon that was almost ready to destroy Asteroid
M, Cortez blasts the orbital base. The X-Men take off as Magneto and a few
remaining Acolytes stay aboard and start to burn up in the atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The art is beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jim Lee knocks the visuals out of the park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The opening moment when Magneto confronts
the renegades and their human pursuers is amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The action scenes are full of energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This might be Jim Lee at his best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus the redesigns introduced here set the
tone for the next ten years of X-Men<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>comics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I think of Cyclops,
I still picture him in that classic outfit.</span></div>
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created for Mangeto. There’s references to nearly all of his major Magneto
moments – from his restoration to his threat against the world to his
friendship with Xavier and his taking in and falling out with Xavier’s
school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a great exit for Claremont and
the introduction of a new era for the X-Men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The X-Men learn of trouble on Muir Island and head there
asap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They arrive and investigate
several oddities until finally coming up against the power of Proteus, a Mutant
with the power to alter reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He possess
a few bodies, killing them each time, until he takes control of his own fathers
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men are taken down one-by-one
until Proteus reaches his mother, Moira.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Havok and Cyclops lay down fire, but he shrugs it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus then steps up, as Proteus is
vulnerable to metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He throws the
decaying body against the wall, leaving only an energy form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus punches it, killing Proteus. </span></div>
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no control over his own powers and no real desire to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men just can’t stop this guy without
killing him and it’s made all the more tragic that Colossus, their most gentle of
teammates, is the one that has to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are also some nice reunions scenes between various members of the
X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The power of Proteus is also
shown to be very, very creepy and weird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11) Among Us Stalk . . . The Sentinels!/Prisoners of the
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Uncanny X-Men # 14-16) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Professor X learns of the growing paranoia about Mutants
and decides to engage in a televised debate with Boliver Trask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trask reveals his Sentinels, which take both
him and Xavier captive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He finds out
that the Sentinels have decided that the only way to truly protect humanity is
to rule it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men find out and go to
the Sentinels base and are attacked and eventually captured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually Xavier figures out the frequency
the Sentinels are operating on and is able to disrupt them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trask, meanwhile, decides he was wrong and
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why It’s # 11:</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are a lot of Sentinel stories, but there’s
something monumental about this first one that really just stands out to
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have the origin of the Sentinels
and things immediately<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>go off the rails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mankinds greatest protectors quickly become
their greatest enemy and it takes both a human giving up his life and a Mutant
leader to defeat them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just adds some
gravitas to the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, there’s
some great, classic artwork from Jack Kirby and Jay Gavin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a classic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first appearance of the Sentinels might just be one
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wolverine is strung up on an X shaped cross in the middle
of the Australian town he and the X-Men used as their HQ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tortured by the Reavers and spied on by
Jubilee, he hallucinates about his fellow X-Men, as well as important women in
his life, and Sabretooth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gateway
provides him with a vision of what happened to the X-Men – they chose to enter
the Siege Perilous to start new lives. He’s left baking for at least two days,
but when a tremendous thunderstorm rolls in, he rips himself down and escapes
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think in terms of darkest moments for the X-Men, this
one might be the one that takes the cake. Consider that most of the X-Men team
proper is either missing (Rogue and Longshot) or dead (Storm).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then take into consideration that
X-Factor was playing with the Celestial during the Judgement War, the New
Mutants were in Asgard, and Excalibur was doing their Cross-time Caper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were no Mutant teams left on the
Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we have Wolverine
crucified and hallucinating, having to only to depend on his will and a plucky
13 year old to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s dark, it’s
grim, it’s hard to read . . . and it’s incredibly well done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The scene is grave and off-putting . . . but somehow,
Wolverine wills himself out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
great moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Messiah Complex one-shot, Uncanny X-Men # 492, X-Factor
# 25, New X-Men # 44, X-Men # 205, Uncanny X-Men 493, X-Factor # 26, New X-Men
# 45, X-Men # 206, Uncanny X-Men # 494, X-Men # 27, New X-Men # 26, Uncanny
X-Men # 207)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After a long time, the first Mutant baby is born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immediately hunted by both the Purifiers and
the combined Acolytes and Marauders, the baby turns out to be in the hands of
Cable, who is just trying to get her to safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The X-Men and X-Factor end up a step behind everyone else, first
discovering that the Purifiers don’t have the baby and then struggling to track
down both Sinister and the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable
goes to Forge, looking for a time machine, but Bishop intercepts him, prepared
to kill the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turns out, the
baby is destined to either save Mutantkind . . . or damn them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop believes it’s the ladder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His doubts get him knocked out and the baby
is taken by Sinister and crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
X-Men, a newly-created X-Force, and X-Factor converge on Muir Island and after
a lengthy battle with Bishop, a Predator X, and Marauders/Acoyltes, Cable is
able to travel into the future to raise the child . . . but Professor X is
killed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a great story that’s been building for a
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The anticipation of a new Mutant
being born combined with the excitement of the chase that follows is such an
excellent payoff to everything that came before this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of characters get their moments in, with
the threats feeling substantial and looming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The art works great together and the story flows seamlessly from issue
to issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every character has great
motivation – except Bishop, who feels almost like an afterthought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The kick off a new, exciting chapter in the X-Men’s saga,
starting with an explosive arrival and ending with gunshot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evocative, exciting, and kick-ass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(New X-Men # 120 – 126)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cassandra Nova, Professor X’s twin sister, has taken
control of his body and the Shi’ar fleet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She leads the Imperial Guard to Earth to wipe out all Mutantkind,
starting with the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Charles
trapped in her dying body, the X-Men scramble to muster a defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fight the Imperial Guard and are able to
turn them against Cassandra Nova.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
X-Men and the students have also been infected by Nano-Sentinels, which are
slowly killing them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things turn around
when Cyclops and Xorn return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men
rally and defeat Cassandra, thanks to quick thinking by Jean, Emma, and the
Professor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This story hits all cylinders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plenty of big ideas and concepts, lots of
amazing action, and manages to take the X-Men through hell . . . and have them
come out all the better on the other side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each member of the cast plays a great role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The art suffers, due to Igor Kordeys last
minute fill-in, but Ethan VanSciver and Frank Quietly knock their contributions
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Morrison and company take the X-Men on wild ride with
high stakes, but manage to pull off a huge win that is both satisfying and
positive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a rare, clean victory
for the X-Men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Cable # 6-8, Uncanny X-Men # 308 – 310, X-Men # 30,
Excalibur # 75, Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix # 1-4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During a final battle with Stryfe, the true origin of
Cable and Stryfe is revealed – that Cable is in fact the son of Scott and
Madelyne and Stryfe is his Apocalypse-raised clone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After this, during a Thanksgiving gathering
at the mansion, Scott and Jean decide to get married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the weeks leading up to the wedding,
Professor X confronts his own mistakes in love and Scott has an adventure with
Cable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two then marry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterwards, their daughter from a possible
future, Rachel, swaps places with the time-lost Captain Brittain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She arrives in the future and leads a
rebellion against Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
bringing Nathan into the future and cloning him, she brings the minds of her
parents into the future to raise him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They go back, but Nathan grows up to be Cable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To steal a phrase, it’s a little “timey-wimey,” but it
wouldn’t be a Cyclops and Phoenix story without that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shipped these two hard-core back in the day
and I was so tickled to see them to get married.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wedding itself is so simple and
straight-forward, with a great narration by Professor X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s nothing very weird or out of the
ordinary that happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
over-dramatic or strange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything
before and after that is, but that’s part and parcel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time spent in the future is fun and fantastic
with a strong ending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a saga
that’s overlooked and I wish Marvel would group these issues together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all fit together nicely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The marriage of two of the X-Men’s mainstays is centered
in adventures in time and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
classic 90s story that needs more attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another cheat, I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Welcome to the Jean Grey School,
run by Headmaster Wolverine, featuring teachers Rachel Grey, Kitty Pryde,
Beast, Husk, and Iceman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immediately
upon opening the doors to the school, they’re attacked by the Hellfire Club and
a Krakoa (which they adapt); Kitty gets pregnant with a sack of Brood (eww);
Logan and Quire head to space to get some money and Logan gets his legs broken;
and Beast fights Sabretooth on the Peak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh, and there are Bamfs running around causing trouble!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the comic that brought me back to X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw, and Chris
Bachelo give us an X-Men book that doesn’t run from the X-Men’s quirks and
details – it embraces it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book is
compelling, with great characterization, fun stories, dangerous villains, and
all with a sense of whimsy and nostalgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The students are all very well-defined, the teachers are shown as solid
veterans, and the villains are, well, very evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cyclops revisions the X-Men back into super-heroes . . .
just as the world is faced with a Mutant cure called Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After encountering an alien named Ord and
discovering that the cure’s creator has been using a Mutant as the basis for
her research, the X-Men bust into the lab and find a revived Colossus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turns that Ord and Doctor Rao are working
together and the cure was created using technology from Ord’s homeworld.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also meet Agent Brand of SWORD and learn
that Colossus is destined to destroy Ord’s homeworld in the next three years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What makes this work so well is the combination of
nostalgia and characterization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ord and
Rao aren’t the best baddies in the world, but it’s not really what the book is
about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about Kitty’s return to the
fold, the return of Colossus, and the return of the X-Men as super-heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s great, sharp dialogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each character has their own motivation, but
all of them, together, unite as the premiere X-Men team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s what makes the X-Men special, even after
all these years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Age of X: Alpha, X-Men: Legacy # 245, New Mutants # 22,
X-Men: Legacy # 246, New Mutants # 23, X-Men: Legacy # 247, New Mutants # 24)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A new reality suddenly comes into place – a world where
Mutants have taken refuge in a huge tower in San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lead by General Magneto, the Mutants have
become jaded and isolated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
fortress is under constant threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
one on the inside really trusts each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But slowly, a mystery locked in the heart of the fortress begins to leak
out: something is not right with the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Magneto dispatches Rogue and Gambit to unlock the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops and Wolverine begin to decide which
side to take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, all is
revealed: this reality was created by Legion – well, one of his personalities,
really, in order to protect him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
an epic battle between the creature that created this world and Professor X; at
the same time, the humans launch another assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, Legion reabsorbs the creature and
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a lot of ways, this could have been awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Mike Carey knocks it right outta the
park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything that he’s been doing in
his run very much leads into this – from his development with Rogue to his
redeeming of Professor X. I also liked this because it’s just so different:
it’s not the X-Men being hunted Sentinels and/or Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no X-Men, it’s just a bunch of
Mutants stuck together, defending a sanctuary day-in and day-out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a sort of prison riot feel to
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the “what’s wrong with the
world” aspect feels like a good and true mystery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all compelling, intriguing, and
engaging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a world where there’s no X-Men, Mutants are left to
fend for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they fight
every day for survival, a mystery about their own world unfolds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a great concept executed perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(X-Men: Prime one-shot, Uncanny X-Men # 322, X-Men #
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been restored, but not everything is back to normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sugar Man, Dark Beast, Holocaust, and
X-Man have made it to Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop
retains memories of the dark and twisted reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gambit’s in a coma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rogue and Iceman have hit the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then things get even worse: the Legacy
Virus goes public and a beaten Mutant is found at the X-Men’s doorstep,
shattering Xavier’s already tenuous faith in his dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly thereafter, the Juggernaut lands in
Hoboken, having been beaten by Onslaught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scott and Jean are then taken to Avalon, where Holocaust is slaughtering
the Acolytes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They survive the fall of
Avalon, though Magneto and Colossus are separated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops helps the Acolytes survive the
Australian outback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Juggernaut wakes up
from his coma and Wolverine pushes recently-promoted Cannonball into fighting
him at a local bar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus and
Callisto then arrive and persuade the X-Men into helping track down the Morlock
splinter group, Gene Nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They find
them and Storm fights their leader, Marrow, and kills her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After this, Gambit confronts Rogue about his
mysterious past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a lot of ways, this is the spiritual sequel to “From
the Ashes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve got several character
pieces alongside more immediate and terrestrial threats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are character moments, like Wolverine
challenging Cannonball, Cyclops saving the Acolytes, Rogue and Gambit’s meeting
in Seattle, and Storm in the aftermath of the Marrow’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are hints about the future with
Onslaught nods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s epic battles,
like between Exodus and Holocaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
a big ol’ pile of X-Men goodness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magneto issues an ultimatum to the world: cede him world
control in one week or he will start wiping cities out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Russia responds with nukes, which Magneto
disables, crushes the sub, and then opens a volcano underneath a city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops and Captain Lee Foster are his
guests/captives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon enough, the X-Men
are shot down and make it to Magneto’s island fortress; they make it to shore,
but an energy field dampens their powers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cyclops and the X-Men split up to disarm Magneto’s volcano machine and
to deactivate the field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately,
an attempt at Magneto’s life by Storm wakens him and he assaults the X-Men (and
Professor X, who was nearby).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storm, who
survived her own brush with death at Magneto’s hands, blows up the energy field
and the X-Men lay on the firepower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cyclops has Kitty disrupt Magneto’s computers; Magneto goes nuts and
attacks her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she fights back, it
nearly kills her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shocks Magneto
into realizing that he nearly killed a child and he hands Kitty over to Storm
and then leaves.</span></div>
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Citadel, trying to take over that third world country, and his attack on the
United Nations) (also, I should point that it feels a little hollow; everyone
does this in the Marvel Universe at least once a week) and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it helps move him into an even more
recognizable position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also shows
just how ruthless and villainous he can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What that, though, is created a short journey into becoming sympathetic
and vulnerable and then somewhat passive and clearly disturbed by his own
actions by the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an interesting
turning point for Magneto and one that sets the tone for all future
appearances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the X-Men, it’s
enjoyable to see them run around without their powers, having to depend solely
on their normal, regular capabilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21) E is for Extinction</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cassandra Nova gains control of Mega Sentinels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops and Wolverine arrive in South America
to stop her, but it’s too late: she sends them Genosha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mutant island is wiped out, the
population annihilated except for Emma Frost, who now has diamond skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto is reportedly dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men regroup at the school, where
Cassandra Nova frees herself and goes to the newly refurbished Cerebra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She goes to use it, but is shot dead by
Professor X.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shortly after this,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X reveals to the world that he’s a
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s the dawning of a new era for the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new team, a new member in Emma Frost, a new
look for Beast, and a new direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gone are the costumes, back are the uniforms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a new threat from Cassandra
Nova.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto’s dead, Genosha’s gone,
and everyone knows Professor X is a Mutant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Welcome to the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
such energy and excitement with this storyline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s fun, it’s witty, and it’s innovative.</span></div>
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KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-806315647348061972013-10-26T07:23:00.000-07:002013-10-26T07:23:10.434-07:00Uncanny X-Periment Up-date!Hey Muties!<br />
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I wanted to give you guys an up-date on the X-Periment, those that read this. The "50 Best X-Men Stories" is far from a weekly feature, unfortunately. Kids and work just make projects like this difficult. The goal is the have the next three installments out by the end of the year, with #30-20 out within the next two weeks.<br />
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With that out of the way, I do also want to announce the end of the Uncanny X-Periment proper, with the events of Battle of the Atom, the X-Men's 50th anniversary event. The thought process behind this is that there are <i>five </i>X-Men titles, proper . . . and that's not counting Uncanny Avengers. I don't have time to figure out the jigsaw puzzle that is continunity at this time. The 50th anniversary events feels like the best time to bring this to a close.<br />
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Now all that being said, I'm still going to be doing some up-dates to the blog itself as I go along reading comics. The end of X-Periment also means I'll be posting my conclusions to the X-Periment. Exciting!<br />
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So stay tuned!KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-88045212407432280152013-09-15T22:02:00.000-07:002013-09-15T22:03:20.532-07:00Uncanny X-Periment Special: Top 50 Stories - Part Three!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Madelyne Pryor has sold her soul to the demon
N’astirh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then goes a little nuts,
calls herself the Goblyn Queen and goes and confronts Mister Sinister about her
origins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reveals that she’s a clone
of Jean, given life from a small piece of the Phoenix force, and only created
to have a baby with Scott.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She seeks
revenge on Scott and Sinister by being willing to sacrifice baby Nathan, and a
bunch of other babies, all to use this sacrifice to help N’astirh invade the
Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men and X-Factor intervene,
learn the truth about Maddie/Jean/Phoenix (Jean gains all three memories), and
eventually defeat her and the demons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, the New Mutants fail to help Ilyanna into being manipulated
by S’ym and N’astirh and opening a portal to Limbo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus helps her focus, and then she
overcomes a new transformation, and seals Limbo off from the Earth, then
reverts to childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Factor and the
X-Men track down Sinister back at the mansion, where they battle it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops blasts Sinister apart and the two
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m not a big fan of sorcery and demons in X-Men, but
this is a good story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s epic in
scope, full of huge revelations, big splashy fights, and a ton of character
bits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone gets something to do,
there’s a real sense of drama and danger and the stakes are appropriately
high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get lots of resolution to the
“who is Madelyne Pryor” question and a satisfying conclusion to Magik’s
journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The art is beautiful, capturing
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jean catches Emma and Scott having a telepathic
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through her memories, forcing Emma to revisit several horrible moments in her
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott goes to Jean and makes
her see that he never had a physical affair with Emma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott takes off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hours later, Emma’s diamond body is found
shattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop and Sage arrive and
put the school in lock-down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A spiraling
murder investigation takes place – and in the X-Men’s world, that includes
oozing eggs, mind control, temporary amnesia, fake confessions, a resurrection,
and a traitor amongst the team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A key chapter in Morrison’s run, this arc peels back
several layers of characterization and shines a light on a growing mystery
within the team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean’s confrontation
with Emma is great; the payoff of Jean discovering their affair is
excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bringing Bishop and Sage in
as outsiders adds a sense of credibility to the investigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this was just Scott or Logan walking
about, asking questions, you’d wonder too much if they were involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop and Sage are excellent additions to
the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s some great X-Men
weirdness and some classic X-Men tropes that make it a solid read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, the art is great too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The X-Men and the Avengers come together to confront the
Scarlet Witch after she went crazy and destroyed the Avengers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after arriving on Genosha, where’s been
being helped by Professor X and Magneto, the world burns white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, Magneto is ruling the Earth,
Mutants are the dominant species, humankind is going extinct, and all the
Marvel heroes are living their dream lives, having gotten what they’ve always
wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except Wolverine always wanted
his memories and now that he has them, he remembers everything that happened on
Genosha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the help of Luke Cage,
Hawkeye, and mysterious young lady named Layla Miller, Wolverine gathers
members of the X-Men and the Avengers to attack Genosha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do, find out that Quicksilver was behind
it all, piss off Magneto, and then Scarlet Witch, in one final act of revenge,
declares “No more Mutants,” thus ridding 98% of the Mutant population of their
powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From its opening panels to its final splash, House of M
is a huge ride through an alternate reality – that has major consequences on
the Marvel Universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main
mini-series smartly focuses on the attempts at getting the world back to
normal, leaving the world building to spin-offs and tie-ins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of characters get the spotlight, with
Cyclops, Magneto, Quicksilver, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Doctor Strange lead
the charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some powerful
moments, like when Quicksilver confronts Magneto about Wanda’s fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s also some creepy stuff, like Wanda’s
meeting with Doctor Strange during the final battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some interesting bits about this
might be the way that Mutants rise to power and become dominant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s some interesting bits like that, along
with great action sequences, and character pieces that bring this comic
together and make it greater than the sum of its parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An intriguing alternate reality, an unstable Marvel
family, some solid character beats, and ramifications felt throughout the
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cable and Hope arrive from the future and hit the ground
running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are immediately hunted by
the Right, the Sapien League, and the Purifiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Mutants and the X-Men intercept them
and help them get to Utopia, though they take some loses on the way, including
Nightcrawler and Vanisher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
makes it back to Utopia, but Bastian manages to encase both Utopia and San
Fracisco in a force field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then opens
a time portal and sends Nimrods from the future to wipe out Mutantkind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men and co. do their best to fight them
off, but it’s a mission into the future with X-Force that saves them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, Bastian himself becomes involved,
but is brought down by a power-mimicking Hope (with some help from Wolverine
and Cyclops).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men take their hits,
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</span>Cyclops really takes the cake here, putting all his faith into the X-Men
and into Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable plays a great role
as caretaker to Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved the use of
all the player available and the build-up to this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of all, Hope has a great role in this
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Knight accidentally helps Magneto and Toad escape the Strangers prison planet, Magneto
lures Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into a trap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They agree to join with Magneto in order to
give the Avengers time to get into action against him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, at the United Nations whilst
demanding Mutants get their own country, Magneto manipulates them into truly
joining his cause. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch then leave with him back to
his giant-rock-in-the-water base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile,
the X-Men are given new costumes by Professor X and go and fight an underground
monster named Grotesque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X
helps them and is killed, but it turns out he also had an incurable disease and
was going to die anyways (not really).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the funeral, Quicksilver arrives to mourn with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quicksilver suddenly thinks the X-Men are
going to attack him and he takes off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The X-Men convene at the mansion and watch a tape that Xavier has left
them, asking that they carry on with his dream and also defeat the returned
Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They figure out that Magneto is
building a mind-control machine and put themselves on the ship carrying the
last component.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto takes the ship
and the X-Men use it to get aboard his base, but are swiftly defeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quicksilver asks Magneto to keep them alive
and Angel manages to escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes to
get the Avengers, but is distracted by an adventure with Red Raven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops is able to free himself and then gets
in a fight with Quicksilver and defeats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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above their defeated comrade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto
uses his mind-control device to force the X-Men and the Avengers to fight, but
Angel turns it off and they go after Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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self-destruct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone manages to
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Silver Age epic, complete with twisting subplots and larger than life
villains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto is boisterous and
fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men and the Avengers are
dynamic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quicksilver’s mad as hell;
Wanda is flailing about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Avengers
and X-Men play greatly around the Magneto-Quicksilver-Scarlet Witch trio, which
is really the core of this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
interesting to put this story up against related tales, like “Bloodties” or
“House of M,” because it kicks off an arc of manipulation that Magneto doles out
on his children like candy.</span></span></div>
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Quiten Quire into attacking a UN summit, forcing many countries to take up new Sentinel
programs (being produced by the Hellfire Club).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the X-Men around the globe trying to take down Sentinels all over the
world, Wolverine insists on going after Quire and bringing him to justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, that’s when Quire shows up
looking for asylum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine wants to
march him out to the Avengers, but Cyclops insists on keeping him there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine complies, but is pissed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, there’s a Mutant Museum opening
that night and Cyclops decides to send some X-Men and Generation Hope there as
a sign of peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the
Hellfire Club attacks and take down everyone except for Idie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops wants Idie to use her powers to defeat
the Hellfire Club; Wolverine wants her to run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Idie ends up using her powers and murders all of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bomb goes off and a new giant, Sentinel
begins to rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine and Cyclops go
back to Utopia with Generation Hope; Cyclops wants them to fight since they’re
the only ones there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine wants to
them to run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a confrontation,
Wolverine shows up with a bomb, ready to blow Utopia up when the Sentinel shows
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and Cyclops tussle and continue
to fight when the Sentinel shows up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually,
Generation Hope shows up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine
throws away the bombs ignition and joins in against the Sentinel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It falls and the X-Men win . . . except
Cyclops and Wolverine are completely at odds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Logan decides to reopen the school in Westchester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Half the X-Men and most of the students
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think what appeals to me so much about this is the
philosophic divide that breaks the X-Men up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s far less the actual fight between Scott and Logan as it is the moral
and philosophical direct they want to the take the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s smart, it’s interesting, and it’s
shocking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of all characters to take the
X-Men back to the school, Logan would be the last one I would have
expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the flipside, Scott is the
one I would not have expected to go the militarization route.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s good stuff to chew on.</span></div>
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art, and excellent action scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
the perfect 35<sup>th</sup>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Humanity and Mutantkind are skirting the edge of
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Acolytes, at the command of
Fabian Cortez, attack a hospice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>X-Factor then learns that they are about to attack a new government
Sentinel program called Project Wideawake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>X-Factor is able to overcome them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, shortly after the return of Cable, the mysterious Exodus
approaches some of X-Force with an offer of sanctuary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them take up the offer, just to infiltrate
Exodus’ base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable rescues them, then
is confronted and severely injured by Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Shortly afterward, Illyana succumbs to the Legacy Virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto crashes her funeral and engages the
combined forces of the X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force, and Excalibur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He offers them a place on his orbital space
station of Avalon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colossus, feeling
failed by Professor X, accepts this offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professor X takes control of Magneto’s mind and accesses his powers to
throw Avalon away from the Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
a failed assassination attempt whilst visiting Magda’s grave, SHIELD and the
United Nations institute a protocol to magnetically seal the Earth from
Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto retaliates by
unleashing a worldwide electro-magnetic pulse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A small team of X-Men attack Avalon, leading to a battle in which
Professor X uses manipulated memories of Magneto’s failures to undermine
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magneto then rips Wolverine’s
adamantium off his bones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Desperate,
Professor X wipes Magneto’s mind out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
X-Men return to Earth and save Wolverine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of them head to Muir Island, kidnap Colossus, and help cure him
from being stuck in his metal form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
still refuses to return to the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in the aftermath of this mission, a new Excalibur team is formed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ll be honest, even though the summary I gave is for the
proper issues of the actual crossover, you almost need to add to it Uncanny
X-Men 298 – 306 and Annual 17, X-Men # 24, X-Men Unlimited # 2, Uncanny X-Men #
315, and X-Men # - 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These books
provide context for what is happening in the X-Men’s world during this crisis –
attacks by the Acolytes, the manipulations by the Upstarts, the growing threat
of the Legacy Virus, the rise of the Friends of Humanity hate group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These all frame the larger threat of
Magnetos’ return from his latest supposed ‘death.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s some dark times for the X-Men, that’s
for sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This crossover does one of two
things, thematically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Firstly, it shows
just what lengths Professor X and Magneto will go to in order to stop the
other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The assaults of visceral, the
attempts making peace are genuine, and the annihilated friendship between them
is almost painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second is that
it challenges the various stars of the titles in deep, personal ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Factor’s trust in their government allies
is tainted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Force is torn between
their old teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men are
brought down by tragedy and fairly unethical methods of attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine must confront the demons with his
own mind to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excalibur,
scattered and diminished, has to discover a new role in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coupled with these excellent framing issues,
we have what is one of my own personal favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the small city of Valle Soleada, a family is killed
after some Mutant teens buzz their van.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only survivor, a young woman by the name of Marie, later puts on an
explosive vest and plans to bomb a Lila Cheny concert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rogue and Cannonball, who are attending,
manage to stop her and bring her in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rogue learns that after the accident, the relatively peaceful and
pro-Mutant/Human community, has been trying to push for more Mutant homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She refuses to sell her parents house, but is
haunted by horrible nightmares – bad enough to push her uncle into
selling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turns this move is being
sponsored by that branch of the X-Corporation, which is headed by Sunspot and
Empath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men – including Bishop and
Sage – look further into this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valle
Soleada was the manifestation of Xavier’s dream, but is on track to being
Mutant only, thus causing tension between the species.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men track down Revenant, who has been
responsible for the dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
confront Sunspot, who assures them that he’ll look into his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, the kids responsible are found not
guilty due to lack of evidence. Marie, in the meantime, is taken in by the
X-Men and comes to grips with her anger.</span></div>
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Mutant-related meeting in Texas, which consists of both major world leaders and
fictional characters like Val Cooper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m betting some people are a little surprised to find
this one here, but it’s one of the most realistic takes on the Mutant/human
conflict I’ve ever read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not a
battle between Sentinels and Evil Mutants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s dumb kids with super powers and families in mini-vans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s by-standers at a rock concert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s politicians and world leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s cops trying to deal with a crazy,
untrained Mutant teenager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a hate
group getting to the youth of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s not perfect, of course, and it doesn’t close this
story up completely, as it started in “Schism” and ended in “The Burning Eyes” (or
something).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it paints a picture of a
community caught in a transition and seeing the race card handed out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people don’t care, but those that do are
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politicians alongside fictional ones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also kinda interesting to see how much
impact just saying “9/11” had; not mention the frequent use of “Weapons of Mass
Destruction.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The X-Men are attacked on Christmas Eve by some Sentinels
and Wolverine, Professor X, Banshee, and Marvel Girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men mount a rescue and arrive at an
orbital space station, where they fight Sentinels before being confronted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>robotic versions of the original X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More fisticuffs ensue, and the X-Men<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eventually engage Stephen Lang, the guy
behind the Sentinels, and after a confrontation and explosion, he is
killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, the shuttle is
damaged and there’s a big ol’ solar flare coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean volunteers to fly the shuttle and they
end up crashing into the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean
then rises as Phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile,
Professor X is haunted by strange, alien dreams and visions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eric the Red, a Shi’ar agent, unleashes foe
after foe against the X-Men, including a revived Magneto, Juggernaut and Black
Tom, and Firelord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, the X-Men
make to the heart of the Shi’ar Empire, where it’s revealed that the empire is
under the control of the vile emperor D’ken, who wishes to use the M’kraan
Crystal to . . . take over the universe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Something like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men
team up with the space pirates the Starjammers and D’ken’s sister,
Lilandra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fight D’ken and then
Phoenix rises and uses her power and her love for the X-Men to bind the
crystal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then the X-Men pack it on
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is basically like the X-Men’s answer to Star
Wars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a huge, sweeping space opera
that pits our heroes against intergalactic warlords, space pirates, kings and
queens, spies, and revitalized old enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s a love story between Charles and Lilandra that, I feel, is very
unique and interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean’s sacrifice
into becoming the Phoenix is such a great, monumental moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s solid storytelling that, while it sways
into silliness sometimes (Leperchauns?), is really quite awesome.</span></div>
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error of his ways, to teleport the original X-Men to the present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things . . . kinda go wrong after that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The team decides to stay, they encounter
Cyclops’s X-Men, they meet up with the Uncanny Avengers, Angel leaves for
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you had ever told me that Bendis would be writing an
X-Men title about the original X-Men time traveling into the present and then
staying there – and that it would be good – I would have laughed in your
face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the fact of the matter is,
Bendis nails it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Placing these
characters, who during the time period they taken from were barely sketches of
themselves, into a new context and a new situation brings out new strokes and
new characterizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scott, troubled
by his future self, goes inward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean,
confronted by her demise and her future, steps up as a pseudo-leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warren becomes more a rebel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bobby and Hank basically remain the same,
but are a lot more fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The threats aren’t
anything to be fussed about, but it’s the character moments that sell this
story, especially in terms of Scott and Jean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Professor X has promised his students a vacation, so down
to Warren’s parents Florida home they go!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make a stop at Curt Conners house, only to discover he has become the Lizard again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X charges Angel and Beast to subdue
the Lizard and insists on Scott, Jean, and Bobby continue on with the
vacation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things don’t go so well for
Angel and Beast, so Iceman is called in and helps put an end to Lizard’s
rampage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Scott relaxes with
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Why It’s # 49: </span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I fully admit that this comic series in particular is a
little iffy on continuity and canon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
remember being at HeroesCon back in 2007 and hearing (I think) Christos Gage
say that the book was “canon, but not in continuity.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever that means.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyways, this issue delivers on what this whole series is
about – the original X-Men just being super-hero teens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a fun, laid back story that gives
everyone something to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chase
throughout the Everglades is fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professor X’s side-comments to the X-Men are cute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dialogue is funny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the best is the way they’re written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stan Lee wrote the original X-Men decently,
don’t get me wrong, but they were hardly more than sketches of themselves for
the first 19 issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roy Thomas was the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Honestly, this is what I would of rather have
had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeff Parker presents us with a fun,
enjoyable tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite scene is
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It’s a small moment, but it speaks volumes of their
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is a bit of an off-beat, fun little
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s nothing ground
breaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roger Cruz makes the X-Men
appear as actual teenagers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Val Staples
colors add a lot of vibrant (and sometimes quiet) energy to the linework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeff Parker, ultimately gives us a fun story
that reminds us that the X-Men were once teenagers and that, yes, even in a
world that fears and hates you, there’s time for a vacation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On Christmas Eve, Gladiator arrives on Earth
and proceeds to have a fight with Cannonball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After being beaten by Cannonball, Gladiator sends Rogue, Bishop, Gambit,
Beast, Trish Tibly, and the kinda-sorta Magneto Joseph to the Shi’ar galaxy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They find Deathbird and discover that the
Empire is being eaten by the Phalanx.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The X-Men intervene and defeat them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The X-Men and Deathbird head back to Earth, but get knocked off course
by a big ol’ spaceship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, all but
Bishop and Deathbird make it back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
back, the X-Men are captured by the demented robot Nanny, who was created by
Magneto a long time ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this
time, their powers are negated and Rogue and Gambit make love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gambit, who upon his arrival was being hunted
by Spat and Grovel, is weighed down tremendous guilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men overpower Nanny, but Gambit
surrenders himself to the bounty hunters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, the mysterious Maggot is tracking down Joseph, and bumps into
Psylocke and Archangel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually,
everyone comes together at a Citadel in Antarctica, where Gambit is put by Eric
the Red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It comes to light that Gambit
formed the Marauders in a deal with Mister Sinister and led them to the Morlock
tunnels to wipe them out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men free
themselves, but they abandon Gambit in Antarctica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, after all is said and done, Eric the
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is one of those cases where I’ve included more than
just the necessary issues for the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The trial of Gambit really only takes place in Uncanny 350, but the
build-up from 341 is what makes it such a good story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See, the Phalanx/Shi’ar stuff is fairly
fluffy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nanny is more annoying than
threatening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s also a big subplot
regarding Operation Zero Tolerance that takes over 346 (making it not a very
good fit for this run).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But through it
all, we see Gambit continue on with this burden of guilt that slowly but surely
screws into his mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time we
reach 349, Gambit has given up on his freedom and is willing to stand trial for
what he’s done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the selling point
– even with all the Shi’ar and Magneto stuff, Gambit is the one who shines
through the most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to all
this, we get some nice character moments with the others. We get introduced to
Maggot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, Joe Mad’s art is amazing
and it hits a high with the Shi’ar material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A fun romp in Shi’ar featuring some amazing art from Joe
Mad, plus angsty journey into Gambit’s soul, with a big ol’ last page Magneto
reveal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a classic, even it’s a
weighed down by its weaker, more disjointed issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Again, on Christmas Eve, the X-Men hit the town
for some R&R.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They leave Kitty home
. . . who is then attacked by a N’Gari demon, who was left behind after the
X-Men’s previous battle with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kitty
leads it on a path of destruction through the mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It follows her to the hanger, where Kitty uses
the Blackbird to fry it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men then
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is the perfect coming-of-age story for Kitty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the Dark Phoenix Saga, a lot of what
she did was supported by the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the Days of Future Past, she was possessed by Kate Pryde.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this is the first time we see Kitty bust
loose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see her use her education from
earlier in the issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see her thoughts
about being introduced to the super-hero world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We see her struggle and then rise up.</span></div>
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Pryde as she goes through this trial by fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Byrne’s artwork fleshes it out just beautifully, instilling it with the
kind of perfect synergy that makes this comic so good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is a fairly complicated story, so the reader’s
digest version is this – the X-Men and SWORD head off to Breakworld to stop
them from shooting a giant bullet at the Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are separated, come together, join with Danger, Cyclops comes up with
a brilliant plan, and then Kitty phases the bullet through the Earth, implying
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If there’s ever a book that lives up to its title, it’s
this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It kicks off by ripping us
out of the momentum of the previous storyline and immediately propels us
towards Breakworld.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it doesn’t
stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not perfect – there are some
plot holes and it’s a little over complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the sheer emotion of this story and the amazing art by John Cassady
just sells it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What makes the threat
work so well is the fact that you know that something bad is going to happen .
. . you actually get a sense of danger from the giant bullet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops’ plan is brilliant, Emma’s angst and
attempts at reaching Kitty in the bullet are well done, and Beast and Wolverine
are a ton of fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus call backs from
earlier in Whedon run brings it run full circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, on top of everything, Kitty’s fate is
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running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great characterization, a
well-done threat, and fulfilling the mission of the book of the X-Men as
super-heroes makes it an amazing story.</span></div>
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to use Hope as its host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops and his
X-Men see this as the rebirth of the Mutant people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captain America sees this as a threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Avengers and the X-Men go to war with
each other when the Avengers try and take Hope into custody. Hope escapes,
heads to the Moon with Logan, and the X-Men and the Avengers catch up with them
and fight it out more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phoenix comes,
but Iron Man blows it up and five pieces of the Phoenix possess Cyclops, Namor,
Emma Frost, Magik, and Colossus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
try and build Earth into a Utopia, but their war with the Avengers continues
and eventually, one by one, they fall until Cyclops claims the power of the
Phoenix himself and becomes the new Dark Phoenix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kills Professor X, but is then defeated by
Scarlet Witch and Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope then
becomes Phoenix, saves the Earth, and then releases the Phoenix into the world,
restarting Mutantkind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It’s a bit of a 15 year olds’ nerd dream to see these two
big franchises go at each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seriously, after all these of years reading these comics and always
wanting a slugfest, I finally got one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
action is spectacular and fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
story, while suffering from pacing and some wayward subplots, is fairly
decent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some interesting
questions raised about destiny, faith, and a super-heroes role in a world gone
wild like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, it’s not
perfect, but it’s a blast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Reeling from the latest battle with Magneto and the
Brotherhood, Cerebro goes nuts with an alert!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professor X realizes that his step-brother, Cain Marko, now the
Juggernaut, is on his way to the mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After the X-Men set up several defenses to stop the Juggernaut,
Professor reveals to them his origin and his past relationship with Cain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, Juggernaut plows through every
defense and trap and arrives on site to wipe out the team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
X-Men try their best to hold him off, including tossing the Juggernaut into the
Danger Room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor X grabs the
Human Torch and forces him into battle with the Juggernaut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Together with the Angel, they are able to
remove Juggernaut’s helmet and Professor X attacks him telepathically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, the Human Torch returns home
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is some of the original X-Men at their best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The threat of the Juggernaut is huge and immense
and it’s really something to see him just smash through the defenses that the
X-Men set-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of neat, classic
X-Men action and the origins of Professor X are an added touch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one of the best and consistently good
Juggernaut stories we’ve seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The use
of Human Torch and the way Professor X just kinda uses him is a little odd and
off-putting, and it does leave a bad taste in my mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just felt unnecessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In spite of that, the action<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leading up to his involvement is worth it.</span></div>
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Professor X makes this s a classic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with the pointless involvement and
treatment of the Human Torch, it’s a solid and fun read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It solidifies the Juggernaut as a classic
villain and gives the X-Men their greatest challenge up to that point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Operation: Zero Tolerance comes alive and launches its assault on the X-Men and
their allies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jubilee is captured early
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine, Cannonball, Storm,
Cyclops, and Phoenix are defeated and imprisoned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Force and MLF are hunted down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generation X is on the run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable fights Bastian and his minions at the
mansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, Senator Kelly
shuts down the program, but Cyclops ends up with a bomb in his belly and the
mansion is stripped down to nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To me, this is the X-Men’s ultimate challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A huge threat that’s analyzed and targeted
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not just Apocalypse or
Sinister or Magneto – it’s a humanity at its worse, unleashing a threat that
they themselves can barely contain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Prime Sentinels are such a scary concept – that anyone around you could
transform into a new breed of Sentinel and counteract your powers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m stunned we haven’t seen more of these
guys out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, honestly,
Operation: Zero Tolerance feels like the first X-Men story in which the X-Men
cannot dig themselves out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no
“banding together” for one final battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ending, while a deus ex machine, does not necessarily feature a win
for our heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Calisto, Marrow, and Doctor Reyes makes it even better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And putting Iceman front and center is a
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is some potential lost and the defeat of Bastian is
a little too convenient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as a whole,
it’s a great threat and puts the X-Men up against a foe they can’t contend with
as easily as, say, Magneto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s grim,
but energetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some great
character moments and action scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good
artwork, decent storytelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
around, pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There’s no short supply of dark alternate reailties and/or
dystopian futures for the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
here’s another one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set 150 years after
the second death of Jean Grey and the whole Xorn madness, the X-Men now consist
of Wolverine, Beak’s grandson Tito, EVA, Martha, Cassandra Nova, Three-In-One,
Tom Skylar and his Sentinel friend Rover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After the Phoenix Egg is taken by a John Sublime-possessed Beast, the
X-Men launch an attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Phoenix Egg
hatches and Jean/Phoenix does Sublime’s bidding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, the X-Men win out, Jean realizes
that everything went wrong after she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Scott rejected Emma Frost and the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Beast took over the school, but failed and turned to Kick and became
possessed by Sublime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world then
fell apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Logan and Hank are
killed, Jean removes Sublime and then prepares to enter the White Hot Room with
the rest of the Phoenixes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, to
save the future, she gives Scott a mental push into his relationship with Emma,
thus saving the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The story itself is pretty interesting, but what I really
liked about this one is everything that occurs beneath the surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It shows just how important both Scott and
Hank are to the X-Men and how they both need the X-Men and how the X-Men need
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without Scott, Hank can’t run the
school and save humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With Hank gone
bad, the world falls apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with
Scott, the X-Men are able to hold together (well, kinda).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Scott won’t return to the X-Men unless
he gives into his feelings with Emma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ultimately, it’s left up to Logan to carry on with the dream, but he’s
no Professor X.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So it takes one mental push from Jean to make sure the
X-Men (and the world) survive and continue on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s such a simple moment and all it takes is one woman’s love and
forgiveness to her husband to win the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a nice concept and is really what the X-Men are about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The art is great and is some of my favorite from Marc
Silvestri.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beast looks freaky, Jean
looks great, the X-Men look badass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And, I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, no one draws
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The art is fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The story is excellent, with lots of fun Morrison-isms and references to
his arc as a whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a nice wrap-up
of Morrison’s far-too-short run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
message of peace, forgiveness, and just plain love bleed through subtly and,
dare I say it, sublimely.</span></div>
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bar scene by Logan and Kurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan gives
Peter a “if you’re going to act like a man, you better be a man” speech and
then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>makes him fight the
Juggernaut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It ends in pretty much a
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There’s not a whole lot to say about this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a nice coming-of-age story for Peter,
with him pitted against Marko.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
small story that really makes two of our favorite lovebirds suffer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter and Kitty both do some serious growing
after their break up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a lot of fun
and a lot of angst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t go wrong!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Welcome the Uncanny X-Periment 50 best X-Men stories!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A few notes about how I picked these. These were chosen based on the following criteria: the quality of the comic overall (writing and art), characterization, how well it keeps to the titles core ideas, and how important the story is. Furthermore, this list only includes stories from Uncanny X-Men, X-Men Legacy (X-Men/New X-Men), X-Men Unlimited, X-Treme X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, X-Men, All-New X-Men and X-Men: First Class. There are two exceptions to this list, but they are limited series and, damn it, I say they count! Now, I will count spin-off titles only during crossovers. Sorry. I'm mean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Okay, so here we go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Professor X gathers Nightcrawler, Sunfire, Banshee,
Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, and Thunderbird from the four corners of the
globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their mission: rescue the missing
original X-Men after a strange disappearance on the mysterious island of
Krakoa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new X-Men, led by Cyclops,
overcome several obstacles to reach a temple, where the original X-Men (except
Beast) are being held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men are
freed, but they reveal that Krakoa – an actual living, Mutant island – let
Cyclops go to bring back new Mutants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor
X helps the X-Men concoct a plan to unite their powers and send Krakoa into
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The X-Men – all thirteen of them
– then back on home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In terms of being iconic, this comic has got it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the exciting, bursting cover to Angel’s
quip about 13 X-Men, this is a classic story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Len Wien and Dave Cockrum knock this out of the park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s so much story in this comic and it fits
so well into this big, giant-sized format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We get nice, long introductions to our new characters and full and
concise reintroductions to our old schoolers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s tons of little nods to everything that’s come before – Weapon
X/Wolverine’s fight with the Hulk, the Iceman/Havok rivalry over Lorna, Scott
and Jean’s relationship, etc etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it’s
all good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let’s not forget Dave Cockrum’s amazing art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of fluid action, lots of amazing
character designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dave Cockrum has
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The negative side is mainly in the villain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Krakoa is a big living island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a bad idea, but it’s just kinda
silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know this is the Marvel
Universe and we are asked to accept a lot, but this . . . eh . . . this pushes
the envelope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I found some of the
characterizations to be a little racist – especially Thunderbird and
Sunfire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I also doubt that even a
small village in Germany would resort to using torches and a hammer and stake
to deal with a monster. Guns and flashlights are the way to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It’s iconic status and it’s full, action packed
storytelling coupled with great artwork makes it a classic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s silly, English speaking living island
villain and vaguely stereotypical clichéd characterizations drag it down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But hey, this is just the beginning of the
list!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And hey, out of all of the
ka-billion X-Men stories, this is 50<sup>th</sup> best!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!</span></div>
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retconned over the years into a much darker, grimmer story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like what Classic X-Men # 1 and Giant-Sized
X-Men # 3 have done for it, in elaborating the character moments that grow out
of the plot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s stories like Deadly
Genesis and Original Sin that add a dark, more sinister tone that kinda hurts what
is such a celebratory and proud moment in the X-Men’s history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Retcons!</span></div>
KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-40768687547256026742013-06-23T12:16:00.003-07:002013-06-30T04:39:42.181-07:00Things to Come!Just wanted to break regular programming to announce that the Uncanny X-Periment will be shifting a little bit over the next few months. There will be a slow down in regular X-Periment up-dates, as I'm still trying to get caught up.<br />
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MEANWHILE!<br />
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Next month, expect a brand-new twice weekly up-date! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the X-Men, I will be posting short review/summaries of the TOP FIFTY X-MEN STORIES EVER! This will start 7/1. Be ready! Be X-CITED!<br />
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Be there, true believer!KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-7364338453217927402013-06-15T08:46:00.001-07:002013-06-15T08:47:17.695-07:00Uncanny X-Periment # 167: The Reckoning<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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# 47, Dark Wolverine # 86, Wolverine Origins # 48 – 50</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wolverine needs to work out a plan to defeat Romulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem is, Romulus knows Wolverine so
well that every move he makes, Romulus is already going to know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Logan meets with “someone” who advises him
on a new plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan goes to Banner to
recruit him, only to find that Banner can no longer turn in the Hulk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, Banner has his son Skarr, who is big
and Hulk-like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They initially reject Logan’s
proposal, but later reconsider it, as Banner is trying to the best he can by
his son, same as Logan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After securing
Skarr, Logan makes for Japan and teams up with Silver Samurai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Silver Samurai trains Logan who to wield
the Muramasa Sword, then they find out that Dagger has been kidnapped by
Romulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine and Cloak rescue her
and Logan kills Victor Hudson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cloak
attacks Logan with the Darkforce Dimension, and it’s revealed the Logan fears
the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cloak, pushed by Dagger,
agrees top help him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan, Skarr, and
Cloak break into the Raft to rescue Ruby Thursday, to whom Logan reveals his
big plan to to gain her trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, the plan goes down the tubes and Ruby gets captured and
interrogated by Romulus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan and the
gang meet back up with her and eventually sent her back to the Raft, the plan
foiled completely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan goes the
Answer, who reveals that the plan was always to get Ruby out, because he loved
her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan then meets up with Deadpool,
who also provided Logan with a plan (I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was really confusing).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After making a confession to Kurt about Mariko’s death,
Logan finds Daken, who is back to being a “bad-ass” now that the Dark Avengers
are no more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two plot to take down
Romulus, which involves lots of false plans and fake-outs, but eventually leads
to Romulus confronting the pair in Ankara.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Skaar jumps in, and Daken decides to take out his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wolverine’s plan has been to expose Romulus –
a major blow, since his greatest asset has been to remain in the shadows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, the battle gets outta hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan has to reel Skarr in, and both Romulus
and Daken escape together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They head to
a safehouse, or something, and Romulus talks about how the gods are losing
their power and how he was worshipped as a god as a cave man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daken attacks him, but Cloak whisks Romulus
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is dumped in front of the
Howllett mansion, and Wolverine comes to a realization, spurned by the Silver
Samurai turning training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He realizes
that when he loses control, when he goes berserk, his balance is lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan, instead of killing Romulus, banishes
him to the Darkforce Dimension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan at
last understands that revenge is no longer an option; that all these years of
obsessing about vengeance has led him nowhere and he seeks to stop his son from
going down the same path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He engages
Daken, and defeats him by not going for the kill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan then removes the parts of the Muramasa
Blade that were placed in Daken’s forearms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He buries them, along with the
sword itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He lets Daken live, now
that he is no longer able to kill his father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Logan retreats into the woods to build a cabin and is
visited by Nick Fury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They talk for a
while, but the conditioning Logan was put through and, finding out it’s his
birth, Logan begins to hallucinate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
pictures all the women in his life that have been killed and, in the process,
nearly kills Nick Fury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, Fury
has some of Logan’s heal factor or something on hand and uses it to heal
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nick leaves and Logan is forced
to the face the future that he feared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
future without revenge, without vengeance and hate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Logan let’s go of the past and moves
forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s best at what he does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The first part of this was really confusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was Logan’s plan?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who is Ruby and the Answer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did Ruby factor into this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did Logan need Hulk and/or Skarr?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did he know that Romulus approached
Skarr?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was up with Deadpool having
a plan?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this was really muddling
and confusing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The second part was better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Skarr felt unnecessary and the end of Romulus was anti-climatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Logan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buddy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t care if you’ve given up revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kill this guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s no one that doesn’t want you to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I promise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s okay.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What I did like was Logan’s disarming on Daken and then
letting him go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s about a “papa
spank” as Logan gets and it’s done well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it’s too Daniel Way’s credit that Daken doesn’t have a “moment
of clarity” and decides that revenge isn’t worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there’s one thing that we can from Daken,
it’s that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is exactly what is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to think this sort of anti-revenge,
I’m-gonna-teach-you-a-lesson move serves an excellent transition as to what is
come, with “Schism” and “Wolverine and the X-Men” and whatnot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As for Logan, well, I do like the turn of events where Logan
decides to give up REVENGE FOREVER. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It make
sense, after all this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But let’s not kid ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This isn’t very good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You see, in preparation for this review, I read all of
“Wolverine Origins,” as well as the terrible “Evolution,” throughout the
week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t say its punishment,
because it’s not horrible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s not
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To Daniel Way’s credit, I can say with some certainty that
he is a decent writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He peels away the
layers to this story one issue at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Up until “Family Business,” we are slowly shown how these patterns in
Logan’s life connect and how these people he’s interacted with all link
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Family Business” is where the book
goes from being about Logan discovering his past to Logan trying to actively
stop Romulus and save his son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
Daken, it turns into revenge on Logan and taking Romulus’ empire for
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By that point, all of the cards
are on the table and everything is out and in the open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From there, Logan and Daken get proactive
about their agendas and it all ends like up above – with Romulus removed
anti-climatically, Daken being forced from being able to kill Logan, and with
Logan swearing off REVENGE FOREVER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Honestly, therein lies the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything about the “Romulus manipulated
your life” plot has reeked of inconsistencies, an over-reliance of coincidence,
and an overall feeling of “WTF, really?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hate that we have one character that has just made an appearance at
the start of the series serve as this grand orchestrator of Logan’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s contrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just doesn’t
make sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(I actually ranted more about in some previous X-Periments<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and, btw, many of those questions remain
unanswered. Also, here are the other "Wolverine Origins" entries: <a href="http://uncannyxperiment.blogspot.com/2007/12/uncanny-x-periment-140-origins-and.html">Origins and Endings</a>, <a href="http://uncannyxperiment.blogspot.com/2008/02/uncanny-x-periment-149-endangered.html">Evolution</a>, <a href="http://uncannyxperiment.blogspot.com/2010/07/uncanny-x-periment-156-original-sin.html">Original Sin</a>, and <a href="http://uncannyxperiment.blogspot.com/2013/03/uncanny-x-periment-158-dark-reign.html">Dark Reign</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ultimately, in the most basic sense, this series failed to
be what it could have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this
Romulus stuff could have been removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
like Daken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the guy ended pretty well developed,
even though there are still lots of questions about there about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In place on this Romulus stuff, I would have rather have
seen issues with the Weapon X project and its relationship with the World Plus
Program resolved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to see the
Facility from X-23 explored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to
see more flashbacks, with more opportunities to explore Logan’s past . . .
without showing so much to remove all of the mystery of the character (which
this series did anyways).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted revelations and new mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted redemption and revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted Logan to have to deal with all these
aspects of his life – X-Man, Avenger, and working solo – and how they fit into
his rediscovered past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got a
weird, convoluted, over-the-top story that doesn’t give us much satisfaction in
the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t really blame Daniel
Way – or even Jeph Loeb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked that Wolverine
gave up REVENGE FOREVER and that we now have punk-ass Wolverine Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s pretty much it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OH!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Our War” is
still great.</span></div>
KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-57876988192600219622013-05-18T22:06:00.004-07:002013-05-18T22:07:03.859-07:00Uncanny X-Periment # 166: Predators X<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Greg Land still sucks.</span></div>
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# 1, X-Force # 21 – 25, New Mutants # 6-8, X-Men Legacy # 231-233</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Selene gathers Wither, Blink, Senyaka, Mortis, Cypher, and
Eli Bard for her final plan to rise up and become a god.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She raises an army of dead Mutants and has
them attack Utopia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there’s a dead
Mutant, they’re there, powered by Bard’s Techno-Organic Virus that he stole
from Bastian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New Mutants manage to
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Selene raises an army of dead Mutants on Genosha, which she
has renamed Necrosha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She only needs the
Soul Blade and sends her coven to retrieve it from Warpath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Warpath is taken to Necrosha by Selene’s
coven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thunderbird is there and explains
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get serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Selene completes her ritual
and rises to godhood, but Warpath stabs her with the Soul Blade and she
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is really and truly the reader’s digest version of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that, I apologize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a lot of fun stuff here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing all of the old, dead Mutants is a
blast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It leaves a nice door open for
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I’ve never been a Selene fan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve often found her an odd fit for the
X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But here, we get a well-rounded
look at her character and background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The way her plans come together is well-realized and to finally see her
dead, well, that made my day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dark Reign – The List: X-Men, X-Men Legacy Annual 2009, X-Men
Legacy # 228 – 230, Uncanny X-Men # 515 – 519</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Norman Osborn has unleashed a mutated, animalistic, mindless
version of Namor’s wife, Marrina upon the ocean as revenge. It gobbles up some Atlanteans and Namor,
without anyone else to turn to, goes to the X-Men for help. They lure Marrina to Utopia, where Namor is
forced to kill her. Namor then shows
just how far he’ll go to stop Norman should their paths cross again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Afterwards, Emplate returns.
He attacks the X-Men, searching for Penance. He doesn’t find her, but instead, finds Bling
(aka Roxy) and determines that she similar enough to sup from. He backs away, but then returns and captures
her. Trance figures out a way into
Emplate’s realm, but Cyclops tells her ‘no’ and instead, Rogue takes her power
and goes on a rescue mission. Some
madcap wild chases later and Rogue dumps Emplate off to some moon in his
Nowhere dimension and then returns home with Bling. She then accepts a job as mentor to the
Young X-Men.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cyclops then has to deal with the ramifications to having
Utopia exist. He approaches mayor, who
explains that he has not yet committed any real crimes and he has her
support. About this same time, Doctor Takiguchi
passes away and the X-Men cremate him.
Magneto, in his typical funeral-crashing manner, arrives and swears
loyalty to Cyclops and praises him for uniting and saving Mutantkind. Charles is skeptical and Beast doesn’t like
it, but Scott agrees to let Magneto in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A new group of weirdo’s calls up Scalphunter and has him
deliver some five Predators to Utopia.
Namor, Magneto, and the X-Men manages to defeat all but one. Scalphunter then turns himself and enters Danger’s
new sim-prison. As the X-Club tries to
figure out how to keep Utopia from sinking, they discover that the Predators released
nannites into the air.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Professor X and Psylocke assist Cyclops in
removing the Void from Emma. However,
by entering her mind, Scott accidently lets the Void into his mind. Using techniques taught to him by Jean, he
traps the Void in his own mind and walks away.
Emma and Scott are saved . . . just in time for Beast to tell them he’s
quitting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I enjoyed this batch more than others in recent memory and
I’m glad it’s improved over time. I still don’t feel like Matt Fraction is the
perfect match for the X-Men, but this is far and away, much better than
“Sisterhood.” Greg Land’s art is still
pretty bad, Fraction has gotten better.
I like the arrival and inclusion of Magneto; he adds a lot to the team
and brings along a great foil for Scott and the Professor. But it bothered me that Professor X was so
aggressive towards Magneto; it’s like Fraction never bothered to read “X-Men:
Legacy.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I liked Beast’s
giving up on Scott and the others. It
was kinda sad, but I remember reading this comic at that time and totally
agreeing with Hank. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The use of Marrina was actually fairly depressing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I loved the return of Emplate. He was one of those characters that has been
on the sidelines for far too long. We
actually saw what happened to him at the end, too. Nice to know he’s not just sleeping the
Generation X basement anymore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My biggest beef is actually the move itself. We spent all that time moving the X-Men San
Francisco and Graymalkin Industries . . . and then, “well, let’s just move them
onto an island.” Really.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Utopia one-shot, Uncanny X-Men # 513, Dark Avengers # 7,
Uncanny X-Men # 514, Dark Avengers # 8, Exodus one-shot, the Confession one-shot</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Simon Trask launches a march through San Francisco,
promoting Proposition X. Beast and some
of the other X-Men lead a Mutant counter-protest, which soon devolves into a
riot. The media runs wild and Cyclops
promises that the urban violence that is breaking out over this event will be
contained by the X-Men. Of course, it
doesn’t go very well. And Norman Osborn
decides that his needs his own X-Men team to jump and be the face of
Mutantkind. He puts Emma Frost in charge
of it and he, the Dark Avengers, and the newly-minted Dark X-Men hit San
Francisco. The Dark X-Men consist of Dark Beast, Mimic, Namor, Mystique
(disguised as Professor X), Guardian, Daken, and Cloak and Dagger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Osborn imposes a city-wide curfew, which the X-Men decide to
obey. But some of the Mutants decide to
launch a demonstration, which the Dark X-Men put down quickly. They are taken to the Omega Machine, which is
supposed to take away Mutant’s powers . . . but it does so rather harmfully.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cyclops meets with Osborn and argue. Cyclops leaves. Meanwhile, the Dark Avengers aren’t very
happy with the way they’ve been regulated to second banana by the Dark
X-Men. At a hospital, several people are
turned into Sentinels by Trask. The Dark
X-Men move in and put them down, with Cyclops watching. He sends Dani to Hel to
become Valkyrie again, has Mindee arrested, sends the X-Club on a secret
mission, and has X-Force gathered up and meet up with Wolverine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">X-Force infiltrates Alcatraz and engages the Dark
X-Men. While this happening, Cyclops
orders the X-Club to raise a hunk of Asteroid M from the depths of the ocean
and into San Francisco Bay. Everyone
evacuates to it. X-Force then prepares
to leave Alcatraz, and Namor and Emma accompany them. Turns out they’ve been stringing Osborn
along. Cloak and Dagger take along. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men launch an attack on
Asteroid M, and there’s a fight.
Valkyrie takes down Ares. Iceman
defeats Mimic. Emma finds Professor X
and with his help, shuts down Sentry, but she gets locked in her diamond form
because she’s absorbed a part of the Void from him. Wolverine goes after Guardian. X-23, Armor, and Pixie take on Dakken. Archangel handles Bullseye. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With the whole world watching, the X-Men, New Mutants, and
X-Force defeat the Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men. Cyclops then declares Asteriod M a Mutant
safehaven and a separate county, hereby called Utopia. Both sides decide it’s a victory. But we really know who won. It’s the readers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We also see that Emma and Scott have laid their secrets
bare, at Hank’s urgings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I think this simply yet another example of who Cyclops has
really grown into a masterful leader and strategist. From the moment Osborn arrived in San
Francisco, Scott sized him and his cohorts up, and knew exactly what to
do. He had an enemy to out think and
some bad guys to hit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But I have to wonder
- would Scott have been as successful in Osborn didn’t show up? Because he was really failing at keeping the
peace in the city. Osborn took care of
that. Scott screwed up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I felt that this was solid crossover, if just to show off
just how high and mighty this Mutant community has become. It says something when the Avengers (even
these Dark Avengers) fall to the X-Men.
Scott’s unified front really did it.
And, even though I’m not the biggest Matt Fraction fan, I was really
sold on this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My biggest beef with this crossover is actually with the
art. Dodson is a great artist, but the
incredibly lack of flow between his chapters and Dedato’s caused this to suffer and was like artistic
whiplash.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But hey, this was good besides that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">X-Men: Legacy # 219 – 225</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Charles and Juggernaut meet up in a bar, where they have a
rather tense one-on-one. What comes out
of the discussion is that Cain, when he stops moving, becomes a weaker
person. And he hates that. Just like how he hates Charles, and wants to
kill him. Charles understands and gives
him a parting gift: a box. Cain then
kills Charles, kills the X-Men, hangs out with some sleazy ladies, robs a bank,
and then opens the box. Inside the box,
he sees himself. Looking up, he sees
Charles. He realizes that it was all in
his own mind and they have now come to an understanding.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Gambit is then recruited by Charles to go with him to
Australia to find Rogue. Rogue,
meanwhile, ends up meeting with Danger when in the old abandoned town the X-Men
used to live. They are then confronted
by some Shi’ar scavengers, who fire at Danger.
Danger takes Rogue’s words (about gaining control of her powers) and
proceeds to project several different Rogue flashpoints all around them. Professor X and Gambit have to wade through
with the Shi’ar scavengers while Rogue has to face all of these important
stages in her life – and contend with Ms. Marvel and Mystique in her mind. Eventually, Charles reaches Danger and
explains that he was afraid that she would have killed the X-Men if he
released. However, he releases her
now. The Shi’ar make a grab for her, but
Rogue gets in their way. Once she is
dispatched, though, Danger steps up and sends the Shi’ar running back into
space. Professor X reveals that Rogue’s
power can be fixed and that she has been building walls in her mind ever since
her power first manifested. Xavier
removes those walls and then heads out.
Rogue kisses Gambit, revealing that she is in fact, in charge of her
power.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Professor X returns to the Acolytes base and has it out with
Exodus. He proves to Exodus that now,
with Mutantkind at its weakness, is the wrong time to be waging a Mutant civil
war. The point is proven strongly enough that Exodus agrees to shut the
Acolytes down. Charles gets a nice moment
with Amelia, making amends for the past.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just as Exodus and Xavier part ways, Norman Osborn shows up
with a business proposition . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When “X-Men: Legacy” took over and it was revealed to focus
on Xavier, I was very pleased. I
assumed that with his new lease on life, this would be the opportunity to right
all the wrongs he’s done. We’d see
Cassandra Nova, Legion, Onslaught, Darwin . . . all of these characters that
are very ingrained and tied in with his character. Unfortunately, that didn’t really work
out. He did manage to patch things up
with Scott, somewhat. He was able to
cure Rogue. He even confronted the
Juggernaut and destroyed the Acolytes.
But for someone who was wishing that this would be “the redemption of
Professor X,” I was sadly mistaken.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That being said, there some good parts of this overall
title. The use of flashbacks, the use of
history and continuity, all worked in this title’s favor, including in this
final batch. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The issue with Cain was a little disappointing. I had hoped for a better outcome; one that
would have had Cain back on his redemptive path. His heroic role in Uncanny X-Men was the
best thing to come out of Chuck Austen’s run.
Now seeing that reversed, well, it’s not what I was hoping for.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Rogue/Danger issues dragged on too long. I also felt like the Shi’ar were completely
unnecessary. I wish Danger’s story was
completely separate, as opposed to being wrapped up with Rogues. But it wasn’t that bad for what we had; the
flashbacks and backstory were all very much appreciated. </span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The final issue places Charles in an interesting
position. He’s definitely not the leader
of the X-Men anymore, nor of even all Mutantkind. This is Charles as an ambassador, a teacher,
and a mentor. This is him teaching a
lesson and seeing the education in action. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is what Charles is and always has been. A Professor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And I think we can walk away from this with that.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cable # 1-15, X-Force # 14-16, X-Force/Cable: Second Coming
one-shot, and Cable: King-Sized Spectacular</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cable and the baby arrive in an alternate future, and
proceeds to get dragged into a street level battle against the Turnpike
Authority of NYC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop eventually
enters the picture, having stolen time travel technology from Forge and now
obsessed with chasing Cable and killing the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable holes up with a waitress named Sophie
(he had a bit of thing for waitresses) and eventually, Cannonball (the last
X-Man) arrives to help him out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cannonball helps save Cable and allows him to escape to
Westchester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop kills Cannonball
and then proceeds to take charge of a bunch of Turnpike Authority goons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable eventually repairs his time machine,
but discovers he can travel into the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He and Bishop fight it out, and then Cable jumps into the future, trying
to out-run Bishop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sophie, inspired and
armed by Cable, kills the leaders of the Turnpike Authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the present, Cyclops leaves a time capsule for
Cable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable, still being chased through
the future by Bishop, creates a series of booby-traps (with help from Irene
Merryweather’s descendant).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable is
able to evade Bishop and heads even further into the future, eventually
discovering a refuge called New Liberty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New Liberty is supposed to be absolutely protected and undetectable from
the outside world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, Cable and baby
are safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nathan eventually settles down
marries a woman named Hope, who helps raise the baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the peace doesn’t last and evil
humanoid cockroaches invade New Liberty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He eventually repels the attack, but he, Hope, and the baby need to
escape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They travel across the county,
skipped through time as they do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eventually, they are faced the roach-President, who explains that the
rest of the world has been destroyed, trapping Cable and his family in North
America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable kills the President, but
Hope is killed also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, Cable and
the baby find a safehaven, and Cable decides to name the baby Hope (of course,
at this point, she’s like five).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meanwhile, in the present, Bishop has returned and proceeded
to steal several WMDs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>X-Force arrives
and intercepts him, and then drags him in to Cyclops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyclops and Emma interrogate him, but get
nowhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishops escapes .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. . and then meets up with Stryfe at a bar
called Betty Noirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cable and Hope hide with a military unit, which is able to
eliminate the roaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pair leap
into the future, where it’s a wasteland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hope is able to find them some rations, causing Cable to wonder if her
Mutant powers have manifested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two
then finally find Cyclops’ time capsule and then leap further into the future,
where Cable is horrified to discover that Stryfe has risen to power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the present, Beast and Cyclops have found Cable and
Bishop in the future and send X-Force to help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Apocalypse, after being taken to the brink of death by Stryfe and
Bishop, summons Archangel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable and Hope
meet with X-Force . . . and then a long-buried Deadpool shows up and teams up
with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also discover that they
are unable to time travel from this era for some reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a big fight and then Stryfe manages to capture Hope
and Warpath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop attacks Stryfe and
goes to kill Hope once and for all . . . but Stryfe fights back and then the
others come in and there’s more fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, Vanisher, X-23, Domino, and Deadpool discover that it’s X’s
old NYX pal, Kaden (?!) that’s causing the time lock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She forced is to kill Kaden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stryfe is betrayed by Deadpool and then Wade dies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apocalypse then arrives and defeats Stryfe
once and for all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop’s robotic arm
is destroyed by Logan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop is able to
lock his sights on Hope again – but Apocalypse steps in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop escapes, but just barely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apocalypse reveals his own plans for Hope,
but Archangel demands that she is given back to Cable as payback for reviving
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apocalypse agrees and goes back
into hibernation, carrying Stryfe back with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cable and Hope leap further into the future, but Hope
spazzes and reaches of X-23 and Elixir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This throws off their time jump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Meanwhile, X-Force heads back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hope drops out of the time jump a few years before Cable, causing her to
be on her own for the first time in her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The city she lives in is one of the two; this having used Celestial
Technology left behind by Stryfe to either save or escape the dying Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other one is the Unclean City and I
assume they don’t have toilet paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
while Hope lives out the next few years on the streets, and being helped by a
boy named Emil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years later,
Cable drops out and, in the aftermath of the battle with Stryfe, his
techno-organic virus is out of control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bishop finds and fights him, but Cable manages to evade capture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop tracks Hope down to the Celestial city
and tries to hunt her down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable
finally meets up with Hope and they get aboard a ship that is bound to leave
the Earth once and for all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable
convinces them he’s Stryfe, but a little while later, Hope slips that he’s not
and the two of them are thrown into the brig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bishop, Emil, and Stryfetroopers (those loyal to Stryfe’s
message) attack the ship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long
afterwards, though, the ships are attacked by the Brood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop makes them a deal, but it costs him
his freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emil manages to get Hope
and Cable into two escape pods and launches them into sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop, bound with an Acanti, follow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cable and Hope, after two years in space, return to
Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She expresses to Cable that she’s
ready to go back to the present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
long after this, Bishop (with the Acanti dead) tracks them down again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cuts Cable’s throat and goes to shoot Hope
– but she uses telekinesis to stop the bullet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She thoroughly defeats him and Cable steals his temporal components. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable and Hope leap back in time . . . only to
end up in 1614.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop, somehow tied to
the time machine, travels back with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They fight again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They leap
again, this time 2493.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fight
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They leap to 1776 and fight some
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2220.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2224 and, hey, there’s Sophie and the Turnpike Authority!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She teams up with Cable and Hope, just as
Bishop takes over some of the Authority again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s a chase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sophie dies and
Cable and Hope leap back into the past – 1933 – and proceed to fight Bishop
again. They leap again, this time to 1953. Fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then Cable and Hope get to relative
safety and start leaping WITHOUT fight Bishop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2043, 1967, 2019, 1978.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oop!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s Bishop again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They fight it out, Hope leaps in, and Cable
presets the time components and slips it onto Bishop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bishop goes shooting into the future,
6700.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world is dying and nearly dead
due to all the destruction Bishop brought upon it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dying and with time components broken, he
realizes that his actions helped shape Hope’s life just as much as Cable’s,
making him her father as much as Nathan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hope and Cable finally jump forward just a bit, to
1991.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They raid Cable’s storage locker
and then prep to arrive to the present.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That took all
day to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think what’s interesting about this particular title and
it’s crossover with X-Force is that it’s fairly self-contained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a straight-forward liner title that
provides one big story, from beginning to end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I really wish there were more books like this (and, to an extent,
Wolverine Origins). I’m not exactly sure I can I’m satisfied by this particular
story, but I do like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The journey
that Cable, Hope, and Bishop make is rather harrowing and exciting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world that is created for them is quite
twisted and grim; there were points where I just kept questioning “how bad is
this going to get?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then it gets
worse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of my beefs with this remain with Bishop’s
characterization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s difficult to
watch him become such a villain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Bishop mini-series does help somewhat, but not enough to really sell that he’s
gone as far as he has.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making bargains
with Stryfe and Brood?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroying the
whole world, just on the prescedent that “it won’t exist?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a hard sell and I’m sorry to say, it
just doesn’t deliever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also bothers
me that Bishop gets such a dark fate at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes sense, given the context of the
story, but geez!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is an argument to made that Bishop had been slowing
separating himself from the X-Men for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since the dissolutionment of the X-Treme X-Men team, he went off and
worked in District X as a cop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
that, there was the time he worked with ONE and then, during the Civil War,
joined Iron Man’s side against the X-Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since then, there had been some tension between the two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, it is fair to say that Bishop really
wasn’t completely on the side of angels by the time that Hope was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, this was a man that
worshipped the X-Men as a child and had even nearly given his life to defend
them from the traitor that was Onslaught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, to have the tables turned so massively, just . . . just doesn’t
completely sit right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As for Cable, well, this made for an interesting mission for
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cable has been one of those
characters that has evolved so perfectly over the years that it makes sense
that this is his next step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s
interesting about this is that it also forces Cable to step into the role of
being a father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the best
moments of this series are the ones of Nathan learning to be a real father to
Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given his track record with Tyler
and, to a certain extent, Sam, it’s definitely more of a success this time
around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m not sure if this is the popular opinion, but I’m big fan
of Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that we see her grow –
like really, literally, grow - from being a baby to being a kid to being a
preteen to being a teen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s showing
as a constant work in progress and the moment that she decides to go back to
the present is the defining one of this series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scott’s role in the series is rather peripheral, but it
works well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked the crap Hank gives
(and continues to give him) about X-Force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I liked the inclusion of X-Force and Deadpool into the
series with the crossover, but it was a little jarring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For over ten issues, we’re given a tour of
this damned, dark world that just becomes increasingly unfamiliar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throwing in familiar faces like – even those
like Apocalypse and Stryfe – takes us out of that world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s weird to think that at any moment, Cable
had the option of digging up Wade or even stealing some stuff from
Apocalypse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or hell, releasing
Apocalypse under the condition he destroy Bishop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I imagine Apocalypse could have done
something to the world that would reversed the crap Bishop did to it . . .<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All in all, this is decent storyline. I placed it here simply so because it’s
where X-Force goes and the events revolving around Messiah War are pretty tightly
written. So there we go! Hope and Cable are on their way!</span></span>KHWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503710530301686116noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22924764.post-16749104851275864942013-03-31T07:51:00.001-07:002013-03-31T07:51:28.158-07:00Uncanny X-Periment # 160: Sisterhood<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story kicks off with the Red Queen and the Sisterhood stealing
Kwannon’s body. They take the time/space
displaced Pyslocke and put her into the rejuvenated body of Kwannon and hence,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Sisterhood attack the X-Men’s base in Marin and Maddie
gets a lock of Jean’s hair to use to . . . uh . . . rejuvenate Jean’s body
(right? Does this make sense?). Emma also gets a little visit from Jean
whilst she is under psychic lock-down.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyways, they over to the school to get Jean’s body from the
grave. Scott, Logan, and some other
X-Men follow, but luckily, Domino happened to be in the area and she puts
another body in Jean’s grave for Maddie.
Maddie is able to take over and rejuvenate Jean’s body and dies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the X-Men battle the Sisterhood in San
Francisco. Eventually, thanks to
Dazzler, Psylocke returns to her normal body.
Uh, her original body. Uh, I
mean, the body that’s Japanese and really hot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then, the X-Club travels back in time and battle a Steampunk
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sisterhood sounds like a great idea – having Maddie Pryor as
the Red Queen gather some of the vilest femme fatale Muties out there and lead
them against the X-Men. Sure, outside of
the Mastermind girls and Chimera, the roster was very human-heavy. But hey, we can let Lady Deathstrike in. She has a score or ten to settle. And Spiral, what the heck, she was in Freedom
Force. Even bringing Psylocke in? Sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But it lost itself. It
was all wrapped to tightly. It suffered
from an over-abundance of dues ex machinas, like Elixir and Domino. The story just didn’t do anything for
me. I didn’t care about anyone I was
reading about. Moments that should have
been elaborated on are cut sadly short, such as Scott’s obvious feelings about
Logan having a lock of Jean’s hair. And
the Red Queen, a very legitimate villain that seems to have been waiting in the
wings for a while, was dismissed far too easily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worst of all? The
art. Greg Land is terrible. All of his characters look plastic and
silly. No one seems to fit into the
scene. He grabs random X-Men and shoves
them in the background, while at the same time, making the main characters look
excessively glamorous. And at least
three-fourths of each issue has at least one person inappropriately smiling per
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ultimately, I’m disappointed. Story potential lost. Characters muddled. Shitty
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh yeah, the Steampunk issue . . . it was okay. Nothing fantastic, despite my interest in
Steampunk. It was okay, but nothing to
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