New X-Men # 32, X-Force # 11, Necrosha: The Gathering, X-Necrosha
# 1, X-Force # 21 – 25, New Mutants # 6-8, X-Men Legacy # 231-233
Selene gathers Wither, Blink, Senyaka, Mortis, Cypher, and
Eli Bard for her final plan to rise up and become a god. She raises an army of dead Mutants and has
them attack Utopia. If there’s a dead
Mutant, they’re there, powered by Bard’s Techno-Organic Virus that he stole
from Bastian. The New Mutants manage to
free Cypher from Selene’s influence and Rogue takes a team to Muir Island and
they fight Proteus.
Selene raises an army of dead Mutants on Genosha, which she
has renamed Necrosha. She only needs the
Soul Blade and sends her coven to retrieve it from Warpath. Warpath is taken to Necrosha by Selene’s
coven. Thunderbird is there and explains
how to defeat Selene, even though it means having to kill him. Jimmy does and when X-Force arrives, things
get serious. Selene completes her ritual
and rises to godhood, but Warpath stabs her with the Soul Blade and she
dies.
This is really and truly the reader’s digest version of things. For that, I apologize. There’s a lot of fun stuff here. Seeing all of the old, dead Mutants is a
blast. It leaves a nice door open for
some old favorites to return. The art is
stellar and there’s no real part of this that I didn’t like.
I’ve never been a Selene fan. I’ve often found her an odd fit for the
X-Men. But here, we get a well-rounded
look at her character and background.
The way her plans come together is well-realized and to finally see her
dead, well, that made my day.
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