Uncanny X-Men # 530-534
Utopia is stricken with an epidemic – a Mutant Flu, as it
were – which they discover is Mutant only.
Scott locks down Utopia, leaving Storm, Pixie, Northstar, Dazzler, and
Angel to serve as the X-Men. They
pounce on the Collective Man, who is hitting up local stores for protection
money. 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. Of course, they suck, get
pounced by the real X-Men and get shipped to Utopia. 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.
Lobe quickly surrenders, but one of his New X-Men – Penny – slips
out. Meanwhile, Sebastian Shaw is
dropped off in the middle of China and, after a fight, is mind-wiped, all of
his memories stripped clean.
I liked this little arc.
Nice and clean, very effective.
It wraps up the budding epidemic arc in a nice clean bow. It’s a good follow-up to the Third Species
stuff from Morrison’s run. I especially
the “smaller” team of X-Men, even though Dazzler and Pixie got really
annoying. The Shaw/Frost material was
not as good, but wasn’t too bad. It
wrapped up another of Fraction’s subplots.
Fraction’s run was definitely one that got better once it
got going. Some of his earlier stuff
was pretty poor, while his later arcs were more interesting and
innovative. He seemed to move well past
the whole “let’s throw some X-Men at the problem” pretty well. If only they hadn’t given him Greg Land,
whose art I despise.
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