Credits are just this team of X-Men, just like the first episode. I love that they can have fun with the credits.
The X-Men are in the present! They just need the other half of the team.
Beau DeMayo co-wrote this episode. I thought he was fired? Or maybe he had written all of Season Two, then was fired? That sounds maybe right?
Is Magneto going to give Apocalypse his mission statement?
A pharaoh from a foreign land? Rama Tut?! Kang?!
En Sabah Nur, is what I should be calling him, I suppose.
Makes sense to end the three episode premiere with a part one, to get people hyped for part two.
Magneto and Xavier arguing about what is the right thing to do.
Is Apocalypse the season villain, or just the first half?
Maybe Magneto can fix En Sabah Nur?
I guess if the MCU isn’t going to use Kang, the Animated-Verse will? Are we still expecting Spider-Man 97?
Desert rat, ooof!
Who is this mid level boss fight guy?
Why would he look like Apocalypse in that dust cloud? I mean, I get it for us viewers, but why the mid level boss guy?
Are they really going to call him, Nur?
Bishop hasn’t caught up to these X-Men yet.
X-Men need the android parts to get them back to the future.
Xavier has an ancient wheelchair.
I like these past tunics they are wearing.
Beast is getting pretty frustrated. Beast must be feeling pretty low, if he’s at the point of giving up on science, and just praying his way out of this.
Oooof, Magneto IS giving Nur leadership skills.
Xavier can’t just take the information out of Nur’s mind, he’s worried the most he uses his powers, the more the future will be rewritten. Unless, of course, this has all happened before.
Nur’s lieutenant is not happy with the X-Men.
Oooof, Magneto has been filling Nur’s head with talk of destiny.
Magneto has both his exes in the room, Rogue & Xavier. That can’t be easy.
Nur could be the first X-Man?
Magneto rocking a beard like his Rivals and Fortnite counterparts.
Bishop must be getting here as fast as he can.
Xavier has inspired Magneto to be more like him, and maybe that’ll work on Nur?
Nur has to let his slave owner live, that couldn’t be easy.
I’m surprised Xavier isn’t better at reading people’s minds, he must be out of practice.
They need to find a Lost Temple.
Ruh oh, Nur and his peeps know the X-Men are up to some weapon crafting.
OH! Nur did get to kill his slave owner.
Hey, Bishop finally arrives! A gun would be very useful in ancient Egypt.
Rama Tut saying, conqueror, that’s fun.
Bishop has to get them back to the 1990s.
Episode ends with Rama Tut blowing the heck out of Nur’s base.
What a cliffhanger!
I think the second episode has been my favorite thus far.
X-Factor! Strong Guy, Havok (saying “We’re the good guys, like his brother did in the first episode!), Polaris, Wolfsbane, and Multiple Man (three of them).
Chamber on the news, being detained by X-Factor.
Jubilee has not attempted to repair the X-Mansion.
Trish’s face has scars from her Sentinel Prime situation.
Where are Jubilee and Sunspot living? Cable found them!
Cable wants to find the Horseman, War.
I guess the X-Men are at their weakest here, as they are not there.
Are we going to get X-Force vs X-Factor?
X-Force opening credits! Wha?! I love this so much!
Sunspot in his early X-Force uniform.
X-Force 97! This was well worth the wait.
Brazil!
Psylocke says, “Duck Shoot,” which has to be British, right?
Psylocke is awesome, and I need her Funko.
Jubilee has let her hair grow out.
Psylocke has her butterflies! Is this Kwannon?
Jubilee hasn’t gotten fully on board with the X-Force method. Oh, a Force to be Reckon with, I get it now. X-Force. Pretty clever.
Cable wants Archangel to kill War, which is intense. Weird Cable couldn’t do it himself, but Warren is Death.
Zuru Bunch O Balloons must love they were the ad after this.
London, England. Emma Frost!
Evil Jeff of Comic Book Queers is going to love this episode. Diamonds and Butterflies!
Emma is going to make Cable bark! I love Emma.
Jubilee is in an Asian outfit, that’s nice.
Emma is a great matchmaker.
Switzerland. Emma came with them! And Psylocke is there too!
Emma taking the time to do her nails. Whoa, she lured them into an X-Factor trap!
Jubilee was going to call Emma a total something.
X-Force vs X-Factor! We got it so quickly. Interesting match ups.
Strong Guy vs Cable
Multiple Man vs Psylocke
Havok vs Sunspot (this is where the app crashed on me, had to rewatch all of the ads, fast forward to where I left off, and watched more ads)
Shame Peter David didn’t get to see this happen.
Havok vs Jubilee
Emma can still turn diamond, she’s so bored.
Polaris vs Archangel, she’s taking everyone down. Polaris literally wrapped them up.
Havok took Jubilee! Psylocke took Sunspot down, so he couldn’t rescue her.
Awkward as Havok just told Jubilee she isn’t an X-Man. Ugh, she even has a power inhibitor on. Gross.
Polaris is the good cop. Just gals talking. Polaris is the only other X-Man around.
X-Factor’s Detainees. I recognized Quintin Quire, Dusk, the Cuckoos (three of them, one in one room, and two in another, which seems messed up), and Artie. Hey, the little girl from Marvels, that Angel saved! What a deep cut!
I was hoping X-Factor was detaining mutants, but then, you know, treating them nicely, as if they were secretly rescuing mutants, instead, they are gross government goons.
Sunspot has a red Ninja Turtle bandana.
Marvel is really pushing the Magic the Gathering collab. I watched all of X-Men 97 Season One, and saw this ad so much.
Chamber is there too.
Jubilee takes down a bunch of guard goons. I thought she was going to rescue a bunch of mutants too. She can make fireworks with her feet?!
Jubilee did rescue the mutants. Was that Synch?
The song Jubilee is listening to is Veruca Salt’s Volcano Girls. Thanks MSN. Apparently they have a Spider-Man 79 song too.
Val Cooper is there too! She has an X-Factor uniform too. I guess she’s on the team.
Jubilee has gotten a power boost, and I love it.
Havok and Val Cooper are not pleased with Polaris.
Jubilee is the Ms. Marvel of the Inglorious X-Force team.
Back to the Future. Teen Cable gets his computer in his arm. X-Men have to get back to the present. Timeslide the X-Men! I was expecting a Timeslide by five.
I missed the credits on the first episode, but they definitely had them for the second episode.
Cool seeing Forge working on his time travel cube that we saw in the original series.
Beau DeMayo still an Executive Producer.
So silly Bishop’s “get the X-Men back . . . to the 90s”
Somehow Forge is still alive in the future.
Wolverine is bad arse, with his bone claws, and no nose.
Forge says, “oh my stars and garters”
Storm & Forge are together.
Wait, did Bishop go back in time, and Forge went to the future?
Scott & Jean want to stay, which makes sense.
So many dead mutants, but I didn’t recognize any of them in the big pile.
Ozymandias!
Jean training a Young Nathan, aw!
Aw, the hugs!
Mother Askani, I wonder if we’ll ever get Excalibur Rachel Summers?
Do I want all of these Funkos? Sorta.
Poor Mother Askani, it must have hurt her to not say hello to her parents.
“Thanks for today, please for tomorrow” that’s an odd expression.
Nathan’s baby blanket is a scared item!
Scott is a summer, Nathan is a spring, together they can fight off winter. Which is coming.
Storm and Forge haven’t missed a step. I like these two together.
Oh no, Scott & Jean are taking their own son! They can’t keep their secret plan from Nathan, so silly that they thought they could.
Of Apocalypse’s Horsemen, I recognized Mastermind. Maybe.
Are we going to get Stryfe?!
I like this Progressive ad with all of the friends, they found each other. That’s nice. Full Disclosure : We’re a Geico family.
This Old Navy ad, with the newscaster ladies who like shopping, but the guy doesn’t get it. Are we still doing this?
Storm about to go full omega with channeling the cosmic solar flares.
Mother Askani has a 80s Rachel hair style! But with a long rat tail. She even has the face markings!
Mother Askani is speaking very plainly.
Nathan has a power inhibitor, but can still control some of his powers?
Scott is wearing his X-Factor White X uniform, modified for the future, that’s fun. Jean is wearing here red uniform, with a yellow X, modified.
Scott tells Nathan the truth! Jean is repeating Madelyne’s speech, which I don’t love that she has Maddy’s memories.
Nathan empowered by love and encouragement!
I love seeing how powerful Mother Askani is! She can lift the entire Ship.
Storm truly is the Omega of Omegas!
Did they not make a Forge Funko? That’s the one I want.
Mother Askani has the Phoenix! Which makes sense as she’s the best Phoenix host.
Apocalypse is going to attack the X-Men when they are at their weakest, the 1990s!
I don’t recognize any of these freed mutants. Which makes sense, they are future mutants.
I love Storm, and need more Storm in my life.
Nathan receives his arm computer thingie! Now he can body slide by one!
Cut to Old Man Cable, and his X-Force with Psylocke and Archangel! Who I really like together. She has a British accent. Cable wants to recruit Jubilee & Sunspot. This is going to be fun!
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I love so much Dani Moonstar coming to the same conclusion that I (and many others) did. That if Kyron is looking for the tablet, and took her parents, most likely, he’ll keep her parents near where he is, which would naturally be, near the tablet.
I like how Dani had a little moment to herself, collected herself, and came up with the plan. She knows where the tablet is, and doesn’t know where her parents are, so the best plan is to go after the tablet.
Dani and Kian Mir (thanks to the credit page, nice to have these K names ahead of time), discuss the plan, he seems concern about her parents safety, but recognizes it is Dani’s call.
We get two Illyana references this issue, so I love that.
First one was about how Illyana had an interest in the Valkyrie’s powers.
We learn Kian’s origins, of how he became blind.
We get the second Illyana reference, that maybe she or Doctor Strange could use Kian, but he likes the reminder that magic comes at a cost.
I love seeing Brightwind, as I am a sucker for an animal companion.
I like how Dani and Kian have chemistry together, but there’s no time to see where it goes, and Dani’s headspace is properly elsewhere, but there are signs here.
They get to where the tablet is, they have to fight off some undead animals, and learn more about the tablet. When Wilson Fisk had it, it was the size of what you’ll imagine a tablet would be. But now, now it is gigantic, and part of the ground.
Kyron shows up, with Dani’s parents, and begins to cast his undead spell, as the issue ends.
Variant Cover Benjamin Su, I really got lucky and was able to get all of the solo Magik covers.
Final issue!
Issue opens with Magik & Colossus fighting Koschei (a character name I can’t keep in my head).
Magik doesn’t have access to her magical abilities, and Koschei is on the attack. She is going to fight him off with her sweet s-words, as Colossus & Count Kaoz go around breaking up Koschei’s soul coins. Which will only make him stronger, but then Magik, and all of the Russian magic folks, will have their powers restored.
We get a lot of great fight scenes between Magik and Koschei.
Colossus & Kaoz are successful. Koschei is at full power, and the Rasputins regroup.
We get another great moment of the siblings talking about their feelings.
I like them addressing why Magik can’t just leave, and get the X-Men, they don’t have the time for that. Koschei would surely defeat Colossus in that time.
I also like them addressing how Magik won’t let Colossus make the sacrificial play here either. He does have a plan though, a beginning of a plan.
Koschei shows up to stop the nice moment we were having
Colossus defends his sister, which I absolutely love. He trusts her to make the right choices, and she does the Rasputin name proud (which, really, isn’t that hard of a task).
Magik comes back in full Darkchild mode. So, they are definitely going to win this fight. She’s no longer ashamed to show her brother her true self, and with that confidence, they start attacking Koschei.
We get Magik’s side of the argument about how he wouldn’t trust her soul in her brother’s hands.
Magik definitely trusts her soul in Colossus, as we see him wielding her soulsword, which is always a cool visual. We saw it during Battle of the Atom, and we got a version of it recently in Uncanny X-Men’s Who Has Been Sleeping in My Bed arc.
Like almost every boss fight in a video game, it all ends with a knockout, that looks pretty cool.
Are there video game final boss encounters that don’t end in a fight? I would like to play that game. I’m just not into battles in video games. Which is odd, as I just spent a lot of money on PS5 Wolverine. Maybe I’m into the smaller fights, but the six part battle sequences, those I’m just tired of, but also, I’m old, and just want to experience a great story.
Issue ends with Magik tying up Koschei, and Colossus makes a bad joke. Illyana can’t think of a better one.
They leave Koschei with his sister, Lada, who appears to not have his best interests in mind.
Colossus is going to stay in Russia, as he has some business to take care of, and we get another great hug as our sweet conclusion.
We finally get a letters page again! I thought maybe we’ll be getting letters every issue, as I sent one every issue, but they went with my first one. Lot of us really want a Katyana miniseries, which makes sense, and a few of us really want Colossus’ beard back.
Avengers Armageddon 4, so I guess the temporary Cap isn’t the new character in Avengers 1, that’s interesting.
Amazin Spider-Man 1000, is $10, which makes sense with 104 pages. I’ll be tempted for the historical nature of it, but also, I’m not that guy anymore.
Boomerang is the Amazing Venom?! That’s intersting.
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Aliens vs X-Men 1. They had me at the title. They had me with Kitty Pryde on the main cover. They had me with Chris Claremont writing a Kitty Pryde focus back up in all four issues. This is a comic made for me. I’ll have to check to see if Kitty shows up on any of the other five variant covers. I hope Lockheed appears in the backup as he is the Broods’ worst nightmare.
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I’ve been really enjoying Infernal Hulk, and I’ll gladly buy him vs Wolverine. Hopefully other X-Men appear in this, I imagine Jubilee will, as she was heading off with him at the end of Infernal Hulk 7.
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Muppets Take the Marvel Universe 1. I’m such a sucker for the Muppets, and Wolverine, Storm, and Emma Frost are on the cover, so maybe we’ll get other X-Men in this? There are four more variant covers, so I’ll have to see if we get a X-Men focus one, but the main cover is pretty awesome too.
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White Rabbit is in Spider-Man / Hulk : Fire and Brimstone? That’s pretty cool. Odd Nightcrawler isn’t in this with that title.
Spider-Woman 50th Anniversary, I love that they are making this. I love Ann Nocenti coming back for a story. I imagine we’ll get a Carol Danvers appearance, but maybe an X-Men one too?
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DNX 2, I’ll have to see if Magik appears on one of the unseen five variant covers.
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A real shame X-Men is still double shipping when, with DNX, it is essentially triple shipping. I’ll see if Magik is on one of the other variant covers.
Quintin Quire vs Cassandra Nova could be cool.
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I’ll have to see which cover has Magik for X-Men 38. I like Magneto getting a spotlight.
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Thankfully Fantastic Four isn’t double shipping during DNX. I like issue 17 being a tie in, but I’m going to pass on that. Early September is still pretty tight for us.
Tomb of Apocalypse 2. I love Ashley Allen, and it hints there are other mutants who want the tomb, but they are against the X-Men, so I imagine it isn’t any of my favorites.
Uncanny X-Men 35, are we getting a team shake up?! Double shipping with issue 36.
Generation X-23 8, has all of the Wolverines, and a return of a fan favorite. I wonder who that is? Dr. Celicia Reyes, maybe?
Inglorious X-Force 9 vs Domino’s X-Force of Rictor & Shatterstar, and Pug-Smasher, who I don’t know, but I like this team.
Gambit Wanted 3, written by Chris Claremont, but I’m getting that fix with Aliens vs X-Men.
Bishop 4 still has Shard, so I like that.
X-Men Outback 4 has Madelyne Pryor!
X-Men 97 Season Two 4, I wonder if Kitty is still appearing on Forge’s wall of awesome mutants?
Wolverine 27, I wonder when the other comics start showing him with only one set of claws? Savage Champions is just the Alt-Logans, right? Double shipping with issue 28, which I like that it can just be a simple sentence. It is Wolverine, either you are buying it, or you are not. I usually use solicits to see which covers I want.
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Probably not a great sign that Logan is the main focus of two covers for X-Men United 7. Will Kitty appear in this issue? I’ve liked Brielle Brooks, daughter of Blade, in the other comic of hers that I read. I imagine, one day, she’ll be promoted without needing the “daughter of Blade,” but here I am, typing it myself.
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X-Men Omega Red Dawn 1, I so appreciate them listing the Infinity Comics this collects, X-Men Infinity 1 – 10. Which doesn’t have Kitty, Lockheed, nor Magik in it, according to fandom. But maybe one day, we’ll get Loveable Lockheed printed? If they can print ten issues at 56 pages, for $7, they can print six issues. Plus, I’ll buy all of those variant covers too.
Gambit Gone 1, and they lost me at “From the Pages of X-Men of Apocalypse.” Do we need two Gambit miniseries? Is he going to be in Avengers Doomsday? Actually, he might be, now that I think of it. I’ve been having the thought of how they’ll probably use X-Men 97 Season Two to start giving us hints of what MCU X-Men might be like.
We start the Big Guns crossover of Punisher and Wade Wilson Deadpool, so I think I can stop reading Deadpool as he’s no longer in the X-Office (I imagine).
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I was really hoping for my wallet’s sake, that the Marvel Mangaverse would launch in September, but be spread out over a couple months. We are getting a new version of Magik, so I’m committed to a few of these, starting with Web of Blood 1.
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Passing on Mangaverse : Iron Knight, thought I like Ironheart and Moon Knight getting involved with this.
Ashley Allen is writing Mangaverse : Arcane Avengers. Would she work Magik into this? I can only imagine Magik would have been written into the solicit
I love Alyssa Wong returning to a Psylocke in Mangaverse : Ghostlocke, where she fights Carnage.
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The way these are written, it does seem like all I need are the two bookends. Interesting Magik is now known as Legion here in Web of Destiny. I am getting a bit of a raise in July, so maybe this won’t be so bad on my wallet. Plus, I can always add the other three to my Wishlist.
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Marvel Zombies : War Zone 1, Punisher really is making the most out of his Spider-Man Brand New Day appearance! I like to follow these, as sometimes my favorites show up in them.
Queen in Black 4, a hard pass, but Reed Richards being involved, makes me wonder if we’ll get Secret Wars flashbacks, but I doubt it this far into the event.
Venom 262, We (All) Are Venom!
Black Panther / Namor : Doomed 1, I do love when the Kings of Marvel come together.
Marvel Gold 76 1, Bullseye vs Cosmic Heroes, is an interesting choice for a comic.
Ultimate Impact Reborn 5, I feel burned by both this and Armageddon, but I am happy it is pretty contain between these two events. Unless, of course, it is setting up the big 2027 event. I mean, besides Hulk War.
Sorcerer Supreme 10, I had forgotten that issue ten is usually the final issue of most Marvel Comics. I don’t think that is Madelyne Pryor on the cover. This series really peaked with issue 3.
So great having Carmen Carnero back on Iron Man 9.
Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom : Triumph and Torment 1, when I was buying all of Wizard’s Top 100 Trades, this was one of the hardest for me to buy. Such a great story.
Daredevil is double shipping?! Issues 6 and 7.
aw, Fantastic Four 16 is nowhere near its DNX tie in 17. But also, yep, double shipping.
Civil War Unmasked 5, continues to be missable.
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Jeff the Land Shark : Superstar 3, hopefully ShatterMagik is on one of the four variant covers.
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I might have to make the mistake and not get Godzilla Conquers the Multiverse 3, September seems very expensive, and I keep getting burned on these, with Magik showing up every other issue. We’ll see what the covers look like. I do like Emma Frost being on this, and it does promise “and more.”
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Predator vs Planet of the Apes 3, those poor apes.
hey, that Al Ewing Doctor Doom, nothing but splash pages didn’t make the list. That’s nice, I was tempted by that one.
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Okay, let’s see what the damage is here :
Aliens vs X-Men 1, for sure, the main cover, but all the Kitty Pryde covers.
Infernal Hulk vs Wolverine 1, any of the covers.
Muppets Take the Marvel Universe 1, main cover is fine.
DNX 2, a cover with Magik.
X-Men 29, a cover with Magik.
X-Men 30, a cover with Magik. Tempted not to get any of these unless Magik is on a cover.
X-Men United 7, hopefully we get Kitty on one of the covers.
Marvel Mangaverse : Web of Blood 1, the main cover.
Marvel Mangaverse : Web of Destiny 1, the main cover.
Jeff the Land Shark Superstar 3, a cover with ShatterMagikShot.
Maybe Godzilla Conquers the Multiverse 3, what is one more comic? But a cover with Magik.
John Byrne named Kitty Pryde after a classmate in one of his classes. John Byrne designed Kitty Pryde after a young Sigourney Weaver.
Knowing this, I have bought Ellen Ripley, Weaver’s character in the Aliens movies (and one Laser Cats) in Fortnite, Dead by Deadlight, and very recently, Fall Guys.
Fortnite :
Dead by Daylight :
Fall Guys :
Ellen Ripley’s green jumpsuit looks exactly like Days of Future Past Kate Pryde, so it is the closest I will ever get to playing as Kate Pryde in any of those games.
Kate Pryde from Uncanny X-Men 141
Plus, the Aliens movies are pretty cool.
Though I am committed to buying the Star Lord skin in Fall Guys, as I think pretend it is Kitty Pryde Star Lord, the hair is wavy just enough it could maybe be her.
Now Marvel is releasing a four issue Aliens vs X-Men crossover. Not only that, it will feature a four part back up story that stars Kitty Pryde versus both the Brood and the Aliens! The Xenomorphs. Which will be written by Chris Claremont!
This feels specifically made for me!
I’m committing now to buying whichever covers as Kitty on it.
Hopefully she is also in the main story, but they got me committed.
This feels great compared to taking a chance on crossovers like Godzilla where maybe Magik might show up, if we’re lucky.
I am tempted to get both the Muppets Take Marvel, and the Doom crossover, just because the solicts imply Doom is fighting everyone, and maybe it’ll have either Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, or Magik, at the very least.
At least the main cover has Wolverine, Storm, and Emma Frost, so I feel the chances are high, plus, I love the Muppets. Especially Miss Piggy, and Statler and Waldorf.
Which is similar to a Ben Grimm one shot they had recently. Cool concept. Plus, I can always give the comic to Walker D, if none of my faves show up in it.
Kieron Gillen and Geraldo Borges are going to do an uncanny job with the main story.
Imagine if Lockheed is in the back up?! That’ll make sense as he’s the Brood’s greatest enemy. Remember that?
I got the Nic Klein cover, shame he didn’t draw the issue, but Gorham does an incredible job here.
The Factory. Merle, Alaska. Home of the X-Men.
Issue opens with a nightmare Glob is having, we’ll learn later that all mutants had a similar dream. Where they end up ruling the world. It is very cool that we see what a Glob Herman could potentially look like. A giant pink man with big ol’ wings.
The American Midwest.
In case we were wondering where the proper Morlocks went, once Anole stopped leading them, unless there is a Canadian New Morlocks, a New York Morlocks, and an American Midwest Morlocks. Might be time for a Morlocks series?
The named Morlocks we see are Leech, who the Infernal Hulk is looking for, plus Pyro, Marrow (who I love), Erg, and Calisto, who isn’t named. I think I see Artie in the crowd, and maybe Feral? A real shame that Pyro went from government run X-Factor to living with the Morlocks, but at least he’s getting burritos or tacos.
Infernal Hulk arrives, looking for Leech for his sweet power dampening abilities. Hulk just wastes everyone, and rips Marrow in half, which I hate.
Cyclops has summoned all of the mutants. I like how this is portrayed, with the people in the actual room properly colored, and everyone else appears like a hologram, or telepathic image.
I like how everyone is standing with their team, except for Jubilee, but that seems to be for staging purposes. I guess the Outliers were not invited to this meeting.
70s Beast informs us that Infernal Hulk apparently has the ability to control a sizable portion of the mutant population. I imagine the nameless mutants.
I love how freak out Kitty Pryde looks in the top panel on this page. The last time Kitty had a true interaction with the Hulk, it was during Gerry Duggan’s Hulk run, V3 9, where he needed her to remove a cancer cell from his brain. Magik as there too, willing to teleport Hulk into space. It is such an incredible issue. Mark Bagley was the main artist for the issue.
70s Beast has been doing his research, maybe he’s on that Avengers update? Infernal Hulk is the Father of Horrors, so this is a completely different Hulk than anyone is used to.
This all seems too much for Glob, and he excuses himself.
Louisiana. Logan and Jubilee head off to confront Hulk. I wonder what Jubilee’s scenario was? Did she rule by acid fireworks?
That Night. Alaska.
I have had this thought before about how someone should use Leech this way, to dampen the X-Men, and win the day.
X-Men are gathered to keep talking about the Hulk situation.
I don’t love Quinten writing Glob off, he’s kind enough about it, but still, seems overly rude for one of his few actual friends.
I do really like Quinten’s comment about Hulk seeking his own horseman, as that’s what over powered villains do, they seek out X-Men to be their top hench mutants. That’s been genre savvy. Plus, Hulk has been a Horsemen of War before.
Magneto is quick to compliment 70s Beast (and inform us) that he has taken a dose of Dextroamphetamine-X (for patent purposes, I’m sure), so this explains why Magneto isn’t in his comfy chair. Just in case anyone wonders why this is possible.
I like how fast Quinten figures out that his powers are not working. He has one of those powers that is on all of the time, and he was having a conversation, so he probably didn’t even notice the lack of telepathic noise he’s gotten so used to always hearing.
Infernal Hulk also brought along Bridger, who first appeared in issue one of this series. Fandom hasn’t made a proper page for him, so we don’t know much about him.
Magneto talks a big game, but he isn’t doing much to slow Hulk down.
I love how quick Magik is to put her soulsword into Infernal Hulk. This is high stakes, and we don’t have time to be gentle.
Infernal Hulk does a sweet boss move, and simply removes the soulsword from his chest. He ponders what would happen if he removes Magik’s head with a blade bound to her life force. I don’t love his train of thought here.
Leech arrives, informing Hulk that Bridger has accomplished his goal.
Infernal Hulk taunts him, he already claims mutantkind as his right, it is just a matter of time before they realize he’s telling the truth.
The mission? Retrieve Glob Herman.
New York City. The Baxter Building. Avengers (Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Spider-Man (the Parker one), Vision, and Scarlet Witch, are chatting with Reed Richards. This Hulk is like nothing they’ve ever dealt with.
Thankfully, Bruce Banner finally arrives. He knows how to beat Hulk. We need a better monster.
There’s only ten issues to this run, so I’m going to commit to issue ten (I already have issues eight and nine preordered), as I’m sure we’ll get Glob, and at least the Alaskan X-Men appearing in this title, and hopefully, the Hulk War that is coming in January 2027.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 