I got the Gurihiru regular cover, as it had Magikhot on it, but I would have gladly bought the Jhony Caballero variant if I knew it was the cover that really featured Magikhot, and Kate-Locke, and Jeff.
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Great team face cards, especially Magikhot!
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Dazzlestorm gives the big locker room pep talk. Jeff Coast Avengers will rescue Ken, escape the facility, reveal the truth of Mojo’s plan, AND watch their angles, as this rebellion will be televised.
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So gross that Mojo has been watching everything through Kate-Locke’s cybernetic eye.
NYC Earth. Just so us readers know, no one is going to come rescue Jeff, as Gwenpoole, Kate Biship, and Johnny (who loves tacos) are on their way to confront MODOK. Thankfully, before they get too far, Gwenpoole finds Jeff’s drawing of Spiral abducting him, so they know Mojo is behind this.
I had forgotten that Mojo has taken MODOK to be his in-house inventor. MODOK does like the idea of creating his own all new all better Jeff the Land Shark.
Wolveirne-Man, an Iron Man through a Wolverine lens, has connected the cameras so everyone can see what the Jeff Coast Avengers are up to.
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Magikhot and the Jeff Coast Avengers show up an hour late to see Mojo, and he’s a real jerk about it.
They are ready to mess Mojo up!
Mojo immediately knows this is being broadcast, and wants the feed cut.
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Magikhot, Kate-Locke, and Rambit do a great job of distracting Mojo and his goons.
Dazzlestorm and Jeff rescue Ken in a very cute cartoony way.
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Spiral is defeated as she was having a change of heart to let them escape.
Wolverine-Man arrives with their getaway car.
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Toady-6 wants to escape with them.
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They are escaping in style!
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The Freeman are excited to see the Jeff Coast Avengers free! Mojo, on the other hand, is not.
Issue ends with the reveal that MODOK may have created a giant Jeff the Land Shark.
I’m taking a chance with Star Wars Marvel Hope Assembles 1, written by Kevin Smith. I’ve seen on covers that Logan, Storm, and Emma Frost are seen, so I’m really hoping we get Kitty Pryde (a known Star Wars fan), and maybe at least Magik will be in this? This is already available to order on DCBS. I picked the Andrews film cover.
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Midnight X-Men 4, hopefully Kitty or Magik are on one of the variant covers.
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I’ve given up any interest in Midnight Fantastic Four.
Midnight Spider-Man 4, I wish the art style within the comic matched the main cover. I’m at least giving the second issue a chance.
Avengers 3, Logan being on this team at least gets me reading it every month. Interesting to have Spider-Man going up against Mephisto.
Immortal Soldiers 1, I want to say I have zero interest in any Armageddon fallout, but I am interested in Avengers and Maximum X-Men, but a title with Nick Fury and Bucky Barnes? This feels like a pass for me.
Marvel SFX : Thwip!, wake me up when they do Bamf!
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Maximum X-Men 2, will Colossus keep thinking about his sister, Magik? That’s what got me to buy the first issue, seeing Magik in the preview pages. Let’s see how expensive January gets.
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Fugitive X-Force 2, I guess it makes sense Cable will still be in this series. For some reason, I thought he’ll be gone, and we’ll be getting Boom Boom as the main focus. Cool that Domino is also sticking around.
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Jean Grey 3, takes place in Merle, Alaska, so I can only imagine we’re getting Magik in a few scenes. I’m definitely buying the Dauterman cover.
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Gambit Gone 5 finally ends.
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Ya’ll, I’m buying two covers of X-Men United 11! Lockheed is on the Jones cover, and Kitty is on the main cover with Daredevil and Emma Frost! That’s how you get me to buy two covers! There is a second variant cover, are we going to get nuts?! I’m going to consider the Romy Jones variant cover as Marvel’s birthday gift to me.
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X-Orcists 3, Magik is on the main cover, so I’ll get that one, but there is a second variant cover, which I wonder might feature her more on? I do like Elsa Bloodstone joining this title.
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Uncanny X-Men 41, Nightcrawler is the only thing standing between Sarah Graunt and the Outliers / New Mutants.
Uncanny X-Men 42, and we’re still double shipping in 2027!
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X-Men 44, we’re getting Magik on the Perez variant cover, so that’s the one I’m getting. Doug Ramsey vs Jean Grey, maybe? Interesting that X-Men isn’t double shipping. Maybe because we’re considering Jean Grey as the other issue?
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Wolverine 31, Logan is going feral, even with his adamantium? I guess we haven’t done that story yet.
Challenges of Doom : Magneto 1, the solicit references Magneto being an ally and leader of the X-Men, but someone online explained to me that these Challenges of Doom one shots are all retelling Doctor Doom’s first interactions with the named character, so this is a pass for me, but I’m tracking it.
Doomquest 7 references the X-Men, and I had to immediately go to fandom to see which X-Men appeared. Logan, Storm, Cyclops, and Iceman have appeared in the first issue. A pretty decent lineup.
Wolverine : Origin III – Dark Ages 2, Logan in the 50s? That’s still a pass for me.
Avengers Incursions 1, still odd to me they put Incursions second for all of these. Original Marvel Avengers vs Thanos and his Black Order, sounds interesting. I’m just not much of a Silver Age guy.
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X-Men 92 Incursions 1, which is already available to preorder on DCBS. I’m getting the main cover, with Evolution Rogue. I really want Gordon’s Giant Size X-Men homage cover, but DCBS has it listed for $35, which is way out of my price range. I’ll Wishlist it, and see if I can get it cheap on eBay. We still have the Phil Noto variant to look forward to. I do love the Guirhiru variant with the two Rogues. That is a very fun cover.
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I am tempted to take a chance with What The 1, as I do like Chip Zdarsky, but will Kitty, Lockheed, or Magik be in this? They sure weren’t in Muppets Take Marvel.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane 3, I do love Ashley Allen writing this series, AND it has Black Cat, and Mary Jane vs Chameleon.
Spider-Woman 3, I keep forgetting she’s the current host for Carnage.
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Black Cat 18, now I’m not nervous about preordering this comics with Magik on the main cover. Black Cat is still in Merle, Alaska, so we can all relax. I do like the Dauterman (and I’m happy he’s drawing X-Men variant covers again, hopefully he does that Kitty Pryde costume gallery cover sometime this year) variant cover with Black Cat, Gambit, and his cats.
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Amazing Venom 5, I do like how the solicit asks the same question I did, how can Boomerang AND Amazing Venom be on the cover together?
Venom 4, Yelena is dating Venom? What an odd choice.
Jessica Jones Alias 2, she’s in Latveria, that’s interesting.
Iron Man double ships, and even number issues are Tony, and odd number issues are War Machines. Seems very silly. Carmen Carnero and Nolan Woodard are the even numbers, but just typing these sentences is making me lose all interest.
Wade Wilson Deadpool 12, he’s going to Colorado.
Captain America 19, one of Cap’s foes rewrote history? And this comic has Cap, Iron Man, and a child clone of Doom? Okay.
Marvel Zombies War Zone 5 ends the mini, as Gorgon’s Zombies, including Thor, are the threat Punisher and Luke Cage face off against.
Dang, I was really hoping to see Lovable Lockheed in physical format this month.
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I will be buying :
Star Wars Marvel Hope Assembles 1, which is already part of my December order.
Midnight X-Men 4, one of the variant covers.
Maximum X-Men 2, maybe.
Jean Grey 3, the Dauterman cover.
X-Men United 11, BOTH the regular cover and the Lockheed Jones varaint cover.
X-Orcists 3, the main cover for sure.
X-Men 44, the Perez variant cover.
X-Men 92 Incursions, the Evolution Rogue cover, which is already part of my December preorder.
What The 1, I guess I can buy this as two of these comics are already ordered.
I would have bought the ACO variant cover if I had saw it in time to preorder it.
Issue opens with O*N*E* Agent, Abbie Bennett, wanting to take a splinter group of officers to attack the Alaskan X-Men’s base, while they are away. Doug killed her husband in issue 18, thanks Tom. This cell hates mutants. I do appreciate calling them a cell.
The Factory. Merle, Alaska. Xorn is listening to John Greycrow, who wants to be where the fight is. Just wait, bud.
The way Greycrow talks, one would think he’s on the X-Men, but he isn’t, so he doesn’t get a say in the missions. Kwannon asked him to stay behind, and she’s an executive officer of the X-Men, do they all have official titles? That’s what I’m interested in.
Then the power goes off in the Factory. The Cell has tampered with the Shi’ar stardrive.
Xorn properly gives us the stakes, if the stardrive isn’t returned in time, the reactor core will explode, taking the base, and Merle with it. Greycrow has his mission. Greycrow takes out two of the cell members. Then more, and more of them.
Xorn was on keeping Glob Herman save, so this before Infernal Hulk 7, I guess? Xorn has knocked out the cell members who came for Glob.
We get confirmation that Greycrow killed everyone who came for them, and Xorn picks up on his word choices, Greycrow wants on the X-Men.
Greycrow congratulates Xorn on his deadly approach, but he never made it to Medical. Ruh oh.
Then. Glob Herman woke up, and dealt with his assailants. Bennett went running into the snow. Glob killed all of these folks, and treated himself to a nap as the issue ends.
No Magik appearance, outside of the ACO variant cover.
I bought the Skottie Young variant cover, but would have loved to have preordered the Mahmud Asrar variant, that has Magik on the cover.
Juniper, Pennsylvania. The Trask Statue has released the Age of Revelation virus, not to the scale of the original plan, but a healthy dose of it. Well, not that healthy.
3K Airship, Command Bridge. Philadelphia Airspace. Cyclops is concerned for all of the people who died, and Chairman Beast doesn’t care as only the humans would die from the exposure. Grimm goes in for a punch, but Chairman Beast teleports away, so I guess he could have done that the entire time? He was trying to include 3K, as it is always better to work with others.
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Launch Bay. Juggernaut is battling Wyre.
I love Juggernaut asking about Magik, making sure she’s okay, and lovingly refers to her as the brat, and Scott knows exactly who he is talking about.
Wyre had a backup plan, an escalation, where the anti-grav thrusters would fail, and this entire airship will crash into Philadelphia.
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The Baxter Building, New York City. Magik teleports Grimm and herself to Reed, Sue and 70s Beast. Magik informs them that the airship is crashing, AND the virus has been released. Reed can’t do anything, as he’s about to shrink the Fantastic Four down to go inside of Magneto.
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Magik is simply there to make sure all of the eggheads work on the virus, the X-Men will work on saving Philly. She needs the mutant Ben. Not sure how his illusion powers will help here.
Ben is surprised Cyclops needs him, which is an odd reaction. He probably knows that he was on the 70s Beast team, as it was a do nothing job
I do love Magik interacting with the Fantastic Four, I feel like we haven’t seen this grouping before, or not often.
3K Airship. I love Cyclops having to call Commander Bohannan, of O*N*E* as this is a national emergency. Bohannan is still upset, and rightfully so, as his last conversation with Cyclops was Scott threatening Bohannan in his hope, with all of the X-Men present, so there is some tension there. Plus, Bohannan did attempt, and failed, to murder the X-Men.
Bohannan does point out that this is great news, for him, as he’s about to be in charge of this giant operation, having near complete control over the Eastern Seaboard.
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Magik teleports to Slim (I so love these two’s friendship), asking if he has any good news, and he can’t recall the last time he heard any. Magik also brought Ben here.
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Ben believes, as does Scott, that the airship is where Ben was made into a mutant. Scott believes Ben can help this situation, and just needs the proper motivation.
Below Decks. Wyre wakes up Time Bomb. They need to make a hastily retreat. Wyre still wants to use this class of X-Men, I can only imagine he will change their name to something else. Cyclops has his own Hellions team, so not that name.
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Philadelphia. I love Cyclops giving Quentin Quire his kudos for taking care of Cassandra Nova, that’s good leadership there.
Quire and Psylocke are mass telepathically evacuating the people.
I also just adore that Illyana and Scott can have proper conversations about his choices. It comes from a respectful place, so Scott isn’t offended. Magik just wishes he had used a kinder approach.
We then see Cyclops’ approach, and now I’m completely on Magik’s side, which isn’t much of a shocker.
Cyclops chained Ben to a crashing ship, so results have to happen. This is just cruel, and also, a poor decision as Ben is going to resent this.
Ben does take a breath, and summons the alien horde that he originally thought was attacking him from issue 21. Thanks Tom.
It starts to work, and the aliens arrive.
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Magik is pretty impressed, and Cyclops is proud.
So, is Ben’s powers to manifest an alien attack? It works, they are solid constructs.
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I love seeing Magik being happy. Cyclops tells Magik to go save Ben.
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The airship gets righted, and the day is saved!
By Magneto! So the Fantastic Four tie in issues must all be taking place during this issue. Maybe? That is right, thanks again Tom, Fantastic Four issues 17 & 18 are that mission. So we don’t have to read 18, but you should still do that.
70s Beast asks Reed how it went, and Reed has this bizarre reaction of questioning if Beast is a friend, but hands over the data. We might be able to stop the X-Virus!
Cardinal Stryker, so we already know what we’re in for. He meets Mayor Corvo, which I tried to look it up, and didn’t see any characters with that last name. Stryker tells Corvo and his men they have to stay outside, as only weapons allowed in the church is the Power of Faith.
Cardinal Stryker is there to meet Bishop Wagner, who does have a sword.
Bishop Wagner is assisted by Sister Aquilla, of Nova Roma, so we have Magma. Also, apparently something bad happened in Nova Roma, as is always the case.
The Pope has given Cardinal Stryker authority to be an independent factor as he performs his duties.
Cardinal Stryker is here to kill vampires. Wagner asks, “which kind?” which is very interesting. Are there different types of vampires? Stryker responds with a, “yours,” so mutant vampires as opposed to vampire vampires? Flatscan vampires?
Years ago.
We are treated to Vampire Storm biting Jean Grey, in a Phoenix outfit. This page is gorgeous.
Now.
October 6, 2026. Day 3106 of this broadcast. Day 3268 of the first recorded occurrence of infection. Which is nearly nine years.
We get a panel of Magneto in this universe. He has a rock in a jar.
Citizen Tilby, so we have Trish Tilby, always a reporter.
We see a panel of loads of missing people. I don’t believe we are supposed to recognize any of the faces, and there are no names that are legible.
Citizen Tilby makes a reference to someone, be it vampire or empyre. We see two characters discuss what is an empyre, which is pretty fun. Empyres are mutants who were turned into vampires, so mutant vampires, m-pires, empyers. Two great panels that really define the lore.
Mutant vampires don’t call themselves that, that’s just for flatscans, for convenience, as the mutant vampires call themselves by their house names, and clan names.
One of the people cracked the prime codex, and found the decryption key, but that’s how all of these people who have gathered got to this location.
This group comes across four strongholds, or coffins. One of them is Quicksilver, and the other is a lady with red hair, which doesn’t narrow it down much.
One of the coffins is marked – Body Shop #MJ298 V-Class Reaver (Beta), so just like in the 616, Reavers are present, and have turned themselves into vampires, AND have enhanced their bodies with cybernetics. Reavers always have to try to get on the same power of mutants, or mutant vampires, that’s just how Reavers roll.
The House of X. Classic Hickman.
Unus, usually untouchable, is part of the House of X. Quicksilver shows up, fresh from the Reavers attack. Toad is also there, we can tell by his googles.
We also see Havok and Polaris, and Scarlet Witch are part of the House of X.
Polaris mentions a compact that mutants live by. Magneto orders that they have to send someone who isn’t bound by the compact to fight back the Reavers.
Gambit is the one that is sent. Gambit is joined by Psyloce, Glob Herman, and a male Hellion, from the uniform. Probably Empath, who is the worst. It is very cool to see a Glob Herman who is ready for a fight.
Back with Stryker and Wagner, we see a statue of Exodus, attacking with a sword, someone who is chained down. It is daylight, and we’re outside, so Wagner isn’t an empyre. Stryker states that vampires have been around since St. Peter founded the church. Also, is it isn’t a sin to kill vampires, as they are already dead.
Stryker refers to Mayor Corvo as Purifier Corvo, so we know this are bad dudes. Wanger recognizes the empyers were his friends, so he rather not see them get killed. I’m not sure what his solution is, to give up portions of the city?
Styrker mentions how he and Wagner are on missions of mercy, and works in a “God Loves Man Kills,” which is an awesome reference.
We get our first data page, Immortal Mortality. Human and Mutant Vampres can be killed by – Decapitation, Adamantium, and Sunlight – mutants can several up to a few minutes in sunlight whereas human vampires die within seconds. Also, human vampires can be killed with a stake through the heart, but not mutants. Which makes sense to me, as I imagine empyres are stronger than vampires. The data page is produced by Muir Institute Report (0051).
Back with Gambit, we get confirmation that is Empath. Psylocke beheads the Reaver. Mutants have a smell to the iron in their blood, so empyres can tell who they are about to feast on
Empath has the option to devour her, or turn her, but he has to make the decision quick. Also, empyres really want to drink upon mutants, they have an overwhelming scent.
Before Empath can make a decision, the dude gets blasted!
Cyclops is here! He blasted Empath’s legs right off!
Gambit states they will get Empath to a healer, so apparently empyres can’t just heal on their own, or maybe they can, but not one’s legs once they are blasted off.
Cyclops recognizes Gambit. Gambit calls Cyclops, Slim, which is fun. Also, Slim has quite the bounty of his head. Gambit’s tribe doesn’t care about the compact.
Gambit wants the girl, but she tells Slim how she would know what her power is, and I like his response of, “you’d know.” Slim sighing is perfection.
Gambit makes a comment, most likely scarastically, about how great Cyclops is at saving people, so something bad happened there.
Gambit also calls Cyclops the last X-Man. Cyclops, in a very fun moment, refereces the time, 1:27pm, then gives the building they are in a new sunroof, and fries everyone, but Glob Herman.
Empath definitely dies, but Gambit appears to only be frying, so he must have been an older empyre.
With a pretty cool grappling hook, Cyclops rescues the gal. He tells her the empyres have her scene, so she has to leave. She wants to stay, and her name is Hope. Cyclops repeats that she has to go home. There was a part of me that was hoping her red hair was just brunette, and this would be Kitty Pryde.
Bishop Wagner is tending to his flowers, as the sun goes down. I love how he is immediately visited by Storm. I thought it was just Gambit’s speech bubbles, but apparently all empyres get to speak in black word balloons.
Apparently Storm keeps offering Wagner the chance to turn, but he keeps turning her down. NO family, no clan, no house would dare turn Wagner, he is protected by Storm’s shadow. Storm is also not concern for men trying to kill her, which is awesome.
Storm touches Wagner’s hand, and he moves it. Wagner dreams of a cure for empyres. Wagner is concerned for the day empyres lose control, and can no longer hide. Will there be another war? Which is very interesting.
I like how we keep getting different characters quoting, “The Peace Must Hold.” This is a very strong compact they are under.
Wanger asks what happens if the peace isn’t held, as the issue ends.
No Kitty, or Lockheed, or Magik, but we are just getting started
Midnight X-Men was definitely my favorite of the three, with Spider-Man being second, and I’ll probably be okay with not reading more Fantastic Four. And once we find out if the spider stays on Peter’s chest, I’ll probably be done there Or if it stays, how does that work?
AIPT was nice enough to ask another one of my questions, and this time, to the always great, Alex Paknadel, who is promoting X-Men Incursions, where Kate Pryde of the Days of Future Past, hopefully meets up with Ms. Kitty Pryde, the school teacher of House of M.
After a fun detour of three titles, we are back to our bookends.
We get a flashback to Miles and his mentor, Mister E, who is telling Miles of his destiny. Mister E isn’t thrilled with how Miles’ friends, Illyana, and Laura, are always distracting him.
In the present, Miles, now the Scarlet Spider, is engulfing the planet in crimson.
Illyana, Legion, must know the Scarlet Spider. He was proud that he stopped Laura from becoming the Vision, but actually, he is the Vision.
Colossus, who is a giant sized X-Manifestation, wants to usher in an age of heroes. Since he is still around, we know Laura wasn’t killed, which is a huge relief.
Laura is no longer X-Tremis, she is now . . . Weapon Phoen-X. (Get it?)
We find out Scarlet Spider’s mentor was actually . . . Blackheart.
In another flashback, we see Ilayana bragging on her big bro, being the best of the X-Men, even better than Storm. It would have been pretty cool to get an X-Men title in this event. Well, besides the two bookends, and Ghostlocke. I suppose we got plenty of X-Men in this event.
Weapon Phoen-X makes two attacks. The first to Scarlet Spider, and then apologizes to Legion for the second.
It appears that Laura sacrificed herself to restore Miles, but we mustn’t forgot that she was going by Phoen-X just a few pages ago.
I suppose Laura was apologizing to Legion for the upgrade as now Illyana is . . . Phoenix Supreme! She looks awesome here.
Phoenix Supreme starts cleansing Blackheart.
Before she can clearly defeat him, he attempts one last move, and opens an infinite void.
Illyana doesn’t have complete control over the Phoenix, as she just got it, but Miles jumps in to try to sacrificed himself.
Together Miles and Illyana take the fight to Blackheart.
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That top panel is pretty cool, combining both the Phoenix and Spider imagery.
Illyana hints that they didn’t defeat Blackheart alone.
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I love this chat with the Phoenix and Illyana so much, the Phoenix is so tired of human business.
Plus, Illyana is riding her yokai, Lockheed!
The Phoenix agrees to help Illyana as she loves to fight as much as she love to sleep.
Issue ends with Miles creating a shrine for Laura, who shows up as her own version of a yokai.
We get two pages where we see the cast of the other three one-shots, which I’m sure is nice for the writers who didn’t have to incorporate those stories, they just had to show the character designs.
I definitely liked the first issue more, as it had a lot more of Lockheed, but at least we got one panel of him this issue.
The coloring this issue was breathtakingly beautiful!
Northern Italy, a location no map shows. Three centuries ago. La Cattedrale oi Ferro. The Iron Cathedral. A ritual is performance.
A frecciorossa train in Northern Italy, three centuries later. Rogue, Gambit, Gabriel, and Repent are traveling together. Repent is quite thirsty, and apparently has a demon inside him, but a nicer one than the one Gambit has inside him.
Apparently Repent’s mother died during child birth, which is super sad, and she had a demon inside of her, so when she died, it transferred over to Repent. He tired to perform his own exorcist, costing himself an arm, an eye, and his sanity. I checked, and he has one black eye, and one red eye.
Monet is on day three of leading the Uncanny X-Men, and they find themselves fighting a big bruiser of a guy, Calamity.
Logan, who Monet thinks of as a Canadian, but the way she does it, feels loaded. Logan confirms that Calamity is a 22 year old, who isn’t being mind controlled. Calamity was one of the mutants held captive, until he got promoted to tormentor. With that knowledge, Logan attacks Calamity, berserker rage style.
I really appreciate that Monet isn’t tempted to stop Logan, these are child traffickers. Monet gets the killing move on Calamity.
Monet is tearful that she gets to free the children. Though I can’t help but think about how she was cool with holding mutants prisoner who were just being a little loud in public.
Rogue and company make it to the Iron Cathedral. Repent explain the world has always known mutants, which makes sense as we are well aware of Apocalypse and Selene. Like modern mutants, the ones from centuries ago were hunted as they were feared. Some died here, while trying to cast out demons that didn’t exist.
Rogue threatens to kill Repent if Gambit is hurt. Repent doesn’t seem too concerned.
We learn that Repent’s mutant power is to transmute liquid, any liquid, into holy water. One of those classic mutant powers that is created out of the situation the mutant needed most.
Wyren arrives, claiming the underworld hates two things, mutants and priests. Rogue uses her mutant power to transfer the demon to her, so that Gambit is weakened, and can have the other Eye of Agamotto carved out of his chest.
Louisiana. A guard is freaking out about all of the uncaged mutants, gross, and Jubilee swiftly kicks him. Then she destroys the house they were in.
I like Nightcrawler and Quicksilver working together, plus the green & white looks great with the black & red in these panels.
Kurt says that not every evil wears capes, which is a silly take on that expression.
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Always great to see Ember and the New Mutants joining into the battle.
The land owner tries to flee in his fancy limo, but Howler is there to finish the job.
Howler is justified, but is also sad about the whole thing, Logan tells him it is okay. I love that it is Becca who holds Howler.
I love how the local police show up, recognize the situation completely, and not going to do anything more than give Monet a citation, maybe.
Issue ends with Gambit free of demons, or at the very least, this demon.
Variant Cover Annie Wu, I took a chance on the Muppets variant cover, and was treated to Emma Frost and Miss Piggy, so that was the right choice.
Shadow Play, Part 3
Our Monthly dose of Kitty Pryde, let’s see how much of her we get!
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I do like how this is the title that gives us all of the mutants.
I like how Kitty is the one to approach Wither. Psylocke confirms Wither’s psi-imprint is darker now.
Logan, on the other hand, is being a real jerk, and being rude to Blade.
Blade is fully aware that only his mind is here, but is willing to make Logan bleed. Logan is still holding onto Blood Hunt resentment. Logan clearly doesn’t share my philosophy that we can’t hold characters responsible for their actions during a crossover.
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We see Kitty’s blue glove as Emma calms everybody down. She wants some answers.
Wither is involved in something that Blade attempted to help out with.
I like how Wither has turned to scriptures to express himself in Atlanta.
Wither was attacked by vampires, and turned, so not only does he have a death touch, he also can turn people into vampires, so he can do some touching?
He was about to turn someone when Bloodline, Blade’s daughter, shows up to stop him.
She suspects Wither is the one who killed all of these people, and he tries to explain it, but she just wants to end him, so he puts her into the ground. I’m not sure why her blade didn’t kill Wither, or at least punctured him.
Wither does explain the situation. His vampire powers are messing with his mutant powers, so he has to wait for people to die, then suck the blood as his powers would destroy their organic matter. Which does line up with how I understand his powers, so good job Ewing and Narcisse for taking the time, and explaining this.
Bloodline offers a temporary, and very uneasy, partnership. They can’t hurt each other, so she invites him over to her mom’s house. He’s lucky her father wasn’t here for this nonsense.
Bloodline and Wither attack the vampires, and Blade shows up, and he kills the vampires. Their boss is a mutant vampire, which I like Jubilee quickly saying, it happens. That’s funny.
Blade further explains that the mutant isn’t a real vampire, but a copycat. She comes around vampires, temporarily gets the bite powers, uses it to make more vampires, who are loyal to her.
Prodigy tries to explain to Wither that now isn’t a great time, as they are dealing with their own shadowy darkness.
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I like Kitty and Psylocke hanging out, as Blade explains he doesn’t need the X-Men, he’s just here as Wither asked him to attempt this exchange.
We get Dani Moonstar!!! In an awesome splash page reveal. She’s willing to help Blade. Prodigy will join the team, and since they’re in England, Dani believes they can get Chamber to help.
Blade misses no time in making sure everyone knows he is in charge.
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Iceman is going to check on Magik and Nightcrawler’s class, as he’s being very fussy. Kitty isn’t sure if now is the best time for that.
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I love so much whenever Magik and Nightcrawler hang out, and them teaching together is such a treat!
Magik is so much more than a goth raver with a giant sword! She also has a lot more infernal aura than Kurt.
I love Mal and Gabby, I mean Scout, chatting about Shadow King. Mal wants to know, and Scout offers up a quick sheet about him. He’s evil, a telepath, lies, and makes you doubt yourself and others. Yep, that’s the Shadow King. Plus, a nice reference to Krakoa as Gabby did have to deal with him over in New Mutants V4.
The issue ends with Bloodline, and her captures, Justina – who is wearing a very cute red bow in her hair, and the vampire who created Blade.
This was a solid issue! No Marigold, but that’s okay.
