Shadow and Flame with Magik

Written by Brian Michael Bendis

Artists are Frazer Irving with Anka

Lettering & Production by VC’s Joe Caramagna

I’m not sure how much comic work Irving has outside of this title, but with his fourth issue of Uncanny, he is just getting better and better with sequential storytelling.

I really like Bendis’ narration of Cyclops that runs through the issue.

Magik saving Scott at the perfect moment and later taking advantage of a situation, I wonder if she is going to be made the co-leader of this team.

Took until this issue, to notice that Emma’s shirt is a T instead of an X, I don’t know if that represents anything.

Nice of Bendis to state that her telepathic abilities are broken, but her diamond power is still solid.

The entire team gets to show off this issue.  Except Benjamin Deeds, which I am curious what his powers really are.  He’s being upstaged by flashier power sets.  Is he like Mystique and can turn into anybody, or does he need to stand next to that person before?

Seems Hijack is off to a good start, trying out his powers.

Tempus blocks one attack.

Triage gives support in the field, fixing knees.

Gold Balls owns his name, and is now better with his powers.  Poink! may very well be the new Bamf.

Maria Hill is from Ann Arbor, not sure if that was revealed before, but it is a fun fact.

At first, I thought Irving wanted to show his naysayers that he can do some classic comic art, with the Mystique / Dazzler Madripoor pages, but I am pretty sure those pages are done by Anka. They break up the action of the A plot.

The double page spread where Cyclops is building himself to do one last blast, his facial expressions are amazing.

Magneto shows up and saves the day.

The only bad part of the issue is Cyclops’ narration box of Magik reminding him of her brother.  How dare you, Scott!

I also liked hearing how Scott likes having Warreb around again.  He hasn’t been on the same team with Angel for years.  They may have been on panek together during Fraction’s era, but not in a battle together.  His last team with an Original Five was Beast during Whedon’s Astonishing and Jean with Morrison’s New.  He hasn’t been on a team with Iceman for as long as Angel, probably.