Shadow and Flame with Magik

Written by Marjorie Liu

Artist is Amilcar Pinna

Lettered by VC’s Joe Caramagna

Proving, once again, that I will straight up buy a comic if all you do is reference Kitty.  Which luckily, Storm does closer to the end of the issue.

I saw Kitty on the cast page, but I didn’t see her in the comic.  I had to practically read the entire comic in the store before I got to Storm’s dialogue bubble.

If she wasn’t referenced in the issue, I am okay with not buying a comic that only shows her on the cast page.  That doesn’t count, as then Marvel would just put her on every cast page.

Though now that I think of it, she doesn’t appear in every issue of Uncanny X-Men from 129 to 211, but if she was in the upper left team box, I would buy it or add it to my wishlist.  But if she isn’t in the issue itself, she is usually referenced.  Plus it is part of Claremont’s original run on the series, so its okay.

This issue is okay, I do go on the record, that I really like aftermath issues.  I have no idea why they such a rarity in modern comics. Might be that, if you believe writers are writing for the trade, that they don’t want to write five issues of story, and then write a sixth issue of only wrap up.  I just like having a big story, then seeing the aftermath.

Lately, in terms of the big crossovers, the aftermath has been setting up the next big crossover.

I liked the make shift shelter, millions of injured people cannot be placed in a traditional hospital.  I didn’t even think about all of the frostbite victims.

Nice to see Kyle and Northstar together again.  Also that Warbird is coming around on their marriage.

The  karaoke bar scene is nice to see the characters unwind.  Pretty sure Karma was singing “Come to My Window” by Melissa Etheridge, which is a liitle to on the nose for my taste.  I wonder it it irritates artists that they have to draw her artificial leg.  She can never get rid of that thing.

Also, Jubilee singing the vampire line. cute but also on the nose.  That song is Sarah McLaughlin’s Building a Mystery.

Gambit singing Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love.

Storm is singing Pointer Sister’s Fire.

They all finish with Whitney Houston’s Queen of the Night.

Then Warbird sings a song in her native tongue.  They are surprised she can sing, but she’s an artist.

Singing in comics, it is that weird thing that makes you realize you don’t actually hear the voices, so when they sing, you have no idea what that sounds like.  I like how all the songs are older than ten years, the X-Men, have no time for current music.

I like the idea of a lonely afraid alien, but I’m not sure about an issue all about the alien getting back to its people.  Or at least, not as the final issue’s story, but maybe there is going to be an issue 68, that makes more sense than ending on issue 67, such an odd issue number to end on.