Writer Rick Remender
Artist Salvador Larroca
Color Art Frank Martin
Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles
What is Kang sitting on? A future bean bag chair? Hate ti say this, but a future bean bag chair, is still a bean bag chair.
How incredible was the opening of this issue?
We get Eimin and Uriel’s origins. I have to still look for their names, does anyone have them memorized yet? Probably Remender and Cowles.
How great is it that Remender gets to continue his Apocalypse / Archangel saga into this title. He runs the risk of burning out an audience that way, also of being known as that guy with the hard on for Warren Worthington III.
So Warren’s kids appear to be from the Days of Future Past timeline, just during the era when Rachel was a hound, and Arab was her master. How awesome is that!?! Someone straight up remembered Arab and put him in a modern comic.
That is some tight continuity!
I remember as a kid when Rod Campbell joined the cast of Excalibur, and he was a humnan wanting to help mutants. Then horrible events started to happen to him, like replacing human limbs with robotic limbs.
You can tell that Kang wanted to toughen his adopted twins.
But once Uriel has to blind Eimin, that’s to much. Did we know that Eimin is blind? Not sure I picked up on that previously.
We cut to the Jean Grey School, we get to see Storm, Beast and Kitty, they have moved Evan and Warren into a secret bunker.
Then we cut to the New Xavier School, with Cyclops, Emma and Magik. They are discussing how a mutant rapture can even occur. I like the inclusion of Illyana in this scene, shows that Scott is still using a coucil and now that they have broken up, there is no reason to not add a third. Glad it was Magik and not Magneto.
Up to this point, Larroca and Martin have been doing an amazing job in art. Then Wanda shows up and I don’t know what happened.
I think it is that weird glow from the hallway, that casts a strange hue in the rooms. Wanda looks very ill in all of her scenes.
She should be holding a bucket or have one at the ready. Luckily, that weird head thing (what do people call that – a head band, maybe?)
Then we cut to Wasp, Captain America and Havok. The comic instantly looks a lot better too. It just was an odd coloring choice, is all.
Wasp does that classic cartoon thing of getting two guys with guns to shoot each other. Which, would that actually work, I wonder?
There’s some nice flirting between Wasp and Havok, but Cap keeps interrupting the chemistry. I know it is harmless flirting but I thought we were building to a Alex / Wanda relationship, or has that time passed already? Once Wonder Man shows up, your chances with Wanda decrease dramatically, just ask Vision. Oh how I can’t stand Wonder Man, at least he has the good sense to die every now and then.
I wonder how eye contact works with Jan, when she is wasp size.
Banshee v. Captain America. Sean kick yo arse!
Meanwhile, remember that caption? Back with Wanda and Simon, it is now the blue from the stream that makes Wanda look sickly.
Now that I see Eimin’s current design, she was obviously blind or something, as she has that weird U thing over her eyes.
Cut to Kang at the end. So that quake happens, and the panel with GRRUMMBLLE, I had to stare at that strange brown thing for a solid minute, to try to figure out what that was.
You can tell in the larger panel, that he is on a bean chair, which is odd for a conqueror. He isn’t in college nor in his first apartment.
Daddy, your babies are coming for you!
Maybe Remender can work in Original Warren into the story, that kid needs something to do and should fear his own future.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 