Writer Rick Remender
Artist Daniel Acuna
Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles
I don’t care for how Havok’s caption boxes and Banshee’s word balloons are the same color. I know one is square and the other is round but both are white text on black background. Could be better.
Havok narrates that some of the nicest people he knows have been corrupted. Kitty, by Ogun. Colossus, by the Phoenix Force. Storm, not exactly sure, maybe when she was just about to go full Mohawk?
He also narrates that Cyclops killed Banshee, but did not tell him to jump out of a plane to stop the Blackbird, and fail miserably at that. Banshee did that on his own terms.
Wasp goes down Banshee’s throat and rips back out through his vocal cords. That is fighting dirty as it gets.
Captain America is now hard of hearing, due to taking a full blast from Banshee last issue. Deaf Captain America is the new character find of the year, so funny.
Some fun moments like Havok stating the guards came from over there, then Cap screaming the same thing.
Wasp volunteers to split from the group, the budding relationship between her and Havok is nice to see.
Cap yells that Wasp likes Havok, Alex’s facial expression is classic.
Thor transports another planet’s ocean onto the current planet he is on, to stop the green lava.
Simon and Wanda are eating with the Twins. Believe it or not, Wanda looks so weird without the M-piece headgear of hers.
Draken is beating Wolverine to death.
The Twins tell Logan that they plan on opening a school in Wanda’s honor, making it the fourth mutant school. Nice to have some options.
In the continuing question of who is leading this team, Cap shouts “I don’t follow you” to Havok, based on misunderstanding something Havok said.
Wanda starts talking to Simon, he quickly tells her that the Twins can hear their every word. Her solution? To have sex with Simon, that will teach them!
Rogue and Sunfire catch up to Wolverine, and Acuna draws my favorite panel of the issue. Rogue putting her hands up to her mouth, eyes so big. It is beautifully drawn.
Logan does the classic close eyes move head to the side death scene, but we all know Logan isn’t dead.
He tells them they have to stop Wanda, Rogue absorbs his claws, they look metal to me, instead of bone.
The thing is, Wanda’s plan is to transport all of the mutants, not into tubes, but awake and well, and have this army attack the Twins en mass. So Rogue is trying to stop Wanda from winning the day. Those two have a very complicated relationship.
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