Writer Christos Gage
Artist Marcus To
Colorist Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer Travis Lanham
You can’t make people love you by lobotomizing them, or traumatizing them, or manipulating them. Thanks, Jan!
I wasn’t thrilled with this issue, until the final page got me back in. Issue opens with Jan talking to Korvac. He’s in love with Carina, but he’s worried she won’t love him back, because of all of the horrible things he’s done. So, he’s tempted to just rewrite history, and erase her memory of the old timeline, and we get Jan’s helpful quote above.
Korvac kills / erases Jan, which upsets Pym, naturally. Bucky and Britainicus Rex, who isn’t used nearly enough, neither is Days of Future Past Storm, but more on that later, show up to help DoFP Storm, and others. Too late to do anything else, really.
Pym & Korvac yell at each other. Hank has the “brilliant” idea to force Carol to trauma dump with Korvac. She doesn’t love the idea, why would she?, but agrees to it. We do get an awesome page of her history, including The Brood Saga, where she turns into Binary. We also get Rogue stealing her powers, and of course, ugh, the Marcus of it all. But The Brood Saga, that’s cool.
Korvac recognizes how cool Carol is, and brings Jan back, and we’re all good now. With a few pages left, I start thinking this was a bit of a waste, a decent enough story, but underwhelming, and does kill my buzz for 2099 The End.
Then everyone is set back to their respected realities. EXCEPT! DoFP Storm is about to commit to her, and the X-Men’s end, and we learn Earth-811 is, well at least this version, is now Earth-813! Korvac is going to help sort this timeline out! That’s pretty cool! Kate Pryde is not seen or mentioned, so this isn’t needed for the collection.
Do we get a fun “The End…?” caption, and I’ll definitely buy a Days of Future Past miniseries, I’m a sucker for those. Kate Pryde has to be seen in that, right?
I did look it up. Earth-812, was established by legends Johnathan Hickman and Tini Howard in X of Swords : Destruction, as one of the Earth’s Liz Braddock is from. She is in a giant group shot of other Captains Britain, but we learn on a text page that she’s from Earth-812. So that is why this Earth is Earth-813.
The potential of future stories does make this mini fun, but also, I’m okay with we don’t get a sequel series. This one would just get summarized in a caption box, or a dialogue exchange.
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