Writer Jed MacKay

Artist Netho Diaz

Inker Sean Parsons

Colorist Arthur Hesli

Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles

Variant Cover German Peralta, drawing Magik for a cover?  Yes, please.

Nice to see Sean Parsons as an Inker.  In this age of digital art, inkers are hard to fine, and I worry about the professional inks of the world. 

Danger’s Room.  Maxime Danger is congratulating everyone for how easy they killed the X-Men.  Be nice if Colton C. Colton would do his part to get Quintin Quire and Oya to kill the flatscans of Merle, Alaska, but he’s sure that’ll be happening.  Soon. 

I just love the Psylocke butterfly effect that we see, things are not going to go well for Danger.

The Factory.  Merle, Alaska.

Magneto is talking to Ben and Animalia, he needs a ride to town.  Oh, how far the mighty have fallen.  She can’t drive a stick, so Ben has to take them.

Quintin is simply losing it, as he can’t find any trace of the Glob Herman’s shooter.  One would think he’ll figure it out, but instead of not finding the shooter, he wants to hurt everyone who is hiding the shooter. 

Deep in the Gulf of Alska.

Nice to see how tangled Magik and the X-Men are. 

We enter 70s Beast cyber mind scape.  If the AI was looking to feed on data, he has all of the data it needs.

Magneto has enter Quintin’s mind scape.  We all learn a very valuable lesson that if we look at an entire group of people and declare them fit for punishment, that isn’t right. 

Quintin finally calms down.

70s Beast teaches the AI the values of life – dignity, freedom, safety, and respect.  You know, the classic Teach AI about Humanity plot.

Diaz finds a clever way to draw Weapon X for a panel, so this page should resell nicely. 

Oya isn’t thrilled with Magneto’s interference.  He’s a nazi hunter, so they need to still hunt for the shooter.  He’s all for hunting the right person. 

A bit of a cop out that Quintin has erased everyone’s memory of him running through the city’s minds and memories, but honestly, what would that story follow up be with this?  Quintin publicly apologizing?  Actually, maybe that would have been nice for a page. 

Just in case us readers are concern the X-Men are losing a full day to this exercise, it is most likely only minutes that are passing.

70s Beast poses an exam question, is this AI a weapon or a person?

Danger’s Room.  I love Maxime referencing her own psych file, she doesn’t handle disappointment well.  Before she can kill Colton, Psylocke, Xorn, and Greycrow enter the room. 

I love Greycrow stating the room’s guns like him more than Maxime, so the room’s auto defenses are not going to work.

Like a boss, Maxime teleports away, this exercise was a real waste.

Which is what I always say, if you are a villain, and you must know the X-Men are going to win in the end, the best you can do is try to hurt them real badly, OR, get all of your personal goals done by mid plot, as once the X-Men come together, they clean up pretty quickly after that. 

Psylocke is going to teach Maxime’s goons a real lesson in empathy.  The hard way.

The AI ship comes to the surface.  I love Magik stretching out.  She’s so real, and was very cramped.

Scott is such a delight here.  The Tantum Twins is such a silly name for Magik and Juggernaut, who I simply adore together as besties. 

70s Beast should know Cyclops always has a plan, but he missed out on the Utopia era (an era I like), and Cyclops doesn’t just have 26 plans, he has all of the plans.

Xorn is taking care of Glob.

I love so much seeing Illyana eat, and taking care of herself.  Juggernaut and her are eating the biggest sandwiches of all time. 

Poor Animalia, she isn’t getting far with 70s Beast.  Unless those are bedroom eyes, but they look more sad to me.

Epilogue.  Military Housing.  Location REDACTED.  (Such a good visual gag).

The Residence of Frank Bohannan.  Director of O*N*E. 

Such a cool image of the field team confronting Bohannan. 

Cyclops tells Bohannan that he knows he put Maxime up to this, but Bohannan has full deniability. 

This is his final warning, Psylocke will end him next time.  This is a threat.

Magik teleports the team away at issue’s end.

Next arc, the Science Team investigates a Cerebro alert.  The Science Team consists of 70s Beast, Animalia, Magneto, Xorn, and Ben.  A nice little arc before we ramp up to DNX.