Writer Jed MacKay

Penciller Tony Daniel

Inker Mark Morales

Colorist Fernando Sifuentes

Letterer Clayton Cowles

Future Scott swaps minds with Present Day Scott.  He does optic blast Doug, BUT!  Doesn’t even cause him a concussion.  He figures out pretty quickly that Future Beast didn’t swap with him.  I guess the plan was that Future Beast was supposed to deliver the death blow?  Seems not like Cyclops to train for X years, just to fail at this crucial moment.  I do like how he had a plan to attack the X-Men, and he succeeds at that rather well.  He takes out Quentin Quire first, then Psylocke, who he was most concern about. 

He dodges Juggernaut, realizes how he must succeed, optic blasts Magik, takes her soulsword, rude!,

He knocks down Glob Herman, and Beast tackles Future Scott. 

In prison, and I like how this was teased in Age of Revelation Finale, so we think this is the end of the story, Future Scott is in The Brig.  He explains the situation, but no one wants to kill Doug, as there must be a better way.

I really love that Doug and Bei the Blood Moon are creating their own sign language, that’s very cute.  Oya reminds Doug of her time on Krakoa, which I appreciate that we haven’t forgotten she was a prisoner during that time. 

Future Scott breaks out, and chats with Magneto, who sticks to his story that he is powerless, so which is it?  Is he faking it?  Is Age of Revelation already a splintered timeline that will be shredded from memory? 

Psylocke shows up, and Future Scott is back in The Brig.  Doug goes to talk to him, and dumb Future Scott just tells Doug how he’s going to take over the world by simply telling people to obey him, and geez Scott, just give him the directions to rule?  This isn’t the Scott I know, which of all of the AoR characters, he is the one character we don’t know. 

Issue ends with Doug, Bei, and Warlock simply leaving.

I like how Magik clearly had the thought that she wasn’t going to fight Scott, and after his attack, she grabs her soulsword, and leaves the issue.  My head cannon is that she got attacked by him, and decided to go hang out with her brother, Colossus.

I also really like how this issue doesn’t try to sell you on the Age of Revelation crossover.  There’s not even an editor box to tell you to read the crossover.  Are you interested in where this Future Scott is from?  Go check out Age of Revelation.  He’s simply a Cyclops from the FUTURE!  If you are interested, you can look it up.  That is very new reader friendly.