Writer Charles Soule

Artist Ariela Kristantina

Colorist Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

The Changling, One Hour Ago.  Mystique is watching a new section (to us) of Destiny’s video.  Destiny is explaining how crucial the final steps are, to bring her back.  There will be a lot of improvising.

Poor Lady Deathstrike is holding onto Shogun.

Mister Sinister comes at Mystique, so hard.  She starts talking and he grabs her by her lying dumb mouth.

X23 wakes up Daken, he wants nothing to do with Sinister and wants to just leave.  X23 is under the impression if they all defeat him, Mystique will get them home.  As they are currently in the middle of the ocean.  X23 wants a progress report on Shogun from Lady Deathstrike, She informs the spawn of Wolverine that Shogun is dead.

Ogun, in awesome page turn reveal, tells her that he leaves.  Which is so fantastic!

Lady Deathstrike thought Fang killed Ogun but he just pushed him way down.  Sharp was finally at death’s door so Ogun was able to finally do what he has been wanting this entire time, and take control over the body.  Ogun really enjoys Lady Deathstrike, which I like seeing a more romantic side of him.  If, romantic, is the right word.

I really enjoy Lady Deathstrike’s disbelief of the situation.  She has two dudes, well two minds, sharing one body, fighting over her to be her gentleman companion.  Ogun’s stakes are pretty low, if he dies, he will get a new body and if Sinsiter dies, that’s one more impressive death to add to Ogun’s vita.

While talking to Mystique, Sinister gets a s-word through the chest and Mystique drops to the ground.  She shouts that everyone should get to the ship.  Which I guess wasn’t destroyed in the crash.  There was a giant explosion but everything, once the dust settled, was pretty much the same.  That’s some impressive construction!

Sinister recognizes that the person he is fighting, should be the soldier, Sharp.  Ogun corrections him, Sinister is facing – The Father of Blades.  Which I imagine sounds cool on the page but I’m feeling like I have to give a lot of emphasis on it, to give it the proper weight.

Ogun claims to be the demon that caused Sinister nightmares as a child.  Sinister, in possibly the coolest line of the year, tells Ogun that he was never a child.

Ogun cuts off the fingers of Sinister’s left hand and Sinister is barely impressed.

Mystique gets the Wolverines back together and starts giving orders.  Sabretooth can’t believe he killed Junk, he has no memory of it.  Lady Deathstrike is to watch Sabretooth.  Mystique keeps calling him, Shogun, and Lady Deathstrike hints that is no longer Shogun but Mystique doesn’t have time to ask follow-up questions.  X23’s orders are to grab the contents of a red chest in Mystique’s room.  Daken is to check on Siphon.

X23 opens the chest and sees that old costumes are in it but it looks like a wedding dress, to me.

There is a great Marvel tribute to Herb Trimpe’s passing.  1939 – 2015, in memory of a Giant among Legends.  So true!

Mystique, as X23, tells Daken that they should fight Sinister.  Mystique gives Portal the Zhulong, a dagger like item that will let him teleport anywhere.  So he agrees to help her, also, he doesn’t want Sinister to kill him.

Elsewhere.  Siphon bites Daken and he puts a collar on Siphon.

Ogun mistakenly tells Sinister how Ogun was so smart to take over Sharp’s body, once it was almost lifeless.  Sinister injects Ogun with the same serum that released Endo, Neuro and Skel from their sooner-than-expected expiration dates.

Sabretooth still can’t believe he killed Junk, he suspects that Mystique had a hand in that. X23 interrupts Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike’s conversation to tell them that she is really done this time with Mystique.

Siphon obsorbs Sinister’s healing factor, which I didn’t see coming!  I should have, as Sinister bragged earlier about how his healing factor rivals even Wolverine’s!  And that guy survived an atomic bomb explosion!

I like how, once the serum kicks in, Sharp takes control of the body and the mask is back to being broken.  When Ogun was in charge, the mask was for real.

Sinister doesn’t recognize Siphon.

It looks like Shogun (Sharp?) cuts off Sinister’s head.  Siphon is back to being able to speak, and if he isn’t hurt – to badly – he shouldn’t have to feed for months.  So, of course, he is shot multiple times.

Shogun and Daken are not happy with this turn of events but Mystique just has Portal teleport them elsewhere.

X23, Sabretooth (who is colored blue throughout this issue, but not everytime) and Lady Deathstrike arrive on the scene.  X23 wants to know where the others were teleported too.  Portal just teleports them to that location as well.

Issue ends with Portal teleporting the two of them to the Nexus of All Realities and he warns that the Nexus has a guardian.  Which I already know who that guardian is, but the last page shows up Man-Thing!  All who know fear, burn at Man-Thing’s touch!

So that ends the Sinister plot, and I imagine the final issue leads us into Secret Wars 2015?

I can’t believe I didn’t think about how the Nexus of All Realities, in Florida, would play some role in Secret Wars 2015, that just makes sense!  I’m glad the series got back on track and it was so great to see Ogun back in charge, even for a little bit!  I can only imagine Ogun/Sharp/Shogun appear in the final issue.  Here is hoping!

Writer Charles Soule

Artist Ariela Kristantina

Colorist Sonia Oback

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Knowhere.  Years Ago.  Fang is telling X23 a story of when Wolverine got drunk, for once.  There is a moment when Wolverine, who is so drunk, that he snikted himself, but I’m not sure how that is even possible.  The claws come out of the base of his hands, which is how Daken’s one claw comes out.  They should always pop out of his back of his hands.  But whatever, it is a fun scene.

Knowhere.  Now.  X23 doesn’t believe that story, and neither do I.  Fang tires to go back and forth on referring to her as Laura or X23.  I had that problem (I still do) with addressing my in-laws as either Leslie and Dennis or Mr. and Mrs. Brannman.  Now, I just try to make clear eye contact or get their attention first.  He decides on, Laura.  Apparently, Wolverine always referred to her as, Laura, so he will honor that.  That must have been Logan’s rule, when not in her presence.

Fang isn’t here to torture Laura (I guess I will call her that, as well) like he did to Daken and Sabretooth.  Wolverine always liked her.

Fang recites a part of Uncanny X-Men 107 & 108, which I don’t own as they predate Uncanny X-Men 129.  Wolverine stole Fang’s costume, as his was pretty torn and tattered.  Laura doesn’t mention how she wore the costume, for some time, starting with Uncanny X-Men 451.  Which I don’t own but I do own 460, and she is still wearing that costume.  Where she gets a lady version of Fang’s costume, I don’t believe has ever been explained.  After that, House of M happens, and then the titles bounce around for a while until Ed Brubaker takes the title to Shi’ar space and it is unreadable for a year.

Fang explains how he wasn’t killed by the Brood.  He was, but the Lupak race are constantly born again as clones but with the memories of the previous model.  This hits close to Laura, as she is a clone.

The Changling.  Mystique explains the situation.  They can’t hide from Fang, so they have to kill him, before he can kill them.  Mystique hates this delay, as she has things to do.  This is issue eleven of a now, fifteen issue series, so there isn’t any time to waste.  Except for the all Deadpool issue that is coming.

Junk feels over his head, he isn’t Neuro, so all of this data that he has now on Fang, confuses him.  Mystique looks over the data, and dismisses Junk.

Crew Deck.  Shogun’s Chamber.  Lady Deathstrike is ready to kill Shogun but Ogun wants her to wait.  Ogun has control over Shogun’s mouth, when he is sleeping.  He needs Lady Deathstrike to bring Shogun to the brink of death, so that he can take over the weak body.

Fang and Wolverine didn’t always get together once a year, they both had busy lives.  Wolverine had his adamantium ripped out by Magneto while Fang was busy having a family.  Wolverine joined Avengers, and Fang was busy with the Imperial Guard.

Laura has seen Wolverine’s statue corpse and Fang has also seen it, in the care of the X-Men, and he has paid his respects.  Fang is quasi-trying to figure out Wolverine’s final days.

Fang has tricked Laura, as he has been drinking something with a intensified trigger scent, which I forgot she had that as part of her story.  So Fang just really wants a fight.

Lady Deathstrike slaps Shogun awake.  He doesn’t want to wake up to a fight but she is bored.

Colorado Rockies.  Fantomelle and Culpepper have stolen a pair of Wolverine’s dog tags.  Dogtagger, that’s who she stole it from – and he had thousands of them, but I believe that is the only one that was Wolverine’s – he wants it back and promises to not rest until he does.

Barcelona, Spain.  Later.  We see their home base, and she has three costumes – a classic yellow and blue, an X-Force (like from the cover) and another yellow and blue, maybe it is his Cassaday Astonishing X-Men costume?  There is a pair of claw gloves and a pair of towels?

Okay, I misread the scene with Fang and Laura.  He just had the glass of the trigger scent.  Laura is upset as that is the only thing that makes her into an animal.  Fang’s original goal was to have her drink it and set loose on Mystique’s team.

Now Laura and Fang are fighting in the bar.  What changed his mind was that Laura had dyed some of her hair with yellow and blue.  He mostly just wants to know why she is on a team full of monsters that Wolverine hates.

She mentions that Shogun and Junk have code words.  Fang dismisses the idea of code words, but they are real threats, Shogun could kill her with a single word.  Fang throws some pills at her, which I’m not sure what they contain.  Laura tells Fang that Shogun was one of the last people to see Wolverine alive.  Fang wasn’t even looking to speak with Shogun.

Mystique is finishing telling the team, what is the plan.  Junk is hoping to stay out of it, as he isn’t on Fang’s radar.  Daken tells Mystique that once you go on an adventure with Fang, that’s all he wants.  Mystique isn’t so sure about that.  Mystique wants to destroy Fang, which of course, is when he returns with Laura and his interest has been piqued.  This, naturally, ends the issue.