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New X-Men 38

Posted by John Klein III on April 5, 2015
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New X-Men 38

Story Craig Kyle and Chris Yost

Script Chris Yost

Pencils Skottie Young

Inks Sean Parsons with Jay Leisten

Colors Jean-Francois Beauliu and Skottie Young

Letters Dave Sharpe

Cover Dated July 2007

Quest for Magik, Part One of Four

It did take us a year to get back to this story!  To let new visitors know what is happening, thanks to Comic Book Queers – a podcast I haven’t listened to in a while – episode, 93, gave me this great idea.  What better character to spotlight on this day of Resurrections, than Illyana Rasputin!  So I’ve been doing titles that chronicle her return to us after her tragic death in Uncanny X-Men 303.

Comic Book Queers Episode 93 :

http://www.comicbookqueers.com/?p=28

On the credit page, Craig Kyle is credited as the creator of X23.

Onto the issue!

Mercury is tossing and turning in bed.  Elixir heals Prodigy’s poor eyesight.  This was during the time when O*N*E Sentinels were watching over the Xavier Institute, so its after M-Day.  Hellion and Surge are talking about X23.  Surge is mad at Hellion for going on a deadly mission with X23.  Surge is the leader of the New X-Men.  There is a giant explosion.  Surge sends Hellion to investigation.

Limbo.  Prodigy and Dust wake up in a weird place.  The explosion was some of the students were teleported to Limbo.  Mercury is there as well as X23.

Belasco and S’ym are standing about.  He wants to know where ‘she’ is.  Elixir is there as well.  X23 notices there is a hole in the sky, that leads to the Institute.

Nowhere near these students and Belasco, are another group of students : Rockslide, Anole and Pixie are there.  As is Woflcub, Blindfold, Match and that other guy.  Blindfold foresees that a ‘she’ will come.  Gentle was there, that’s who I couldn’t think of.  Good thing these captions showed up, finally.  Loa is there as well, no clue who that even is!  These students are attacked by demons.

There is a giant explosion and everyone looks towards the sky and this awesome image is seen –

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Magik with those sexy goat legs and riding a sweet arse animal.

Belasco wants to know where Illyana Rasputin is, as the issue ends.

Not sure if we have to wait until next Easter before we get to the next chapter in this saga but if we do, it will be worth it!

Amazing X-Men 8

Posted by John Klein III on July 26, 2014
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Amazing X-Men 8

Writers Craig Kyle and Chris Yost

Penciler Ed McGuinness

Inker Mark Farmer

Colors Rachelle Rosenberg

Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna

World War Wendigo Part One of Five

So great to have Kyle and Yost back on an X-Title!  They have been amazing in the past with New X-Men and X-Force.  They killed characters in New X-Men before but the way they killed people in X-Force was mind bending!  So, of course, the best way to show that they still have it after these years of not being on an X-Title, is to do what they did at the start of this issue.

At the CC&E Meat Co., Ontario, Canada.  52 Hours Ago.  Rick believes Eddie is assisting with his wife with cheating on Rick.  He doesn’t listen to reason and kills Eddie with a punch and Eddie falls back, breaking his neck on a corner of a table.  Proving that hardhats are pretty limited on how they protect people.

That death is gruesome but not Kyle and Yost gruesome.  So what does Rick do?  He puts Eddie’s body into a meat grinder and lets that meat mixture get packaged up.  So we obviously know now how the Wendigo portion of the story gets involved.  Wennnnnndiiiiigooooo!  If a person eats human flesh, and in Canada, then you are prone to become a Wendigo.

Ottawa, Canada.  We get to the reason why I own this issue :

I only own this issue as when Logan is hanging out with Heather Hudson, he gets a call on his cell phone which displays an image of Kitty Pryde phasing her hand through Iceman’s head.  Logan really needs to change that picture.  I like the idea of Logan telling Bobby to stand still for the photo and then Kitty having a little fun and Logan shrugging his shoulders and just going with it.  Feeling silly in the first place for taking the picture and not wanting to ask for a second one.

My good buddy Slicknickshady was nice enough to screencap this for me :

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I bet he keeps it on there just so he can see Kitty’s face every so often.  I mean, how often can Bobby be calling Logan, anyways?

I really like the way McGuinness draws Heather in this scene.  She looks like a normal lady but also, pretty great looking.

Turns out Heather’s husband, Gladiator, is missing on a mission the Canadian government sent him on.  Good think Wolverine brought his new body armor – though the art makes it seem like it is mostly clothe.

There is an ad for Legendary Star Lord 1, I can’t wait for it!  I already know that I have to buy, one day, the Midtown Comics variant for the first issue as the Dodsons are placing Kitty on the cover.  So excited!

The Jean Grey School.  This is the part of the issue that seems to be getting people talking.  Colossus is joining the title!  We first see him bear hugging Nightcrawler and cracking his ribs!  What a horrible human being!

They joke about how each of them has been to the other’s funeral.  Then they joke about how often their friends died.  Storm enters the room and notes Colossus is there and moves back on to looking for Logan.  She’s one track mind, at the moment.

She goes around asking where he is.  Firestar is seen with a horse, which must be a shout out to her miniseries.  Her poor horse, then, was killed by Emma Frost to try to make Firestar sad and easier to manipulate.  Firestar hasn’t seen Logan but also that he stinks.  Beast follows this up with how Logan stinks too.

Iceman has seen Logan and knows he is in Canada.  Storm is mad as everyone is apparently under orders to tell her of any Wolverine sitting.  This must be, before he left all of the titles.

Forrest, Canada.  McGuiness and Farmer make the old school Vindicator costume look good!  We get a neat way of Logan tracking Guardian’s movements by having both of their movements mirror each other.  Pretty great use of the format.

Logan can tell this wasn’t a good situation.  Logan tells Heather to run, to get everybody she can here.

The Jean Grey School.  Storm is hassling Rachel and strangely, Rachel is taking it.  She really should just be pushing Storm to the ground and kicking her in the gut, that’s the Rachel I know.  She doesn’t respect Storm, as she hasn’t deserved it.

Storm makes a reference to how she can get teen Jean to use Cerebro to locate Logan.  This, somehow, manages to motivate Rachel and she finds Logan.  Logan is apparently scared – Storm can’t believe it, as Logan is never scared.  Which is silly as by this point, we’ve gotten seven issues of Wolverine’s newest volume of his, and the previous six issues of his last volume, all dealing with his lack of a healing factor and how scared he is all of the time.  Poor guy can’t even shave without getting the sweats!  Which I never get the sweats when I shave, thus, I am better than Wolverine.

Heather is freaking out and trying to call Puck.  He doesn’t answer his phone as he is boning his teammate’s daughter.  I wonder if Shaman knows about this?  Talisman should know better!

We see Windigos just beating up Heather, one even bites her!

We find out why Logan is so scared … there are eight Windigos in front of him – and they are all mad!

Next issue, the team goes after Wolverine!  I doubt I’ll be getting that issue but who knows.  With Nightcrawler and Colossus on the same team, and Kyle & Yost’s love for using continuity – which I adore about them – maybe the Kitty Pryde references will keep up!  If they do, that’s one issue they have sold!

Iceman, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Firestar – that’s the five team members of this title.  I’m a sucker for five member teams of the X-Men.  This is the Paul Smith team but Firestar instead of Kitty and Iceman instead of Wolverine.

Not a horrible team, a little heavy on weather mutants – Iceman, Storm and Firestar.  But I also like how they are all mainstays too, with Firestar being the introductory character here.

 

New X-Men 37

Posted by John Klein III on April 20, 2014
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Story Craig Kyle and Chris Yost

Script Chris Yost

Pencils Skottie Young

Inks Sean Parsons

Colors Skottie Young with Jean Francois-Beaulieu

Painted Cover and Storybook Pages Niko Henrichon

Letterer Dave Sharpe

Cover Dated June 2007

Quest for Magik : Prelude

Craig Kyle is credited as creating X23 though she doesn’t appear in the issue.

Happy Easter, Everyone!

This may be a little sacrilegious but I’m going with it.  Let me explain first

So back in the day, when I had time to  listen to podcasts, one of my favorites was Comic Book Queers.  They, at that time, were big X-Men fans and so I listen to quite the few that had X-Men in the episode description.  Nowadays they seem to be heavy on DC, thus I no longer listen to them.  It also sounds like they have a whole new crew that I’m not familiar with.  Episode 93 has Brett and Evil Jeff, who I really liked.

Comic Book Queers Episode 93 :

http://www.comicbookqueers.com/?p=28

In the episode they talk about Jean and Magik, which gave me the idea for this post.  So every Easter, I’ll do one spotlight post with Magik and I figured I’ll start the tradition with the first issue of the storyline that brought her back to us.

The episode must have came out around May 2009, as they discuss Messiah War 1, as if it just came out.

Illyana discussion starts around the thirty minute mark.

Other great episodes of theirs are : 18, 52 (the awesome Jean v Emma debate!) 88 (where they talk about Clue, which I love) and 140 – but really if you just do a Control-F for find and type ‘X-Men’ you’ll get a good episode.  They do have some good non-X-Men related titled episodes as well.  Those four I listed and in particular, episodes 52 and 93 are the ones I have relistened to the most and would recommend.  Clearly.

I was tempted to start the Easter idea with whichever issue was next on my list of Magik’s chronological list which is Uncanny X-Men 146 but I thought with the resurrection that the better idea would be to start with her actual return from the dead which was in this New X-Men : Quest for Magik arc.  Also, these would be more current comics, if you can count 2007 as current.  Which if you are a How I Met Your Mother fan, which how can you not be?  – in the penultimate episode, they reference how long ago was 2007, the year Marshal and Lily were married.

Now onto the issue!

Issue opens with some of the students that are left after the massive House of M mutant depowering that hit the students the hardest as there are only like twenty students left.  The students are gathered around Rockslide as he tells a story around a fire.  Listening to Rockslide are Anole, Blindfold, Match, Loa, Pixie and Wolfcub.  Oh Wolfcub, if only I can tell you to get out now.  Also, poor Pixie after this storyline, she is essentially a different character.

Rockslide starts retelling the adventures he has had with the X-Men or his fellow students.  He has fought Sentinels, Apocalypse, told off Professor X, saved Hellion from Wolverine, has been with Lady Mastermind and saved the Cuckoos from the Phoenix Force.  Most of these did occur, Rockslide just wasn’t involved with any of them except for the Sentinels.

Match, whatever happened to that guy?, thinks the story is cool but Anole knows that Rockslide is greatly exaggerating his involvement with the stories.  I like it as it works as a wonderful time capsule moment of what was going on at the time.

Rockslide challenges anyone to tell a better story.  He mistakenly turns to Blindfold to go first, which sets up this story.

Young does all the student artwork and Henrichon does all the awesome splash pages from Blindfold’s story.

This is of course, during the time when she is talking in broken segments.  Which adds to the overall uneasiness of the story.

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Her story begins with how a demon lord took a young blonde girl captive.  He was going to use her innocence as fuel for his own power.  A group of heroes try to save the girl but were unsuccessful.  The demon lord becomes the young girl’s master.

I love once we cut back to the students, that they realize Blindfold should not have gone next but she continues.

For the heroes, the girl was lost for only a moment but in that moment, she aged from a young girl to a teenager.  Not only was she older now, she was harden by her experience.  She had become an apprentice.  She was in a place like Hell (Limbo).

Rockslide wonders if the girl is hot and the rest of the students tell him to be quiet.  Rockslide, who looks like the Thing but with more jagged rocks, is very girl crazy.

Meanwhile, Mercury hasn’t gotten out of bed from the previous adventure where the people who created X23 had taken Mercury to use her skin to make the Predator X creatures even more formidable.  Hellion is watching over her.  He’s really taken a beating since New X-Men ended, losing both of his hands during Second Coming.  Only a few of these students are still in tact.  For instance, Anole at one point loses his arm but he grows a new one that is much larger and scalier than the previous one.  He got off easy.

Surge appears to check on Mercury, what ever happen to her?  Surge is the leader of the New X-Men, the field team for the students, when they are able to go out into the field.  Surge tells him that Mercury will get better.  Surge wants to talk to Hellion about something out of the room, he tells her that this is going to be a long night – he doesn’t know the half of it!

There are five Spider-Man related ads in this issue.  The first is for Spider-Man 3, so that explains the extra exposure.  I rather watch 3 than the whole of 1.  Most of these origin stories, on the rewatch, I skip straight to when they don their costume for the first time.

In the story.  The young girl, who if you don’t know who the story really is about, is only shown to be a young blonde girl, it could be a random person but if you do know who it is, it really is an awesome retelling of Magik’s origin.  Henrichon should do an Origins tell for everyone in this manner.  It is awesome.

An ad for the first Mass Effect game on the XBox 360, that is how long ago 2007 is.

Magik was raised by Belasco, (neither are named yet) and trained in the dark arts.  His main goal is to break the girl’s soul into little pieces, Bloodstones, and then use these pieces to release his overlords.  Eventually the blonde fights off the demon lord with the aid of twisted versions of her brother’s friends.  The girl is able to regain a portion of her soul and uses this to forge a weapon, a Soulsword!  She will use this sword to banish, Belasco of Limbo.  The art is really well done.

Rockslide tries to give Blindfold a tip on how to make this story even more gruesome, when Anole finally recognizes this story has one he has read about.  He read it from one of the X-Men files.  He’s pretty sure Blindfold isn’t telling a story, she’s reciting history!

I like the idea that at one point, the X-Men have to sit in front of a computer and type up all of their adventures for future reference.

Rockslide tries to state that his story was real too, especially about hooking up with Lady Mastermind.

There is a fun little joke about Anole calling Blindfold a pre-cog and Rocksldie calls her a re-cog for the rehashing of history.  Kyle and Yost are not about only killing characters in horrible horrible ways, they sprinkle some fun in there too.

Pixie wants the story to continue, oh Pixie, get out now!

Meanwhile, Elixir has finally convinced the Cuckoos to upload all of Beast’s medical knowledge into his mind.  Elixer’s power is to heal and he feels he could do a better job if he knew how anatomy works.  Which isn’t the worst idea to strength your powers with knowledge.  I’m not sure if he’s been seen since his X-Force days.

The Cuckoos give him everything Beast knows about human and mutant biology, genetics and medicine.  This causes Elixer pain and he shouts, I didn’t know!

An ad for Spider-Man 2.1, which I would recommend buying over the original release.  2 is my Spider-Man movie.  My favorite Spider-Man villain and the best of the four films.

Back in the story.  Belasco wants to reclaim his price apprentice.  He goes looking for her and learns that she died (Uncanny 303 – it is sad).  He then finds the latest ruler of Limbo, a new gal name Magik – Amanda Sefton.  From the second Magik titled miniseries, it isn’t very good.

In his weaken state, he kills a demon and uses this new energy to see what is happening on Earth and sees twins reshaping history.  These twins are of course, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, wearing robes and holding hands. He also sees, in a fun next page reveal, Magik of the House of M timeline.  This all occurred in this title back in issues 16 through 19, a full two years prior to this issue, that is one slow burn.

Anole isn’t liking where this is going.  They know that Magik is dead.  He isn’t sure why Blindfold is telling this story.  Loa is confused by reality changing – as only the Astonishing X-Men and the New Avengers kept any memory of what happened during House of M.  For the students, they were minding their own business, learning their powers and co-existence and the next moment, the majority of them didn’t have their powers anymore.

Pixie wonders if Cyclops shows up in this story, he doesn’t.

Wolfcub wonders if Magik really existed and Rockslide wonders who is Colossus.

Blindfold continues, she has no time for answers.  Magik, right before the House of M timeline is changed back, she teleported to Limbo.  Which at the time, when issue 19 of New X-Men came out, I and a bunch of people on the message boards were predicting that this was the way to bring Magik back into our lives.  I know Louise Simonson had another plan to bring both Illyana and Doug back to life but the modern writers found two different ways to do it.  Doug was still dead at this point.

There is a wonderful two page spread of Belasco’s return to Limbo.  If that isn’t every demon in Limbo, it must be close.

Belasco had seen this new Magik and wanted to find her again.  He once again confronted the new Magik, and she fought him off.  In the caption, they talk about how the Black Sun faded.  Which was a truly horrible terrible miniseries.  It sets up the less than stellar second Magik series.  One day I will get around to reviewing both series.  I only own like every other issue of Black Sun.  It isn’t an issue of understanding it, it is an issue of quality of story.  I’ll be curious how I would feel about it 14 years later.

Since Amanda’s sword wasn’t Illyana’s sword, Belasco was able to fight her and win Limbo back.

There is an ad for Spider-Man : One More Day, my time as a Spider-Fan are numbered, I just don’t even know it yet.

In Blindfold’s story, she informs her listeners that Amanda crashed back onto Earth two days ago.  Limbo is once again a dark reflection of Belasco.  He can’t locate Illyana but he can smell those who were with her last.  The children of the Xavier Mansion.

There is an ad for Captain America : Fallen Son, it isn’t very good.

The students who are still around who were part of the House of M Hellions (that Magik was of course a member of) are Hellion and Surge.  The House of M New Mutants that are still around at this point in the title are Mercury and Sophie of the Cuckoos.  The Hellions, if I remember correctly, were meant to be the field team of students and the New Mutants were definitely being groomed to be the next leaders of mutantkind.

This of course, freaks out the students.  Blindfold went from a distant history to talking about two days ago and the mansion.  Eyes are all big.  The entire coloring for the issue is really outstanding with the use of shadows and the flames.

Anole knows that this story went from fiction to a warning, real fast.  Pixie announces she is no longer a fan of Blindfold (which I like as they are current roommates during the latest X-Men Legacy volume).  Rockslide calls Blindfold a, freaky chick.  Opinions are changed.

Anole wants to inform the X-Men immediately.  Pixie wonders if they will be okay, to which Blindfold gives the unsettled answer of , no.  Blindfold adds that she is sorry for Pixie’s lost.

Anole wants to get out of the mansion now but it is already too late.  The floor below them crashes and fire surrounds them.  The students are lost into darkness.

Such an amazing story!

Not sure when I will get around to reviewing the rest of this storyline, hopefully not a full year from now but it will be worth the wait!

New X-Men 32

Posted by John Klein III on January 11, 2014
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Writers Craig Yost & Chris Yost

Penciler Mike Norton

Inker Dave Meikis

Colors Brian Reber

Letterer Dave Sharpe

Cover Dated January 2007

I really never understood why comics have advertisements for cars.  Who is enjoying a comic and is in the mood for a new 2007 Chevy Aveo.

Wither thought he had lost his powers after M-Day.  He ran to his lady friend, Laurie, grabbed her arm and withered it.  He ran from the school soon after.

After that, Laurie and other depowered mutants got on a bus and that bus was destroyed by Reverend Styker and his Purifiers.  Wither doesn’t know any of this.

Wither now lives in a shelter in Mutant Town along with an old lady.  He is also having recurring nightmares.

Mercury wants Emma to inform Wither about the deaths.   Emma tells her that she has Wither being observed.

There is an ad for the miniseries, Bullet Points.  A miniseries I had no interest in, until I found out the X-Men show up in issue five.  Including both Kitty and Lockheed.

Elixer killed Styker and now has black spots on his golden skin.  During that battle, Cannonball and Husk’s younger brother, Icarus, was killed.  His sister, Melodie, lost her powers on M-Day and is there for his funeral.

Cyclops and Rogue meet Mrs. Guthrie at the door.

Turns out, Wolfsbane is the one watching Wither.  She is being blackmailed into because while she taught at Xavier’s, she had a bit of a relationship with Elixer, a student.

A second car ad, two page spread, for a Nissan Sentra.  I mean, really, who even sits on their couch, sees a car ad on television, and goes to a dealership the next day?  Who?  Typically, something bad happens, you need a new car pronto, you go to dealership, and try to find a car within your predetermined price ranged.

We find out with the old lady friend of Wither, that someone has killed nineteen people in three weeks.  Someone is draining the bodies of their life.

X23 shows up in Hellion’s room.  The credit page states that she was created by Craig Kyle.  I checked All New X-Men 20, and he is credited there so maybe it only showed for the first year or something.  Anyways, Hellion has been sleeping for 34 hours.  In his sleep, he mutters, Sofia, this does not amuse her.  I am not sure when this takes place in their relationship, I know they become a real couple at one point.

We cut to Rickslide talking to Anole and Match along with Dust.  He is bragging about how he has died once already.  This takes place before Anole lost his arm and regrew a bigger one.  Dust is still upset, apparently she was there when Icarus died.  She feels responsible for some reason.

We cut to Mrs. Guthrie, making a speech and making people cry.  Dust takes iff her face shroud and begs for forgiveness.  Mrs. Guthrie tells her no forgiveness is necessary.

A third ad fir a vehicle, this time a Honda Element SC.  They use a cut out picture of a dog.  Even if my son walked up to me with this ad, and wanted the car, I would, at best, say maybe one day.

The old lady tells Wither what happen to his former classmates.  He calls Mercury to confirm.  She just wants him to come home.

For whatever reason, police show up to the place Wither and the lady are.  She stands up, she absorbs a few of them.  One of the remaining ones shoot her.  Wither kills the last two.

Turns out the old lady is . . . Selene!  And in her classic Black Queen outfit.  So of course, the teenage Wither wants to do whatever she wants.  How could he think otherwise?  She kisses him and that seals the deal.  He would do anything for her after that.

If my time line is right, we don’t see Selene for a couple years after this, for her X-Necrosha plot.

We get another speech by Mrs. Guthrie.  Her two eldest children start crying.

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Issue ends with Kitty reading the names of fallen X-Men, both old and new.  She mentions both Doug and Illyana.  She stops the list to say she misses them.  Then continues the list.

Not sure what Carol Danvers is doing there, was she near by already?

Here is the list :

John Proudstar, Thunderbird, still dead

Sean Cassidy, Banshee, resurrected Horseman of Apocalypse

Jean Grey, still dead

Sarah Vale ?

Max Jordan ?

Mark Sheppard ?

Andrea Marguiles ?

Floyd Carter ?

Callie Betto ?

Brian Cruz ?

Sammy Pare ?

Jeffrey Garrett ?

Esme and Sophia Cuckoo, did not know that was their actual last name.  Those poor gals never had a chance.

Doug Ramsey, Cipher, alive

Illyana Rasputin, Magik, alive

Joshua “Jay” Guthrie, Icarus, dead

Laurie Collins, Wallflower, dead

The names I don’t recognize must be those depowered mutants.

New X-Men has the same titled letters page as New Mutants Volume One, Report Cards.  The column promoting the other comics out that month is actually funny.

   Astonishing X-Men 18 : It’s the end of Torn!  An ending so amazing you won’t believe your eyes!  Plus, it should come out this month!  For truth!

   Uncanny X-Men 480 : Vulcan continues his Jerk Tour ’06.  This month’s stop, The Imperial Guard!

   Cable / Deadpool 34 : It’s Cable and Deadpool vs. Six Pack!  Vs. Six Pack?  Leave my stomach alone!

   New Excalibur 13 : Juggernaut is weakening!  What could be the cause?  My money is on the fact that he spends all of his time eating chocolates and watching Caroline in the City reruns.

   X-Men : Phoenix Warsong 3 : Who are the parents of the Cuckoos?!

   Wolverine : Origins 7 : Omega Red and Wolverine meet up in Berlin!  Boys, you’re late!  It’s not called Novemberfest!

   New X-Men 32 : Hey Wither, where you at?  Hanging out with an older woman?  Nice!

   Exiles 88 : Honey, the Imperial Guard are dead.  The Silver Surfer and your incessant nagging killed them.

   X-Men First Class 3 : Professor X needs his students’ help!  Could it be…the dreaded spiral-staircase?!

   Wolverine 48 : A Civil War Epilogue!  Epilogue!

   X-Factor 13 : It’s back to the therapists’ couch for X-Factor!  Sound familiar?  It is!  Added bonus : Layla Miller!

   Nextwave : Agents of H.A T.E. 10 : Nextwave is not an X-Book.  It’s in this on-sale column.  Just buy Nextwave.

   X-Men 193 : The X-Men have their final battle with the Children!  But don’t the X-Men know the Children are our future?

Some fun energy there.

I almost forgot!  The back cover is an ad for a 2007 Dodge Caliber.  This time it has Green Goblin on the car with him about to be attacked by Reed Richards, Iceman, Spider-Man and Iron Man.  Like adding those characters would add to my interest in the car.  I guess, even if they only sold ten cars based on the ad, that must at least pay for the ad.