Writer Jason Latour
Artist Jorge Fornes
Color Artist Israel Silva
Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles
No Future? Conclusion
Cover Artists Mahmud Asrar & Marte Gracia
I wish Marvel, when they get these alternative artists, they would let them do the covers as well. I like Asrar and Gracia on All New but if I see Asrar’s cover and open the comic itself – its pretty disappointing to see not clean artwork. Plus, I’m sure Fornes would have liked to do his own cover.
I was so torn on buying this issue. My pal, a0040pc, over at the X-Books subforum of Comic Book Resources – he lives in Europe, so he gets his comics before I do. He’s great about updating the Kitty Pryde Appreciation thread with Kitty’s appearances – which I super appreciate. He described this issue and how there is a costume party. I thought he meant that a lady wore Kitty’s classic blue Excalibur costume.
My wife wanted McDonald’s for dinner, so Walker Dennis and I went to Hastings. I found this issue that the staff had on hold for me. I went through it three times before taking the below picture with my phone.
I saw a Spider-Man and a Captain America costume, trailored for women. I thought maybe that is what he saw. I had saw the aove white outfit, and how it definitely looked Kitty Pryde-esque but I didn’t recognize it as a Kitty Pryde costume. It is like a white version of her green Ariel costume.
This had me torn as it clearly isn’t a Kitty Pryde appearance. If someone had named her in the issue, I wouldn’t have hesitated either. Also, buying it just for her outfit, and that alone, it wasn’t like that would opened up me having to research previous examples. It sets a precedent of having to buy future costume appearances but how often does that happened? Just once in 35 years (close to it!).
Then my other pal, Slicknickshady, posted a clearer imagine :
He sort of does what I do with Kitty but with Nightcrawler. He would have bought the issue if it was a Nightcrawler costume, so that convinced me to buy it. Essentially the argument boiled down to – it doesn’t cost that much, just buy it. So I did.
I had also gotten advice from the Uncanny X-Cast Facebook group, I think I didn’t explain it fully or I had hinted at buying it already or something but they also said to just buy it.
It took some thinking and consideration but here it is now, in my collection.
The rest of the issue isn’t bad. I own the first part and the third part with no interest in the middle part.
Apparently, prior to this, Quire inherited billions of dollars, bought the Phoenix Corporation and saw how he dies in the future.
Issue opens with Tony Stark getting kicked out of a bar. He confirms that Quire is the White King of the Hellfire Club. This further confirms how easy it would have been for Wolverine to get a spare Iron Man helmet.
Wolverine dons a Magneto helmet, so he can crash Quire’s costume party.
Fun gag with Maggot or someone dresses as him shows up.
Mystique beats up Wolverine, taking the helmet with her.
Quire tells Wolverine how much he failed as a mentor.
That is pretty much it.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 