Writer Jeff Lemire

Artist Victor Ibanez

Color Artist Jay David Ramos

Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna

Issue opens with Jean and Storm inside Kurt’s head.  Of course, it looks like his old German town, Winzeldorf, Germany.  Jean is taking this mission to debut a new costume – as her priorities are completely right and she is the worst.  Of course, the villagers are chasing Kurt.  Jean should fit right in.

Storm tries to fight the mob, but her powers don’t work.  Jean’s powers work, so that she can show off and try to appear better than Storm.  Inside his head, we see the world collapsing upon itself.  Outside, Jean and Storm are clearly in pain and Forge isn’t happy with Kurt, who is cowering in the corner – not saying anything.

Weirdworld.  Sunfire has been keeping the fires burning, so that he can protect his fellow Asian mutants.  The Anti-Mutant bigot rallies have swept through Japan and the rest of Asia.  Sunfire is exhausted, he’s been keeping the fire wall up for a week, as Weirdworld has inhabitants that one doesn’t want to encounter.

Magik has heard enough from this traitor and plans on ending the fool.  I wonder what Sunfire did that got her so mad?

Ibanez does draw a pretty great Magik!

Iceman and the other horrible member of the team, Colossus, tries to keep Magik away from Sunfire.  Sunfire is one of those characters that I know his history but don’t really have much reading experience with.

Apparently, Sunfire is up there with Cyclops, in terms of villains of mutantkind.

Some warrior ghosts, I guess, arrive.  Old Man Logan believes he’s getting too old for this – Iceman is already tired of hearing him say that.   I could go for some more of that, as who doesn’t love Roger Murtaugh?

One of the ghosts takes out Colossus and Magik and I try to give two shits about it.

X-Haven.  Inside Kurt’s mind.  Jean and Storm are heading towards a pirate ship.  Everything is upside down.  Caramagna should have put the words upside down too, that’s a missed opportunity – but Caramagna is one of the best so I’m sure there is a reason.  Probably that it is more convenient for the reader.  Inconvenient is one of those words I can never spell, even though, at a law office – it is one of the words I type the most.  Been that way since I worked at Northern Arizona University – Yuma Campus.   Gosh, that was ten years ago.

Kurt is in full Errol Fynn mode.  Jean and Storm follow Kurt off the ship.  Now they are heading towards a giant Cyclops.

Weirdworld.  Magik, for appearance’s sake, defends Colossus.  They are powered by weak magic and the source is close.  Magik teleports to the source.

She sees an old man sorcerer.  He knows she is from Limbo.  Magik confront him for all of the mutants he has taken captive.  I thought they are just prisoners and not dead souls, at this point.  He goes all crazy on her, claiming he sees her future.

Magik straight stabs the old sorcerer with her soulsword, as she doesn’t give a fuck.  As he dies, he hints that a war is coming and the lattice will break.  Which I had to look that word up, it seems to mean wood being crisscrossed and in a square pattern.

So that’s going to fall and it is super intimidating.

Kingdoms will fall and Sapna will be no help.  So she’s going to be a bigger character in this title.  That makes sense as she’s clearly going to be the breakout star of this title.

Magik teleports back, with the rest of the Asian mutants.  Once she killed the sorcerer, the ghosts disappeared.  Poor Magik, she’s clearly upset about killing the old man, but not that upset.

Cerebra will take Sunfire and the other refugees and Magik is going to teleport the team back to X-Haven.

Old Man Logan says that Sunfire will come with the team.  Sunfire says that Old Man Logan use to look better.  So Old Man Logan’s existence must still be a close secret.

They teleport back and the students are glad to see them, as Kurt isn’t doing so well.

At the Giant Cyclops, Jean and Storm crawl into his ruby quartz visor.  IT is the old school 80s visor.  They have to hurry as a wave of Sentinels are on their way.

They are back in the village, but now they see that mutants are being pushed into the woods.  The M-Pox riots started in Europe, only a few weeks ago.  This is a current memory.  One of mutants promises to leave Germany, as long as they are allowed to escape.

Kurt shows up to fight the lousy European flatscans.  All of Germany is under his protection.  The one mutant wants to show Kurt what happens in the deep woods.

It is a disgusting mass grave, ya’ll!  Fucking humans.

The disgust snaps Storm and Jean out of Kurt’s head.  Jean heads over to comfort Kurt, who is finally not taking in scripture.  So that’s an improvement.

Issue ends with Jean hugging Kurt, as the team watches.  They are that type of group.

Not a bad issue, next issue begins . . . Apocalypse Wars!

Writer Jeff Lemire

Artist Victor Ibanez

Color Artist Jay David Ramos

Letterer VC’s Joe Caramagna

Since Bachalo has to skip every other arc, we are treated to Victor Ibbanez’s art.

Cerebra has dropped the X-Men off in a mysterious location.  We know it must be dangerous if Illyana is excited about the prospects of the place.

Iceman has named the threat, Rhinosaurs!  WeirdWorld is one crazy place.

Colossus is trying to get into the fun with Old Man Logan, but the older man isn’t giving in.

X-Haven.  Five Hours Earlier.  Old Man Logan is enjoying real beer but Iceman doesn’t know if he should be drinking in front of the students.  Which is silly as the students are living in a demon infested realm.  The two are with Storm, Forge and Teen Jean as they look in on Colossus talking to Nightcrawler.  Forge reveals that he was able to reattach Kurt’s tail but his mind isn’t back yet.  Jean hasn’t invaded Kurt’s mind, which is crazy mature of her.  Storm wants to try the friendship route with Colossus, first.  Kurt looks so haggard.  Tired and haggard.

Anole, Glob Herman and Ernst arrive to see how beloved X-Man, Nightcrawler, is dong.  Glob greets Jean but she walks away, Old Man Logan has his non-transparent eyes on Glob.  Colossus comes out of the room and tells Storm that Kurt is completely lost.  Storm recommends he give up on his oldest friend and take on a new student to watch over.  Seems overly harsh to me.

This segues us to Illyana guiding a new student.  Magik is checking on Sapna, the Demon Whisperer.  Her parents are a tad scared of her, which comes at the price of having powers that help you commune with demons.  It isn’t a family friendly power.  Her parents are gone now, as bigots are not allowed at X-Haven, I hope.  Illyana can relate to Sapna, as their powers could put them in the evil category but they rise above that noise.

Illyana gets to make a pretty nice speech, telling Sapna that she is a hero not a damned person.  Sapna has a friend in Illyana but also an awesome new demon pet she named, Boogers.  He’s snotty, which could be overly cute but I sort of dig it.  This sets up repeating what Sapna’s power is.  Magik teleports the three of them to Limbo proper, which Sapna feels pretty comfortable with.

I really like Illyana making a new friend, she’s due for another one.  Plus, her other friend is guarding the universe so they are not keeping in touch as much these days.

Sapna apparently can see the doors to the other realms.  Illyana is the master of this realm but not the others – which this would be pretty great if this series broadens Magik’s power base.

Weirdworld.  Now.  Magik is still having a blast.  She wants to come back, which I would totally buy an issue of that series, if she appeared in an issue.

Colossus, who clearly has been wanting to throw Old Man Logan, for a while.  I can see him constantly bringing it up in situations that don’t quite match.  It really is the only thing the two have in common.

Old Man Logan finally gives in and I imagine gets a headache and a nose bleed.  They have been fighting blue fellas.

Two Hours Ago.  Ernst, Martha, Anole and Glob are not pleased.  Colossus tells them to shape up but seriously, there are not malls and they only have the school buildings.  Unless they want to venture out into Limbo but that doesn’t seem like a good idea.  Especially with Anole, who probably hates being in Limbo as a constant reminder of how he lost his one arm.  They want to go on real missions, so Colossus is going to start training them.

If they want to go on the Search and Rescue missions, they need to be properly trained.  Iceman arrives, wanting to talk to Anole.  As the two gay characters would have to have a moment.  Where is Northstar at, these days?

Anole has heard of Teen Bobby coming out of the closest but he hasn’t heard about adult Iceman’s coming out.  Iceman came out to his younger self and teen Jean but now he’s telling Anole.  Anole is so comfortable with who he is, so it makes sense.  I do like the younger Anole helping the older Iceman – hopefully future scenes don’t feel forced.

Sapna can feel the energies of the realms on the other side of the portals.  Some are good but more are bad, real bad.  Magik wants to enlist Doctor Strange, another series I would like to own more issues of.  Storm breaks up the momentum by summoning the X-Men.

I want to learn more about these other realms.  Could this branch out to a Magik ongoing?  That would be great.

Now.  Old Man Logan smells smoke.

Iceman isn’t thrilled to be facing fire – he’s fine with Rhinosaurs and goblins.

One Hour Ago.  Storm is explaining how a plane from Asia got lost and landed in Weirdworld.  Old Man Logan has heard of this place.  Jean isn’t on the mission, as she is going to help Kurt.  Storm and Jean are going to do that ol’ enter the brain trick – which is typically fun.  Old Man Logan isn’t thrilled with all of Iceman’s elderly jokes.  He’s probably wishing he can slice into him but he knows he won’t stop at just Iceman.

Does Old Man Logan and Miles Morales know what happened during Secret Wars 2015?  They have to answer that question eventually, right?

Storm pulls Old Man Logan aside.  Storm doesn’t want Forge to hear the conversation and tells him to leave.  Storm not so subtly tells Forge that they are not going to be like how they use to be.  Storm knows who they are going after and warns Old Man Logan.  This person is very dangerous and sided with Cyclops when Cyclops did the thing that he did that got himself killed.

Storm won’t turn any mutants away but she won’t trust any of them, blindly.  That mutant is . . . Sunfire!  Who Wolverine was a teammate alongside with during his tenure on Uncanny Avengers.

Storm pretty much tells Old Man Logan to kill Sunfire, if he steps out of line, he is to end Sunfire.  Which seems cruel, as Old Man Logan is super worried about murdering mutants and downward spiraling into a murder train of mutants.

Next issue’s cover hints at Nightcrawler crying – which makes me sad.