Artists Esad Ribic, Salvador Larroca, Mike Deodato and Butch Guice
Color Artists Dean White, Frank Martin, Paul Mounts and Laura Martin
Letter VC’s Cory Petit
Cover by Mike Allred and Laura Allred
Cover Dated February 2014
I only own this issue for the variant cover. For whatever reason, Marvel released multiple variants for this issue, which back in the day, they would have waited for the big issue 25 but 24 isn’t bad in today’s market. I still want to own the Anka variant.
I really miss the character square from the good ol’ days.
The theme with several of the variants was Avengers on famous X-Men covers and X-Men in famous Avengers covers. Unfortunately, there was no homage cover to Uncanny X-Men 141. Others are like the one above, where the artist just had fun doing a cover. Its by Allred, so of course Doop is there.
Onto the issue, which good thing there was a recap page!
So in previous issues, there are events called, Incursions, which I only know from the Facebook : Avengers Alliance game. A game I really enjoyed and was addicted to until they went crazy with the PvP Lockboxes. I always said I will quit playing once I wasn’t able to get one of the limited characters and that is what happened with Elektra. Now, they have gone crazy with the feature.
Incursions is when two different Earths come together and one of them is going to be destroyed by the other. From what I can gather, our Earth in the Proper Marvel Universe, is always being one of these planets and the Illuminati has to destroy the other Earth.
I guess at one point, Captain America was a temporary member of the Illuminati and he didn’t like the idea of destroying complete Earths so they, via Doctor Strange, mindwipe him. Just like Zantanna did to Batman in Identity Crisis.
Also, on the recap page, is a conversation Captain America had with Iron Man about how Cap realizes that their enemies are getting to be more dangerous, attack more often and there is just plain too many of them. Iron Man’s solution? To make the Avengers a bigger force to be dealt with.
So the Avengers are –
Captain America, Hulk, Falcon, Thor, Manifold, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Iron Man (in the big circle)
Spider-Woman, Hyperion, Smasher, Nightmask, Captain Universe, Cannonball, Sunspot, Starbrand, Shangi Chi (on the bottom)
18 Heroes! That is quite an army!
I don’t recognize : Manifold, Nightmask, this current Captain Universe and Starbrand sounds familiar.
Issue opens in the future, 3030, and Tony’s whatever number-great grandchild, Rhodey Stark (will they really be still naming their children after Tony’s friends at that long of a line?) and Franklin Richards are talking about time travel. Franklin is cool with Rhody going back in time. The captions imply that the Richards Foundation owns the Stark company – which I like.
In the present, Thor is barbequing and makes a joke about not recognizing what hot dogs are, or what meat they are. I sort of like a Thor who can crack a joke – he’s been on Earth and with this time, for a decade – at least, so he can feel comfortable and it shows that they are rubbing off on him.
He admits that he tried to barbeque a lobster but the creature defeated him. Good stuff!
Hulk brings out plates of pies : mead, beer and fimbulvinter.
I like the conversation with Spider-Woman, Black Widow and Captain Marvel.
Captain America and Iron Man talk about membership. Cap has let go of Wolverine, as he is too busy. Spider-Man has also been let go because he has been acting erratic. Due to him being Doctor Octopus.
They explain the cast sheet above. The circle is the main team, the others are reserved.
Then Iron Man 3030 shows up. Tony states it is December 2013, so there is still time to change the Future.
Future Iron Man gives the Avengers an additional monh to prepare for the Rogue Planet, the name of the issue, that is heading to Earth. A rogue planet is a planet that leaves its orbit and now is a giant marble heading towards anything that will stop it.
The Avengers set up a base on Mars and create a device that simply merges the rogue planet to Earth, creating a new source of energy.
Iron Man 3030 takes off her helmet and calls Tony, grandfather. Which, I am not sure if only one child of Tony’s grown up and had a child gets us from 2013 to 3030.
She reveals that in the original timeline, the Avengers destroyed the rogue planet and saved the Earth.
Because they saved the day, the way they did, now the Illuminati (who are also now the New Avengers) can use this new energy source for those pesky Incursions. That is the type of tight writing one can do when you write two titles.
(So I typed this on May 26, 2015 – so I’m seven months behind on my reviews – I have lots of comics! I didn’t realize I had that many but I really don’t want to just do reviews every single day but I recognize that the event is nearly over and I’m just now reviewing the issues.)
I went with this variant, as I’m sure that is Kitty Pryde playfully punching Peter Quill’s arm. I posed the question to the Uncanny X-Cast Facebook group and I’m being told there that those two are Clint Barton and Kate Bishop, the Hawkeyes, which would explain the target on his shirt. Still, I had to buy this issue for one character in specific, so I took a shot with this variant.
Issue opens with Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange and Molecule Man are trying to plead with the Beyonders but Doom has a plan. This is the only pages, I feel, that one needed to read the entire Hickman Avengers opus to fully grasp. Instead, to me, it just reads like Doom is speaking to a mysterious force, which sort of still works.
The Multiverse is dying. Only two universes remain. Today, Earths collide.
Manhattan. Earth-1610. Incursion Event Imminent. Just for anyone who doesn’t know and may be reading this, for the first time – 1610 is the Ultimate Universe and 616 is the Proper Marvel Universe.
The Triskelion. Headquarters of this Earth’s SHIELD. Ultimate Fury wants Reed to explain how much time is left.
The City. Home of the Cabal and the Children of Tomorrow. Currently residing in Manhattan. Ultimate Reed has a weird helmet on his head. Reed gives Fury some hope, there is still time to fight this out. Once Reed ends the call, we see that Reed has been working with the Proper Marvel’s Cabal (the villain version of the Illuminati) – Thanos, Black Swan and Terrax. Reed reveals that the two Earths should have no hope, he lied to Fury so that Fury could feel decent about his last hours.
Once I saw that Ultimate Shadowcat was actually in this title, I knew I was in a for a good time. As I suspect that I will be jumping in and out of this series.
Another crossover and looking over the list, I feel pretty good for knowing all but a few characters.
I still don’t know who the Avengers Manifold & Pod are. I’m not sure about the X-Men’s Nation X Sentinels, I know Hickman’s Avengers 38 dealt with Cyclops and Nation X but that didn’t have Kitty at all. So I didn’t read that issue.
I’m disappointed that proper Kitty isn’t counted amongst the Guardians of the Galaxy.
I’m not sure who Inferno is of the Inhumans, but I’m sure he’s just a new Inhuman that won’t be around in a year.
Ultimate Universe, I just assume that The City and Children of Tomorrow are both related to Reed, I know that is true of the City but it sounds right with the Children of Tomorrow, as well.
The only members of the Cabal, that I don’t know are Proxima Midnight & Corvus Glaive. This is a more cosmic Cabal than Norman Osborn’s Cabal. I do like the note that they are on the Ultimate Earth but they are from the Proper Marvel Universe.
Manhattan. Earth-616. The Incursion Point between both Worlds.Though the narrative, we are informed that the this world’s populace knows that their end is soon. Unless the heroes can help.
Baxter Building. Near it, an explosion occurs. We see that the Fantastic Four have been making a Life Raft, with a bunch of brains being invited. I like Reed growing a beard. Black Panther is also on board. We get the first check in with Black Widow and Spider-Woman, who are bringing in the majority of the scientists. A few didn’t want to come, opting to spend their last hours with their families. That is an impossible choice but I can only imagine I choose to stay on Earth. Unless I can pull an Elijah Wood in Deep Impact and marry Leelee Sobieski and bring her along with me.
Manifold is trying to save the day, by following Black Panther’s instructions but it really isn’t explained how he is going to do it or what his powerset is. He isn’t successful, like, not even a tad.
Ultimate Iron Man is leading the Ultimate army (of SHIELD soldiers) against a main heroes listed on the character list, so the Ultimate side of things have no chance.
Spider-Man is about, saving civilians as is Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Representing the Guardians of the Galaxy are – Star Lord, Drax and Rocket. No mention of where the other members are. Not sure why they didn’t bring their cosmically enhanced members such as Gamora and Shadowcat. Thor (who is really Jane Foster) is fighting along with Storm.
FalCap and Iceman witness Sentinels coming to assist as Cyclops is leading them, as he is a leader of Nation X. Captain Marvel is directly fighting Ultimate Iron Man. Groot is on the scene, as well. Ultimate Iron Man inappropriately hits on Captain Marvel.
She-Hulk fights a weak spot in the Ultimate Hellicarrier and Colossus fastball specials Doc Green, in that direction. The Ultimate Universe is not putting up a decent fight, at all. Ultimate Hawkeye is on board, aiding Ultimate Nick Fury, they know they are not putting up a fight. Fury tells Reed to begin to use his doomsday worldkiller weapon.
Giant explosions star occurring. We get a panel with Ultimate Jean, Wolverine, Cloak & Dagger and Shadowcat! Hence, why I own this issue. I’m hoping, since they are included here, that they are crucial (or at least, involved) in Ultimate End. Which I can only imagine takes place right before this issue. So the final issue has to recreate some of this.
There are these, practically, city wide domes on Earth now. They slowly open, revealing a slew of smaller ships. Seems like Ultimate City is just the Proper version of The World, of the Weapon X facility.
Ultimate Spider-Man was standing on one of the globes. Now the Ultimate Universe has brought its big guns.
Kingpin sent a massive e-mail to his fellow villains. I like their e-mails
I wish they were more imaginative e-mail handles, Fisk’s is pretty great. Punisher arrives at the party, he can’t bring his bullets to the afterlife, and so he kills all that are present. I imagine, the villains, didn’t put up much of a fight.
Natasha calls Susan, they are not going to make it to the Baxter Building. Black Widow is the first hero (and Spider-Woman) that we see die, on panel.
Oh, Manifold’s ability is to get the second life raft (you know, the one that contains named characters), and they take off. So we have Reed, Black Panther and Susan that are safe and the other Fantastic Four family members and fellow Foundation students.
Black Panther puts out the call to get the survivors that they need.
Cyclops grabs his Phoenix Egg, which I’m still not sure about.
Apparently, it just contains the Phoenix Force. Cyclops gets the Phoenix Force aura around him but not the red thong.
We get Drax, Groot and Rocket’s deaths – and Rocket did not want to be on Earth. We see Drax and an uncosmically enhanced Gamora, so that is odd. I imagine that Hickman was told everything before he wrote this issue, so he should have been told about the end of a very well promoted crossover, Black Vortex.
Star Lord disappears, as does Thor, Captain Marvel and Spider-Man. Manifold decides not to take off in the life raft, he wants to stay and keep gathering the needed heroes. The life raft launches from the Baxter Building. Phoenix Force empowered Cyclops is also on the life raft. Instead of a black mask with red cross, Cyclops’ mask is now yellow.
Reed if flying the life raft into the heart of the Incursion, as that is their best chance at survival. A lightning blast strikes the side of their round life raft. The carrier section breaks away, Black Panther tells Reed (and us) that Susan and their children are located there. Which is odd, as two pages earlier – Susan, Franklin and Val, are strapping in right behind Reed. What happened in the ensuing page (which was the full page of the lightning blast)?
Susan places a force field around the carrier section. Reed tells T’Challa to drop the shields, he is going to reach out and grab them. T’Challa tells him he only has seconds to make the attempt. Reed has five seconds and they go by so quickly and . . . this is so heartbreaking, fails. We see the carrier burn up – so Susan, Franklin, Val and Thing are all dead.
On Reed’s section – for sure – are, Star Lord, Thor, Captain Marvel and Black Panther.
How great is that narration? I full agree with it. You find your life partner, and you can’t believe you can love anyone as much and then you go ahead and have a child. You still love your life partner, but – somehow – you love this child more than you love anything you ever loved before. Reed has lost his family and, with that middle panel, has lost an entire planet and worst, a universe. Such a devastating page!
We end the issue with Doom, who use to believe in tomorrow but now he believes in nothing. Issue two will be defining Doom’s role and the new (temporary) Marvel Earth – Battleworld.
Such a great way to end the issue with the tombstone of the two great Marvel lines. The proper one, 1961 – 2015 and the Ultimate one, 2000 – 2015. I can’t believe the Ultimate Universe was 15 years old. Marvel was a very young, 54 year old.
Other famous 53 year olds? Michael J. Fox, Melissa Etheridge, Ralph Macchio, Eddie Murphy, Boy George, Richard Hatch, Scott Baio, KD Lang, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Leeves, Meg Ryan, Thomas Hayden Church, Enya, George Clooney and the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. All born in 1961 – how crazy how much they al accomplished for being born the same year and how different each of their careers are, no two have the same path. All with various levels of success.
While working at Hastings, I was trying to sell slash hype this issue and this one guy started flipping through the pages. I asked him to slow down as with each quick page turn, he was quickly killing the Marvel Universe. We had a good laugh after that.
Sadly, this fantastic issue is ruined with a six page preview of Uncanny Inhumans. Which is unwanted and unnecessary.
This handy website has a more detailed commentary of the issue :
Which is a pretty interesting read, as I read none of Hickman’s Avengers and two issues of his Fantastic Four run.
YouTuber ComicsIsland had this pretty awesome hour long episode –
Which is pretty great as I rather just watched this than buy the eventful Hickman Avengers Omnibus. There were parts that almost lost my interest but then the reveal with Doom and how everything starts paying off, sounds pretty great.
ComicsIsland has plenty of similar theme episodes, which is pretty great as well as review episodes and fun top ten lists and such.
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Since I bought the variant cover at Hastings, I was awarded with a giant poster of the Battleworld Map!
I do enjoy being able to hold the entire map and seeing everything larger than I can on a computer screen.
I’ve tried my hand at scanning the one I have :
That isn’t any better but maybe someone with sweet skills can make that work.
I’m trying to find an image with all of the covers revealed, as at this point, only three portions of the map are still CLASSIFIED and no further information is available on those.
Apparently, Marvel released a trailer for this event and had started connecting with portions are which titles.
Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for hosting their own video, also this next video!
This was the first video of The Watcher’s that I have seen. I’ve seen previous videos of Lorraine Cink’s advertised before but I may have to check more of them out.
I was surprised that Wikipedia had the full list and the corresponding titles, that is pretty handy!
Battleworld map
Following numerous incursions across the multiverse, the remains of various realities have been fused together to create a new Battleworld. All of these realities are known as domains and have the ability to interact with each other, except for three (consisting of the Deadlands, Perfection and New Xandar) which are separated from the rest by the Wall for the simple fact that these domains contains threats that if set loose, would destroy all the others.
The following is a list of the domains and the Marvel Comics event titles that are their basis or reimagining as revealed on Marvel Comics’ Interactive Battleworld map. Secret Wars #2 will publish a complete guide to each domain:
43. Timely (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – The town of Timely where all the Marvel characters exist in an 1872 Wild West setting.
44. Genosha (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – The island that became the Mutant homeland and where the E is For Extinction mini-series will be set.
45. Holy Wood and Forest Hills (may or may not be one of the classified domains) – Though mentioned in the solicitation for the Korvac Saga, they are not shown on the Battleworld map.
Special thanks and shoutout to whomever typed all of that up and figuring it out!
I was looking for this Marvel Interaction Secret Wars 2015 Battlemap page but unfortunately it is only a hotlink on their main page for the event, so I’m not sure if it will still be an active website but it should work for a while, I imagine.
A nice brief summary of what each portion of Battleworld and which comic series that it correspondences with.
The titles and sections of the map that I’m mostly interested in, and at the very least, tracking are –
Number – Region Title – Comic Title
3 – Domain of Apocalypse – Age of Apocalypse
Which is above Limbo (which I’m also tracking) to the left of both Egyptia and Technopolis (which I’m not tracking). To the left of it is – Mutopia to the top left, Westchester (the FOX X-Men Animated series by Chris Sims) shares a small border and The Wastelands makes up the bulk of it.
11 – K’un-Lun – Master of Kung Fu
Which is to the right of Regency (the world if Peter never made a deal with THE DEVIL to undo his marriage to Mary Jane, so that his elderly aunt can live a few more years) / below King James’ England (the 1602 world) / to the right of Utopolis and above Weirdworld
17 – Marville – Giant Size Little Marvel
Which is surrounded by Utopolis above it, Arachnia to the right and New Quack City – where Howard the Duck is from, below it.
20 – Manhattan – a) Attilan (Inhumans) b) Proper Marvel New York City c) Ultimate Marvel New York City d ) Monster Metropolis
Don’t care about the Inhumans, but I’m sure b & c are going to crucial to the main series and whichever titles are not associated with a certain portion (such as Star Lord and Age of Apocalypse Kitty Pryde) and Ultimate should be where Ultimate End takes place in. Monster Metropolis is where Shiklah‘s kingdom is.
They are surrounded by several locations too! High Avalon to the left / CLASSIFIED above / CLASSIFIED to the left / The City (but not the City from The Tick, unfortunately) below. I imagine those CLASSIFIED locations are important only because of how close they are to the most important locations.
29 – Monarchy of M – House of M
I highly doubt SHIELD agent Illyana Rasputin or school teacher, Kitty Pryde, are going to be in this at all. Killville (where MODOK is important) to the top right and 2099 to the bottom right. 2099 is suppose to be a title that survives this event, somehow.
30 – Sentinel Territories – Years of Future Past
Killville to the left / 2099 to the bottom left / The Wastelands (Old Man Logan) to the bottom right / Mutopia (Morrison’s E is for Extinction) to the right
37 – Limbo – Inferno
Limbo, being so vast, covers quite some ground on Battleworld. Well, until I realize it was suppose to be a globe, so now I want a gif of the map spinning so I can get a better grasp on it. To the top of it is Domains of Apocalypse, along with 36 and 31 and below it (but separated by the SHIELD) is both The Deadlands (Marvel Zombies) & Perfection (Age of Ultron). Which makes sense as there is a comic, Age of Ultron v Marvel Zombies, which seems highly missable to me now. New Xandar (where Thanos is kept) is also separated by THE SHIELD. The SHIELD is there to prevent the horrors from escaping into the rest of Battleworld.
So this is all pretty exciting!
I was looking at the map, to make this post an my wife had a few things to add. First, that the Battleworld doesn’t look like Earth. Which brought her to ask if America was even represented. Which sort of blew my mind, as Battleworld is now like 90 percent American. There is an England, Egypt, Howard the Duck world, and maybe Mars? but the other 30 sections are American. New Xandar is Xandrian. Limbo is a different dimension. K’un -Lun is also another dimension.
I mostly wanted to discuss the True Believers program. I like the idea of reprinting the first issues of remembered series that are going to be revisited during Secret Wars 2015. Speaking of which, main event artist, Esad Ribic did the cover above.
These were only a dollar, so I ordered most of them that Kitty had some role to play. She only had an actual role to play in this issue. Age of Apocalypse Shadowcat is mentioned in X-Men Alpha, that was reprinted as True Believers : Age of Apocalypse, but they only reprinted the first half of that issue. Which makes sense, as Marvel wouldn’t reprint a twenty year old comic, fully, that was originally printed as a 48 page comic. Having half the story should make people at least seek out that one issue.
Unfortunately, that meant I wasn’t keeping two of these issues. Over at Lonestar Comics, you can sell back these for twenty cents (cash) or forty cents (store credit) so I’ve already added them to my Sell List.
Kelly’s Komix, in Great Falls, was selling X-Men Alpha for ten dollars, which isn’t too bad but I was trying to get the most I could under twenty so I went five four dollar comics instead of three comics for eighteen. One day, I will own X-Men Alpha, then my collection of AoA Shadowcat appearances will be complete.
I also thought, besides reprinting the first issues, that there would be bonus features, like interviews from creators or possibly, preview pages of the upcoming Secret Wars 2015 revisits to these timelines, but there is none of that. Which I think is a real missed opportunity.
But, again, for only a dollar, it isn’t to bad. They all end with “buy the trade, that is now available” so that’s pretty nice that some of these are being placed back into circulation.
Not sure if Teen Scott is suppose to ask about Magneto as well as direct Rachel and Emma to link minds. Pretty bold of him..
Angel follows suit, wanting to let her know he loves her. Something about being the only girl at school, will do that.
Present day Beast announces, if they survive this battle, no one is allow to time travel again.
Kitty tells Future Colossus to start teleporting people. Can he do that, just because he has Magik’s soulsword?
I like seeing Kitty and Emma together again, they have great chemistry.
Turns out SHIELD has their own Sentinels, and they are protected by magic!
The first casualty is Future Beast. Young Hank is the only one to care.
Psylocke and Kitty have a nice moment. Probably their third of all time, as they barely know each other, outside of their current time on Wood’s X-Men title.
Psylocke “why do we still fight?” Kitty “not to die” it is as simple as that.
Ice Hulk fastball specials Raze at Shogo. Colossus counters by fastball specials Future Jubilee. Which is no good as a Sentinel kills her.
Xavier Jr. takes this moment to kill Colossus, via melting his brain. Makes you wonder why this isn’t his first move, every time.
Xavier Jr. looks like he was walking again, hopefully he enjoyed it as it lasted, as Magik slices his back with her soulsword. She is screaming “what have you done, little man?” Powerful stuff! Others around her are afraid she will go full darkchilde.
Storm tries to order Emma, of all people, and Emma puts her in her dumb place. Going as far as to ask her how her marriage is doing. Boy, do I like Emma!
Then we enter the Lady Xorn part of the story.
She is yelling at Wolverine and Cyclops, about how those two ruin the X-Men, and they ruin her.
Wolverine says they have to put her down, she isn’t their Jean. Cyclops is super quick to say she was never Wolverine’s Jean.
Lady Xorn corfirms Wolverine is dead in their future.
She also states the Jean we all knew, never existed as Young Jean never goes back in time, as becomes the Jean we know.
She takes Cyclops and Wolverine. Up next … The Original Five!
Great homage to Uncanny X-Men’s first cover.
Lady Xorn explodes, she is officially dead. Xavier Jr. shouts, “to me, my brotherhood” a twist on a classic line.
The only people to die are Future peeps : Beast, Jubilee, Colossus and Jean.
Epilogue One
Jason Aaron, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrew Currie & Matt Milla
Magik teleported everybody back to the Jean Grey School, except the Brotherhood. So they still exist in our proper timeline. At least we know that future will never happen as Jubilee will live her life differently. Beast should too, but who knows with that guy?
Present day Iceman already has an ice beard.
Wolverine wants to keep trying to send the Original X-Men back in time. Warren does too, Young Scott tells him to shut up.
Cyclops and Wolverine do agree that SHIELD has to pay for creating their own Sentinels. But that is all they agree on.
Wolverine is mad as Cyclops killed one man, whereas Cyclops has always turned a blind eye to all the killing Logan has done. Or sanctioned it with X-Force.
Wolverine accepts the Professor title.
We now know Wolverine and the X-Men will be dealing with SHIELD.
Epilogue Two
Brian Wood, Kristopher Anka & Matt Milla
Kymera is going to stick in the present to hunt down the Brotherhood. I guess she is also going to be in the X-Men title and editorial will forget why she stayed. Until the next crossover, of course.
We get a truly lovely scene with Jubilee and Future Shogo. It is beautifully written, drawn and colored.
Epilogue Three
Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, Mark Irwin, Victor Olazaba & Matt Milla
Bachalo art! This issue has everything!
Bobby makes a joke about how Rachel came to the present, and never left.
Illyana requests that they lay Colossus to rest in Russia. Just like Kitty did with his ashes.
Future Iceman goes by Ice Master, knowing that earlier would have been nice.
I suppose this wasca teaser for Amazing X-Men, but Bachalo isn’t drawing that title. Ice Master instructs them to keep an eye on the Bamfs.
The Future X-Men are now back to the future.
Epilogue Four
Brian Michael Bendis, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger & Matt Milla
This section, is the game changer.
Kitty appears to have summon everyone to the quad.
Storm goes to hug Kitty, and Kitty stops her. She doesn’t need to calm down, she has an announcement to make. Storm really is being written poorly, and it has to be on purpose.
Besides Nightcrawler, being dead, I am noticing that the All New, All Different members, I am not caring for lately.
Kitty is quitting the Jean Grey School. No one wanted to listen to her, when it really mattered, and she could have fixed or avoided this whole mess.
Iceman has the nerve, the ever loving nerve, to call her out on her hypocrisy. Iceman? The guy who single handily killed thousands, only a few short months ago? Leaving hundreds more crippled and at least a million, ruin financially and homeless.
I wish Kitty had announced that not only is she leaving, but she is taking the Original Five with her.
Instead, it seems like she is leaving, then Jean states they are also leaving. Would have greater moment if it was more of a plan.
Magik and Cyclops teleport to the school.
Kitty and Illyana hug, which is wonderful.
But not as nice to see than Cyclops’ smirk. He just beat Wolverine where it matters most.
Kitty Pryde and the Original X-Men are now … Team Cyclops!
I am very happy with this. I will still be getting Uncanny and All New X-Men. Probably the next issues of X-Men and Wolverine and the X-Men, to see how the fallout of Kirty being gone goes.
Rachel and Kitty is nice, but I rather see Kitty and Illyana together, especially as those two have a lot to make up.
Hopefully someone realized that Lockheed is still at the school!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 