The previous issues, Deadpool has helped Loki lead a battle to Asgard. After conquering that realm, they came to Earth, which upsets Thor and all of the combined heroes.
I tried reading, Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but I just couldn’t get into it. Deadpool’s writing of the book, reveals to me that I’m still not ready to read it. Deadpool is having to rewrite the book, as he apparently killed Sun Tzu, in the past.
Onto the issue. Loki has brought some Orges to New York City and Loki, himself, is standing on a walking giant Whale. All the whale needs is a pair of overalls and it could have been Blow-Hole from The Tick.
Deadpool’s Art of War – Chapter 10 : There are six problems that can arise for an army that extend from poor leadership. Flight, Insubordination, Collapse, Ruin, Disorganization, Rout.
The gathered heroes, including Magik (making her sole appearance, this issue), Cyclops, and Tempus, of the New Xavier School. From the Jean Grey Schook, Warren and Storm are representing. Invisible Woman, back when the Fantastic Four were wearing red and black costumes. It isn’t a bad look, but I didn’t recognize her until I saw Reed Richards in the same color scheme.
Deadpool’s Art of War : There are six kinds of grounds to worry about : accessible, entangling,, narrow passes, temporizing, precipitous heights and great distance from the battle.
Deadpool is fighting Captain America, who is trying to calm Deadpool down. Deadpool is having to deal with making Loki all powerful and coming to Earth. Spider-Man successfully knocks Deadpool out.
Thor is leading the heroes of Asgard against Loki’s army.
Deadpool’s Art of War, Chapter Eleven : There are nine varieties of ground : Dispersive, Facile, Contentious, Open, Intersecting Highways, Serious, Difficult, Hemmed-in, and Desperate.
Deadpool is back in the fight but isn’t doing so well.
There is an ad for Black Vortex, I can’t recommend it enough.
Deadpool’s Art of War, Chapter Twelve : There are five ways to attack with fire – Burn soldiers in their camp / burn their stores / burn their baggage / burn their weaponry / drop fire among them
Deadpool writers this as Human Torch is fighting off some ogres but is taken out. Namor saves him before he can hit the ground.
Deadpool’s Art of War, Chapter Thirteen : Raising a hundred thousand men for battle can be a drain.
Reed, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Thing, Hulk, Iron Man, Storm, Beast, Jean Grey, Scott Summers and Wolverine are fighting a horde.
Thor and Loki are fighting, Thor goes down a moment. Deadpool, with swords, comes at Loki. Thor gets back up, grabs Mjolnir and strikes down lightning onto Loki – taking him out of the fight, for good.
Later, Deadpool is trying to sell his book. The first publisher laughs him out of her office. He takes it to Marvel and editor, Jordan D. White (who likes to put himself into comics, as he is in Deadpool Volume Three Issue 45 / 250). White recommends they get Peter David to write it, which he will later do.
Or issue 250 of Volume One, pending on who you ask. Since the Indicia states, 45, that’s the one I’m going with. I own this for
Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe
An Infinity Gauntlet Tie-In
Words Gerry Duggan & Brian Posehn
Lines Scott Koblish
Hues Val Staples
Balloons VC’s Joe Sabino
Special Thanks to David Mandell
How great is it that 24 years later, we are getting an Infinity Gauntlet tie-in!?! So great!
You can tell that we are about to begin a twenty page awesome story with just that title page above! I’m surprised the entire thing isn’t on the Internet yet (as oppose to other stories being fully available, maybe it is the length of it?)
“The writers chose to write bizarre versions of current characters and to include characters that had never been seen before. . . . wait 24 years” so great.
Then. Deadpool has just successfully stolen something. Inferno is coming, Spider-Man is a clone, Phoenix is dead – pretty much tells us where we are in the world of Marvel. Gosh, from 1991 to 2015, so much has happened!
Deadpool’s client is . . . Thanos, in his legendary Thanos-copter (of course). Thanos had Deadpool steal him a cosmic cube. Turns out, Deadpool didn’t give Thanos the real cube, he used it to snatch the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos.
What does Deadpool do with the most powerful item in the universe? One Night One : Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe. This will be my second most favorite Marvel Roast. Deadpool does this so that he can get back at everybody that has kept him down. A lady mistakes him for Spider-Man, so he erases her from continuity. Before he can start, Howard the Duck arrives. Howard changes the marquee, as it is in his rider to – Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe Special, Guest MC : Howard the Duck.
Deadpool’s dais consists of – Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor and Nick Fury.
I own this entire $9.99 comic due to the one panel that Magik appears in above! Emma gets a line later in the comic and Illyana isn’t even in that panel!
Like any good roast, there is a common easy joke that everyone can make, in Deadpool’s case, it is his face. His face is pretty tore back, due to his cancer, which is pretty messed up to make fun of him for it.
Howard makes a great joke about how everyone only likes Deadpool when he graces their comic cover, as that is a boost to their sales.
There is a great panel of how the blind characters got horrible seats. There is Stick, Shroud, Daredevil, Blindfold, her mother, Destiny, Madame Web, Echo and Blind Al. I thought Echo was deaf and not blind.
The first roaster is Wolverine, wearing a Goblin Queen outfit, but he doesn’t know it. Elektra is enjoying herself. Sabretooth is not happy that he is trying to be the new Wolverine.
Storm is up next, she is surprised to see that Hitler is in attendance. Magneto isn’t happy to discovery that Hitler is sitting at the table behind his. Hitler gleefully says that he was the star of issue 26, the issue prior to Deadpool and Shiklah’s wedding.
Deadpool starts to grow tired of Howard’s antics and makes a reference to Howard’s after credits scene in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Thanks to YouTuber Eczavier Chaff for hosting this video.
Emma is tired of this silly business. I wish Magik got to be appear in that panel! Poor Phoebe, she still can’t get colorist to color her hair red, outside of Uncanny and All New.
Cable is up next and he is extremely tired of being paired with Deadpool. There is a second theme of the roast, that people are just plain tired of Deadpool.
Thor states that no one likes Deadpool, god or mortal. Deadpool’s face looks like Heidrun the Goat’s backside, which looks like Mangog’s backside. Magog does not appreciate that and makes fun of Thor via a Thunderstrike reference.
Spider-Man gets on the mic and bombs. He references seeing Gwen’s dead and her father, George Stacey’s death. He discusses the Venom symbiote, Agent Venom states that Spider-Man likes it. Spider-Man tries to fake that Doctor Octopus has controlled again. Doctor Octopus chimes in, that he is the superior joke teller.
Daredevil jokes that he has heard back things. Howard the Duck makes fun of the lame joke and Blind Al swears at him, again.
Kim, who has had forced surgery to look like a purple Nightcrawler (I reviewed an issue he was appeared in issue 38 of Volume Three). He compliments Deadpool, so Howard pushes him off the stage. Kurt, the real Nightcrawler, takes the stage and claims that being dead is funnier than listening to Deadpool.
Agent Adsit takes the stage. He chooses to not make any jokes about Deadpool’s face – instead, going after Little Deadpool. He describes it as being a hot dog that has been microwaved too long. Shiklah laughs so hard, as it is so true.
Michael the Necromancer states that he is no hero but neither is Deadpool, which isn’t the most untruthful thing to say.
Hulk is next. He starts strong, with stating that he is the strongest there is. Except in stink, Deadpool wins that. When the jokes don’t go over well, he smashes his way out of the room.
Nick Fury Jr. is next but he doesn’t know what to say, so his father steps in. Proper Nick (not the old guy from Original Sin, so this must be a LMD) states that Deadpool is the worst guy in the universe. Which, funny enough, insults Hitler.
Captain America (but also not old) states that he doesn’t get a lot of Deadpool’s jokes but ends with a cheesy joke about how Deadpool and Red Skull must share a dermatologist.
Doctor Strange says that Deadpool covers his pain with jokes and wishes that no one had to be present for this.
A giant lizard dude shows up but isn’t name checked, I was hoping he would be. Deadpool and Thor tore him a new one and now he shits in a bag, which he offers to show people. I wish we got the name and the issue number that happened in.
The Ghost of Benjamin Franklin gets a turn. He comments on how horrible Deadpool’s face is that people are ignoring the fact that he is a horrible friend and pretty shallow.
Shiklah (I can’t seem to remember how to spell her name) takes the microphone. She agrees that his face isn’t great, vampires even feel bad for him but he is the hottest man she has ever met. They have a rule, no matter how much they battle, their love making is that much more intense.
Agent Preston gets her turn, her son – Jeff – wrote the jokes. The jokes are all poop jokes but funny poop jokes. “Your face looks like a doody took a doody on it. Your face looks like a sewer farted on it. Your face caught on fire and someone tried to put it out with poop. You face looks like a wizard made a poop sword and a young knight pulled it out of a poop stone and stabbed your face with it.” Deadpool is very proud.
Deadpool finally gets to defend himself. He gets a swipe at Alpha Flight. Because he is wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, his jokes are super funny to those who hear them and everyone starts laughing. He starts taking shots at the guests. Man Thing’s table is giant size. Deadpool has never killed anyone in a wheelchair, unlike Cyclops. Though Xavier wasn’t in a wheelchair at that time. Deadpool says that once Domino is done with her guest panel, she will go back to obscurity. Nightcrawler isn’t able to teleport away, as people start noticing something is wrong.
Deadpool was making people laugh as nothing matter, as he thinks about his origins retold in five panels (the lights of the Infinity Gems). Due to him wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, he can see us, the reader. Deadpool is depress as he knows he isn’t real and his torments are due to us needing to be entertain. Howard the Duck knows who Deadpool is talking too, as Howard the Duck was breaking the fourth wall decades before Deadpool came out of Rob Liefeld’s pen.
Issue ends with Thanos, still in the Thanos-copter. Deadpool gives Thanos the Infinity Gauntlet and is kicked out of the copter.
The other stories in the issue are –
The main story, which is pretty fun.
Thanks to the Recap page, we learn that Deadpool has a daughter, Ellie, and Agent Preston has been raising her.
U.L.T.I.M.A.T.I.U.M. is going after Deadpool’s friends and family but they are being killed as they make their attempts. Agent Adsit is shot though. Flag Smasher suspects Deadpool is going to go the traditional route of over reacting and barge at them with the full fury of an animated wounded animal. Instead. Deadpool has a plan that pretty much goes as he planned it. Deadpool has everything finalized, including buying a farm in Kansas and he invites U.L.T.I.M.A.T.I.U.M. to attack him. Deadpool starts killing everyone of these foolish fools. He makes a AXIS reference by referring to his Zenpool identity. Deadpool saves Flag Smasher for last. Wade Wilson kills Deadpool, so that he can keep his friends safe and that he can spend time with his wife and child.
Six Days Later. Everyone is on a stolen yacht. Agent Adsit is in a wheelchair, so he lives.
The final Incursion between the Proper Marvel Earth and the Ultimate Earth. Wade thought all of this Incursion silliness was Avengers nonsense, which I thought so as well. Wade hugs his daughter one last time.
The main story ends with the Death of Deadpool but also, of everyone else as the Incursion of the Proper Marvel Earth and the Ultimate Earth begins.
There is a section of stories regarding Deadpool’s Pals ‘N’ Gals
Shiklah in Shiklah’s Catching Up (this credit page is what I kept referring back to so that I spelled her name right)
Agent Preston in The Family S.H.I.E.L.D.
Evan Sabahnur in What Do We Want? Apocalypse! When Do We Want It? Now!
Agent Scott Adsit in The Thwipster and the Quipster Battel the Hipsters!
Benjamin Franklin in All About the Benjamins
Michael the Necromancer in Parents : The Meeting
Then came the Roast
There is a three pages of #RIPdeadpool reprints that I wish I had known about so that I could have gotten involved.
Finally, a fun page of Clark Gregg yelling at editor Jordan D. White for killing off Deadpool.
Of the twelve issues of this series, I own five of them – 1, 5, 7, 9 and 12
All of them written by Chris Claremont with Todd Nauck handling the main art duties. Assisting him is Colorist Rachelle Rosenberg and Letterer VC’s Cory Petit (issues 1, 2, 3 & 7).
Issues 4, 5 & 6 were lettered by VC’s Joe Sabino
Claremont had a script assist from Marguerite Bennett for issue 7, the very excellent, Death of Wolverine, tie-in issue.
Issue 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 were lettered by VC’s Travis Lanham
Pretty great that this title was able to go twelve issues while maintaining the mean creative team. Rosenberg really made all the issues pop with her coloring choices.
Marrow narrates the issue. We get a recap of what has been going on since last issue and what has been happening with her. Marrow lost her powers. She gave up her daughter, who she named Sarah, and now has a form of her powers. She was lead to believe that how this all came about, is the reason why Fantomex is now super evil.
While Marrow is recapping her life, she is also describing what Fantomex is doing. One day, he is killing six Balinese supermen. The next, eight Norwegian Flott-Spies. He is going around the international spy community and killing their agents. Which I don’t get, I thought they had him hooked to a fantasy machine and he was at their base.
Marrow now knows that she isn’t responsible for this, so now she is full of rage, which is making her sloppy now. She notices an intruder. Who turns out to be . . .
It was’t until this page when I noticed the art wasn’t done by Haut. I next thought it was a new colorist but the art is by Rock-He Kim. I sort of like it. He makes ForgetMeNot look like he is still on model but that he also looks like he could be a big time character. Maybe that is only hopeful thinking on my part. There is something about him, that I really dig.
ForgetMeNot states that he has a message from Hope. Marrow describes him as a memory-blurring boy scout, which sounds like a decent description. Hope wants some company, and she wants Marrow to be that company.
Marrow doesn’t know how to respond to someone in a coma. Marrow touches Hope and she now has Marrow’s bone growth power. Hope gets out of bed and starts a video on a nearby computer. Cable made a video for Fantomex to watch. Cable has been pointing Fantomex at the targets he has been striking. He’s been using him to kill bad people of the world, also why X-Force hasn’t been able to defeat him. They are not even trying. At least, not Cable – the rest seem to be trying their best.
ForgetMeNot pushes Psylocke, who had forgotten he was in the room, toward Hope, giving her telepathic powers. She forces the team to recall memories and feelings of family. Also, she broadcast their location to Fantomex. Cable doesn’t like the idea of not making the plays, Marrow throws a metal spike through his head. He’s only a clone, though I forget why he has an unlimited amount of clones – and why only one clone is active at any given time.
The team know they are going to lose to Super-Fantomex. ForgetMeNot tells them their is a plan, and Domino is reminded he is in the room. They just need to weaken Fantomex.
There is a two page ad for Black Vortex, I’m so excited about this event. Wave One – Alpha 1, Guardians 24, Legendary Star Lord 9 and All New X-Men 38.
Fantomex arrives, he looks gigantic and has even larger wings. The team attacks. While he is distracted, ForgetMeNot puts a teleporter on his back and they are in Doctor Nemesis’ lab. ForgetMeNot places Hope’s hand on Fantomex’s butt and Doctor Nemesis bodyslides the threat. It appears that Fantomex was teleported into the Sun.
The team is concern now, as nothing will kill Fantomex. Someone tells them that, trust, is the key. Hope is now in an Angel-like body. Hope takes command of X-Force. She absorbs Doctor Nemesis’ supersmartness and now wants to cure both Cable and Fantomex.
In what she believes is her final moments, Marrow wishes she was friends with Psylocke and Domino. Psylocke fastball specials Marrow. She slices and dices Fantomex to smithereens. Marrow recovers, she wants to dance and makeout with her co-lady members and is willing to skip the dancing.
Fantomex is rebuilding himself, ForgetMeNot tells them to back off. As the issue ends with a squadron of Cables running out.
Marvel Database states that ForgetMeNot joins the team with this issue, so I’m getting this until it is cancelled, which sadly will be after the next storyline. I guess Marrow implies that, when she called him ‘the new guy,’
ForgetMeNot’s Third Appearance! Can we go for a fourth, please?!
This issue gets confusing, with how Hope’s coma and the MeMe program thing are related. It probably makes sense for those who are following the series completely, which is how you should do it but I’m a crazy person.
Fantomex apparently turn bad in the two issues we don’t own. The team put a hallucination-horsepipe on his forehead, so now he thinks he won and accomplished all of his goals.
MeMe is talking to a voice on a speaker.
Cable and Marrow are interrogating Mojo, in an almost human body. Rereading the recap page, apparently MeMe is really Hope, mimicking the real MeMe’s powers.
MeMe follows the recording to the source. Psylocke and Domino are sparring. Doctor Nemesis is enjoying his coffee.
The voice belongs to . . . ForgetMeNot!!! He’s back from the dead and with no explanation. He now is sporting a chest plate like Iron Man from the films.
ForgetMeNot gives this big ol’ speech about how Hope is just some girl.
Cable wants Mojo to explain how they can get Hope out of her coma. He walks away for some more tools. Mojo reveals that he experimented on Marrow and that she gave up her baby. Marrow kills him. Mojo may actually be Volga, I’m not sure. They don’t use any names.
ForgetMeNot explains to MeMe how Hope lost her way back to her own head, she can’t get back as MeMe is currently preoccupying that space.
Five hours later. The team gathers to say their goodbyes. It is too late for MeMe, she has deactivated herself.
Domino references a Badoon, how does she know that alien race?
Issue ends with ForgetMeNot with his hand on his head, I don’t think he is happy with how this all worked out. I imagine he was hoping Hope would wake up as soon as MeMe shut down.
I imagine he will be in issue 14.
I don’t know, I had a hard time following this issue. Usually I can jump in and out of a series but with Spurrier’s writing, everything needs to be read. Though I was able to follow his X-Men Legacy that way but I read enough of those to stay current.
Great Cover Homage to Uncanny X-Men 210, which I wouldn’t have bought on that alone but Kitty is in the character corner.
The reason why Kitty isn’t on the cover, is that the ones featured on the cover are in the issue as – for some reason – there are North Koreans who have been transformed into the X-Men!
With the AXIS Inversion spell, Deadpool has been balanced, he is now ZenPool. It is a thing. It makes sense as he tries to be good by doing bad things and he also does bad things while trying to be good, so him becoming balanced seems to be the right direction.
So Zenpool and the North Korean X-Men are fighting the proper X-Men – Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm and Rachel Grey. The North Korean X-Men are people who are forced to look like – Colossus, Nightcrawler and Storm, with powers and all. It is easy to tell the pairs apart as the North Koreans look like they have skin grafted on top of them. The two groups fight and fight.
Zenpool gets them out of the Danger Room. There is a quick fight once they are out of the Jean Grey School – not sure where the thousands of students are but it is only the X-Men who are present.
Les Metropolis Monster. Mrs. Deadpool, Shiklah, is not happy with Zenpool. She misses their games of grab ass. Zenpool isn’t as passionate as Deadpool was – which makes sense.
Later, inn the Mages Guild of the Monster Metropolis. The mages are trying to figure out a way to reverse the AXIS Inversion spell.
Apocalypse makes an announcement on live television, that Zenpool sees on his phone. Apocalypse has given humans 24 hours to evacuate New York City.
Issue ends on the War-Torn Streets of Manhattan. Zenpool confronts Apocalypse and gets punched through the stomach for his troubles.
The Letters Page is answered by Deadpool, which I adore. Letters are from – AK of Norway, Ewan, Erik Tkach of San Jose, CA, Ivan Borodin of Los Angeles, CA, Scotty Joe, Megan from Canada, A person without a grasp of poetry, Auora and Marie.
At this point in the title, President Captain America has given the remaining mutants, all 20 of them, a reservation in New Mexico, that the X-Men have called, Utopia. The mutants are broken into two factions. Kitty as the official leader, and Mach Two, who is starting to rally a movement against her.
Issue opens with, a page of Jimmy continuing his survey of their new home, including the outskirts.
Then we catch up to everyone on the settlement. Armor and Magma are sharing a room. Armor sees a lizard and mimics her armor to resemble the lizard. Magma asks her what she is doing and Armor says, nothing. Not sure if it is due to her being embarrassed or bored but not wanting to talk about it.
Kitty and Rogue, who I like, are trying to maintain a friendship, are jogging. I got the impression this is a morning routine for them. In the previous arc, the American government, came up for a cure for mutations and the vast majority of mutants opted to take the cure. Turns out that mutants only exist because the government created them, which was explained in Ultimate Secrets. Which I’m still confused about, as that story didn’t quite go into details except for the headline.
I like how, like a Power Ranger, that Kitty’s civilian clothes are white theme. I still say, who wears completely white in the desert?
Mach Two and Warpath are talking to each other. He is like her second in command. Kitty only won the leadership position by two votes or something like that so Mach Two is still upset about the lost. Mach Two stole the gun that Nick Fury gave to Kitty. Mach Two is pretty sure that Kitty will never notice the gun has been stolen, as Kitty hid it securely. He is confused has the gun isn’t that great of a weapon as most mutants’ powers can outperform a gun. Mach Two states that it is how she is going to use the gun to take down Kitty that is important.
Jimmy finally comes home and has a meeting with Kitty. Kitty has been missing him, and they hug, even though he smells like eight days of sweat.
Jimmy delivers the bad news. There is a nice five mile zone that they are currently living in, which is fine. The rest of it is barren and nothing is alive out there except for a few lizards. He even found a long stretch of land (roughly twenty percent of their land) that is radioactive. It is official, this was an old Department of Defense testing ground.
Kitty tells Jimmy that Mach Two stole her gun. It has to be her as she is the only one with any motivation. Apparently part of the deal with Captain America was that the mutants wouldn’t have any weapons, nor leave the reservation.
We catch up with Storm, wearing a bikini as a top. She is speaking with Blackheath, still maintaining that ridiculous hair style. The right top of his head is shaved, the left side has rows of dreads. How much work does that take to maintain, oh and his hair is green. He tries to convince Storm to take Mach Two’s side, Storm states to not waste her time as Kitty saved them from the fleet of Sentinels and is loyal to her. How great is it that Ultimate Kitty is this grand of a character? There was a time when Ultimate Comics X-Men was one of my favorite titles.
Blackheath changes the subject, he just created a superseed thanks to his and Zero’s work with the seeds that Tony Stark provided.
Kitty is now looking at the seeds and is being told what the significance of the seed is. Blackheath is sure that they created a type of life form, a seed that adapts to its surroundings and finds a way to grow. He still needs to do experiments, but should know for sure in a week. Kitty asks to speak with him in private. She wants him to be more discrete with the information. She wants to handle this in the best way possible.
Blackheath makes a mistake and refers to the seed as a mutant seed. She stops him right there and says that is the problem. The world isn’t going to want a mutant seed. She tells him to keep working on the seed, she will work on the business side. Kitty is going to call the one person she has a number of.
Rogue is enjoying a walk when Psylocke shows up and ruins her day. Poor Rogue was falling for a guy, Ultimate Quentin Quire, who was immune to her powers. He decided to take the cure, leaving her alone. Rogue wishes she had taken the cure. She then wakes up and realizes it was all a dream. A sad tragic dream, or is Psylocke really running around in people’s minds and ruining their day?
Kitty had called Nick Fury and he had called Tony Stark. He arrives to Utopia with a fleet of army trucks. She tells him the name of their land, and he laughs as it sure doesn’t seem to be a Utopia. He also finds out in this exchange, that Kitty is the leader.
Tony is shown the seeds, and they are barely growing out from the ground. He isn’t impressed until Blackheath states that this is growth of only five minutes, which does impress Tony.
Tony lets Kitty in on what the ramifications are for this superseed. That there are countries that depend on other countries and their manufactured seeds to survive. Even Tony has development teams working on superseeds. With Kitty’s seed, countries won’t need to rely on other countries for crops. Especially as Kitty wants to give it away for free, to show that mutants are decent and wonderful people.
Tony tells her that two things are going to happen now. One, he is now in charge of her business affairs and is her military consultant, which he will announced at a press conference along with Kitty. The second thing is that Utopia is going to be attacked, Kitty wants to know by whom. Tony states that it will probably be several different attackers from various countries that will not want the seed to be spread wide and far. Tony goes as far as to state that it might not even be a real attack, it may just be an attempt to firebomb the entire place.
Tony tries to assure her that he has a plan even for that, and debuts the Ultimate Iron Patriot armor. So funny how this armor started off as Norman Osborn’s attempt, in the Proper Marvel Universe, to appear as both Iron Man and Captain America as the leader of his (Dark) Avengers while he was in charge of SHIELD, that he quickly renamed to HAMMER, which was never explained what those letters stood for. Next, it became the armor for Rhodes in the Iron Man 3 film. Now it is in the Ultimate Universe, as protection for the X-Men.
That night, Kitty and Jimmy are having a romantic dinner. She wonders if she is crazy and he states that if she is, she is no more crazy than when she lead the X-Men, which was her and him, Rogue and Iceman (poor Iceman started off as a lead in this title and now hasn’t been seen in issues) from New York City to the Southwest to attack the Sentinels. She tells him that now is the best opportunity for him to put some distance between him and her. He gives her, what I imagine is a movie line of, “or not” then we see that they shared a bed.
She’s 18 now and a leader of a minority, living each day like it is her last, so I’m fine with having a sexual relationship with Wolverine’s son, Jimmy. I rather she was with a better guy but there are none of those around at the moment. At this point, he is her third boyfriend, after Iceman and then Peter Parker Spider-Man. He treats her well, which is all that matters to me.
Issue ends with Mach Two holding Nick Fury’s gun to Kitty’s head. Kitty tells her that this is madness and that this is a sad desperate bid for attention. With that, Mack Two points the gun from Kitty to Jimmy, who is sleeping. Kitty shouts No! and Jimmy wakes up and Kitty hugs him crying. Poor Kitty just can’t stop fighting battles on different fronts.
This is why I think they had sex, and not just slept in the same bed. Jimmy took a bullet to the head on the way to the Southwest and survived it, like five issues ago, so two storylines ago. He can take a bullet to the head and survive. She should know this but now that they are in a relationship, she is looking out for his best interests instead of viewing him as an ally, knowing his strengths and weaknesses. Also, Wood didn’t write that issue, Nick Spencer did so maybe he didn’t read the issues that closely.
Nick Spencer was writing Ultimate Comics X-Men as a revolutionary title and then Wood took over and made it into a political title. Both were amazing and I really enjoyed this second X-Men title in the Ultimate line. I will have to review the other issues in this storyline at a later date.
There were several house ads in this issue, funny how many of these are still being published and how many are not :
Avengers Arena, ran its course
Savage Wolverine, meant to be a rotating creative teams telling the Wolverine stories they wanted without having to deal with continuity. Is coming to an end soon.
Superior Spider-Man, rave reviews, coming to an end with Peter Parker taking his body back from Doctor Octopus.
Uncanny X-Force Volume Two, ending soon to be merged with Cable & The X-Force
Punisher : Nightmare, never heard of it
Morbius the Living Vampire, an actual ongoing for the seldom Spider-Man supporting character. Never heard much about it, I believe it is still being printed but I could be wrong. Not bad for an issue that came out a year ago. At least they were advertised.
This series follows the (mis)adventures of those fools that Wolverine saved and died saving, foolishly. Not that the act was foolish but the way he did it. So they wouldn’t get adamantium, he cut the vat that was about to pour it into them, doing so, it poured all over him.
Proving all it takes for me to buy a comic is to show Kitty, at all.
Sharp, who not only is borrowing Star Lord’s mask, has a bonus voice in his head that speaks in red text on black caption boxes. He may have Wolverine as his bonus voice, but I suspect that it is Ogun and the Logan Legacy takes place after this miniseries, even though it came out second. That would explain why he sees Kitty there in the top panel.
If Ogun is in Sharp, I will have to seek out the first issue of this miniseries and probably the other issues as well.
Another reason why it is most likely Ogun, is that is the outfit Kitty wore during Kitty Pryde and Wolveirne.
So the six escapees are in a helicopter while another Weapon X helicopter is attacking them.
Sharp asks the brunette lady, Meifeng, to help out. There is a blonde lady but she is sleeping. Meifeng grabs a fire extinguisher and throws it at the attacking helicopter and both explode.
Sharp lands the helicopter on a train, so that if there is a tracking device on the helicopter, Weapon X will follow the train instead. The six of them jump off the train and into the river. Except one of them, lands into the sand next to it. The others suspect he is dead but he gets right back up. Each of them has a special power.
Neuro decides to explain what he suspects is their powers and provides them all with a codename. Junk, has ram horns. Meifeng gets the codename, Endo. Skel is the dude who survived the crash.
Later. Endo is using the river to see her reflection. Junk walks up to her, she accuses him of being a creeper. They all get attacked by some Weapon X soldiers. Sharp kills them all, his bonus voice in his head wants him to ditch the others and go on his own.
DCBS took out an ad congratulating Marvel on 75 years.
Once the threat is gone, Neuro wraps the truck the Weapon X guys showed up in, in some chicken wire as he knows that they have trackers inside of them. He finds some scanners and locates all of the trackers and takes them out. Endo is worried about getting more scars, which must be under her shirt.
Neuro goes over to the sleeping blonde. She wakes up, reads his mind, reveals that he has killed so many women. He kills her, the others show up, he explains (quickly) that her tracker was next to her throat and he missed and killed her. They buy it as she wasn’t a real person to them, she will probably go nameless.
The gang buries the blonde. Neuro takes this chance to talk to Sharp. Sharp’s voice tells him to not trust Neuro, as he is lying. Sharp is able to mentally talk to the voice so that’s interesting.
There is a seventh tracker, Neuro says that it is for a Victor Creed and they hope that he will be able to help them. To an early death, most likely.
I’m not sure if I’m getting any issue before issue 5 but if I do, we will review it here.
So I bought this issue due to X-Men Legacy 300’s ForgetMeNot being in it. I really liked that character and I was worried we were never going to see him again. Then we got him in this issue. I decided I was going to collect every appearance of the guy. There’s something about a character who only will ever make two appearances that I like that to say that I own every appearance of.
I like that ForgetMeNot got the cover treatment.
I forgot how great of a writer Spurrier is and I am surprised that I missed Huat’s style.
In the previous issue, X-Force has caught onto the fact that there is a villain out there who is tracking all mutants.
The Team of X-Force is – Cable, Psylocke, Marrow, Fantomex, MeMe and Doctor Nemesis. I have also missed Doctor Nemesis!
SHIELD Hellicarrier Pericles. Scuttled, Stripped, Deserted, Upcycled. Now the X-Force HQ. The issue opens with X-Force chasing ForgetMeNot. He hides behind a wall and the team instantly forgets why they were running as hard as they were. In what will be a terrific and funny running gag, they want a coffee break.
We see the back of ForgetMeNot’s head, and he has a giant scar on the back of his head. The scar / old skin, is from how he must have gotten free of the security fly paper system that the Jean Grey School has. X-Force is watching a video of Doctor Nemesis made of himself, instructing them to locate the mutant who you forget once you can’t see him. Imagine the Silence from Doctor Who but its only one guy and he’s a nice guy. I like how video Doctor Nemesis anticipated Marrow was going to speak up. Marrow is in super rough shape. She wasn’t in great shape when she was part of the 35th Anniversary Team along with Kitty and Kurt but now she is even farther gone. Present Doctor Nemesis saw a note to watch this video and now they are. They were able to figure out that they have an invisible man problem due to the usage of toilet paper. ForgetMeNot is listening to all of this, so he hears that they are looking for him.
Video Doctor Nemesis flatters present Doctor Nemesis, I love this guy so much! Doctor Nemesis mentions that they have watched the video six times now.
Cable gives direction to the team. Fantomex hears breathing in the ventilation duct, which is where ForgetMeNot is. ForgetMeNot finds a whole in the wall and hides behind it. The team forgets what they are doing and wants a coffee break.
The cleaning robots spot ForgetMeNot, they remember him. They tease him a little.
X-Force watches the video again, and Cable directs the team the exact same way again. Psylocke and Cable are a pair. They lose ForgetMeNot and instantly want a coffee break.
Fantomex finds ForgetMeNot and threatens to kill him. ForgetMeNot runs away but bumps into Cable. ForgetMeNot gets Cable’s gun and threatens to kill Cable but Fantomex beats him to it.
I’ve checked and ForgetMeNot isn’t in issue nine or eleven, so I’m not sure how he got onto the Hellicarrier or why he doesn’t want to be seen.
Doctor Nemesis shows up, he drunk an experimental hypercofee so now he is cosmically sober, he is the antidrunk. But he comes off as drunk. He still isn’t immune to ForgetMeNot’s power.
ForgetMeNot is found by the cleaning robots. They are invisible too, so that’s how they see him and remember him. They explain to him that everyone on X-Force is a tad crazy. Turns out, Psylocke is having sex with Cable’s clones, not all of them, just the odd number ones. So she’s had sex with two of the three men on the team. If anyone is keeping track.
The cleaning machines tell ForgetMeNot where the teleporter is. It is right next to where Doctor Nemesis is taking a nap. ForgettMeNot sees their objectives on the screen. Apparently the villain they are after, is tracking every mutant. X-Force thought if they can find a mutant who is invisible to all tracking, they could use that mutant to become visible, have the villain track the mutant, have the mutant turn invisible and follow the bug back to the villain’s headquaters.
ForgetMeNot agrees to do it. He puts the suppressor on, so now he is visible. He cracks a joke about how, “this is the least climatic creative-use of super-powers I’ve ever been involved with.” So the bug bites ForgetMeNot. We see the villain has located the new mutant. He reminds me of Arnim Zola but in a gimp costume. So there’s that.
Doctor Nemesis puts a tracker on the bug. ForgetMeNot takes off the suppressor but the bug is able to still track him. So now there is a hiccup in the plan. Fantomex knocks out Doctor Nemesis. He also reveals he could also see ForgetMeNot, which is pretty messed up. To make matters worst, Fantomex solves the problem they face. The bug won’t go back home until what it is spying on is dead. So Fantomex straight up shots dead ForgetMeNot. Poor guy only got to make two appearances! If he makes a third, please let me know.
Issue ends with Fantomex telling an awakening Doctor Nemesis that they are now able to locate the villain.
The really messed up thing is that the cleaning robots are just going to dispose of ForgetMeNot’s body and no one is going to remember him except for Doctor Nemesis and Xavier, whenever he returns.
Previously in the series, in defeating Amanda’s mother – Amanda has been banished to a different realm and the day was won.
Issue opens with Kurt playing baseball, with mostly himself. The Bamfs are there too, adding support.
Nauck still draws an awesome Nightcrawler and super cute Bamfs.
Poor Rosenberg, good thing they do digital coloring as she would spend a fortune on blue colors. Especially once Beast shows up.
Next, we get to the single page that I bought this comic for. I really need to just look at all the X-related comic previews that Comic Book Resources has. Instead, I wait until I’m told to look and find out after the fact – that Kitty appears in a comic.
Classic Claremont baseball game!
I wish that Lockheed appeared on this page as there is a clear Uncanny X-Men Annual 7 reference and Lockheed was there for that issue.
Past this page, it has great moments that I really like and a future villain subplot that I have no interest in.
The spirit of Jean Grey shows up to tell Kurt to keep the faith. Why a guy who just left Heaven, has no faith, is beyond me.
Kurt is looking for a gig at the Jean Grey School.
Rachel and he come up with him being the Danger Room instructor.
I like how for the session, the students don the basic trainee uniforms. I recognize Armor and Mercury. I like the squid / lobster guy, Rico is his real name. There is a death tree looking chap, that I want to know more about.
I checked the comicbookdb page for this issue, and the tree fellow isn’t named. Shoot!
Rachel dons a costume that I am not sure if she should wear around impressionable young boys. I like how Rachel programmed Emma Frost to be the villain of the session.
In Maryland, apparently these villains are the Crimson Pirates. I have no interest in them. They are seeking a young lady, whose name is Ziggy Karst. Which I have to think about Ziggy Stardust, whenever I read the name. That is on purpose, right?
The Jean Grey School. Storm gifted Kurt with the original Blackbird, the SR-71X. He is repairing it.
Rico shows up, he is like the modern day Nightcrawler. I sort of like him.
Storm gives Kurt the mission to seek out the new mutant. Who, of course, is Ziggy Karst.
Unless Kitty is seen or mentioned, I’m sure this is it for me with this title until the next storyline – I’m sure.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 