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Rogue Two (V4)

Posted by John Klein III on March 3, 2026
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Writer Erica Schultz

Artist Luigi Zagaria

Color Artist Espen Grundetjern

Letterer VC’s Ariana Maher

Rogue tries to get answers from her mom, Mystique.  Destiny was in jail at the moment, so she can’t really provide any insight.  Rogue leaves, wanting to talk to Constrictor.  Gambit reveals that both Constrictor and Sabretooth are dead, or at least, at the moment. 

Destiny states that Rogue will eventually remember everything, so Mystique should have just told her now, it would have been better that way.  Mystique wonders if this is another one of her prophecies, but Destiny gets a great line about how that’s just common sense.

Flying in a general direction, Rogue starts using Mystique’s power, even though she never touched her mother.  So either Rogue’s powers are broken, or Mystique’s broken powers are causing Rogue issues.

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I like Rogue turning into Emma’s leg, Glob Herman’s arm, Magik’s arm, and Beast’s leg.  I imagine Luigi Zagaria had fun thinking of which characters to attempt here.  Needed to be mutants we immediately recognized. 

Because of Rogue’s powers, I believe, whoever she shapeshifts into, she has that person’s powers, so it isn’t looking like Emma, but still her traditional powers, she would Emma’s physical powers. 

As Rogue is falling from a great height, she shifts into Fred Dukes, to absorb the blunt of the impact as she falls through a warehouse.  One of those classic normal looking warehouse, full of evil, and goons. 

Some gross mutant hating goons are making a arms deal.  One of them states that only a mutant can crash through a building and not get hurt.  Which immediately makes me think about how any number of superpowered individuals can withstand that fall, and walk away. 

Rogue shifts into her 80s look, which is fun.  Her arm shifts to Emma’s diamond form to block the bullets.  She shifts into her current look, then shifts into some goons to retrieve their information. 

Issue ends with John Stelton, who set off this entire adventure, coming home.  He saw Rogue, and now wants to make her pay.  He has a real Why So Serious grin facial scar. 

Solid enough issue.  Is Sabretooth currently dead?  Is Constrictor?  Constrictor is getting his own Secret Wars action figure from the same line I got my Magik from recently. 

Rogue V4 1

Posted by John Klein III on January 27, 2026
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(or Rogue One, if you are fun)

Writer Erica Schultz

Artist Luigi Zagaria

Colorist Espen Grundetjern

Letterer VC’s Ariana Maher

This was a fun comic!  I got excited to see Deathdream and Ransom, as I thought we were going to get Calitter and Ember, but we don’t.  I was also surprised to see present day scenes, as I thought this might be a retro series. 

Issue opens with them fighting a giant mutant possum. 

Rogue loves Gambit, but sometimes he needs a kick in the arse.

The giant mutant possum, is destroying the Louisiana airport.  A building is going to fall on some people.  Rogue recognizes a guy in a wheelchair, who doesn’t have anything below his knees.  She isn’t sure where she has seen him before.

Rogue mentions how she has her invulnerability swiped from Wonder Man.  Is that right?  She’s been keeping that power since her original Uncanny Avengers days? 

We get a camp fire scene, and I immediately have to look at the credits of the comic.  Erica Schultz is writing such a good issue.  Luigi Zagaria is a terrific artist.  Espen Grundetjern is the colorist, and I can only imagine is making Matthew Wilson proud as this felt like a spinoff of Uncanny X-Men, which it is.  VC’s Ariana Maher is great as the letterer, as always.

At the camp fire, we do get a questionable narration boxes that I keep reading to try to make sense of it.

Deathdrream – Hotoru – is healing . . . or at least how he heals. 

Ah made a rookie mistake goin’ off with the fairies like that. 

We’re tryin’ ta train these newbies, but we gotta be careful. 

They don’t know their own limits. 

Ah made a rookie mistake goin’ off with the fairies like that.  Fairies?!  What an interesting choice of words.  Is that used in the South in a positive way?  I imagine she means they are very young and fresh, but I feel like that is a very loaded word choice. 

Rogue is having nightmares from her Brotherhood days.  But these are an unseen Brotherhood days as both Sabretooth and Constrictor is there.  That team was already boy heavy as it is, and doesn’t need two more added to it.  Though Sabretooth and Destiny on the same team as Mystique is very interesting.

Rogue wakes up, and has matured a bit, and doesn’t take the entire comforter to wrap around her, but has bought a robe.  Progress!

Rogue needs answers, and seeks out her moms.

I like the continuity that Mystique isn’t better, she still looks like she did at the end of Mystique V2 5.  Shame this is the first time Rogue has seen her this way, as I would have thought she had seen her in the meantime. 

Mystique doesn’t want to discuss Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., which makes sense, as no one does.  But we’ll get more of that next issue. 

Great issue!  I’m just not on board for a Sabretooth story, and from what we’ve seen, it looks like it is going to be the traditional Sabretooth story.