(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.