Writer Jed MacKay

Artist Federico Vicentini

Color Artist David Curiel

Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles

Variant Cover Skottie Young, I would have gone with the Dike Ruan or Tony S. Daniel variants that both have Magik on them, but they didn’t reveal those in time for my DCBS order to be submitted. 

Issue opens with Agent Lundqvist hanging out in Juniper, looking at the Trask statue that Juggernaut spent an entire day not breaking. 

3K Mothership above Philadelphia.  Magik & Alaskan X-Men fight 3K X-Men.

I love it when characters speak in logo.  Do you think it sounds differently?

Juggernaut fights Galatea, who I’m glad we are name checking people.  Cyclops tells them to switch, so now Magik is fighting Galatea.

Psylocke fights Psychovore. 

The Baxter Building.  New York City.  Drs. Richards, 70s Beast, and Ben are still chatting about Magneto.  Apparently no two mutants share that much DNA, because of their powers, which maybe makes sense?  Magneto’s powers are making it so they can’t treat him properly, or remove the Age of Revelation virus code.  Just like how Kate Pryde’s phasing power messed up her resurrection.

Reed needs Human Torch and Ben Grimm here to perform a radical operation.  I imagine it is because he views all problems through a lens of how can the Fantastic Four solve this?

3K Mothership.  Grimm and Johnny are fighting Joseph. 

Chairman Beast knows that Cyclsop’ inside man is Schwarzschild, which I figured was the case last issue.  He’s just not that much of an inside man, as he’s not on the mothership.  Chairman Beast can’t launch the virus because of a computer error, so Wyre has to do it manually. 

Psylocke defeats Psychovore with a poison thought, as she’s awesome.

Oya is fighting Juice, so we get to see a cool ice versus water battle. Cyclops helps in this fight.

Constellation is down.

I like Magik giving Galatea one more chance to surrender, but she’s not one to ever surrender.  She can do this all day.

Wyre shows up to manually release the virus, but Juggernaut has been wrecking the place. 

I like Johnny making fun of the knock off versions of Magneto and Beast.  He doesn’t know Astra, but is assured she is a knock off of somebody, which is very funny. 

Chairman Beast does NOT find this funny, as she’s the original Beast. 

I do like that Johnny takes the time to recognized that even he is a knock off of the Jim Hammond Human Torch.  So, we’re just having lots of fun here. 

Johnny performs the Clean Room Protocol and burns all of the oxygen in the room, which doesn’t hurt Grimm at all.  I’ve read that he’s essentially immortal, which is very interesting, and sad, as he has quite the family.

Cyclops walks into the room to declare he has defeated 3K.  I love these two chatting, this should be the event.  Chairman Beast recognizes the weakness of 3K, and now wants the X-Men to help him. 

Turns out Chairman Beast had a backup plan.  He releases the virus through the Trask statue, which I knew they should have teleported it away when they had the chance.  Or at the very least, put a dome around it. 

Now we are off and running!