Writer Jed MacKay
Penciler Netho Diaz
Inker Sean Parsons
Colorist Fer Sifuentes-Sujo
Letterer VC’s Clayton Cowles
Variant Cover Gurihiru
Danger Room, Part 1
Milwaukee. Issue opens with Greycrow robbing a bank, and getting shot up during his escape.
Merle, Alaska. Scott is happy it is spring time. Kwannon is surprised as Scott grew up in Alaska, and thinks he’ll be comfortable with the snow. He corrects her, that he was only here as a child. I suppose it is smart of him not to mention he lived there for a time with Madelyne and Baby Nathan, but that was like what, a few months? Better not to mention it.
Sheriff Robbins is missing, as Deputy Smith informs them.
Glob Herman is setting up a nice garden, as he’s producing too much for the X-Men to eat. He was going to give the food away, but Scott thought that would be suspicious. Which he’s right, as even I would think there was something wrong with the food, or that it was expiring soon. I like the older couple who arrives, they haven’t heard of the Shi’ar or optic blasts, which I would think the Shi’ar was known, but I guess if all you are getting from the news is alien attack after alien attack, they probably all sound alike. Before they arrive, Glob is visited by Piper and her mother, Rose. Piper’s twin sister, Robin, is working with 3K now, but it is nice that they’re keeping her in the loop. Well, now she’s in the loop, seems like someone should have sent an email or telepathic message to Rose about her other daughter.
Cyclops asks Magik to track Sheriff Robbins’ blood to the source.
Magik has located the nice sheriff, in the Gulf of Alaska.
Psylocke can’t make the mission as she has to check on Greycrow. Cyclops tells her to take Xorn with her, as Greycrow will need a healer. That’s nice of him.
Gulf of Alaska. The Spirit of St. Augstine. We get a very cool team splash page.
Things are a little too Raph. And a little too quiet.
They locate Sheriff Robbins, she informs them it is a trap. I like how 70s Beast knows it is a trap, but they have a handy teleporter.
Except, of course, Magik can’t teleport them, so ruh oh.
The X-Men have to battle the ship.
Glob Herman gets hate crimed, which I immediately was worried about when Scott and Kwannon was discussing Glob having a garden, and I thought the room they hinted was his shop that was wrecked, but it was the police station (though it should be a sherif’s office, if they’re sheriffs and deputies, but okay). Glob is shot, and we don’t have resurrection anymore. Maybe he was just shot in the shoulder? I have my doubts.
Washington DC. The Office of National Emergency. We see Crimson Commando talking to new character, Maxime Danger. At first I thought she was WARDEN Ellis, but she’s a different lady. Danger is working with or for the Bureau of Prisons, so one would think Danger and Ellis would eventually be working together, right?
Danger is all about branding, and wants her think tank to be called, The Danger Room. I guess Danger’s Room was too silly of a name.
Pretty solid start to a new arc.
• Enid Balám (A), so that should be fun. Plus, she has an invested interest in keeping vampires under control.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 