What a delightful little crossover. If you can forget for a
moment just how much all these $3.99 titles have cost, this is a great
throwback to the X-crossovers of the past decades. No one does time-travel
better than the X-Men, and no one does crossovers better either.
When I last updated you all on this one, we only had a crew
of X-Men from the future, a team in the present, and the original five X-Men
from the past. In the course of the story, we get a whole different team of
future X-Men, and a glimpse of the possible future that warped some of the
characters so badly. (Special Agent Dazzler is sure important for a character
that just stands around bantering with Maria Hill.)
There are tons of nice character moments scattered through
the latter half of the crossover, but the best moments seem to belong to
Iceman. I’m reading this series with my 8-year-old daughter, and man, she LOVES
Iceman. Everything he says, she laughs. When Iceman and Beast travel with Magik
to the future? She could barely concentrate on any other aspect of the story. “Dad,
I just want to see what happens to Iceman and Beast.” I love it. I’ve never
been prouder.
As they often do, there are a few remnants of the
time-traveling groups sticking around the regular Marvel U. We might have a new
Brotherhood of Mutants. I think there is a new student at the Jean Grey School.
But best of all, the original X-Men and a VERY important member of the school
staff are switching teams.
My number one complaint about the post-AVX X-universe is
that not enough characters are siding with Cyclops. Wolverine is a crazy
murderer too, and his moral superiority is absolutely crazy. So seeing SIX
characters join up with Cyclops evens the odds a whole lot. My interest in
Uncanny X-Men just shot up a ton.
The status quo going forward is going to be fascinating.
Kinder, gentler, pretending Wolverine? Smug, possibly winning Cyclops? And the
return of Nightcrawler?
Guys, the X-books are where it’s at. You can skip the
Avengers these days, you want to be reading X-Men. GOOD
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