pullbox roundup
Uncanny X-Men 508: OK. Now that it’s been “confirmed” that the Red Queen is, in fact, NOT actually Madelyn Pryor (just stolen & animated her corpse I guess) I’m more interested. Maddie was played out. Her corpse..not so much I guess. Which means that cover I mentioned could actually be showing the Red Queen in Jean’s corpse or something – god I would so prefer that to Jen coming back again. Sadly, it’s been pretty much confirmed that it is really is Jean. Le Argh.
Oh, and I’m not excited about the Psylocke thing either. How did they pull her out of the time stream anyway? We’ll see how it goes though…I know the writer really wanted Psylocke – so hopefully he’ll do something interesting with her.
X-Factor 42: Still kicking. No big plot twists here, but still good times and great entertainment. Hopefully Madrox doesn’t get back until 50 or so – that seems like it would make a good double size doesn’t it? The resolution of the Lalya/future thing. Of course I’m still creeped out by the fact that he’s evidently in love with her. The scene with Longshot is very interesting too – am I reading it wrong or did he roll back time or something?
X-Men Legacy 223: While I love Mike Carey on X-related stuff in general, somehow this Professor X thing is really wearing on me. I’m looking forward to see what he has planned for the next way with 226 and moving forward. Issue 225 has a lot to live up to in the sense that Uncanny 225 was the start of the Fall of the Mutants arc. Just the numbering on Legacy is giving me flashbacks…this is right where I started reading Uncanny. I don’t know why that’s weird, but it is. Anyway, the story itself is actually pretty decent, I’m just tired of Xavier, sorry. It looks like Rogue has moved on to whatever the next stage in her character/power development cycle will be, potentially driven there by Danger to spite Professor X by doing one thing he couldn’t do? Maybe? Who knows, either way, 224 looks to be pretty good.
The New Exiles series is off to a good start. The cover is hideous and looks like it was drawn by a 12 year old learning how to draw anime from a book, but hey it’s prettier on the inside.
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