Sunday, July 16, 2006

Uncanny X-Men #475 - Marvel

Ed Brubaker and Billy Tan take over this title this month. And they go into it with a BANG!!! First is this awesome wrap around cover by Billy. It's incredible. Then right from page one, we're thrown into the action. Basically, Xavier's marriage has been annulled. So, all their Shiar technology has stopped working. Hank runs diagnostics and decides that the problem is at the other end. The Shiar end. So Xavier decides he wants to put together a strike team to head out there, for that reason, and to head off Vulcan, Scott's brother, who is also on his way out there to kill everyone. So he puts together Hank, Nightcrawler, Warpath, Havok, Rachel and a reluctant Polaris. In his recruitment of Polaris, we get to see her on her trek since she left in X-Men #187. She's in Cairo, but she has an anti Apocalypse cult after her. Who also seem to have some pretty high tech stuff at their disposal. There's the usual thrashing by the X-men, and then they're off on their mission. Oh yeah, they have to steal a spaceship first. There fist stop is going to be to intersect Vulcan's path and try to "bring him back to humanity." So he's either going to be a opponent, or if he comes to his senses, a proponent and join their team. We'll see which way the ball bounces. Anyways, good book. This is the beginning of what should be a great storyline. And I see some changes, or maybe a spinoff coming for these specific characters in the near future. But that's just me guessing.

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