This is really turning into an honest to god X-men book. It's not the X-kids, or X-men Beta-test, anymore. These guys are operating, and getting into world class situations, just like the main team. In this issue, they go to Dallas to help Forge in his fight with Nimrod. Well, actually, they're responding to a distress call that Forge sent out last issue. Nimrod has come back from the future, thanks to a device that the Forge in the future installed. But, now it's broken, and needs Forge's help to repair itself. Forge, in his usual crafty fashion, gets it to meld with an earlier version, one that he can control, and force it to protect mutants rather that trying to exterminate them. But Nimrod has already sent a bunch of satellites of itself to deal with the arrival of the New Mutants, er X-men I mean. So when Forge feels safer, because he's altered Nimrod's programming, he sends it down to help protect the kids. Well in usual non-experienced form, they've been fighting all these robots, and now a bigger one shows up, well . . . . they attack it as hard as they can. You know, shoot first, ask questions later. Well, all this does is break Nimrod free of Forge's alterations. The final splash page is Nimrod exploding Eagle Plaza. And we know that everyone is still inside. Honest to god, this book is every bit as exciting as X-Men Alpha, or X-Men Prime, or whatever. But it's earning it's place in the X-men universe. Exselsior!
No comments:
Post a Comment