New X-Men #31 - Marvel

This is another book that just seems like it's getting better and better every issue. At the end of last issue, we saw the new X-Men (Talon, Rockslide, Mercury, Dust, Surge and David Alleyne) being pinned down, along with Forge, by Nimrod. It definitely appears that things are not going to go their way. It looks like some tragedy is in the forcast for them again also. The first down is Rockslide. Nimrod gets ready to throw a blast at Jullian, but Rockslide jumps between and is blown into a million pieces. Then David gets a good bite of Nimrod when he grabs a plasma cannon, or something, and shoots off half his head when Surge is about to be terminated. After hammering away at Nimrod, with little or no success, it finally dawns on Forge that the time device inside Nimrod is not the original, so would therefore be a weak spot. Talon, X-23, is the next one to go down, as she trys to soften him up for Mercury's and Surge's attack. Nimrod frys her. Which sends Mercury and Nori into a rampage. This seems to accomplish the task, and Nimrod is blinked out of time. But that's not the end for the newbies. Rockslide has managed to pull his face back together so he can talk, and Jullian uses his telekinesis to help him pull the rest of him together. But then they realize that Talon is laying on the floor in a crispy smell. Jullian goes over the edge and, with a boost from Emma, uses his powers to fly Talon back to the campus so he can try to get Foley, Elixir, to use his powers to heal her. But this is a big gamble because he' s been down ever since he thought he killed Stryker. But the emotions and the urgency from Jullian is enough to bring him out of his funk, and he does indeed heal her. In the 2 epilogues we learn first that the Govenor is in bed with Strykers chuch, and that Matthew Risman appears to be ready to take over for the reverend after they retrieve his body from the O.N.E.. We then learn that the temporal jump by Nimrod has sent him back into the X-men's past, specifically where he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #192.