Exiles #93 - Marvel

This has always been one of my favorite books. Mainly because the status quo, is that there is no status quo. I like it when things get shaken up. The comics market, and the average Joe reader, I think, is much more savvy now. I think they're smarter, and they know what they want. I think that they also know that in real life, and yes I know we're not dealing in real life, but, in real life things do change. As much as you want them to stay the same, as much as you'd like to pick up your favorite book, and read about your favorite characters, and although you'd like to read about adventures that may change the characters essentially do not, as much as all that is comforting and nostalgic . . . . it's not very realistic. Things change. Crap happens. Events happen. And we usually end up in a different place, or in a different circle than when the event first happened. That's not always comfortable, and we often wish that we could go back to simpler times, it's just part of the life cycle. Stuff happens, you learn from it, and you move on. And you wait for the next stuff to happen. The only difference in this book is that sometimes they don't wait for stuff to happen, they go out looking for it. Which shows a lot of cahones. Our team is on a would now that they're supposed to kill Reed Richards. Why? Because Sue Richards is Madame Hydra, Wolverine is her consort. And their plans, of which they're already well on their way, is to take over the world, control it, dominate it . . . . whatever. Reed and his rag-tag band of freedom fighters are really the last of the holdouts. So why do they have to kill him? Because if they don't, his dimensional hopping devices will fall in to Sue's hands and her reign of terror will spread across the multiverse. And from the looks of the last page of this issue, that concern may come to fruition. So either they're going to take Reed out, or they'll be following Hydra across the multiverse for the next couple of issues. This is a fantastic story by the incomparable Chris Claremont. So glad he's back on board. And the incredible artwork is by Paul Pelletier. They work well together, and the story shows it. I honestly never thought this book would make it to 100 issues, but here we are. Almost there. Congratulations to everyone on a great book.