X-Men #201 - Marvel

This issue really doesn't take us to much farther than where we ended up last issue. Emma is incapacitated, so she's trying to use her mental powers to work through Sam. She's been picking at the brains of the Marauders, and has learned ". . . this isn't a grudge fight, mister Guthrie. It's much bigger than that . . . I'm downloading everything I found into your brain. Their goals Their remaining targets. It may give you some slight advantage. But only if you get out of here alive." She then takes over his body, and blasts him out of the building. But he does manage to pick up Bobby on the way out. Bobby is also incapacitated. Mystique knocked him out of commission with some neural inhibitors. Remember when they made love last issue? Well the neural inhibitors were " . . . in my lipstick . . . and . . . elsewhere." Sam and Bobby take off in the Blackbird, but they're far from safe. Somehow Mystique has gotten Sunfire to fight for her also. And he's attacking the jet. Meanwhile, back at the school, Peter and Katya are trying to keep everybody calm. But something happens to Blindfold when she touches Josh. And then another team strikes them. It's led by Exodus. They must be working in collusion with Mystique. It's to much of a coincidence that both teams are being attacked like this. Mike Carey writes it. And it's a decent story, but he really didn't give away any information this issue. At least nothing we can put together. Humberto Ramos does the pencils. They are, of course fantastic. In the next chapter of Endangered Species, Hank has taken all the information the Dr. Rao has given him and has been going through it. But he's not sure if it's going to help or not. So he decides to go to the old Weapon X facility and look for some answers there. But someone has beat him there, much as they did with the High Evolutionary. Somebody's already gone through all the files, and looked at all the tapes. But this time he waited around for Hank. It's the Dark Beast. You know. The one from the Age of Apocalypse universe. So now their either going to have to work together, fight . . . or tango. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here.