The story-line in this book, by Ed Brubaker, was pretty cool. Again, it's another kind of in-between book. The Mutant Messiah story-line has just ended, and right now the entire X-Men universe is kind of in upheaval. So now we're beginning the whole X-Men Divided story-lines. Which from my understanding is really going to turn the various X-Men titles into their own individual entities. I'm sure there will be some connections here and there. But overall . . pretty much everyone needs to discover their own course. Especially now. Well . . except for X-Force that is. It looks like their going to be Scott's own pistol. He just finds a target and points them at it. But anyways, this issue Scott tells Tony Stark, " . . as of right now, there is no X-Men. Charles Xavier's dreams died in that institute. We're all just mutants now, Tony . . and we don't have secret identities. How you want to deal with that is your problem." And then he and Emma took off for vacation in the Savage Land. Well . . not really a vacation, but . . some time for Scott to think about where they're going and how they're going to get there. And the love between them really does seem real. But, Nightcrawler, Colossus and Wolverine are about to get in to some kind of trouble in Russia. They're on their way there right now, from Germany. And Warren seems to have dived in to the middle of something in San Francisco. Some kind of mind-control, alternate reality type thing. I don't know. I guess we'll find out more next issue. But, what I really wanted to comment on, is that no matter how good the rest of this book is . . . the artwork or Ryan Choi and and Sonia Oback was just off the hook. It was absolutely incredible. Look at that cover. That's how the whole interior of this book looks also. It really is fantastic. There are some panels in here that are worthy of framing and putting on a wall someplace. Especially some of the scenes from the Savage Land. Beautiful stuff. I'm not sure if this is how the book is going to continue, but I sure do hope so. A fantastic issue.
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