What a great book . . . and story-line. This one wraps up the whole Messiah Complex thing. Well . . it doesn't wrap it up, but . . it is the final chapter. In typical Marvel fashion, it leaves more questions unanswered. And, of course, it's the jumping off point for a couple of new books. First there's the new X-Force, which has already come out. And it looks . . incredible. Plus, at the end of this issue, we see what happens to Cable and the baby. They both end up going in to the future, to live their lives. I'm not trying to give away the ending there, because really it's just the beginning for the new Cable series. They also shake up everything else in the Marvel Universe that is the X-Men. First of all, we don't really know who lived, who died, or who was injured from this whole war between the X-Men and the Marauders. It appears that Pixie has taken one of them out with her soul-dagger. The first person she's killed. I think. And Rogue has taken out Mystique. It appears that the baby did indeed cure her, but when Mystique explains to her what she had to do to fix her up . . . she's horrified. So she decides to punish her by wiping her mind clean. But it isn't until afterwards that she realizes that when the baby cured her, it not only took away Strain 88 and the Hecatomb, but it also took away everyone else that had been trapped in her mind with her. She was completely clear. Well . . until Mystique joined them. And X-Force, or more specifically Wolverine, take out Predator-X. At least that's what it looks like. Wolverine jumps in and guts him from the inside. Finally, Cable, Scott and Charles have to decide what to do with the baby. Cable and Charles already know what they want to do, but they have to convince Scott. I may be wrong, but I think this baby, is actually the future Rachel. When Scott holds her, and sees her potential . . he concedes to Cable and Charles' decision. But, as they're 'porting in to the time stream, Bishop, for some reason, decides to take matters in to his own hands. He tries to take the baby out the old fashioned way . . with bullets. He misses Cable and the baby . . but hits Charles . . repeatedly . . in the head. I don't think he's dead. But, at the very least, he's brain damaged. Seeing this turn of events, Scott decides to disband the X-Men. Mike Carey and Chris Bachalo bring us this issue. It's an excellent final chapter to this story-line. An end to the beginning . . as it were. Now we'll just have to wait to see what the future holds . . literally.
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