X-Men Legacy #211 - Marvel

I really like the direction that Mike Carey is taking with this book . . and story. Right now were focusing on Charles' recovery. Exodus recently helped him put his mind back together, but . . there's still a lot of holes. Especially in his memory. His decision, much to the chagrin of everybody else, it to go it alone. He believes that it'll be better for him to try to sort out the past with the reconnection of old relationships. And we're not talking about relationships with past or current X-Men. No, we're talking about a lot earlier than that. In one of his meditative states, he goes back to his mother's womb to talk to his twin sister. He's also looking into his own father's past . . Brian Xavier. When Charles was young, 7 or so, his father was a geneticist that worked with Kurt Marko, Irene Adler and a Dr. Milbury. They were geneticists, but they were basically working undercover out of a Nuclear research facility. We don't find out why, this issue. However, when he goes to a mental facility to reconnect with his childhood friend Carter Ryking . . in his memories, he finds out that Dr. Milbury is actually Sinister. The problem is, I don't thing Charles really knows who Sinister is right now. And his friend, Carter, ends up dead the day after Charles' visit. Also, it appears that there is somebody trying to take Charles out . . or at least silence him. Charles foils them twice, the second with the help of Gambit, but he doesn't figure out their purpose or origin. Also in this issue is some trouble at the Hellfire Club in Manhattan. Particularly with Sebastian Shaw. It seems that he's in a pickle, or sorts, because of a machine that his deceased father asked him to keep in his company. It recently activated, somehow, and has taken out 2 employees in the process. And the Juggernaut is having some problems of his own. Somebody, a very powerful telepath . . he thinks even stronger than Charles . . is trying to access his brain. The Amulet of Cyttorak has stopped them, but it still has caused Cain no small amount of pain. And all of this is wrapped in the beautiful art of Scot Eaton. I assume that we've adopted the "Legacy" moniker here because of the influx of X-Men history here. It seems that we're going to be digging in to the very origins of the mutant phenomenon, and how Charles, and now is father, were willing, or unwilling, masons in that endeavor. Well . . whatever . . it's going to be a thoroughly fascinating story-line and I can't wait to see where they go with it.