This issue wraps up both of our story-lines . . . kind of. As far as San Francisco goes . . the 'Goddess' behind this whole transformation of the city was actually Martinique Wyngarde, Jason's daughter, and a Mastermind herself. Scott and Emma showed up last issue and got into a scuffle with some of their own transformed team-mates. The violence was enough to distract Martinique, and then Emma was able to break her way past her psychic barriers. After that it was pretty much over. Except, Martinique has disappeared. At the end of the book we see that someone is helping her, and she's doing it so they can be ready for the X-Men when they arrive. Oh yeah, through this whole process, Warren saved the Mayor's life and so now she is welcoming them to the city with open arms. This is going to be the X-Men's new hometown. But more on that in the next issue . . . issue #500. Can you believe it? Anyways, the second storyline . . the one about Kurt, Logan and Peter in Russia . . also comes to a conclusion. They're ended is a little more wrapped up than the first, but . . it seems like it happened awful fast. At the end of last issue, they were standing face to face with Arkady, Omega Red. There's a bit of a scuffle here with him and Logan and Peter . . they seem like Arkady is about to beat them. Finally Kurt, who's been watching from the side-lines comes in . . . bamf's him up into the atmosphere, and then drops him back down on the facility. Next thing we know . . SHIELD's cleaning up . . and the boys are heading to their new digs in San Francisco. It just all seemed a little to quick and clean for me. But they did have to wrap it up so they could get on to issue #500. This appears to be Ed Brubaker's last story here. Matt Fraction is taking over next issue. Also this issues art was by Mike Choi and Ben Oliver. Ben did the San Fransisco part of the story. It was ok. Mike however did the Russian part of the story, and it was incredible. I think that's why I was kind of put off by Ben's work, because Mike's was so good. But they're also moving on after this issue. They have next issue's artists listed as Greg Land and Terry Dodson. Wow! That should be a heck of an issue. I just want to say to Ed, Mike and Ben, that I really enjoyed their run here and I'll be looking for where they'll be popping up next. Thanks for the great issues. Now . . . #500!
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