This whole issue, really, is just one big slug-fest between the X-Men and the Skrulls. Although it does help to illustrate just how strong Scott is as a leader. Apparently the Skrulls didn't know about the X-Men moving to the West Coast. So they thought that would be a pretty easy acquisition. And everybody knows what happens when you assume. Anyways, they aren't expecting anyone to fight back, so when the X-Men show up it throws a serious kink into their plans. Besides all the guerrilla warfare that Scott's deploying against the enemy, he has Emma and the Cuckoo's attempting to figure out where, and how, they're blocking all transmissions . . including telepathy. Also he knows that the enemy will hone in on their form of transportation . . teleporters . . so he sets up a trap, with Pixie as the bait, to lure one of the Super-skrulls in. He then has X-Force take him down. He wants to take out their mother-ship, but before doing so his plan is to use the guerrilla tactics to keep them tied down until they gather the intel that they need for a major strike. In the meantime he's tasked Hank with coming up with something to take out the mother-ship . . a 'doomsday device'. Hank says it would help if he had a tissue sample, so that's why Scott had X-Force take out the Skrull. I also think that this orb that Kurt has come in to possession of, is somehow going to be a big key to this whole thing. But for some reason he hasn't told anybody else about it . . . including Scott. I like the way that Mike Carey has constructed this story. It really shows how the X-Men's best asset is there ability to fight as a team . . an army. I do have to say though, I'm a little disappointed in Cary Nord's pencils. They seem pretty rushed, and nowhere near his usual talent level. Although we do have a pretty awesome Terry Dodson cover. I'd also like to state that I bought this because it's an X-Men mini-series, not because it a Secret Invasion book. I just wanted to put that out there.
No comments:
Post a Comment