I enjoyed this issue. Especially the Terry Dodson cover. But, in the end, it all felt kind of anti-climatic to me. Basically the X-men, specifically Scott and Hank, are wrestling with the decision of whether to take out the Skrulls with the Legacy Virus. Last issue Hank experimented on the Super-Skrull that Scott had brought to him and found out that the virus spread even faster through the Skrulls than it did through mutants. So now they have to decide whether to use it or not. The problem is . . if they do, it'll basically be akin to genocide. Especially if it begins to spread through the whole race. But, they have to decide fast as the Skrulls have captured and dispersed about 50,000 civilians through various office building downtown. They have them locked in and their gun-turrets aimed at them unless the X-Men surrender. Basically, that's what they do, but they cover themselves and their clothes int he virus so that as soon as they're taken to their ships it will spread. Also they split up into smaller groups so they affect more ships. It was a pretty risky plan on Scott's part because he does all of this without the assurance that Hank has developed an antidote. Anyways, in the end the Skrull commander decides that he's not going to be taken down without a fight . . sitting back and waiting for the virus to take it's effects. So instead he decides to scuttle the whole fleet. In the end the X-Men stand victorious, they free the civilians, and they're the heroes of San Francisco. Yippee! Who cares. I mean, you knew in the beginning they were going to win. It was just a matter of how they did it. And the whole thing with the crystal ball that Kurt's been arguing with this entire series was completely ignored this issue. So what did that have to do with anything? Anyways, the series accomplished it's goals, thanks to Mike Carey. But in the end I just felt like, who cares? Also I wasn't overly thrilled with Carey Nord's art. It was all kind of to pastel-ish for me.
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