Young X-Men #10 - Marvel

I really enjoy this book. Much more than I thought I would in the beginning. Especially after going through about 3 different title changes. BTW . . there's a new New Mutants title slated to come out this year. Yay! I'm not sure of the line-up yet, but . . I think there's a few of the old team there. Anyways, with this title, maybe because it's a younger team, or maybe because it's had the same core group of characters for a while now . . . with this title I really feel like I've come to know and care about the characters. They all have such great personalities and interact so well. Which, I guess, is just a credit to Marc Guggenheim's writing skills. This issue he lets us know some more about Cipher, mostly, but also a bit about our Greymalkin also. Cipher's actually been a mutant in training for quite a while now. She's got phasing powers, invisibility . . which includes an almost psychic invisibility also, and Scott and Jean were the only 2 that knew about her. At first. Now, in the last few issues, she's also come to care about these characters and has attached herself to their lives a bit. It seems that she stayed behind in the mansion when everything went to hell and they all decided to relocate to San Francisco. That when Donald Pierce, disguised as Cyclops, reassembled the team and started training them there. That's also around the same time the Greymalkin awoke to find himself about 200 years in the future. Cipher was there when he came sifting out of the rubble and they became friends of convenience. Soon after she started befriending Blind-fold. Apparently though she's hiding from someone. She mentions to Scott that she's afraid for him, this someone, to find out that she's still alive. She doesn't want to put her new-found friends in the line of fire. Which is why she's gone to such great lengths to stay invisible from everybody. But that's not the only problems this group is facing right now. Also, Dust appears to be dying. Hank is trying to help her, but it looks like she may find her salvation from . . . Donald Pierce. He's offering to help, but . . she has to get him out of his jail cell. And everybody is still questioning Ink's status, considering that he's not actually a mutant, and . . . they don't know what to make of his newest power, the power of the Phoenix. Like I said, with this book . . you really get to come to care about these kids. I think Marc's doing a fantastic job. I also think that Ben Oliver's pencils are fitting these characters quite well. He gives the characters a certain feel, and this issue he really made the book his own. I hope he sticks around for a while. I love all the X-Men, but . . right now this is one of my favorite titles.