X-Force #12 - Marvel

I kind of got the feeling from this one that sooner or later . . the Leper Queen is going to switch sides. I may be wrong but . . at the very least, she'll probably take her own life. A few issues ago the team went to one of Sinister's old hide-outs to retrieve a vial of Legacy Virus that was left over. That's where they grabbed the Vanisher. Long story short, they ended up with it, but they didn't know that there was another one that Bastion has. So now, in his crusade to rid the world of mutants he has a new weapon. Well . . actually 2. The Leper Queen and the Legacy Virus. They've begun working in tandem this issue to perpetuate Bastion's plans. Basically what they're doing is attacking the Friends of Humanity rallies by injecting a mutant with the virus and then letting them loose in the crowd before their powers overload. The first time they take out 1100 people. Which immediately alerts the X-Men to this problem. So Logan's team has split up for the 4 rallies that are currently going on. On the final page of the book, it looks like Laura and Warren have chosen the short end of the stick. Fever Pitch shows up at their rally already sick from the disease. Anyways, back to the Leper Queen . . she's the one that's following through on Bastion's plans. However, according to her inner dialogue, she abhors all of this loss of human life. It's starting to make her sick, the level of peripheral damage and loss of life that Bastion's willing to accept to get his message across. I'm not sure what she's going to do, but I think it's going to be her that slows Bastion down . . not X-Force. Although they'll try. We also see this issue that Scott has Hank working on some time-control devices to send the team into the future to eliminate Bishop. Although, Hank isn't aware of their intended use . . yet. Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost are doing a fantastic job with this series. I'm enjoying the way that their stories are unfolding and how it always looks like everything is stacked against the home-team here. Also, it looks like Clayton Crain is returning for this story-arc. Fan-frikkin-tastic! The work he's turning in is amazing. This book is at the top of the heap, again.