I liked this mini-series, and I definitely enjoyed the story by CB Cebulski. Also Giuseppe Camuncoli's art really fit this book perfectly. Not to mention the wrapping of the whole thing with the beautiful David Finch covers. However, this particular issue . . to me didn't really resolve a whole lot. But, I think that was the point. Really, this whole series serves as the prelude to the new New Mutants series coming out next month. Basically, from what I can see, this series has just kind of set up the ground-work for, probably, the first year of stories in that book. Witchfire has taken the 'bloodstones' from Illyana. But even Illyana was missing 1 or 2. So Witchfire got Pixies from her, and then somehow created the final one. This serves as the power-source to open some doorway for some 'elder-gods' to come through. Apparently this could mean the end of all creation. Anyways, of course the X-Men fight back . . Wolverine, Peter, Kurt, Mercury, Pixie and Illyana do all they can to stop the 'gods' incursion, and hold them back while Mercury and Illyana try to deal with Witchfire. Long story short . . they stop the immediate threat, putting a crimp in Witchfire's plans, however . . Witchfire escapes and has Illyana and Pixie's 'bloodstones' with her. Now neither of them feel complete or whole. And before they can really do anything about it, they're all transported back to the Mansion. There they find the X-Men, and a lot of their old team-members waiting for them. And this time, somehow, Pete and Scott end up talking Illyana into sticking around and letting the X-Men . . or maybe the New Mutants, help her deal with all of this craziness. I would imagine that the New Mutants book will pick up immediately thereafter. I'm glad that the New Mutants are coming back, but . . I hope this isn't the end of the road for the Young X-Men. Unless of course they all get incorporated into the various X-teams. Anyways, I'm also glad that Illyana is back. Hopefully with the new title they'll finally be able to wrap up this story-line that's been going on for . . what? . . about 20 or so years now?
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