Well, this issue wraps up the Red-Queen story-line. It ended about as I expected, but . . there were a few things of interest along the way. Last issue ended with the Red-Queen's Sisterhood grabbing the lock of Jean's hair that Logan had kept in his possession. This came as a complete surprise to . . well, everybody except for Logan. Needless to say, Logan and Scott don't really talk to each other much this issue. Anyways, I thought they were going to clone her or something, but the lock of hair was so she could use a magic spell to point out where it's original owner was . . the cemetery behind the mansion. But Scott already knew that, so he, Logan, Northstar and Peter immediately head back towards the school. Luckily though, they find out that Domino isn't to far from the school right now. Anyways, the Red-Queen, along with Spiral, Deathstrike and Chimera head out to get the body. She leaves the Mastermind Sisters, as well as Kwannon and Betsy Braddock behind. Well . . she doesn't have much of a choice with Kwannon and Betsy, but the sisters are supposed to protect them. Needless to say, Storm, Emma, Allison and Armor take them out pretty fast. Allison hurts Kwannon, helping to release her grip a bit on Psylocke's psych. Betsy soon takes care of her on the mental-plane, and . . she returns to her body, and Psylocke is back. Meanwhile, when Scott got ahold of Domino, he had her pull the old switcheroo. So when the Red-Queen tries to enter Jean's body . . it's not actually Jean. Therefore . . she burns it up pretty fast. The good news is Betsy's back. The bad news . . all the rest of the Sisterhood escape, and I think it seems like a pretty hallow victory over the Red-Queen. Plus, you know she's going to be back. Right? But, to me, the most important scene in the whole book was at the end when Hank comes into Scott and Emma's room to wake them up. Something is bothering him, and it bothers him enough that he doesn't care if he inconveniences them. "Lots of secrets filling these halls nowadays, Scott. Logan leading a gang off to god knows where. Bloodstained clothes in the laundry. Warren transforming into Archangel again. To say nothing of what you've been up to Miss Frost. Secrets, Scott. Secrets, Emma. In these times . . these awful, fractious times . . we . . are all we have left. I'm taking the X-Club on a mission come daylight. I expect I'll be gone some time. But when I get back, we're having it aaall out. Do you hear me? These secrets will kill us. And I won't stick around to watch it happen." Boy, he really got a lot off his chest, didn't he? It'll be interesting to see what this little 'adventure' he has planned for the scientists is, and . . it'll be interesting to see what happens when he comes back. All in all I thought it was a great issue by Matt Fraction and Greg Land. The final 2 pages of the book are by Terry Dodson. I think Matt's doing a great job with these stories, but . . I don't really feel like they've let him cut loose yet. He's a 'big-idea' man also . . like Mark Millar, or Grant Morrison, but . . we haven't seen to many of those yet. There's been some interesting concepts, but nothing really 'ground-breaking'. I'm enjoying what he's doing right now, but I'm waiting for that 'ah-ha' moment.
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