X-Men Legacy #228 - Marvel

This is another part of the Nation X storyline. But here, the X-Men are dealing with Emplate who showed up again last issue because he needs a new food source. Since Penance has died, he needs a new source of mutant bone-marrow. He doesn't really want to fight the X-Men. He's mad at them for exiling him into the dimension that he's forced to live in, but . . right now a food source is more important. So last issue he took on of the kids, Bling. This issue we find out that another of the kids, Trance, is able to see the dimensional portal that Emplate traveled through. She wants to go in and get her friend, but Scott won't see it because she's young and inexperienced. So . . Rogue volunteers. The problem with taking someone else's powers though is that she has no experience with them. She goes into the dimensional rift, and finds Emplate's house, but before she can do anything to help Bling DOA finds her snooping through Emplate's room. He sets some kind of dragons, or demons on her that feed off of ghosts. The issue ends with her being chased down by them. There's really not much else in this issue to speak of. Emplate does give us a few tidbits of information though. First he tells DOA, 'I can feel my tormentors hovering. I'll have to feed again if I'm to survive their touch.' Then later when he goes into Bling's cell to feed, he tells her 'I need you, Roxanne. To give me the strength to bear what must be borne.' Whatever that means. This is part 2 or a 4 part story-line, 'Devil at the Crossroads'. Mike Carey writes it, and Daniel Acuna provides the spectacular art. This guy has really improved his game over the last couple of years. This should be an interesting story-line. We'll just have to see where it goes.