Ok . . this whole thing all started when Bastion came across the techno-organic virus. Eli Bard was there with his when he discovered it, and together they used it to raise from the dead a whole slew of the X-Men's enemies, including Donald Pierce and the Leper Queen. Now, after all this time, Bastion is discovering that even though he's brought these people back, with the help of the TO, they still retain their own minds. They follow Bastion's orders, but . . if they're strong enough they can fight back. Also, the whole time he's been manipulating things from behind the scenes . . we've never really found out what he's up to, or his ultimate goal. And now he's escalated those plans because of Selena's unwarranted involvement. Anyways, Eli eventually left Bastion and took the TO with him to Selena. She altered it with some mysticism and is using it to raise dead mutants. Apparently she thinks that with enough of a following she'll be elevated to the status of Goddess. She's already immortal. What does it matter how many followers you have after 1000's of years of life? They're all just going to fade and go away anyways. Last issue ended with her and some of her followers arriving on the isle of Genosha. It wasn't hard to guess what her plans were. Eli cracks the ground and all the dead souls on this lost island begin coming back to life. The Cuckoo's sense this on Cerebra, and by the end of the book the population has risen to 1,652,106. That's a whole lot of people under her control. Even before that her plan was already showing cracks. Last issue Destiny already went off on her own to give Blindfold a warning. And this issue . . this issue Selena has to stop her attack on the X-Men, by the Hellions, to send them after Doug Ramsey who no longer seems to be in her control. Normally I don't think she'd sweat losing one follower, but . . I think she has some specific plans for him. So . . does that pretty much give you the lay of the land? So far all the X-Men have done is react to all of this. I don't even know if they really know what's going on here. But they better get up to speed quick. Anyways, I thought this was a pretty good issue by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost. And I absolutely love Clayton Crain's art. My only complaint was that during some of the X-Men's fight scenes, the panels were so dark that it was a little hard to tell sometimes just who was fighting who. The dialogue helped sort it out, but . . it just seemed like things were a little more shaded than they needed to be. But that's just me. Really . . I can't wait to see where this story goes next.
Friday, November 13, 2009
X-Force #21 - Marvel
Ok . . this whole thing all started when Bastion came across the techno-organic virus. Eli Bard was there with his when he discovered it, and together they used it to raise from the dead a whole slew of the X-Men's enemies, including Donald Pierce and the Leper Queen. Now, after all this time, Bastion is discovering that even though he's brought these people back, with the help of the TO, they still retain their own minds. They follow Bastion's orders, but . . if they're strong enough they can fight back. Also, the whole time he's been manipulating things from behind the scenes . . we've never really found out what he's up to, or his ultimate goal. And now he's escalated those plans because of Selena's unwarranted involvement. Anyways, Eli eventually left Bastion and took the TO with him to Selena. She altered it with some mysticism and is using it to raise dead mutants. Apparently she thinks that with enough of a following she'll be elevated to the status of Goddess. She's already immortal. What does it matter how many followers you have after 1000's of years of life? They're all just going to fade and go away anyways. Last issue ended with her and some of her followers arriving on the isle of Genosha. It wasn't hard to guess what her plans were. Eli cracks the ground and all the dead souls on this lost island begin coming back to life. The Cuckoo's sense this on Cerebra, and by the end of the book the population has risen to 1,652,106. That's a whole lot of people under her control. Even before that her plan was already showing cracks. Last issue Destiny already went off on her own to give Blindfold a warning. And this issue . . this issue Selena has to stop her attack on the X-Men, by the Hellions, to send them after Doug Ramsey who no longer seems to be in her control. Normally I don't think she'd sweat losing one follower, but . . I think she has some specific plans for him. So . . does that pretty much give you the lay of the land? So far all the X-Men have done is react to all of this. I don't even know if they really know what's going on here. But they better get up to speed quick. Anyways, I thought this was a pretty good issue by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost. And I absolutely love Clayton Crain's art. My only complaint was that during some of the X-Men's fight scenes, the panels were so dark that it was a little hard to tell sometimes just who was fighting who. The dialogue helped sort it out, but . . it just seemed like things were a little more shaded than they needed to be. But that's just me. Really . . I can't wait to see where this story goes next.
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