X-Force #22 - Marvel

Selene's plan isn't going exactly as planned. When they got to Genosha, she thought that she's simply raise 17 million mutants from the dead, build her city, and then ascend to the status of a Goddess. Of course she's have to suck the souls out of all of them to do that. Anyways, after raising the deceased on this island, she soon discovers that only about 1 million of them still have their powers. For some reason the rest of them have been shut of . . Selene can feel them like a memory. Even though most of these people died before M-Day. So . . now she doesn't have as many mutants at her disposal, but . . she's still got 16 million slaves. I'm sure it's still enough souls for her ascension. She was just looking forward to the mutant ones. She likes the taste better. She also has another problem. In order to perform the ritual, and cast the spell, she needs her blade that she entrusted to Eli. However, when he raised the Apache tribe from the dead, their souls, or bodies, were protected by spirits. Long story short, he used the blade to fight them back, but before he could retrieve it, it had disappeared. When he went back for it, he found out that James had gotten it. So now . . it's in the possession of the X-Men. The X-Men are already fighting all kinds of resurrected mutants, friends and foes alike. And they don't seem to be making much progress. They're really put off when Selene's inner circle shows up, courtesy of Blink, to retrieve the sword. But Eli may have to find some sanctuary. He's the one that lost the sword, and Blink ratted him out to Selene. So if the X-Men no longer have the sword . . they're supposed to leave Eli among the dead. Anyways, some other developments . .Bobby's not doing very well . . Warren is having some problems with his wings . . and . . Rahne is pregnant. But . . it's not human or mutant. And whatever it is . . it's killing her. The wolf prince goes off and calls Hela to the island. But that may have been a mistake. She doesn't appear to be very happy about it all. It was an ok story. I know these guys have been resurrected through sorcery and the techno-organic virus. But . . to me . . it just seems like they're all fighting a bunch of zombies. I thought we already did the zombie-Marvel thing. I guess now we're doing it with a twist . . and maybe some lime and salt. Anyways, it's an interesting story if for no other reason than I'd like to see how it all comes out. Either this is going to drastically change the X-Men . . and all it's various franchises, or . . maybe this will all lead into whatever set of circumstances need to occur to reverse M-Day. We still have a few more chapters and a couple of months to go. By the way, this issue was brought to us by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost and Clayton Crain. The back-up story about Hope was brought to us by Duane Swiercyznski and Steve Dillon. We basically just see Hope and Cable interact, but . . she is probably in her early 20's now. And . . at one point we see a glimmer of the Phoenix force in her eyes. Hopefully this story will develop further in Cable's own book. Anyways, we don't see X-Force specifically this issue. But . . we do see a whole lot of X-Men.