Hi Readers,
I recently bought another Trade Paperback which was X-Men Messiah Complex. It set me back 30 bucks, which I thought was a bit pricey, but I was dying to get this. One of the issues that stood out to me was X-men #207 mostly because of Bachalo's incredible art!
While reading, a couple of questions crossed my mind. Now that Rogue has been wiped clean of all of her past absorptions, does she still have Ms Marvel's and Sunfire's powers? I would assume that she does not, but within the story, Rogue leaves without explaining that she does or doesn't. Also, in the story, Pixie stabs Malice(the Omega Sentinel) in the torso with her soul dagger, but what exactly does that do? Magik's soul sword and Pixie's soul dagger are a complete mystery to me. Do these weapons hurt people physically? Mentally? Spiritually?
The Good: Like I stated before, Bachalo's art is incredible! His illustrating style is fantastic and cartoonish, but can also be savage and brutal. I was excited to see that Sunfire (from the regular 616 reality) had adopted the costume of his Age of Apocalypse counterpart. I'm pretty sure that readers everywhere were happy to see the change. It was also beautifully gorey for Dust to eviscerate Exodus's insides while he battled Emma Frost. Not only was this action unexpected of an X-Man, but it could not have happened to a nicer guy! I loved the fact that this issue was a free-for-all fight between the X-Men, new X-Men, Marauders, Predator X and Cable. The chaos let readers know that anything could happen and many characters were going to be hurt from this fight.
The Bad: Even though I liked the big battle between all of these opposing forces, I thought it was a bad move for all of these mutants to be so incredibly careless during the fight with each other's lives. Their species is on the edge of extinction and everyone is trying to kill each other. I understand that these are trying times for both sides of this fight, but I figured that with extinction on the horizon, each team would have kept that fact in mind instead of attempting to kill each other. Another aspect that I did not care for, was Bishop loosing his arm in the fight with Predator X. It didn't seem to serve a purpose and this particular injury makes him too "Cable-esque" since he has to now wear a mechanical arm. Now both Cable and Bishop are two mutant time-traveling, metal armed, big muscled mutants with opposite objectives. Bishop should be his own character! What's next, is Cyclops going to sprout claws from his knuckles and start calling people bub? You see my point?
Overall this was a great comic book within a great story line. Let me know what you think also!
@~~~~~~~~}~~~~~~~ Devin Peacock
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