"Grow a pair."
Second Coming Chapter 3 invades New Mutants
What you need to know from Chapter 1 and 2, Hope and Cable are back. Scott has sent out his Alpha Team to bring them in, while having his Beta Team hover over the country. X-Force has been revealed. Hope has fallen in love with Hotel beds. William Stryker has located Cable and Hope while the Alpha team has just arrived.
The New Mutants deal with A weapons manufacturing facility, while Alpha team try to recover Hope.
The Good
While there's a lot going on in this issue, it ties into the title and the overall series, so kudos to the writing team on that end.
What I mean is that the New Mutants play a role in the book, it's not a crossover that just uses the title to bring different people to the story, it's logical.
The art was consistent throughout the book, and you can definitely see the difference in the women of the X-Men (meaning they don't all look the same.)
Continuity, Continuity, Continuity. It really made my day when they referenced an event that happened in Messiah CompleX. I won't tell you who or how, but when you see it it's pretty obvious and I thought it was really cool.
The Bad
There's really not a lot. The only thing that was bad was the fact that if you're reading Second Coming as a re-entry into the X-Men world, especially with this title, you might get a little lost with who the New Mutants are.
The BAMF
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but whenever Kurt teleports the word to describe the sound is BAMF, which I find amazingly hilarious. Every time I see that it makes me chuckle.
The Verdict
Second Coming has yet to let up. It's been on a good pace throughout the first 3 installments. This issue kept the story going, while focusing on the New Mutants for some time. If you've been reading Second Coming this is a must, if you haven't You really need to start from chapter one because you might get more than a little lost. Also, if for some reason you JUST read New Mutants and have decided to skip Second Coming, I suggest you change your mind because Second Coming is invading this series for the next couple issues. It was a well paced installment, and as always the Cliffhanger made me want to come back for Chapter 4
