Days of Atlantis Past
Double-X-Cross is the third part of Atlantis Attacks and is written by Chris Claremont with art by Mike Vosburg (much like the Iron Man issue, the creators are not credited in the actual issue for some reason).
This story is awful. Pure, pure awful. The premise is Dazzler and Captain America's sexy ally Diamondback switch bodies. Body switching is always awful and what is even more awful is Claremont's completely offensive treatment of Diamondback here. Diamondback is one of my favorite characters and the story presented here makes absolutely no sense with regards to the character at all. She is randomly a villain again (despite nearly 2 years ago, stopping being such) and is a member of the Serpent Society (despite nearly 2 years ago, the Serpent Society disbanded) and she betrays the entire human race for a chest of gold. If that wasn't bad enough, she tries to have sex with Wolverine. Twice. This is just awful.
How does this tie-in to Atlantis Attacks? Well, after I was getting my hopes up that this crossover might not have any tenuous tie-ins after the first two chapters, chapter three is completely inconsequential. Mr. Jip, who has absolutely no involvement with Atlantis or Deviants or anything, suddenly wants a bunch of artefacts but the twist is so do the Atlanteans and they hired Diamondback to steal them for them. Other than the final pages which have Mr. Jip monologuing to himself as teases for upcoming things in Atlantis Attacks, this is purely a waste of time. And an offensive waste of time at that.
This issue is atrocious. A mess with a stupid tiresome plot which absolutely ignores everything about one character to the point of sheer frustration that barely ties into the crossover it's a part of. Simply put this isn't worth reading. It's barely even worth acknowledging. The actual artefact hunting is a template for a good, classic story too. Just every single other thing about the story is hideous because every single other thing about the story is Diamondback being ridiculously out of character or her and Dazzler calling each other "fat" like school girls. Poor, poor, poor showing again from the worst period of X-Men history yet again and maybe the absolute worst story from it.