181??? huh
Second Coming looks to be a great story so far. Anticipation was certainly built up long enough. We were given an onslaught of preview images for speculation. You all know the ones I’m talking about:
“One will lead.”
“One will die.”
“One will rise.”
“One will sacrifice.”
“ALL WILL UNITE.”
The story is good so far. Hope and Cable show up. They find that it is the real time but that the X-mansion was destroyed. Then they get introduced to some of the bad things that have developed while they were gone, as it was almost as if someone was waiting for them to show up.
Hope thinks it is horrible that no matter what she has seen throughout time and her travels, all she witnesses is destruction and war. She was raised a soldier so she should get over that real quick.
At least Bastion and his Human Council were not the only ones that found them. Cyclops’ Alpha Squad shows up to help out. Having members of X-Force mixed with classic X-Men becomes interesting when the non-black tighters start to realize what is going on with this group.
I have no doubt that this is going to be phenomenal story telling by the team, and we are pretty much assured a change in the status quo yet again for the mutant race. I love it so far and would rate the story and the art in the inaugural issue a solid 4.5 out of 5. But it would have gotten a five if there were not two things that bothered the crap out of me.
When there is supposed to be this touching scene at the beginning where they talk about the deaths of three mutants during the Necrosha story. The thing is, when Cyclops mentions that there are 181 mutants left…I had to face palm. When I got to the back of the book, BAM! There it is again…Less than 200 mutants. I know this was in the preview pages, they may not have been done by the writing team, but I still have to say Marvel has no right letting this slip. The fact is there are more than 200 mutants confirmed alive and well RIGHT NOW almost 250.
I told you all to be ready for this in my X-Force #25 review. Well I kinda went balistic and typed up a series of 5 blog entries to go along with it.
Those two little spots are the thing that held this issue from being five stars in my eyes. I thought the story was epic, but I'm a bit of a continuity-a-holic. (Guess that is why I read Marvel mainly in the first place.)
4.5 out of 5 Messiahs Returned
