Age of X-Man: The X-Tremists #5 (spoilers/discussion)
Whew!
After the way Nextgen and The Amazing Nightcrawler wrapped, my big fear for this finale was that there was going to be an event-mandated mindwipe for all these characters. Nope! Instead, we got a glorious riot and some really nice moments for each member of the team:
- In brief flashback, Jubilee remembers Shogo, realizes they're trapped in a lie, and proceeds to start burning **** to the ground
- Picking up from the end of the last issue, Northstar, Rictor, and Bobby join her in wrecking the joint
- Ric goes off specifically to blow the doors off the Danger Room, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him in the Prisoner X finale
- In a feat of enormous psychic badassery, Besty restores the memories of every mutant whose mind she was supposed to have erased, which starts secondary riots
- Fred gets his own moment of badassery as he stands between Betsy and a mob the size of a small town
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- Bobby gets his memories back and has a moment where he just sort of... breaks.
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- Jean-Paul acts as the team's bedrock. Vengeful, vengeful bedrock.
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This book was definitely slow to build momentum, but these last two issues were superb. Great way to close things out, and I really hope this crew gets their licks in during the Omega issue.