This series has been a delight. I'm really looking forward to the conclusion, and I really appreciate this creative use of Nature Girl's abilities and the deeper look at her point of view.
I can see why Williams was a little salty about having to include Moneta in her book now - the kid's ultimate purpose was to get killed off-sides in a story integral to a different series. I do wonder if we're going to see the murder from another angle in X-Tracts #4, though.
Maybe all of Nate's fake creations will just bite the dust.
WOW that's a cool power of Nature Girl. She can talk to Bacterial??? Cool.
Quoting all of you mostly to provide context for what I'm going to say here. Nate's pretty much on the same level as Ben Reilly circa The Clone Conspiracy --- extremely traumatized to the point of possible psychosis, and said trauma and possible psychosis have jaundiced his perspective and skewed his moral compass to the point where while he does start off trying to do something "good" for the world at large, he's caused potentially apocalyptic damage in the process by taking it upon himself to impose his definition of "good" upon said world despite the lines he's crossed in doing so. Now we're getting to the point where his efforts are all about to come undone, so does he admit he was wrong and try to ameliorate the damage, or does he double down and try to annihilate everyone and everything he believes is standing in the way of the better world he wants to create? The Clone Conspiracy had Ben go the latter way, and that ruined him as a character for a while despite being spun off into his own solo where he tried to redeem himself (and arguably failed until he was "fixed" in Spider-Geddon), but there's some room for Nate to go the opposite direction and genuinely try to make amends for what he did. I guess we'll see.
The spider is always on the hunt.
I think part of the problem here is that Nate already doubled down. This started with him trying to create a better world and the X-Men confronted him, so he removed them all from the world. This is some other crazy layer that exists on top of whatever drove him to do the first crazy thing. It is kind of hard to see how the character finds redemption at this point.
It would be pretty hilarious for them to not just kill one of the most absurd characters in the franchise at a time when they're trying to refurbish it.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
This sh-t is finally almost over yet it feels as if nothing happene
I know this is comic book science and shouldn’t bug me...but bacteria don’t have ‘eyes’ or brains to talk with...*annoyed for no really good reason*
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well well well cbr guesses it right again. X-Man has forcibly warped and positioned Apocalypse as the villain of the world because it will fit the archetypal story and give the X-Men and Nate’s order a foil/reason to keep existing. Moneta finds that out after running into Poccy’s sex club before he kills her which leads to Nature Girl finding out. Eventually the whole team gets on board, including Jean remembering Bishop and bits and pieces from Disassembled, and confront X-Man before he utters that he is the world.
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Nadler and Thompson didn't do anything bad with this issue per se, but it's all very predictable. Save for the reveal about Poccy, it's the characters finding out what the reader already knows and they all react in ways that aren't in the least bit surprising. It's all in-character and it looks good, but it feels perfunctory. Can't say I care much for the omniscient bacteria deus ex and I REALLY wish these guys would stop with the Claremontian accents, but a decent enough read overall. 3/5, I'd say. Checks the tickboxes, but doesn't blow the lid off anything.