Uncanny X-men 20 [LGY 642] *spoilers*

[Havok83]

Issue opens up with a kid getting the vaccine at the hospital and his skin boils and he vomits blood.

X-men shown 3 days later over the dead Nasty Boys. Fabian Cortez, Shinobi Shaw, Sienna Blaze and Trevoy Fitzroy appear and admit to killing them. The X-men fight the Upstarts. Shinobi alludes to Emma saying they are all her chess pieces but she wont get him. He then seemingly kills himself

2 days later Dark Beast tells the X-,en that he cured the cure. Alex and Jamie have objections as they cant trust him but Dani vouches for him since he cured her. Dark Beast says that his anti-vaccine gives the vaccine something to feed on instead of the X-gene, which is free to activate. Scott has Magik port Banshee to key locations and release this anti-vaccine into the atmosphere and within a week everyone is exposed to it.


Now. This scene picks up at last issue's cliffhanger. Emma has Hellfire goons ready to protect her and a fight ensues. Mystique fights with Kwannon and plunges a katana into her shoulder. Logan guts Marrow and tells Elixir to fix her as he lunges for Emma. ONE soldiers appear and neutralize him. Later Callahan reprimands Emma and tells her that ONE is taking control of the HFC. Emma objects as that wasnt their deal but he insists they never had one

Scott is in Washington Square Park with Magik, Dani and Alex and is approached by Captain America and Dr. Nemesis, whom is upset about this anti-vaccine as its killing children. Scott realizes that he hasnt seen Steve since their initial meeting and ports away with Dr. Nemesis. Dark Beast admits that sometimes an X-gene will activate before the serum takes effect and amplifies the vaccine, causing the mutant to die. He sees it as a test to see how much a parent's hatred for mutantkind really is. He says Sinister helped him perfect this and gave the X-men psychic suggestions to trust him. Magik attacks him and Scott gets a message from Emma who gives him his memories back and says she needs him and the X-men

[Silver Fang]

Well according to Rosenberg's letters page, he's writing this book with zero editorial mandates. I guess just be ready to end for Hickman, but otherwise he's got free reign, apparently. And he still hasn't done much with the characters he has. Besides fridge, make incompetent, and fight senselessly with no real direction.

lol

[Glio]

So everyone is stupid because telepaths, democracy is bad, vaccines are dangerous for your children and the chemtrails are real.

[Jesse-James]

Only positive here is the return of Nemesis. Hope that does not mean they gonna axe him as well.

[Glio]

Only positive here is the return of Nemesis. Hope that does not mean they gonna axe him as well.

He is part of Agents of Wakanda.

[Havok83]

Scott was so dumb! The only thing we can at least take from this is that Sinister left him with a psychic suggestion. At the end of the day its ironic that only Jamie and Alex had any sense

[spirit2011]

So this run gonna be completely ignoring moving forward to Hickman. So this explain Rosenberg killing characters

Now I understand why Shan left on the last issue, they needed to get her out so the team wouldn't have a strong psychic shield.

Sure Emma, call the X-men to clean your crap

[phoenixzero23]

I remember some Emma fans were worried about Emma being a bad guy. Rosenberg seems to treat her as a hero/antihero and even respected her relationship with Scott.
She will probably save the day too.

[Tycon]

When people (and me, i guess) said that things would be revealed at the end that would change how the entire series was portrayed, I didn’t think they’d just reveal that the X-Men were acting like a bunch of idiots because everyone and their grandma were messing with their heads. I thought it would be more....reality altering?

[mogwen]

Sorry, guys, but weren't all the Upstarts dead? Siena, Shinobi, Fitzroy and Cortez, they were all supposed to be dead! I know it's a comic book, but this lack of continuity is upsetting.

[cranger]

This issue was packed much like last issue. Going to have to reread a few times just to be clear on everything.

First, a nitpick, but the ambush was 3 days ago, and the meeting with Dark Beast was 2 days ago.

I am still unclear exactly what Dark Beast was up to with the cure for the cure, is it something that happens in extremely rare cases where a mutant just happens to activate their powers, or will it happen to all kids who have not manifested yet, or ones who have manifested but their powers are hidden? It probably doesn't matter, but it was hard to gauge just how sinister the scheme was.

Now I am trying to figure out who all is playing each other. It does not seem as if Emma knew of Dark Beast and Sinister being in cahoots. Did anyone else? Somehow the Upstarts were aware of what Emma was doing, is there a mole? Did Mystique have her own agenda and was working with others? I am curious if Callahan actually has Sinister now or if there is going to be a twist with regards to that next issue.

[Glio]

This issue was packed much like last issue. Going to have to reread a few times just to be clear on everything.

First, a nitpick, but the ambush was 3 days ago, and the meeting with Dark Beast was 2 days ago.

I am still unclear exactly what Dark Beast was up to with the cure for the cure, is it something that happens in extremely rare cases where a mutant just happens to activate their powers, or will it happen to all kids who have not manifested yet, or ones who have manifested but their powers are hidden? It probably doesn't matter, but it was hard to gauge just how sinister the scheme was.

Now I am trying to figure out who all is playing each other. It does not seem as if Emma knew of Dark Beast and Sinister being in cahoots. Did anyone else? Somehow the Upstarts were aware of what Emma was doing, is there a mole? Did Mystique have her own agenda and was working with others? I am curious if Callahan actually has Sinister now or if there is going to be a twist with regards to that next issue.

Do not try to find an explanation for Dark Beast's plan because his "asexual photosynthetic aerial protein" is a very stupid idea even to be a superhero comic.

The biologist in me has cried and I'm used to bad explanations.

[Weather]

The part with the Upstarts was horrible and boring. The action in this books tends to be bad... But the last part was some kind of interesting. It keeps me invested, although it is flawed.

Larroca is butchering this book.

[U.N. Owen]

I'm just going to copy and paste what I already wrote.

Ten little mutants went out to dine
One killed herself and then there were nine
Nine little mutants wanted to fight fate
One died off panel and then there were eight
Eight little mutants were praying for Hickman
One died in an issue that belongs in a trash can
Seven little mutants chopping up sticks
One chopped himself in half and then there were six


Now, who's going to die next?

If Rosenberg can be lazy, then why can't I?

[RachelGrey]

This issue was packed much like last issue. Going to have to reread a few times just to be clear on everything.

First, a nitpick, but the ambush was 3 days ago, and the meeting with Dark Beast was 2 days ago.

I am still unclear exactly what Dark Beast was up to with the cure for the cure, is it something that happens in extremely rare cases where a mutant just happens to activate their powers, or will it happen to all kids who have not manifested yet, or ones who have manifested but their powers are hidden? It probably doesn't matter, but it was hard to gauge just how sinister the scheme was.

Now I am trying to figure out who all is playing each other. It does not seem as if Emma knew of Dark Beast and Sinister being in cahoots. Did anyone else? Somehow the Upstarts were aware of what Emma was doing, is there a mole? Did Mystique have her own agenda and was working with others? I am curious if Callahan actually has Sinister now or if there is going to be a twist with regards to that next issue.

This issue felt a bit like filler. Also, did Logan just kill all of Emma's soldiers, or were they just phantoms she created in their heads to make Logan and Kwannon think they had soldiers. Or were they just robots. It seemed a bit too easy.

I am really starting to wonder if anyone is actually seeing what they think they are. I am wondering if X is pulling strings behind the scenes and he may or may not have been controlling Emma for a while. I was hoping that it might look like Emma had some kind of plan, but now she just seems to be floundering and just trying to keep Scott and the X-Men, Elixer, and Marrow alive until she can come up with a better plan. I was definitely right about Emma having a tracker in her, Callahan seems to always know where she is, so she has definitely been on a short leash the whole time.

Dark Beast and Sinister are running their own game. I get what the intention is, the cure for the virus makes the cure deadly under certain conditions to discourage anyone from taking it. It looks like Dr Nemesis is going to fix that though and maybe remove the part that makes it deadly during mutant puberty.