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 shit 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
- Bobby gets his memories back and has a moment where he just sort of... breaks.
- Jean-Paul acts as the team's bedrock. Vengeful, vengeful bedrock.
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.