Wait Rachel’s last name not appearing???Very good issue. 12 helicopters out of 7 peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
Specific things I liked:
- Serafina/Children of the Vault up in here.
- Cable's room being matched with Cyclops' and Jean's rooms, and Rachel's room being matched with Wolverine's and Jean's rooms. Hickman is implying parentage with his floorplan.
- Rachel's last name being concealed, because it isn't Summers or Grey.
- Magneto's dialog with the mutant children.
- Polaris calling out Cyclops' (formerly?) disingenuous bit about having a baby son.
- The possibility that Hepzibah is hitting on Rachel, which further points to Rachel not being a Summers. (If she is not hitting on Rachel, then Yu made very odd choices making them move closer, and making the camera move in on them tighter, with each panel, followed by "let me get you another drink.")
- Storm, Cyclops, Magneto, and Polaris working together as a team.
- The Rockwellian mutant home.
- Vulcan having a dramatic personality that jibes with his dramatic history, but makes him less of a bratty psychopath.
- Corsair being a believable good dad, with his sons being believable good sons.
What I didn't like: Yu's art in general. Makes better sense for something that's more gritty, like an old-era Wolverine or X-Force book. (Maybe something new coming down the pipe, but at least nothing in wave one.) The Krakoa shots were unclear and uninspiring next to all the colorful, clear detail we've been experiencing with it so far. The style itself is too unclear for certain shots, like Polaris trapping all of those Orchis goons in metal. There's a lot of ambiguity regarding whether she killed them or not.