The Good
-Epic art as usual.
-Cyke went out saving a baby. [Foo Fighters] There goes my hero! [/Foo Fighters]
-Who doesn't love animal hybrids? I thought we were dealing with the High Evolutionary again. If plant monsters are Percy's fetish, are multi-armed monkeys Duggan's? :P
-ZARK! Epic ricochet shot, plus points for making the beams come out of all three lights on that stoplight. Now that was showing off!
-Dr Stasis has an awesome visual and his plan worked out quite well. Nicely done and so cold blooded!
-Cyke didn't remember those cryptic last words. Someone removed them during the telepathic upload into his new body or at some other point while his mind was backed up? Emma darling, looking at you but that's too obvious. Coupled with Urich's own memory loss and the telepathic satellites, these mind games will be fun!
-Forge and Jumbo arguing form vs function.
-Laura doing The Wolverine and scaring off a lesser predator.
-Mutants getting progressively stronger with each resurrection? By design or design 'flaw'?
-Synch doing a psionic Phoenix impression was epic.
The Bad
-Can't Cyke's optic blasts be red anymore, not white with red highlights? It's like he just frosts the tips now.
-Can't Synch's aura actually be a painfully vivid and vibrant Gay Pride rainbow anymore?
-Sunfire. He's got one setting: burn it. His powers are shown to be the extreme and boring liability fire powers always are.
-How convenient that the real heavy hitters (Jean, Lorna, Rogue) with long range, multifaceted powers were away. Well timed attack, Dr S.
-So... Synch is going to just be Rogue now (power duplication and retention at a distance)? His story arc better be damn good from now on.
The Ugly
-Nothing too egregious this issue.
The Verdict
-Maybe the best issue of the series to date.
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