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The art was rough in some panels but over all I thought it looked good and enjoyed the read. Classic X-Men art style for a classic X-Men story, and I loved seeing Storm, Jean and Cyclops working together. Felt like the wait was worth. It was fast paced and a straight forward story that highlights the heroism at the core of the X-Men (not all things are driven by the politics surrounding Krakoa), opens up a path for what I am hoping is a Storm centric space/cosmic adventure or new role in the Reign of X. I liked that Hickman gave each character got some moments (Jean showing up Oracle's was delicious and Storm & Cyclops were badasses & needs a bromance) for balanced attention. I haven't read much on Sam, Roberto and Smasher to connect with them much but I enjoyed their bromance banter.
9/10 for me.
I really couldn't have agreed more. This issue turned out to be exactly what I needed him but did not need it. A space adventure with Cyclops Jean and storm through shiar space.
It seems like a queen is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't at this point. The spotlight was pretty evenly split between Cyclops Jean and Storm in this issue what's the high like being Jean flexing on Oracle with her telepathic abilities and storm reminding everyone that she still one of the original 'big guns' of the X-Men
ok thank you I wasn't sure the mechanics of this .
and jean was aware they killed her family? and was it xandra who was responsible? it's been a minute since I read that and wsnt it rachel who was there? does jean even know this transpired?
ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!
The Shi'ar didnt come up but how could Jean not know? Thats like the first thing she'd find out upon coming back and trying to reconnect with them.
A. The X-men would have no reason to keep it secret
B. She had her memories from her time as a teen unlocked, and the Shi'ar put her on trial for the Phoenix stuff
C. She mindlinked with Rachel in X-men Red immediately after she returned. Thats knowledge she would have learned
Xandra wasnt responsible as she wasnt born yet
This was my favorite X-Book of the week hands down. I love that Cyclops and Jean changed outfits. The art was VERY 90s but then I looked up the artist and saw he created and wrote the Wildstorm Backlash comic. So everything about the story after that made complete sense.
It was a fun stand-alone issue with a guest artist and Hickman did a good job of emulating a 90s X-Men space adventure.
Also perfect use of Cyclops. Brick-shaped objects aimed at his head should always be his weakness.
1. was she ever told on panel though?
2. did the trial go into them murdering her family?
3. unless that was explicitly stated it cannot be assumed jean saw any of that. Rachel could have locked those memories away due to being traumatized.
all in all, it seems jeans knowledge of what occurred to her family isn't necessarily known to her which may explain why it was not brought up. had this been Rachel I think that criticism would be fair
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