New Mutants #37: Um, I kind of love this issue. Seriously, it was like watching a romantic comedy where the girl is thinking of getting together with her terrible ex-boyfriend and you're just sitting there thinking, "Girl, what are you doing...?" I spent the entire issue on pins and needles, afraid that Amara was going to fall for Mephisto's trick, only to discover that the trick was that he didn't have a trick. Morever, we got to see DnA start focusing on the dynamics within the team, with Bobby and Nate having guy talk in the foyer while Amara and Dani have girl talk in the bedroom. Since DnA aren't trying to balance nine or ten characters like seemingly everyone else writing team books, they really get to spend time with their characters. Awesomeness all around. Plus, the ending is pretty...ominous. Maybe Mephisto did have a trick...
Uncanny X-Men #6: To be honest? I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. To be even more honest? I can't say I really care. Cyclops winds up discovering the guy who captured him last issue is a super-genius when he manages to learn the English language in a few hours just by hearing his captives converse (the only reason he kept them captive). Cyclops brings him to meet with the other X-Men and the guy explains the history of Tabula Rasa. Or, at least, I think he does. To be honest, I didn't really follow. It seems that he and the guy who fought Betsy and Magneto earlier in the issue, called the Immortal Man, are the last members of their race and the Immortal Man isn't really happy about it. It seems he's planning to restore their race, but the result may, I don't know, destroy Earth? Gillen isn't really clear; we just see a mushroom cloud in the last panel. (Subtle, I know.) Honestly, it's just not that gripping of a story. Plus, the Colossus/Magik and Hope/Namor teams seem totally irrelevant to the plot, a plot that really could've used a little more time being explained. I'm really over these nine- or ten-person teams, since only Peter David in "X-Factor" actually seems capable of writing one well. At this point, honestly, this title is on notice.
X-Factor #231: I love how I seem to know even less about what's happening to Madrox than I knew last issue, but it just makes it all the more intriguing. (Take notes, Bendis.) Tryp appears again in this issue, and he informs us that Jamie's dimension hopping is the result of a thinning of the separation between worlds. (He, naturally, is a little vague on the details, such as why Jamie is getting a "preview" of the thinning and who exactly is causing it.) We also get a new twist to Jamie's powers, with his dupes in this world not only having their own powers, but also only lasting five to 20 seconds. David is obviously having a lot of fun exploring these various worlds and different Madroxes, and it's equally fun taking the ride with him. This issue isn't quite the characterization tour de force last issue was, but it's a fun, tight read. I can't wait to see where it's all going next issue.
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