This issue is probably the first real miss of this series for me. I'll forgive Bendis, because, seriously, they have him churning out so many issues at this point that I feel like he should call in a labor violation to OSHA.
My main problem with this issue is that the personalities of each character are taken to such as extreme that they become unbelievable caricatures of themselves. For example, Bobby isn't the charming goofball that he usually is; he's a clueless idiot. When one of the Purifiers greets the arrival of the original X-Men by exclaiming, "God delivered unto us! His will be done," and Bobby asks, "Who's Will? What am I missing?" Really? It's not that hard to connect "God" with "His will" and conclude that the Purifier is talking about, well, God.) Moreover, Angel is so self-absorbed that he asks a Purifier why seeing him, an honest-to-goodness angel, doesn't make the Purifier question if he's wrong about mutants being sent from the Devil. The problem is that the answer to his question comes from a comment made by a Purifier a few moments earlier, where he quotes the Bible: "And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light." Finally, Scott seems to think that he's in the 1960s (or, I guess, 1990s?) where you can trust a policeman to help you whenever you're in need. I mean, he didn't realize, given everything that he's learned about his adult self, that announcing that he's Scott Summers to law enforcement wouldn't go over so well?
Combining these odd characterization with some uneven art from Peterson (Kitty looks about 45-years-old at one point), I'm giving this one a rare two stars.
** (two of five stars)
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