Ultimately, this issue is prevented from anything above three stars because Bendis embraces two scenarios that seem totally unbelievable. I've outlined them in previous reviews, but here they are again, just for consistency. First, I have trouble believing that anyone -- particularly Scott Summers -- could even be remotely surprised that Xavier prevented someone from realizing that he was a mutant, given Xavier's long history of morally questionable (if not downright unethical) decisions. Second, it's hard to take the story seriously when it's based around yet another previously unknown mutant that suddenly is revealed to be the most powerful mutant to have ever lived. Bendis has put in some effort to get us believe why we haven't heard of him before, and it's not that I completely don't believe it. But, we've just been here so often that it's getting hard to take it seriously. The fact that the X-Men seem to be on course to defeat him in an issue or two and then resume their regularly scheduled programming just exacerbates the problem.
** (two of five stars)
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