Age of X-Man: The Marvelous X-Men #2: Beyond the hilariousness of Apocalypse as a prophet of love, the most interesting part about this issue is that Thompson and Nadler make it very clear that Nate doesn't have as much control over this world as he may think he does. It isn't just because of Apocalypse and his protest: as Nate himself says, only 40 or so mutants came to the demonstration. It's because everyone seems to have flashes of their previous lives pretty frequently: Logan instructing Laura, Storm fighting Magneto, Colossus and Kitty exchanging a glance. But, I'm still not sure that I understand who remembers what and why. For example, Colossus had no memory of Kitty or his relationship with her, whereas Magneto remembers his time as a villain, even if he struggles with the fact that his memory of fighting Storm stokes the rage he used to feel as one. Moreover, Magneto breaks a wall in his home and through it sees a fight that he had with Wanda in "Avengers & X-Men: Axis" #7. At first, I thought it was just the whisky that he was drinking making him see things, but we see Storm watching the scene from outside. I'm assuming the authors are showing how thing the illusions are that Nate is using, and it seems to be these weaknesses that that will ultimately doom Nate's enterprise.
Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End #1: I desperately want to like how Grace writes Bobby, but I have to admit that I'm just glad that he'll be in someone else's hands at some point. This issue is a mess from start to finish as Grace just has Bobby leaping from exposition-heavy moment to exposition-heavy moment. (Pet peeve #3 applies here, as Bobby even mentions all the exposition.) Each moment deserves to be explored: Bobby dealing with the fact that he himself didn't get to fall in love with a beautiful boy like his younger self did, Bobby dealing with young Jean's outing his younger self, Bobby dealing with his time-displaced villainous older self, etc. But, Grace rushes through these moments as he just keeps trying to hit every note of his two "Iceman" series, from Christian Frost to Michaela to his parents, while also introducing new stories, like Bobby helping a neighborhood in Delaware recovering from flooding. (Flooding? In Delaware?) It really feels like Grace had about 30 minutes to write this script, so he just thew everything into it. The two "Iceman" series were uneven, but they didn't reserve the poor send-off they get here.
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