Age of X-Man: The Marvelous X-Men #4: I admit, I lost the plot here, though I can't really say that I care. I feel like I've read the same issue of this series four times: everyone marvels (heh) at how amazing Nate is, someone remembers a past love and tries to defect, Moneta is an asshole, and Nate tries to close the fractures in this reality. Rinse and repeat. The only dramatic tension in each issue is whether someone is going to remember the past, but we all know that they will, because again the cycle repeats. We also still don't really have any idea how or why Nate created this reality despite arriving at the event's end. What a mess.
Uncanny X-Men #18: Honesty, this series is getting hard to read. It might be easier if we didn't know that Jonathan Hickman was going to disregard the X-Men's history when he takes over the line, making everything happening here irrelevant. (Yes, I know Marvel insists that he isn't going to do that. But, Marvel also insisted that Peter Parker was dead and Otto Octavius was Spider-Man, so whatever.)
However, with that knowledge, it's impossible to take Rosenberg's cavalcade of death here seriously. Chamber kills the Marauders despite them swearing that they didn't murder the Morlocks and then Harpoon murders Chamber. [Yawn.] Moreover, Rosenberg is screwing with everyone's powers in a way that the deaths overshadow. Dani seems to have regained her mutant abilities, as she displays her previous ability to summon a psionically charged bow and arrow. Alex also pushes himself to the limit in the fight with Sinister, phasing outside reality for reasons that no one understands.
The only positive development in this issue, to my mind, is Logan and Xi'an leaving the team because, in Xi'an words, they're just throwing themselves against walls hoping they fall. Of course, the problem is that neither Logan nor Xi'an has any better ideas about how they can try to prevent the X-Men's old enemies from taking advantage of X-Man whisking away almost all the X-Men. Oh, well. It won't matter soon anyway.
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