Also this week:

NEW EXILES #2 - The bad news is that some of Chris Claremont's bad habits are resurfacing.  We have yet another mind control villain, and we have a bad guy loudly proclaiming his name as if it amounted to a personality.  (Which is bad enough at the best of times, but... "Rough Justice"?  Really?)  But if you can live with those, it's actually a decently constructed story, and if Claremont has taken a bunch of familiar concepts and hit the shuffle button, at least he's put some work into figuring out a world for the resulting hybrids to inhabit.  Taken on its own terms, it's actually very readable, but I suspect it's still one mainly for the Claremont fans.  B

X-FACTOR #28 - Wolfsbane is written out of the series, and as you'd expect, Peter David gets an excellent story out of it.  Instead of focussing too much on Rahne herself (the story pretty much shrugs its shoulders and moves on), David emphasises the remaining members of the cast, pointing out that between Rahne and Layla, they've now lost both their "heart" character and their direction.  So we're left with the rest of the team trying to figure out where they go from here.  It's a great example of a writer taking an idea that ought to be damaging to his series, and turning it to advantage, by making that damage into the story.  Very good.  A

There's more from me at If Destroyed, and if you're desperate for more Article 10 columns, you can always hunt through the archives on Ninth Art.

Next week, Cable & Deadpool celebrates its fiftieth issue by getting cancelled, although Deadpool still gets to guest star in Wolverine: Origins #22.  (Insert "fate worse than death" joke here.) Meanwhile, Ultimate Apocalypse returns in Ultimate X-Men #91.

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