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And finally for this week, X-Men: Age of
Apocalypse.
This is a mystifying title, it really is.
The mystifying thing is, who on earth is it aimed at?
Presumably, people who read and liked the original story 10
years ago. But the selling point of that story was the
concept, more than the individual characters. Nobody
really cares what happened to the AoA version of Sunfire, at
the end of the day.
This issue, Husk turns up with her siblings
in tow to protest about her treatment in Generation Next
#4. As I recall that story, she has a point, although
she's going a bit over the top by trying to kidnap Magneto's
son in revenge. Not only do the X-Men fail to show any
sympathy for what she's been through - as a result of Colossus
betraying her, at that - but they kill her and all her
siblings in cold blood. Nobody seems to have a problem
with this.
Psylocke turns up halfway through because
she's cool.
Incoherent nonsense. It's hard to see
why anyone who was a fan of the original story would be
rooting to see Husk brought back simply in order to be trashed
and killed; and it's hard to see why anyone should be rooting
for the X-Men at this point, given that they all seem to be a
bunch of assholes.
Once again, Bachalo is paired with a legion
of inkers - seven of them, this time. And once again,
his art is better than in recent years. It's actually
got some flow to it, and it recaptures some of the appeal of
his earlier work.
But it's a bad and pointless piece of
writing, and there's no way Bachalo's art is going to
compensate for that.
Rating: C
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