PRESTIGE DARK pts I-II
Written by Marc Guggenheim
Penciled by Pere Perz
Covers by Phil Noto
Published July 4 and July 18, 2018
Following Kitty and Peter's failed wedding, Rachel awakens to see Mesmero standing over Nightcrawler in their hotel room. She's then transported to a dismal future, where a rogue group of X-Men struggle to free themselves from a Sentinel prison. Using Forge's engineering, they make a break for it but many are subsequently killed in the process.
Penciled by Pere Perz
Covers by Phil Noto
Published July 4 and July 18, 2018
Following Kitty and Peter's failed wedding, Rachel awakens to see Mesmero standing over Nightcrawler in their hotel room. She's then transported to a dismal future, where a rogue group of X-Men struggle to free themselves from a Sentinel prison. Using Forge's engineering, they make a break for it but many are subsequently killed in the process.
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| Damn! That's brutal! |
After their narrow escape, a bounty hunter rakes them with bullets when the older and desperate future heroes see his tool is none other than the hound, Rachel Summers. She summarily kills them when she's brought out of her trance by Iceman and Pyro.
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| Get it together, dummy! |
Meanwhile Storm and Illyana eat brunch outside the hotel patio when they too are caught off guard - this time by a Mark-1 Sentinel. Storm grabs her super convenient Thor hammer and is immediately taken down.
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| Bullseye! |
Pyro, Iceman and Nightcrawler limp through the front entrance. They try to calm Rachel down when their joined by Cyclops, who launches into a monologue about himself too being from a different timeline. Although real or imagined, Mesmero urges her not to believe them. But in the end, she knows she can control her hallucinations. With that, and even though she'a apparently knocked out several other X-Men, this story arc comes to an end.
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| Everything's ok now. Wait - Those guys might be dead... |
So with just a few issues left of this series, Marc Guggenheim looks to either be just wasting time or setting these characters up for something the future. The problem with it all is that there's really no way of knowing. Now a staggering 30 plus issues old, this series proves that not only does it fail to stand on it's own feet, it has to import other X-Men from Red, Blue, and Astonishing to push through. But as I mentioned, the good thing is that it's ending. I don't think there's really that many people left to defend it anyway. I give these two a 6/10.
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