SURVIVING THE EXPERIENCE pts I-III
Written by Cullen Bunn
Penciled by Marcus To
Covers by RB Silva
Published Aug 8, Aug 29, and Sept 12, 2018
Penciled by Marcus To
Covers by RB Silva
Published Aug 8, Aug 29, and Sept 12, 2018
Magneto glimpses into the future and sees a post-apocalyptic New York City. While facing the ghosts of Mothervine that he was forced to murder, he's eventually confronted by a few Reavers, whom he's able to kill rather quickly. Suddenly a lone little mutant girl approaches him and presents him to the others as the savior they've apparently been waiting for. In this timeline, Magneto stops the Reaver virus and saves mutantkind.
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| Dude, you're a hero! |
The problem is that later, the time displaced X-Men apparently killed him. What's left is a debate between just who saves those who are left. They fight, and though they try their best to keep him in this timeline, Magneto is able to escape to the past.
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| Gotta bounce. Bye. |
His first stop is a meeting with Dr. Kirk Jansen. As Magneto walks the laboratory that will eventually spawn the Reavers, he destroys it, killing everyone who has anything to do with the project. But he knows, it's not enough. Instead he builds a new Asteroid M, and as he ascends the staircase to his throne, scores of new Mothervine created mutants are revealed as his new Brotherhood.
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| Just can't ever stay good, can you? |
Issue #35 continues to wrap up the series, as the X-Men of the 60's discuss things with their modern counterparts. The two Jean's reveal a scary future if the past version of her remains, along with a magic induced Beast still under the control of the demonic Madeline Pryor.
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| Woah. Awesome! |
Iceman is forced to deal with even more trauma, as a more closed-minded society he will return to threatens to derail his entire life. But out of all of the most confused time displaced mutants, Angel's is probably the most confusing. His counterpart is the almost always silent Archangel. For a moment we see the frightening timeline that looms, but the blue skinned angel of death soon shows him the Sleepers, a group of hidden mutants in Xorn's care.
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| All of this can be yours. |
The issue wraps with a confused Scott, whom has no counterbeing in this timeline, talking with Bloodstorm. He walks up to his own gravemarker and looks at it. For in this present future, they're is no Cyclops. What does this mean for the team? We're left to find out as this series is left to be concluded.
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| That's heavy. |
Out of all the current X-books, this one clearly holds it's own along with Astonishing X-Men. All the others are distant pretenders, but if there's one thing Cullen Bunn knows, it's how to write a comic book series. I'm not sure where the house of ideas plans to send him after this series but I can only hope he finds his way back to the X-Men one day. I give these three issues a 9/10.
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