X-Men Red #7-8

THE HATE MACHINE pts VII and VIII

Written by Tom Taylor
Penciled by Carmen Carnero
Covers by Jenny Frison
Published Aug 22 and Sept 26, 2018

   The X-Men brace for a attack on Atlantis. Namor calls for an evacuation but Jean and Gentle work behind the scenes to help. They defeat a mind controlled Teen Abomination as Storm short circuits the nanites in his brain.

Shocking I tell you.

   Meanwhile the equally brainwashed British ambassador begins aimlessly shooting into the airplane at the X-Men below. Trinary is hit and loses control of the Sentinel as it crashes into the plane. Luckily she's able to keep it together and uses it to fly the wrecked plane back to the ground.

Oh great, look what you did now.

   When they land, they're able to get Marbury's phone from the cargohold and Jean leter plays a message for the media to prove Cassandra Nova is poisoning everyone's mind to hate mutants more than usual.

I wish TV was like this all the time.

   With time of the essence, she uses Forge to release the swarms of nanites into the cities. Using the nanite that found it's way into Storm's head, Trinary puts on Searebro and can tell the robots are barreling towards every major city. Since Gabby doesn't feel pain, they decide to put her in the Cerebro chair and link minds. 

It won't hurt, Gabby. Would I lie?!

   Cassandra is able to tell Jean is interfering. She uses Gabby to get into Jean's head. Meanwhile Storm uses Nightcrawler to bamf into the skies above and sends a typhoon of destruction to wash Nova's base away.

Oh #$&@!*

   Finally Trinary locks hands with the team and uses her wide ranging absorption powers to pull all of the hateful internet chatter out of the newsfeeds. Beaming it out of Searebro, the X-Men can take a sigh of relief that the threats are now over. The issue wraps with Cassandra Nova pulling Rachel Grey out of the X-mansion and towards her to use as a final pawn. What's going to happen next? We'll have to wait to find out as this issue is left to be continued.

Oh good, more X-Men...

   Ok so at this point, this seventh and eighth issue of X-Men Red is the seventh and eighth part of a meandering and boring story arc. I get the vibe it's more or less cobbled together as it goes along and where it ends up will be anybody's guess. Tom Taylor did the same thing in All New Wolverine as he's doing in this series, and like it's underwhelming sister series, this book appears to be trying to fill the void left by X-Men Gold - another book that couldn't end fast enough. I guess we'll stumble along until something interesting happens. When that will be still looks left to be determined. I give these two issues a 5/10.

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