All New X-Men #18

Written by Dennis Hopeless

Penciled by Mark Bagley
Cover by Mark Bagley
Published Feb 1, 2017

   Young Cyclops is used to being the quiet type - but it's time for his leadership abilities to shine. He attacks the Inhuman capital New Attilan, fending off a fire blast from Inferno with help from old Iceman. When he rounds the corner, he asks himself what's he even doing there. Thanks to his old self destroying the original Terrigen Cloud, he's seen as a criminal. He has barely a second to consider this before Medusa captures him. She;s looking for information from the young X-Man before being interrupted by Magneto throwing metal at her. Not knowing what else to do, he goes back to Muir Island with the rest of his teammates to regroup.
   Walking inside, nobody knows what to think of him and he knows it. He walks off to brood before Angel comes up and offers him some advice. Walking away, he's suddenly possessed by the Inhuman Mosaic who uses him to presumably steal the Blackbird. Young Cyclops is trapped in his own brain among memories. Eventually he runs into a gigantic Magneto helmet, which was left inside from an earlier mostly unsuccessful attempt to possess the master of magnetism. He falls inside it and sees images of Magneto's evolution before settling on a conversation between Magneto and Emma Frost. In it, he sees his older self's dead body. Emma explains the plan - to blame the entire war on Cyclops as an active participant. Since he's dead, he has no way to dispute it. More importantly, he was killed by M-Pox, not Blackbolt. He plans his revenge on Frost and with that, the issue comes to a close.
   This book is one of the gems of the X-Universe. Well written and crisp art, I've enjoyed this title since it's inception in previous volumes just as I do today. This particular issue was outstandingly written and I can't wait to see where they go with it. I give it a 10/10.

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