Spider-Man #15

Written by Brian Michael Bendis

Penciled by Szymon Kudranski
Cover by Patrick Brown
Published Apr 5, 2017

   After their wild dimension hopping adventure, Jefferson and his son Miles aka Spider-Man make a phone call to his mom but she doesn't answer. He leaves a message and they go for dinner. Jefferson asks Miles about his Spider-Girl love interest, and they share a quick Father-Son talk before Bendis has to throw an SJW jab in, thinking Miles was in love with Ganke. They take off, planning to sneak back into their respective homes keeping Rio in the dark.
   Jefferson quietly enters the house and finds his wife sitting in the living room asking if Miles is with him. They hear a noise in his bedroom and she calls out to him, ordering him to come out now. He walks in and she shows him a formula for his web fluid she found. She demands answers - her husband and son mysteriously disappear and in addition to the fluid, she finds a mystery phone of her husbands. He tells her he's working for SHIELD again. She asks why and he says it was because he was worried about Miles. She looks at her son and he removes his shirt. Clinging to the ceiling, he reveals to her that he's Spider-Man. She asks how long it's been going on and he tells her a couple of years. Enraged, she accuses Jefferson of lying to her all this time.
   Miles explains to her that he kept it from her because anyone who knows is in danger. He apologizes and Jefferson tells her not to go to her mother with this info. She tells him he no longer can make those demands. She's just gonna tell everyone he cheated on her, which is about all the same.
   Meanwhile back at the dorm, Miles listens in as Ganke watches youtube videos trolling Spidey. Disgusted, he gets up just as Fabio Medina stops by with an army of pizzas left over from a social. They discuss the events that just took place which essentially ties in everything from a few issues back. A page later, a nefarious figure sits talking to his henchmen about there being too many superheroes ruining their plans. He especially refers to Spider-man. And back at Jerfferson's apartment, the super mysterious cell phone rings. A SHIELD operative informs him Maria Hill is no longer with the organization and all of her operations are suspended. The phone disintegrates and with that, he's no longer a secret agent.
   The issue concludes with Danika the viral youtube Spider hater walking down the halls of the school. There Ganke stops to say hello and with that, this storyline is over.
   I've been a fan of Brian Michael Bendis for a long time. The only irritating thing with him is that you better plan on doing a lot of reading. He's got to be one of the most banal and long winded writers out there. I understand his employment with Guardians of the Galaxy is coming to an end. I really wouldn't mind seeing someone take control of Miles Morales' destiny as well. For now though, I guess we're stuck with him. I give this one a 7/10.

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Old Man Logan #20

Written by Jeff Lemire

Penciled by Filipe Andrade
Cover by Andrea Sorrentino
Published Mar 29, 2017

   After fighting to the bottom of the Raft, Logan finds what he was looking for. The time traveling criminal Asmodeus. Studying up on him and learning about his run ins with the Avengers, he offers him freedom from prison in exchange for sending him back in time. Logan produces a bag of artifacts from which Asmodeus procures his powers. Pilfered from Dr Strange, Logan cleverly snuck around the sanctum until he found what he was looking for.
   With his distraction running it's course, he tells Asmodeus that time is of the essence. Spider-Man draws closer to them with a SHIELD guard in tow, and right before encountering them, the criminal and the mutant vanish. Materializing in a low rent storage locker in New Jersey, Logan pops the lock off and just making sure the spell is temporary, Asmodeus begins. As long as Logan wears the amulet he gave him, the spell will only last 4 days. Then his consciousness will return to his body - a tidbit of info that Logan isn't too keen on. Regardless, these are the terms. Asmodeus cuts Logan's hand for the blood needed for the spell. He drinks it and quiets the mind... With that, he sees all of Logan's past, freeing his consciousnesses and leaving his body at the storage unit. There a sinister looking Asmodeus brandishes a knife.
   When Logan awakes, he's in the snow with blood on his hands. Unaware of which part of the Wastelands the villain sent him to, he begins to walk down a trail of blood when he reaches the end of it. A heap of dead soldiers lie in the snow when a rifle is lowered at his head. Telling him to freeze, the mounted general tells his brigade that Canada's best assassin is now their prisoner. Old Man Logan is smack dab in the middle of the war of 1812 and with that, we're left to be continued...
   While I'm disappointed that the only Sorrentino art we get now in this book is the covers, the story work is still pretty solid. We've been being teased with the "Past Lives" storyline forever now and it looks like we're on the cusp of finally getting into it. What Logan is supposed to find out is a mystery we'd all like to know. With this issue acting as a setup, I still have continued hopes they can sharpen up the pencil work a little bit more. But overall I still give it an 8/10.

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Batman #20

Written by Tom King

Penciled by David Finch
Cover by David Finch
Published Apr 5, 2017

   After tearing through practically every villain Batman has ever faced, Bane finally reaches the Bat. He tells him it's the end, but Batman knows this isn't how he was supposed to die. He was supposed to die while saving a crashing airplane. Hearing a voice in his head and reflecting back, he tells Bane that he's heard it a million times and yet, he's still here. But that plane WAS supposed to crash. Finding Gotham and Gotham Girl was a way to save more people. Two heroes that couldn't die like so many under the Batman's wing before. What a relief that must have been, says the voice.
   Batman takes punch after punch, finally being taunted that Bane plans to kill everyone he loves. Alfred, Gotham Girl, Catwoman, Commisioner Gordon.. even describing the methods. The voice reminds him he could still fix Claire. Just find the Pirate. Yes, invading a sovereign country isn't legal so it took a team of former enemies. Then let Bane beat you while the plan was executed. Bane tells him that after he kills everyone, he'll watch the city burn from one of Batman's favorite brooding gargoyles. The voice resumes - You knew he'd follow you back to Gotham. You knew he'd do anything to get the Pirate back. You worked daily to get Claire back and waited - for the one man you know could break you. You took each punch. Through broken ribs, through dimmed sight, you heard a voice - your very own mother.
   She tells him it's ok to give up. But with every step, every punch, Bruce the man is empowered by his mother's memory. For the first time since he lost them, he felt safe. He reached for them and they reached for him back. But he knew every option. And as Bane is screaming at him, asking him if he knows really who Bane is, ending with a loud "I AM BANE!" He thought about Claire. And triumphantly as ever before, he head butts the supervillain and hits back with "I'm Batman..." As Bane lays on he floor, he knows he's lost. Batman won't give up. He won't let Claire go. He suffered through all of this to win this war. Back in his head, his mother tells him it was all suffered for victory. But Bruce tells her that that wasn't it. The girl needed help so he helped her. She tells him that he never needed a good death for her to be proud of him. He tells her that he knows. And with that, this story comes to an end.
   The difference between this book and most other books I read is that with Tom King's Batman, you know you're literally reading something that will be complied in a graphic novel someday as a masterpiece. He has such a skill with words, that you read this and you know this is the reason you read comic books. The only thing that transpires in real time in this issue is the fight with Bane. And you hang on to each panel being completely shocked with the dialogue. Great series. Great art. Great colors... I give this issue a 10/10.

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The Punisher #10

Written by Becky CloonanPenciled by Matt Horak
Cover by Declan Shalvey
Published Mar 15, 2017

   Olaf and the boss stand on the dock at Condor HQ. Droning on and on about the future of distributing EMC, Olaf bursts his bubble saying he's a soldier, not a drug dealer. The boss asks if he took care of Face and he said that yes, the EMC would take him out in due time. Meanwhile, Face is slowly bleeding to death out of every oriface in the back of DEA Agent Ortiz's car. Previously, she'd promised him a quick death if he showed her where Condor's base was located. Losing consciousness, he gives her clues which steers her closer and closer.
   Back on the deck, some goons mock one of the female mercs for getting her face blown off by the Punisher. She fights back, telling them that the Punisher is a dangerously cruel in what he does to bad guys, and he'll be there soon enough to deal with them. As they walk into the woods to relieve the previous patrol, they follow the tracks to where they suddenly stop. Looking up, their fellow guards' bodies hang upside down from the trees. They radio their discovery in that "the Punisher is HERE!". There riding in on Ethel's motorcycles is Frank Castle, armed with a hatchet. He buries it in some skulls and pulls out a bear trap on a chain. Swinging it from the chopper, he tears the faces off the goons with it. Later he burns on of them to death on the motorcycles carborator and hits another few with the axe.
   Spotted by more guards, he tears one of their arms off with the bear trap and blows him away with a shotgun. Opening the seacan filled with EMC, he's nearly ambushed but manages to get the jump on two more Condor employees. He walks by a guard shack and hears a woman's voice asking for help. There, the woman who had the face injury puts on a hostage act, and once Frank gets too close, she pops him in the neck with a syringe.
   The issue wraps with the boss addressing the organization with a pep talk, on how they're priming to take over. He tells them that they won't be soldiers anymore - just push the product on the streets. Together, they'll do great things. His speech is interrupted by a gunshot though. Olaf tells him they're soldiers - not drug dealers. Under his leadership, Condor has taken steps back. He blows him away and tells the crew to dump him overboard. Olaf tells them all that Condor will flex it's muscles... take the power back.. And it starts with killing the Punisher. The final page reveals Frank Castle restrained with a pistol pointed at his head. He's in trouble. But what becomes of him will have to wait as we're left to be continued.
   I've dogged this series out in the past and to be honest, it's still pretty basic. It's about how I remember all the Punisher books though. This Condor story has dragged on now for 10 issues with no evidence it's gonna slow down. In the past, they'd have thrown Daredevil and maybe Spider-Man in the mix but not here, not yet. Violent to almost the point of ridiculousness, I give this one a 6/10 with hopes they'll step it up a notch in the near future. 

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All New X-Men #19

Written by Dennis Hopeless

Penciled by Paco Diaz
Cover by Mark Bagley
Published Mar 29, 2017

   As Idie and Evan reminisce about the end of an era upon them, Iceman's boyfriend makes fun of him for not knowing what a campground barbecue pit is. Trying to figure out how to light it, Angel flies down with wings aflame, and sets fire to the entire area. They ask him where he's been the last few days and he tells them he's been wiping out a human trafficking ring with Wolverine up in the hills somewhere. Without warning, the Blackbird lands and an unexpected guest walks out.
   Cyclops blasts an old stationwagon that the hotel owner said was used for target practice when that special guest comes walking up. Jean Gray gives him a hug and they share a moment. Cyclops laments Emma Frost starting so much trouble in his life and then escaping scot free. He asks Jean what she's doing there and she tells him Hank asked her to be there for a secret meeting. He suddenly remembers the meeting invite as well, and the two go running.
   Beast thanks the original five for being able to gather, and he explains his recent run in with Doctor Strange and budding use of sorcery. He tells them to close their eyes but Jean peeks, seeing the room aglow and Hank morphes into some huge monster. When the room settles, they see their back in Westchester in the past they were picked from. Scott erupts in joy while the others react with disdain. Hank should have explained. He tells them they'll all understand soon. He tells Pickles to bring them to the bank and there they're teleported to a robbery. Unus the Untouchable walks out. Scott tells them he knows how to beat him now but Hank restrains him. He tells him to wait a moment and it'll all make sense.
   The original X-Men, complete in classic unis fly out and attack. Scott is heartbroken. How can this be? Hank explains that this can't be their timeline. He pulls them back to the present and Scott continues to not believe it. He tells Hank to bring them somewhere else and he explains he doesn't know where that is. He storms out with Jean closely in tow. Cyclops goes out to blow up the car some more, asking her where do we go from here. She says they go forward. He moves to kiss her and they share an awkward moment. She explains that wouldn't be moving forward and he understands. They walk back to the group where Jean quietly asks Beast what that weird morphing thing was. He tells her it wasn't any of her business and the team pulls out some tunes. Instead of baseball, like some other x-titles slowed out with, they have an impromptu X-Men dance party. And with that, this series comes to an end.
   It's bittersweet to see this title wrap. I remember about 40 or 50 some odd issues or so when Uncanny X-Men ended the first time and this was the replacement title. But from Bendis to Hopeless, it seems like a good time to wrap this up. I've already gotten a chance to check out X-Men Blue and if you like this team, the majority of them continue on. I don't know what happens to Idie or Kid Apocalypse but I don't really care. Either way, this was an apt send off, and I give this final issue an 8/10.

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Civil War II: X Men #3

Written by Cullen Bunn

Penciled by Andrea Broccardo
Cover by David Yardin
Published Aug 17, 2017

   Somewhere in the future, Rachel Gray and some of her fellow mutants are on leashes - forced to track other mutants like dogs. It's a vision that sticks with her. Today however, she walks the streets of London in the aftermath of yet another terragenesis event. There with her is Magneto, who forces her to realize that the humans are very much more interested in the new Inhumans than the mutants that have died. He explains to her about Ulysses and how his powers could be used against mutants. In the future that she's from, did she ever see an Inhuman lift a finger for mutantkind?
   Meanwhile in New York, Medusa and Lockjaw meet with Storm to discuss the recent spying incident between Fantomex and Gambit. Obviously the queen is upset but Storm says the party they sent was for their own protection. Magneto however was possibly looking to eliminate Ulysses. Therefore, Storm requests the Inhumans allow the X-Men to handle their former greatest enemy. She agrees but if Magneto does anything else, she'll have to respond in kind.
   Back in the Savage Land, Woz the Inhuman sneaks into War Room X. There the X-Men discuss a plan to secure Ulysses when Sabretooth smells the intruder. They capture him and acknowledge their timeline may be quickly changing. In New York, Gambit holds Fantomex hostage when Storm's team appears to interrogate the spy. He gives up his info quickly - Magneto had sent him in to scope out but not engage. Suddenly Logan hears Archangel approaching. The bungalow explodes and Nightcrawler teleports Fantomex out of the building. Not too far away as Sabertooth, Fantomex, Monet, and now Nightcrawler prepare for a fight. There the X-Men face off against each other...
   Gambit sees Rogue approach and seeing his soft spot for her, Mystique drops her disguise and knocks him out. Logan and Victor Creed savagely slash each other while eventually it dawns on them what this mission is - a distraction. Outside New Attilan, Rachel and Magneto approach the city with apparent bad intentions. We have to wait to see what happens however, as we're left to be continued.
   Cullen Bunn is flexing his muscles with this group and it's paying off. Obviously this sets into motion the breakups and makeups of the previous X-titles, merging into the battle with the Inhumans, and it's bridging along nicely. The X-Men have fought each other before and I'm certain they will again. Still this tale stands on it's own and I'm looking forward tot he next chapter. I give this one a 9/10.

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Uncanny Avengers #22

Written by Gerry Duggan

Penciled by Pepe Larraz
Cover by David Marquez
Published Apr 5, 2017

   As Cable recovers, the rest of the Unity Squad can't keep Deadpool from continuoously roaming the hospital in violation of his doctor's orders. Meanwhile, Beast completes the partial lobotomy on Red Skull and gives the telepathic part of Charles Xavier's brain to Rogue. Soon Captain America arrives to take the Red Skull into custody and demands the brain, whom Rogue refuses. Things start to get tense until Rogue explodes out of an outside wall with it, flies straight up and asks for Human Torch to join her.
  High above the clouds, Rogue tells the torch that it's time to send Charles home. With a burst of fire from his fingertips, Professor X gets a touching sendoff. Johnny gives Rogue some privacy as his ashes are scattered across the sky and she revels in the sunlight in Xavier's honor one last time. Back in the prisoner transport van, a crushed Red Skull asks his Hydra servant Captain America how he could let them do this to him. As the SHIELD motorcade departs, Wasp tells the team she's gonna need a vacation. They ask how Rogue is and Johnny Storm tells them she's gonna be ok.
   Later they all go to a bar to celebrate their disbanding. Wasp takes her leave while Deadpool pulls out a bottle he's been saving for when Wolverine came back. They all give toasts and Wade sneaks out for a walk. Rogue sneaks up on him and asks him if he hates her for the beating she gave him when she was brainwashed. He tells her no and she picks him up and flies high up into the sky. There she plants a big kiss on him and absorbs his sickness. He tells her she deserves better. Speckled with his scars, she tells him she doesn't care what she looks like. As she envisions the horrors that's made him who he is, they keep making out. Somehow Wonder Man materializes and asks Deadpool for an explanation. But stammering and unable to give him one, we're left to be continued.
   After it was explained the X-Men would be reforming en masse, I assumed this book was on it's deathbed. Duggan decided to give his favorite character ever Deadpool a girlfriend. How that plays out I guess we'll see. As he's been a part of the X-family for so long, there's no reason to think they won't be taking Wade Wilson back to Westchester. I just hope they do it the right way. For this issue, I give it a 9/10.

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Batman #19

Written by Tom King

Penciled by David Finch
Cover by David Finch
Published Mar 15, 2017

   Bane storms into Arkham, ready to beat the Dark Knight for the final time. First encounter is Maxi Zeus, who is spurting out passages from Dante's Inferno. Next up, Two Face offers his help in exchange for Bane's offer, which is a quick gut punch and uppercut as he steams through. In the hallway about an hour and a half after his arrival, he rips through Solomon Grundy and Amygdala, while on the other side of the door, the Scarecrow rattles off everything he's afraid of in life. Now roughly 3 hours after his entrance, Bane smashes through and is sprayed by his patented nightmare inducing spray. He writhes around for a few minutes, tells Scarecrow he doesn't get nightmares, he gives them. With that, Scarecrow screams in agony as Bane presumably beats the shit out of him.
   Now nearly 5 hours after this ordeal has begun, Bruce, Alfred, and Gotham Girl sit recovering in a cell. Batman explains to Alfred he armed and freed all of the inmates in hopes of stalling Bane, much to Alfred's shock and disbelief. Meanwhile Bane continues his march, meeting some resistance from Mr Freeze but eventually exploding through the ice that he's encased in. "Impossible" Mr Freeze says... "Not impossible, Bane" he replies. Over the next few hours, he one by one defeats Firefly, Black Spider, Flamingo, Man-Bat, Mad Hatter.. and a scourge of Batman's greatest foes. Explaining that he was done with being a criminal, all he needed was venom and Batman couldn't leave well enough alone. He finally reaches the Joker's cell. Grabbing the Riddler and telling him he has 30 seconds to open it which he does. And there, a full 24 hours after his grand entrance, stands the Batman. As Zeus now recites The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell, the two figures size each other up. They squint, they ball their fists and prepare to fight for the death... but with that, we're left to be continued.
   Tom King never takes a break. He crams as much into this series as he can, including somehow every bad guy Batman has ever fought short of the Joker and Harley Quinn. It once again proves why this is one of the best titles DC has going right now and why I'm always left wanting more. I give this one a 10/10.

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All New X-Men #12

Written by Dennis Hopeless

Penciled by Mark Bagley
Cover by Mark Bagley
Published Aug 10, 2016

   The X-Men are trying to get back to normal, and during some rare downtime, Warren takes off to Milan for Fashion Week. Meanwhile, his ex-girlfriend Laura just finds herself wanting to be alone. Noticing that she's having a rough go, the still healing and wheelchair bound Cyclops has something for her that might do just the trick. A dossier of solo missions, all over analyzed and risk-grouped by the incomparable young Beast. She takes him up on it, along with his secret weapon - the time traveling Nightcrawler minion, Pickles.
   First stop is Brazil, where an environmental terriost offshoot of Daredevil's rivals the Hand has been training. Only problem is that once Wolverine leaps into ferocious action, she finds them all already defeated. Next on the list is Toronto, where sightings of Mole Man and subterranean monster attacks have terrified the locals. But there again, she finds the threat already neutralized. Next up, Cameron Hodge has hijacked a truck and is vacuuming up terrigen to weaponize M-Pox, but again she finds the truck crushed and the baddies tied up. Finally she hits up the goblin queen in Florida and she's finally able to unleash her claws. She starts slashing and hacking, not being morally abashed because killing demons is apparently totally cool for the Weapon X clone. Suddenly a fiery explosion interrupts her and as the smoke clears, she sees former old flame (pardon the pun) Warren Worthginton bathed in fire.
   Obviously not at fashion week, they immediately begin arguing. Wolverine was only trying to be a normal teenager for him and he tells her she's terrible at normal. He reminds her how reckless she is and she reminds him about his assault on the Blob. While he was being so judgemental to her, he he is doing the same thing. He tells her he can't help it now and she doesn't know what that feels like. She tells him she knows exactly what it feels like and they immediately start making out.
   The issue ends with the demons asking their queen if they should put themselves back together and take out the X-men duo while they're distracted, and she tells them no, not right now. Let the kiddies have their fun. The next page reveals whom they're talking to - the dreaded Inferno version of Madelyne Pryor. And with that, we're left to be continued.
   I've read a lot of reviews of this particular issue and they all gravitate to one point - Dennis Hopeless and his forced youth lingo is annoying, not believable, and distracting. While I'm aware we're dealing with a young group of X-Men here, it's irritating to be force fed this teeny soap opera bullshit that doesn't really do much to help out the storyline. I don't remember Chris Claremont or Scott Lobdell trying to lather up the 80's/90's version of "LOL" and nobody needs it here either. He's done a good job up to this point but there's some red flags. I give it a 7/10 and I hope he has some sort of plan before this series comes to a close...

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Extraordinary X-Men #20

Written by Jeff Lemire

Penciled by Victor Ibanez
Cover by David Yardin
Published Mar 22, 2017

   War is over. With the terrigen threat neutralized, it's time for the X-Men to go home. Even though the stay in limbo was always supposed to be temporary, Storm really felt like it was all coming to an end. Colossus tells her they're ready for another group transport out. A very much happier Nightcrawler joins the crowd and Jean and Storm reminisce when Martha the brain tells Storm she's sensed a distress signal. Forge attempts to pinpoint it but being too weak, it's determined a team will need to be organized one final time.
   On a farm in South Dakota, they're drawn to an old creepy farmhouse. As they draw near it, hordes of wild and oddly insect infused sentinals fly out at them.. Logan has no problem shredding them and Martha senses Sentinal-gone-good Cerebra nearby, but the attack isn't her doing. Jean Gray is distracted during the fight and the still crushing Glob saves her. Ernst leads the team to the farmhouse on property and there in the back is a disembodied and damaged Cerebra.
   She tells the group that during the attack from Emma Frost, she cast her AI across any network available. Finally finding a host, she's been stranded here, in the location of Emma's Inhuman hunting sentinal factory ever since. The robots the X-Men encountered were the remnants, programmed to act as a last ditch effort of security. Cerebra tells the team how she's not much use to anyone without her body and Martha has an idea. Ready to shed her cybernetic body, she gives it to Cerebra and they return to X-Haven to help with the continued move.
   The issue wraps with Storm meeting the last of her X-Men with nothing more left to do. Iceman has an idea. A last minute baseball game with her teammates. Jeannie pitches to Logan, who accuses her of using telekinesis... Storm wistfully thinks back. Instead of constantly being afraid there'd be no future, now it's time to reflect on what  that future holds.. And with that, this series comes to a close.
   I'm sad to see this book ending. For awhile, this felt like the flagship of the X-series. It had the best writing but scantly the best artwork - this issue being no exception. Still, it was full for a spinoff title and seemed to do a great job of remembering why we fell in love with the original All New X-Men in the first place. I'm looking forward to seeing the old teams reunited but this wrap is bittersweet. I give this particular issue a 5/10 for being a crummy waste of a story but a 10/10 for a title overall. 

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Infamous Iron Man #6

Written by Brian Michael Bendis

Penciled by Alex Maleev
Cover by Alex Maleev
Published March 29, 2017

   A lifetime ago at State College, a young Victor Von Doom is annoyed at his classmate Reed Richards offering to look over his work. Explaining to him he doubts he'd understand it, they're interrupted by school jock Ben Grimm asking why Reed even talks to Victor in the first place. Reed asks him about rumor he's working on a machine to talk with the dead in hopes of contacting his long lost mother. Doom gets upset, and although Reed compliments his work, he accuses him of trying to sabotage and eventually mock the future supervillain.
   Flash forward to today and Wizard tells Modok that the new Iron Man inspired Doom is a big problem. Allowing SHIELD to capture the Mad Thinker, he thinks they should get the old Intelligentcia band back together before sneaking in behind him stands Iron Doom himself. He tries to counter Doom's attack with a more improved glove design, which although not powerful enough to defeat him, turns out to be a diversion. Somehow making his anti-gravity tech immune to sorcery, Iron Man is shot through the roof. He disengages his boots and silently falls to earth, using his hand blasters to stop him at the last second. Meanwhile, someone on the SHIELD helicarrier informs Commander Carter that Doom is on the grid in Pennsylvania while he fights Wizard. For a moment he's distracted and Wizard attacks him from behind. Suddenly,  we see Reed Richards and Victor's mother Cynthia watching the battle from some far off dimension. She wants to run to him before Reed argues against it. Back on Earth, Director Carter tries to arrest Doom but but he makes small talk and manages to stall her long enough for his armor to come back online. He blasts off into the sky, evading her "shoot to kill" order and escapes.
   The issue concludes in Chicago, where RiRi Williams watches news footage of some Iron Man like figure being confronted by SHIELD agents. As her mother calls her for dinner, she says she's going out and will just grab something to eat later. And with that, we're left to be continued.
   I think I said it before, but if Brian Michael Bendis wants to write a Fantastic Four book so bad, why don't they just publish one? It doesn't make a lot of sense to exile Tony Stark just so Reed Richards and the Thing could fight Dr. Doom again. Still, I enjoy it. It reminds me an awful lot of when Doc Ock was in Peter Parker's body a few years ago, and I dug that storyline too. I look forward to what happens next and I give this one a 9/10.

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Uncanny Inhumans #20

Written by Charles Soule

Penciled by Ario Anindito
Cover by Frazer Irving
Published Mar 22, 2017

   Maximus is at long last finished with his plan to create more terrigen crystals. In India, he opens Banyan's workshop doors to show everyone the big finish. There before them lies an incredible factory, with Banyan's best men and a crazy Inhuman engineer named Kludge. Maximus gets the factory to work while Lineage and Triton discuss a plan to murder him as soon as possible. Compelled to wait until the crystals are finished, it takes three days and Maximus tells them he's done. They walk in and instead of building crystals, he and Kludge have built a gigantic robot they intend to stomp on mutants with. Banyan is infuriated. He intends to take out his anger on Maximus but not before the Unspoken returns.
   Intent on getting the crystals from him, the Unspoken is still a little upset with being forced to marry a fish queen. She allows him to get his revenge before they're to spawn. Maximus and Kludge jump into the gigantic robot and the battle is on. Banyan watches as it crushes the factory before pulling out a gigantic sword to fight the robotic fish that the Unspoken and his queen are in. It swipes the robot and there on the tip of the sword rests Unspoken. Unfortunately for Maximus, Kludge used terrigen to fuel the robot, and instead it fuels the Unspoken into a giant. It tears the robot in half and Maximus attempts to take over his brain. Banyan once again comes after him but Triton cuts the wood man's hands, arms and jaw off. With the Unspoken threat neutralized... somehow, Triton asks why Maximus didn't just make the crystals. He essentially eludes to the fact that he's the only one who can make them, thus becoming too important to ever kill.
   The issue ends with an Inhumans vs X-Men epilogue. Blackbolt and the newly unthroned Medusa sit in a bar talking. Since Emma Frost's attack is wearing off on the former Inhuman king, conversation is something he won't be able to engage in for much longer. She asks him if he'd known the effects of terrigen on mutants, would he have released it and he tells her no. They recap the events of the series and how they're newly grown numbers will allow them that much power. Blackbolt's speech shatters her wineglass, pretty much rendering him forever mute once again and Flagman runs in. A huge party has been organized for the Queen's farewell. They salute her. She raises her glass and salutes them back... "To the future" she says - and all rejoice. And with that, this series comes to a close.
   The last page of this comic is a letter from Charles Soule to his audience and I have to say, it's a pretty good one. He was basically told to take these characters and turn them into something. Essentially he took at best some B to C level cast offs  and formed what will become more and more important of a franchise to Marvel. Not an easy task and he's gracious to his pencilers, editors, and readers for helping him do it. He did a good job. I give this issue a 10/10 as a worthy final issue, and I'm looking forward to seeing where they take the Inhumans next.

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Old Man Logan #19

Written by Jeff Lemire

Penciled by Filipe Andrade
Cover by Andrea Sorrentino
Published Mar 15, 2017

   The mutant once known as Wolverine carves his way into the Cellar - the world's most fortified prison, determined to find someone. As he leaps through the doors, the guards shoot him. Reminding them that they've made a big mistake, they refer to him by his old name and he carves through their armor. They point him in the right direction as one of the guards ask just what's in the lower levels and he gets his answer... the really scary ones. The ones that never get out.
   It was only nine days prior that Logan asked Illyana Rasputin to help him. He needs to go back to the future, back to the Wastelands. She asks if it's because of the Hulk baby and he tells her that would be the reason. He has to stop what the baby can become. She tells him that there's no guarantee that the future he came from is even like that anymore. Certain events may have altered it. It's a risk he's willing to take but one that she is not. She tells him no.
   Back in the present, he continues to slash his way further and further down. Everything is going fine until he runs into Miles Morales - the new Spider-Man. Logan tells him to back off. He won't. They go round and round until he sees the claws. Flashback to meetings with Beast, Shaman, Cable, Wiccan, Dr Doom, Scarlet Witch, and Black Panther and they all tell him no . Finally, Dr Strange at least entertains the conversation but only to really tell him why he can't do it.
   The issue wraps back in the cellar, with him and Spidey going pound for pound until he's able to get the upper hand. Freeing scores of low level criminals, Spider-Man is left with his hands full. Logan however is able to escape. Down at the bottom level, he finds who he was looking for. Asmodeus - the scourge of Satan, the slayer of angels is just that man. Logan pops out his claws for an offer he won't be able to refuse and with that, we're left to be continued.
   Seeing that Andrea Sorrentino is done with this series (except for the covers) is a major downer. I don't know who this guest penciler is but it's a drag and immediately halfs where this series is gonna be able to take me. I know there's a major teaser for issue 21 coming up, and maybe that's enough to keep me hanging on, but this book as taken a hit. Story wise it's a little meh. Artwise it's a big meh. I'll give it a 6/10 with the hopes it returns to it's glory days.

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Uncanny X-Men #19

Written by Cullen Bunn

Penciled by Edgar Salazar
Cover by Ken Lashley
Published Mar 15, 2017

   After discovering Magneto has been conspiring with the Hellfire Club, Psylocke decides it's time to end him. She moves stealthily through War Room X in the Savage Land seeking him out. Her advance upon the compound is interrupted when the entire structure explodes, and she shields herself in a psychic bubble, landing at his feet. He reminds her that she said she'd be watching him, and if she didn't approve of his actions, she'd kill him and he assumes that she's decided to make good on her warnings. Using telekinesis, she commands a gigantic dinosaur to attack him and as it bites down on him, he blows up the creatures jaws. Indeed Psylocke was right... This is where it ends.
   He knew this day would come. Did she see too much of him in her own actions or too much herself in his? As they battle, he tells her it doesn't have to be this way. The X-Men still have much work to do. She reminds him that his team of X-Men are finished. Mystique, Sabretooth and Monet are all missing, Xorn has vanished, Archangel is in charge of the sleepers and Fantomex is also off the grid. He's a poison, running the X-Men like the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
   She draws a sword and Magneto shreds it, but what he isn't prepared for is a telekinetic one, and she runs him through. It's done. It's over. And he wasn't expecting it. She removes his helmet and using her mind powers, puts him to sleep - collapsing into the water and bleeding out. She walks away and suddenly, Elixer and Exodus appear through a portal. They heal him, as Elixer declares his debts repaid and Exodus tell Magneto he should come with them. He tells them he shall remain dead... Exodus states not that dead and Magneto says "No, not yet..." and with that, this series comes to an end.
   This title is a shell of itself, and being dead is probably better than being published with the likes of THIS so-called team of X-Men. The natural offspring of the original series created over a half century ago has been forgotten. While it will no doubt live again, what I would assume is about the 620th issue of this classic title ends with a whimper and is clearly not up to standards with what Chris Claremont could write in his sleep. But sleep now, Uncanny X-Men. I give props to Marvel a little bit that they put it this title out of it's misery and give this issue a 4/10. 

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