Written by Marc Guggenheim
Penciled by Ardian Syaf
Cover by Ardian Syaf
Published Apr 26, 2017
Cover by Ardian Syaf
Published Apr 26, 2017
Lydia Nance from the Heritage Initiative gets a phone call in the middle of the night. Directing her to turn on the TV, she watches as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants attacks the X-Men in New York. Former New Mutant Magma burns Logan as Kitty directs Nightcrawler to port him out of trouble and she calls for backup. Only problem is that Prestige and Colossus already have their hands full. Kitty asks for a "TFS" and Colossus delivers as a telekinetic fastball special right into former Morloc Masque. Rachel Summers tries to psychically reach them, but they're obviously working with some other telepath.
That telepath turns out to be Mesmero, as Nightcrawler and Logan bamf into his path. Invading Kurt's mind, he teleports him away and looks down at the former Wolverine. Back at the fight, Kitty calls for Storm to give them a chance to regroup and in the duststorm, the Brotherhood teleports away before a SHIELD squadron appears. On board the Helicarrier, Captain America congratulates Kitty Pride for being the new leader of the X-Men and shows her footage of Lydia Nance. He then goes through the intelligence on the Brotherhood with all signs pointing to most of them being pretenders. All but the former X-Man Magma.
Prestige walks in and tells Kitty they've found Nightcrawler. Logan however remains in the custody of Mesmero. Back in the lower east side, a costumed villain hunts down a mutant while in Madripoor, Kurt explains to his team that Mesmero kept him teleporting until he was exhausted. That fact reveals the reasoning behind Magma's brainwashing when Rachel walks in with a new problem.
At Gracie Mansion, it appears the Brotherhood has once again struck - this time kidnapping the Mayor with threats to execute him. Of course, Nance is on TV within the hour threatening Mutant deportation. Young students watch with Storm looking on. Back in custody, Logan reminds his captors that even though the chains binding him may be adamantium, the chair is not. He springs into action, incapacitating Mesmero and very soon after, taking out the rest of his squad.
Back at HQ, Rachel uses a version of Cerebro she's not used to while talking with Kurt about Nance's newest scare tactic. The issue begins to wrap when Colossus walks into Kitty's office while she hacks the web. The Brotherhood just doesn't seem to be tracking while he tells her of the students' anxiety about the deportation rumors. She says they're gonna right these wrongs when the phone rings. Logan calls an address she's gonna need to write down and with that, we're left to be continued.
This is still one of the worst X-Men books - especially at least within the realm of issues of a newer launch that I've ever read. Bad writing, bad art. The only thing that keeps me going is the fact that Gambit is on the cover in a few issues which maybe indicates a return to normal. At least they got rid of this horrible artist in coming issues. As far as this particular issue, there's no redeeming qualities. Still further down the totem pole than it's predecessor Extraordinary X-Men. I give it a 6/10 with hopes it can at least get on par with it's counterpart X-Men Blue in some coming issues.
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