Written by Cullen Bunn
Penciled by Jorge Molina
Cover by Arthur Adams
Published May 3, 2017
Cover by Arthur Adams
Published May 3, 2017
In Barcelona, the young X-Men face off against Sentinels who seem to be countering every move. Explaining to them that the robots are actually there to help, the emerging mutant Belen explains that the destruction around them was actually caused by herself. The conversation is shortly based though, and the robots gather the heroes up for transport.
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| Come with me if you want to live! |
Once airborne, the Blackbird follows closely while Belen explains to Jean that she was using powers she didn't know she had. The Sentinels turned them off. Jean tells her these robots were originally intended to murder mutants. All throughout their long history, they were machines of pure hatred, designed to terrify the X-Men.
They land and once released, feel their powers beginning to reactivate. Jean tells them to lay low and see who the culprit is who ordered this. They're introduced to Bastion. He explains that he's there to save mutantkind, though through their studies of future foes, they know he has a reputation for exterminating them. He tells her he fought Hope, but escaped into the future. There he found terrigen gasses was killing mutants. While it's no longer a threat, their species is endangered. He reprogrammed the sentinals to aid mutants because as Beast tells them silently, he's gone pretty much insane. Though the team doesn't believe him, Belen offers to help. She asks why can't mutants change?
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| "If I can change... you can change. WE ALL CAN CHANGE!" - Rocky Balboa. 1987. |
Beast explains that as he's a robot, he has a utility function. All they have to do is find out his end game. But when Jean Gray asks, he reveals it. He wants mutants to flourish so that he can continue to destroy them at a later time. Realizing this means war, the X-Mean spring into action. Problem is that Bastion and his sentinals will not fight back. Since a fight at this time doesn't support their utility function, they all teleport away.
With the battle over, Jean offers Belen enrollment in the X-school. As their waiting, the Blackbird lands waiting to wisk them away. Scott and Jean quietly have a moment to talk. Bastion was trying to save mutants but is still an enemy. Is their relationship with Magneto any different. The two share a friendly moment before boarding the plane.. and with that we're left to be continued.
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| Aw Jean. Let's be friends... |
Compared to X-Men Gold, this series is like War and Peace. And it's not saying much but every month - this is the issue of the two I read last. Reason why? It restores my faith in my favorite comic book heroes. At the very least, Cullen Bunn has written a lot of decent X-men stories in the past. So I'll give him a little credit for getting a book off the ground. Rome wasn't built in a day. This title isn't going to be either. Hopefully it keeps getting better. I give it a 7/10.
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