X-Men Gold #3

Written by Mark Guggenheim

Penciled by Ardian Syaf
Cover by Ardian Syaf
Published May 3, 2017

   After managing to contact the X-Men, Logan remains captive via the Brotherhood and former New Mutant Amara incapacitates him. Back at HQ, Kitty assembles a team including students Rockslide and Armor. They take to the air. Kitty describes to the younger members how this mission will be dangerous. There's gonna be a lot of ground to cover.

Wait.. This is gonna be hard?!

   The Blackbird lands and they split up. Prestige beefs up their psi-shields and it isn't long before team one encounters the new big lizard guy. They engage while team two locates the mayor. Nightcrawler bamfs him to safety but they're hands are full fighting a brainwashed Logan. Kitty asks Rachel the location of Mesmero, who shows himself after dropping her out of the sky. Colossus lays out Lizard Man while Storm blasts Logan with lightning.

Oh... well that was easy.

   The team takes inventory. While it appears Logan got to the majority of Brotherhood before they laid him out, Rachel lays Mesmero out in kind. Problem is that she discovers in his brain that the whole site is rigged with explosives. Kitty orders an immediate extraction. Before she leaves though, she wants to save their former pupil Amara. She finds her, very hurt and psychically unstable. She blasts her with fire but Kitty won't back off without a fight. The plant explodes with Kitty and Amara inside it. 

Looks like Kitty's a badass now.

   As the rubble steams, The X-Men search for survivors and eventually locate the two missing X-Men alive and well. Back at Central Park, SHIELD takes the now captured Brotherhood prisoners into custody. But once the dust settles, Rachel informs Kitty that in reading Mesmero's mind, she discovers he didn't do any of it under his own volition. Turns out it was Lydia Nance.
   They infiltrate her apartment building and question her. She created and paid the mutant to form a terrorist group. She tells them that no one will believe them, taking the word of a mutant's over a human's. Rachel lifts her into the air telepathically. Kitty tells her that while she thinks she's clever, eventually her bigotry will come to light. When it does so... the X-Men will be there waiting. And with that, the story is concluded.

In reality, Lydia was just scared of the terrible art in this comic book.

   This book is still so weak. I honestly feel like it's meant to be read by the lowest form of readers which is so disappointing. Obviously comics are meant for a younger audience but this one seems to stumble even lower. I can't describe it really, but these stories read like something Chris Claremont would be embarrassed by. What has happened to his X-Men? I know the title is just getting started but somebody needs to get out the red pen. Because this ship is going waaaay down. I give it a 4/10. 

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