Written by Marc Guggenheim
Penciled by RB Silva
Cover by Ardian Syaf
Published June 21, 2017
Cover by Ardian Syaf
Published June 21, 2017
Rachel Summers is lost in her subconscious. Franklin Richards confronts her, telling her she's scared. In reality, she's at the Xavier Institute being cared for by Dr Reyes. Nightcrawler radios the info to Kitty who tells him just how bad the sentinel fight is going. SHIELD considered evacuating Manhattan but Kitty is stubborn. She blasts the nanite form with a blaster and it dissipates, only to continue the attack as tiny drones.
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| There you go, Kitty. That's what we REALLY needed! |
She gives the order to fight, and Avengers and X-Men alike attack. Back in Rachel's mind, she confronts her dead mother Jean Gray, who tells her she's afraid of reaching her own potential. But on the streets of New York the battle rages. The Stepford Cuckoos prepare a psychic attack but like the others, are rendered unconscious. As Hulk brings them to an infirmary, Gambit and Storm start making out for some incredibly odd and out of place reason that I still don't really understand.
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| I know this is a terrible time, but let's make out. |
In Rachel's mind, she talks with her dead father Scott Summers. She says she's afraid of becoming him, but he says none of us are our parents. Back topside, Pixie, Gambit, and Storm fight the drones when Storm in injured. A robotic arm phases through Kitty's chest and Colossus is engulfed in a purple energy field. Rachel talks with the future hound version of herself who tells her their friends are dying. What is she going to do about it... which is also spoken aloud by the Sentinel, much to Logan's chagrin. So is she willing to risk it - become the purest expression of her power?
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| Time for Rachel to show y'all who's boss. |
She wakes up in the hospital room. Kurt tells her she shouldn't be up but she says she has to do something. Renewed she projects a psychic attack on the robot and it starts speaking in binary errors. Suddenly all throughout the world the drones disintegrate. The X-Men rest for a brief second when they see Colossus, covered in blood. Nightcrawler asks Rachel if she's ok, and with reflective eyes displaying multiple eras of heroes, she says she doesn't know.
The issue wraps showing the cleanup. Smoke rises from New York's city skyline. Residents help each other to their feet and a young girl finds a doll. But beneath her, a sentinel face stares with eyes aglow? What does it mean? We'll have to wait as this storyarc is over.
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| Is that you, Cerebra? Where the hell have you been?! |
It's tough to figure out what an issue is trying to say when so many things happen and with this book, Marc Guggenheim is making a habit out of it. From Rachel interacting with her past and future, to several of the X-Men almost dying, to New York's once again near destruction, they prove that it's easy to throw bombs but tough to pick up the pieces. I had to look up a few details of Rachel's life I'd forgotten, and what I rediscovered is how amazing Chris Claremont was in creating in her. This title fails to carry his legacy but that's not really anything new. I give this one a 6/10.
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