THE NEGATIVE ZONE WAR pt I
Written by Marc Guggenheim
Penciled by Lan Medina
Cover by Ken Lashley
Published Nov 15 2017
Penciled by Lan Medina
Cover by Ken Lashley
Published Nov 15 2017
Ktty Pryde and Lydia Nance finish squaring off for a segment on the Fact Channel, and when it's clear they're off-air, Kitty speaks her mind. Later she walks through Times Square with Colossus. She plants a big kiss on the Russian and hands him a hotel room key.
Meanwhile, Logan, Storm, Nightcrawler and Rachel revel in the protesters in Central Park who are obviously on their side. Suddenly a portal opens up. Kologoth's people have returned for him. Anole runs out with news of the extraterrestrial interference while Rachel sends a psychic phonecall to the still sleeping and still shacked up Kitty and Peter.
Anole climbes out of a window or something, I think... and Logan uses the word '"exsanguinating" before it turns out an Alpha Flight squadron attacks the alien fleet. They make quick work of the Canadian air defense, which is unexplained why they'd be in New York, before Kitty sends Rachel and Storm up to get their attention.
Next up, I guess Nightcrawler transports the rest of them onto the top of the ship, when Kitty phases through it to attack them. The ship heads down to pick up Kologoth and Logan falls from it. Rachel flies down to catch him and his blasted from behind, falling and landing hard on the ground.
The ship lands and all the X-Men in and around it fall down. Storm exclaims in surprise at something... and the ship picks up it's passenger, later leaving and traveling through the portal it emerged from. Armor wakes the sleeping Logan, explaining the situation.Storm and Colossus are ok, Rachel Summers is hurt... again, and Nightcrawler and Kitty are missing.
The issue wraps with Logan vowing to get them back. How that happens will have to wait though, as this issue is left to be continued.
Well, it looks like this series and it's crossover appeal could only last so long, as once again we're left with the writing and art to stand on it's merits. Unfortunately, that appears to be difficult for this team, who showed a heavy lack of continuity, characters using terms they'd never use in the past, and just general X-laziness. I'm not expecting a Chris Clarmont-esque tale every issue, but this one came off as written and penciled way too quickly. In terms of ranking X-Men books, this one falls to the bottom of the list with a thud. I just hope there's a plan to get it back up. I give this one a 4/10.
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