BROTHERHOOD pt II
Written by Marc Guggenheim
Penciled by Diego Bernard
Cover by Dan Mora
Published Feb 21,2018
Long ago, Lydia Nance was a cared little girl who lived in fear of a deranged, drunken mutant father. Today she watches other mutants captured by her former lackey Mesmero. But while the X-Men play possum, it's clear they don't intend to go down without a fight.
They spring back to life aboard the yacht, attacking the new brotherhood while new members Avalanche and Pyro turn out to be worthy opponents. Rachel is attacked by Mesmero's mind control while Pyro explains a fight with the X-Men was never part of the deal.
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| You didn't say anything about X-Men! |
Suddenly they disappear, but Mesmero is still aboard with a phasing Kitty Pryde's hand through his skull. Several other legendary X-foes join the ruckus, and though the Gold Team struggles with them, something isn't quite right.
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| So Kitty figures it out before everyone else... |
Kitty tells her team to stop fighting, but the Brotherhood goons don't look to be letting up. Nightcrawler bamfs high above the boat and drops X-Cutioner into the water, while Sebastian Shaw and Omega Red are also slowly dealt with. Rachel senses it's an illusion, and before long it's revealed the X-Men are simply fighting the NYPD. They arrest them and the police take the confused mutants back ashore.
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| In my day, the X-Men would have just took off. |
Meanwhile Mesmero reveals to his 2 assistants that they were being paid by Lydia Nance and the Heritage Initiative all along. Pyro refuses to be part of an anti-mutant bigoted campaign while clearly, Avalanche has no problem with it. While in Midotwn, She-Hulk tries to level with her clients. They're all stuck in jail and scheduled for hold at the Box while she works on freeing them.
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| Normally green. |
The issue wraps in the Negative Zone. Annihilus prepares for something huge to emerge, but he's silenced immediately by Scythian, the monster from the previous story arc. What does this mean for the X-Men? We'll have to wait to find out as this issue is left to be continued.
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| Did somebody tell Guggenheim we wanted more Negative Zone? Because we didn't. |
Just like a yo-yo, this book continues to rock between awesome and not awesome. Luckily for us, this is one of the good ones. Completely silenced are Colossus and Kitty's wedding plans, as well as Rachel's resurgent Hound markings while the X-Men deal with action. Maybe that's all it needed. I give this one a 9/10.
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