‘TIL DEATH DO US PART pts I-III
Written by Marc Guggenheim
Penciled by Michelle Bandini and Geraldo Borges
Covers by Phil Noto
Published April 18, May 2, and May 23, 2018
Colossus and Kitty talk while the other X-Men team up for a scouting mission. Rachel spots Mesmero disguised as an old woman. He’s quick though, and grips her telekinietically. Nightcrawler bamfs him airborne and Rogue stuns him with a punch. High above the city, Storm zaps him. Back on the ground, Kurt checks on Rachel, and it’s easy to see she’s managed to get a great deal stronger lately..
Meanwhile, Lydia Nance and her sentinel Alpha walk their facility in the Savage Land. While they scheme up a nanotech mutant extinction plan, Colossus and the X-Men, um.. men.. celebrate with his bachelor party in Vegas. With a lot on his mind, he goes to the restroom but encounters Alpha. The sentinel swarms him and gives him trouble. Iceman goes after him but struggles with the super quick robot, and it’s able to escape with Piotr Rasputin in tow.
Kitty and the other X-Men are quickly aboard the Blackbird, heading towards the others. As Lydia outlines her plan to destroy mutantkind to Colossos, Rachel is able to get a bead on him. They arrive in the Savage Land and split up, but Alpha is obviously aware of their presence. IT attacks them on different fronts while Kitty finds and subsequently goes after Lydia. Unfortunately it’s a ruse to buy time, as her sentinel is able to get the drop on them.
Storm uses her new and very convenient Thor hammer to pull them all outside just in time to see a rocket taking off. Alpha pilots the ship skyward to somehow extract the Legacy Virus from Colossus’s blood. Back on the ground, Nance tells Kitty about how re-engineering the virus, they’ll be able to deploy nanites to kill anyone who contains the x-gene. Kitty decks her out, and after some discussion, as well as some help from Alpha Flight, rockets into space towards an abandoned Roxxon space-station.
Using some evasive maneuvers, they avoid the stations first string of defenses. Thanks to Thor Storm, the avoid the rest but one slips through. As the ship crashes on the station's surface, Kitty phases it through the vessel.
The issue wraps with the X-Men scattering through the station. With the X-Men in battle, Kitty phases through the floor and en route to her fiance. What happens next though will have to wait, as this issue is left to be continued.
So recently it was announced that both this book and X-Men Blue will be ending in September. That's kind of good and bad news to me, because not only has Cullen Bunn's series been pretty good, this book just so happens to be trending upwards. Still, it's not all that surprising. With the recent unveiling of a new, unnamed book coming soon, we can only fill our time with so many X-books. I give these an 8/10.
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