CRY HAVOK pts V and VI
Written by Cullen Bunn
Penciled by Marcus To
Covers by RB Silva
Published May 9 and May 30, 2018
Weeks prior, Magneto walks with his daughter Polaris and explains to her that Havok is worth saving. Today however, she fights off Wildside's mothervine induced hallucinations. Her X-Men fight valiantly though as the original X-Men Blue team along with Venom drift aimlessly through space.
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| Remember when we were the stars of this book? |
Back at the mansion, Magneto fights the Mauraders as well as the mutants he was trying to protect. Tragically he's forced to kill them, all the while cursing Havok and Emma Frost. He runs away and escapes through Cerebro's time platform.
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| Adios! |
In San Francisco, the X-Men interrogate the evil mutants until they learn the location of Havok, Bastian, Emma Frost and Miss Sinister. They teleport into the base and Havok incapacitates them. When Lorna fails to get through to them, they're powerlessly imprisoned while Miss Sinister experiments on Jimmy Hudson directly.
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| Yeah, just keep poking the Wolverine guy. |
Emma watches quietly but has finally had enough of seeing the X-Men tortured. She compels the Mauraders to attack Sinister but with direct control of their DNA, she kills them all. Unfortunately for the supervillain, it was a just a diversion and a furious Jimmy leaps into action and kills his former master.
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| Well can't say we didn't warn ya. |
With her down, all of the team members are once again empowered and escape but run right into Jimmy, Bloodstorm and now Emma Frost. Meanwhile Magneto tries to repel the mothervine attacks in Mexico City. Thanks to fellow mutants Exodus and Elixer, he reverses the effects. much to the dismay of Havok. The remaining Brotherhood call for the deaths of Magneto and Elixer but Emma and the X-Men battle their way into the control room.
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| Hey y'all! |
With Emma's help, Polaris is able to pry into Havok's mind. With the memories of her fresh, Emma inverts whatever made him so evil. Using Elixer, they kill the mothervine virus while Havok shows a pretty good amount of remorse.
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| Sorry about all the death... |
The issue wraps with Emma reaching out to Magneto to explain she made a mistake. He refuses her apology however, as he was forced to kill mutants in his care, primarily thanks to her mothervine tactics. He swears revenge but when it's to come will have to wait, as this issue and this story arc is concluded.
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| Oh, I'll get my revenge... IN MY OWN X-MEN BOOK! |
So with the recent news of this book and it's sister series X-Men Gold to end, along with launches of a Gambit and Rogue team up book, and now rumors of one called X-Men Black - I think it's time for me to reevaluate the X-future. In the coming weeks, I'm going to need to streamline as 5 or 6 titles is just too hard to keep up with for one group of characters. One things for sure though - X-Men Blue has steadily delivered. Wherever Cullen Bunn goes, I'll follow. I give these two issues a 9/10.
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