THE HATE MACHINE pts V and VI
Written by Tom Taylor
Penciled by Mahmud Asrar
Covers by Travis Charest
Published June 6 and July 18, 2018
In Poland, Cassandra Nova has the president sign a decree making mutants illegal... again. Across the world, mutant hatred is at full force, as Gambit breaks into a Louisiana hospital harboring a murderer. When he's inside, Jean reveals herself and the X-Men surrounding the mans bed. Turning off the sentinite in his brain, it's clear he wasn't in control.
Later Jean brings them all out to the others where they use Trinary's sentinel robot to head out to the Baltic. A young mutant is targeted by the polish army but the X-Men are on the scene, fighting back. Jean melds the minds of everyone involved, temporarily halting their anger. Namor then uses the distraction to force a quick truce between Atlantis and Poland.
Meanwhile Cassandra uses a brain washed Forge and a powerful unnamed mutant to do her bidding. While in a flashback, we learn all about Gentle's Wakandan upbringing was no match for the anti-mutant sentiment even in a country reared on peace. Later they walk through Atlantis and Jean shows off the aptly named Sea-Rebro they're building. She explains to the X-Men that there was some inner conversation in the British ambassador's head before they exploded a few issues back.
The X-Men are going to find what this mystery villain is using to amplify the mutant hatred. With a bead on the contents, they teleport into a cargo plan to search, as a now online Searebro finds out the truth. All along it was Cassandra Nova, Professor X's evil twin sister. Jean tells her the X-Men are getting closer to the truth. But she'll have to hurry...
In a helicopter over Poland, Cassandra stokes the rage of this mystery mutant. She drops the amphibious child into the water as he lets out a Hulk-like battle cry. He's going to smash Atlantis. But will the X-Men be able to stop him? We'll have to wait to find out as this issue is left to be continued.
I told myself I'd let this series get off the ground a little before I passed REAL judgement on it, and I'm kind of glad I did. The bi-monthly constant of Gold and Blue keep the action of those books coming so fast, it's hard to fully digest it. With X-Men Red, you get a much slower delivery rate - and it's very much good for the book's longtime readability. Tom Taylor has never been my favorite, but it's looking more and more like better subject matter is certainly only helping him. He's turning this series into a real, bonafied X-series, and at a crucial moment when a lot of these series are starting to wrap up. I give these two a solid 8/10.
Penciled by Mahmud Asrar
Covers by Travis Charest
Published June 6 and July 18, 2018
In Poland, Cassandra Nova has the president sign a decree making mutants illegal... again. Across the world, mutant hatred is at full force, as Gambit breaks into a Louisiana hospital harboring a murderer. When he's inside, Jean reveals herself and the X-Men surrounding the mans bed. Turning off the sentinite in his brain, it's clear he wasn't in control.
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| It's cool - you were just really really drunk. |
Later Jean brings them all out to the others where they use Trinary's sentinel robot to head out to the Baltic. A young mutant is targeted by the polish army but the X-Men are on the scene, fighting back. Jean melds the minds of everyone involved, temporarily halting their anger. Namor then uses the distraction to force a quick truce between Atlantis and Poland.
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| Who knew the oldest X-Man ever could do cool stuff?! |
Meanwhile Cassandra uses a brain washed Forge and a powerful unnamed mutant to do her bidding. While in a flashback, we learn all about Gentle's Wakandan upbringing was no match for the anti-mutant sentiment even in a country reared on peace. Later they walk through Atlantis and Jean shows off the aptly named Sea-Rebro they're building. She explains to the X-Men that there was some inner conversation in the British ambassador's head before they exploded a few issues back.
The X-Men are going to find what this mystery villain is using to amplify the mutant hatred. With a bead on the contents, they teleport into a cargo plan to search, as a now online Searebro finds out the truth. All along it was Cassandra Nova, Professor X's evil twin sister. Jean tells her the X-Men are getting closer to the truth. But she'll have to hurry...
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| Jean - you're so... ugly. |
In a helicopter over Poland, Cassandra stokes the rage of this mystery mutant. She drops the amphibious child into the water as he lets out a Hulk-like battle cry. He's going to smash Atlantis. But will the X-Men be able to stop him? We'll have to wait to find out as this issue is left to be continued.
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| Wait. Amadeus Cho?! |
I told myself I'd let this series get off the ground a little before I passed REAL judgement on it, and I'm kind of glad I did. The bi-monthly constant of Gold and Blue keep the action of those books coming so fast, it's hard to fully digest it. With X-Men Red, you get a much slower delivery rate - and it's very much good for the book's longtime readability. Tom Taylor has never been my favorite, but it's looking more and more like better subject matter is certainly only helping him. He's turning this series into a real, bonafied X-series, and at a crucial moment when a lot of these series are starting to wrap up. I give these two a solid 8/10.
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