Post by jakefury on Jul 27, 2011 20:55:45 GMT -5
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Mark Brooks
The Dark Angel Saga Part 2
If you read last issue you know that X-Force has journeyed to the Age of Apocalypse. They were accompanied by the Dark Beast to retrieve a life seed to save Warren from becoming the heir to Apocalypse. If you know anything about the Dark Beast you probably weren't surprised that he left them high and dry and hightailed it out of there.
If you like soap operas then you'll probably like this comic. X-Force is hanging out in Atlantis with the X-Men and trying to devise a plan to find another life seed. They find out about a mutant named Gateway who's being held prisoner in an old base that doubles as a Sentinel. Wolverine and the Jean Grey of this reality are having a difficult time keeping their hands and mouths off of each other. Seriously, nearly three pages are devoted to their mental exchanges until it's mercifully interrupted.
We also see the MODOK of this reality and according to the writer
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It's a cloned brain of Charles Xavier and its housed in a MODOK body. How they managed to get a cloned brain of a guy that's been dead for 50 something years is beyond me and it's never explained.
End rant.
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We also get another soap opera fest between Psylocke and Fantomex that's not as drawn out as Jean/Logan but still pretty painful to watch.
Between the AoA X-Men and UXF they divide up into two teams. One to track down the life seed and the other to rescue Gateway. The team that's tracking down Gateway locates him but unfortunately comes face to face with a blast from AoA Jean's past and a whole horde of villains that are nightmare versions of a motley crew of Marvel characters. Many of these characters weren't even acknowledged during AoA so I honestly have no idea where they came from.
Thoughts:
I didn't like this book. The soap opera crap didn't do it for me and the outright butchering of the AoA doesn't do it for me either. The art is pretty outstanding so I can't complain about that. All in all, I'd say it deserves about a 5/10. Not the greatest X-Force work I've seen from Remender...
