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X-Men #18 Review
There was also a second Doctor Doom appearance this week, and I was pretty satisfied with that one too.
So, last ish: Cyclops, Emma and Sue were captured by the warlike Scorpius, Reed and Nemesis designed a portal to get home but couldn't find a power source, Lee Forrester made some new native allies, and Doom apparently betrayed everybody to the Scorpius emperor.
We open with the scenes seen in the preview pages. Doom has made the same assessment that Reed and Nemesis did last issue, that there's no power source on the isle good enough to power a gateway home, and challenges the Scorpius to show that they have one.
Meanwhile, Lee's new allies the Kaddak turn out to have psychic powers. The reason Emma Frost's telepathy is blocked is that the Scorpius built a psi-barrier to combat them. The Kaddak are prepared to take down the Scorpius if somebody takes out that barrier.
Magneto's getting bored with babysitting Reed and Nemesis, so he flies off to see if Scott's team are actually in trouble or just blocked from communicating by the psi-barrier. He finds Doom, who turns on his Scorpius allies; he asks Magneto if he's prepared to trust Doom, and they have a bit of a staring contest.
We cut away from that to this issue's cliffhanger ending: the fact that the Scorpius Emperor has captured all of our heroes' other remaining powerhouses, Wolverine, the Thing, and Skull the Slayer.
Not a lot of plot to summarise, but it didn't feel like an overly thin issue: it's all fairly predictable, but there are some nice lines, and generally it's a decent comic with a well characterised Doctor Doom. I suspect next issue we're going to learn that Doom only allied himself with the Scorpius to get their power source, which is an ending I'd be happy enough with.
The artist change is also fairly seamless; I actually didn't remember until quite a few pages in that it was somebody different, so credit to Marvel for some pretty good style-matching. Again, like the writing, it's nothing mind-blowing, but it's perfectly good.
All in all, this continues to be an enjoyable little crossover; nothing spectacular, but it's humming along nicely enough, and I haven't regretted buying an issue so far.
So, last ish: Cyclops, Emma and Sue were captured by the warlike Scorpius, Reed and Nemesis designed a portal to get home but couldn't find a power source, Lee Forrester made some new native allies, and Doom apparently betrayed everybody to the Scorpius emperor.
We open with the scenes seen in the preview pages. Doom has made the same assessment that Reed and Nemesis did last issue, that there's no power source on the isle good enough to power a gateway home, and challenges the Scorpius to show that they have one.
Meanwhile, Lee's new allies the Kaddak turn out to have psychic powers. The reason Emma Frost's telepathy is blocked is that the Scorpius built a psi-barrier to combat them. The Kaddak are prepared to take down the Scorpius if somebody takes out that barrier.
Magneto's getting bored with babysitting Reed and Nemesis, so he flies off to see if Scott's team are actually in trouble or just blocked from communicating by the psi-barrier. He finds Doom, who turns on his Scorpius allies; he asks Magneto if he's prepared to trust Doom, and they have a bit of a staring contest.
We cut away from that to this issue's cliffhanger ending: the fact that the Scorpius Emperor has captured all of our heroes' other remaining powerhouses, Wolverine, the Thing, and Skull the Slayer.
Not a lot of plot to summarise, but it didn't feel like an overly thin issue: it's all fairly predictable, but there are some nice lines, and generally it's a decent comic with a well characterised Doctor Doom. I suspect next issue we're going to learn that Doom only allied himself with the Scorpius to get their power source, which is an ending I'd be happy enough with.
The artist change is also fairly seamless; I actually didn't remember until quite a few pages in that it was somebody different, so credit to Marvel for some pretty good style-matching. Again, like the writing, it's nothing mind-blowing, but it's perfectly good.
All in all, this continues to be an enjoyable little crossover; nothing spectacular, but it's humming along nicely enough, and I haven't regretted buying an issue so far.