In the olden days, anniversary issues like 12th, 25th, 50th, etc are supposed to be big deal with more pages, guest artists and freebies thrown in but every once in a while, it took a turn for the worse and for us, in this series, it did. The storyline was not rejuvenating the world of the mutants to make them a serious competitor with the Avengers continuing popularity surge. In fact, if one were to read this, it feels so second tier as if the powers that be were lost on how to make this workI do not fault artist Khoi simply because I love his work on Mighty Avengers before that series ended and there are even more relaunches. But here, I am not too sure. It could be the ink or the colour or the overall direction but whatever it is, the art just fails to pop
And the storyline? Once more, the X-people are thrown into an alternate reality or potentially an alternate reality or perhaps merely a bastardized kind of world. Hey this is the final chapter of a storyline and we see the X-Men splintered with only folks like Magneto/ David Haller (Legion)/ Prof X/ Frenzy/ Gambit and Rogue around. So is this really the core X-team? Honestly? I have no idea
Anyhow, we see some super nasty giving everyone a beat down but large as he is, the suit he is wearing looks goofy and as the pages progress, we learn that he is but one of the many personalities/ aspects of David's fractured psyche. Geez how many times have we seen this scenario play out and played out better than this?
So once more, everyone is given a hard time trying to survive while piercing through his mental blocks and trying to free him so that the bad guy is either defeated or re-absorbed. Yup, that's it. If you have read New Mutants vol 1 #26 to 28, that's a better tale with awesome Sienkiewicz art. The art here isn't bad ... but the story just feels like an updated retread of something from earlier on
Ratings: 4/10
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