Yes, yes, yes ... it's another Marvel comic review. Why so many? Well, because I am now in my childhood home of Penang and waaaaay back then I was mainly a Marvel fan. Almost nil DC and hey it's not my fault that even the newsstands hardly ever carry any Superman or Batman
This issue is a random sampling in Brit writer Grant Morrison's three year plus run on the mutants and what joy his stories were. The characters were essentially as they were except that suddenly we see them developing on a personal level. Of course, the uniforms have changed to match the movie but Morrison gave us the reason
And throughout the bulk of his run, Marvel paired him with top notch artists (or at least generally those that I love like Quitely, Van Sciver, Jimenez ... all three of whom have awesome work in DC)!This issue features van Sciver
And the title is Germ Free Generation - how awesome a title is that, right?
Okay ... storywise it continues from previous issues with the X-Men trying to recuperate and recover their sense of well being after frenetic action and intrigue but as they are mutants, there ain't no such thing as cutting themselves a break
So who plays the villains here? Seems like lots of people are involved with multiple subplots. We have Johnny Sublime and his third species team ... with people who love his book and causing violence while Johnny himself isn't all that he seemed ...
We have new mutants just emerging including Angel, a non-Caucasian girl whose power is just plain EEEUUUURGH ... she spits something from her mouth, her skin is bubbling, she is overweight and shows of her belly button all the time! ARG!
While all this is going on, Prof X and the Beast are on the casualty list while Emma Frost is getting her stride bitching side by side with Jean Grey! How much more coolness can you get from such an epic dialogue scene?
Ratings: 8/10
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