As the cover shows, this is a continuing part of Northstar and Aurora's own adventure in the main story while we are provided with a backup tale of how Mac and Heather went searching for Shaman and through him, they met Snowbird. The backup stories are actually very entertaining as it feels more "slice of life" and thus make the characters resonate more with the readers kind of like what Stephen King is doing with his books once he gets to be successful ... more pages, more background information ...
Anyway, Aurora is investigating the strange long life of St Ives when Northstar barges in. At this juncture in their history, they are still potentially mutants or whatever ... because with time, they became part elves or mystical and back to mutants and whatever they are these days and then Northstar became gay and got hitched to an ugly bloke ... sigh ...
What is shocking to Aurora is that St Ives survives the decades simply because he rejected death at his own point of death and was granted immortality as long as he keeps on touching another human being and sucking the life force out of them (just by touch) ... however, he had not counted on revenge for the lady in red with her full mask on has a mysterious blade that can slice through anything and while we are given many panels of superheroes in their costumes, there is none of that confrontational drag out fight here. And inspite of that this comic is still such a great read. All testament to the awesomeness of Byrne as both writer and artist!
Ratings: 6/10
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