329. X-Men vol 1 #140 ... Marvel ...

And our second review on the X-team is still within Morrison's pen man ship ... bad spelling, eh? Heh! And here he is paired up with yet another star artist, Phil Jimenez who we loved even more than Quitely. Good times to be an X-fan

Murder at the Mansion 2 of 3 - the cover is a tad boring with the X-words in huge and head shots of various people in different sizes bobbing all over

So who was murdered? The White Queen ... while in her secondary mutation, Diamond Form so you know it was not easy. Enter Bishop and Sage as official investigators into her death. And the investigation does not go easy as they review all the witnesses and those with apparent potential causes ... as Emma is not exactly miss sugar n spice n all that's nice. She was more bitchy and let's rile everyone up ... so while Bishop does the tour of the faculties and speaking to students and fellow X-Men ...

Sage does a trip into the grounds gathering evidence ... only what she found ... right at the last page ... will leave you gasping for more! It's creepy, it's icky and boy does it feel like an alien horror movie from a superhero comic

Morrison has done it again!

Ratings: 8/10

256. X-Men vol 1 #150 ... Marvel ...

Four years and so many issues later, Master Morrison showed no signs of slowing down with new concepts after new concepts and new takes on old storylines without making the series feel convoluted like a Hong Kong movie, know what I mean? In fact, it actually feels to have the same kind of energy like a Claremont era tale ... updated for the timeline style naturally

And in terms of style, as per our previous review, this time on art duties is none other than the awesome Phil Jimenez who pumped in tons of details and lots of goodie scenes ... the only let down for me is actually the cover. It looks kind of average and pretty much a meh kind of feel

Anyhow, Planet X the storyline reaches its conclusion as we see Magneto, who has been planning to take down the human race once more and this time has spent years (in comic time) planning including infiltrating the X-Men as healer Xorn (not sure how he fake those abilities) ... finally has his comeuppance

He has sealed off Manhattan and assembled a tiny group of Xavier students to be his new Brotherhood ... he is hoping to amass new mutant followers ... however he failed to understand the current generation's short attention span ... and naturally when he himself is addicted to mutant power enhancement drug, kick ... well it doesn't help Mags think straight

O yeah and to give himself a bigger platform this time ... basically Mags want to spin the earth on its magnetic field ... but the X-Men stopped him in time ... but hey if you want to see this actually done, go to Ultimate U ... hmmm same idea different execution ...

O yeah x 2 ... Jean who by now is back to being the Phoenix after months of hinting that she may be able to tap into that primal power ... well for all that ... she had some moments at the start rescuing Wolvie from space ... but then as always she turns out to be a wuss in the end! Pffft! I won't spoil it for you here though





Ratings: 8/10