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INGLORIOUS X-FORCE #8
“Kali Quest”
Writer: Tim Seeley
Artist: Luca Maresca
Colour artist: Romulo Fajardo Jr
Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Editors: Mark Basso & Alanna Smith

COVER: A split image of Cable and the creature possessing him.

X-FORCE:

Cable. The mysterious alien which is possessing him seems to mostly leave him in peace this issue (aside from the one point where it takes him over), but it’s hard to tell how far it’s influencing the rest of his thinking, which isn’t always entirely rational.

Having eliminated his initial three suspects for the future murder of Kamala Khan, he claims that his suspect list literally includes “every mutant”, which is hardly helpful. He expresses some sympathy for Kali’s talk of “freeing mutantkind from an ageing leadership that’s out of touch with the real fight”, but only in the sense that he sees himself as having done this with the original X-Force. He describes Kali as both a possible future murderer of Kamala and an armchair general (though in fairness, he could mean that she has the potential to develop unless she’s nipped in the bud). He believes that his team have set personal issues aside and “evolved” into being loyal to him, and seems oblivious to the continuing tension between Archangel and Hellverine.

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GENERATION X-23 #1
“A Numbers Game”
Writer: Jody Houser
Artist: Jacopo Camagni
Colour artist: Erick Arciniega
Letterer: Ariana Maher
Editor: Mark Basso

COVER: Wolverine (Laura) and Scout fight robot Wolverines.

This book is effectively the continuation of Laura Kinney: Wolverine with a new creative team. A group of new X-numbers is being added to the cast, but they don’t make much more than a cameo in this issue, so for the moment this is effectively still Laura’s book.

WOLVERINE:

To be honest, there’s not a huge amount to say about this first issue, annotations-wise. Naturally enough, Laura is still dutifully protecting mutants from mobs, and working with her sister Scout. She still regards Kiden Nixon as her oldest and best friend and breaks off to investigate when she thinks Kiden might be in the area – however, the possible romantic angle in NYX seems to have been quietly dropped. When she concludes that other mutants are being created from mutant DNA in the same way that she was, she’s immediately keen to stop more people from being treated like weapons and sets off to deal with it.

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