{"id":11839,"date":"2026-03-06T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:32:06","slug":"the-x-axis-4-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11839","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – 4 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN #26.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> Part 1 of “Danger Room”, which seems to be basically O*N*E sending Beyond after the X-Men. Which isn’t all that interesting as a high concept, but Jed MacKay adds more to it by picking up the thread of Psylocke and Greycrow’s relationship now that\u00a0Psylocke<\/em> has been cancelled, and gives us a lovely little subplot of Glob Herman and his fruit stall. The splash page of the sun setting over Merle is beautiful, and much more effective than actually showing the gunman firing on Glob. (It also leaves open the question of whether he missed, though it’d feel a bit anticlimactic if he did.) But Netho Diaz really does do some nice stallholding scenes. For whatever reason, Kid Omega doesn’t go on any of these missions – is this going to be the “Quentin, Ben and Jennifer save the day” arc? I’m still not\u00a0especially<\/em> interested in putting the X-Men against the Beyond Corporation, certainly the\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em> version where they’re basically just an evil conglomerate with some weirder than usual technology, but there are a lot of other things here adding to that.<\/p>\n

WOLVERINE #17.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> More of the New Morlocks, and this feels a little bit as if we’re marking time until the Adamantine get here. The New Morlocks finally show up in enough numbers to feel like some sort of community, which really should have happened a couple of issues back, but the actual plot here is some sort of insect parasite attacking one of the kids because… well, because he was passing, I guess? I suppose it\u00a0might<\/em> play into something later, but it’s not presented that way, and just feels like an arbitrary event to spin things out. I don’t really get the point.<\/p>\n

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X-MEN ANNUAL #1.<\/strong> By Ryan Stegman, Steve Skroce, Sanford Greene, Arthur Hesli & Clayton Cowles. I have no idea why this is billed as an\u00a0X-Men Annual<\/em>, because it features the cast of\u00a0Uncanny X-Men<\/em> plus random guest star Phoenix. But there’s already an\u00a0Uncanny X-Men Annual<\/em> this year which is picking up the Dark Artery storyline so… yeah,\u00a0X-Men Annual<\/em>, apparently.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, this is fun. The plot is basic – the Creationist has the power to manifest anything he can visualise, but has no actual creativity, and quit the X-Men’s old school after giving up. Now he wants revenge on the X-Men for failing him, and he’s kidnapped a couple of actual artists (well, Ryan Stegman and Sanford Greene) to come up with things for him to manifest. It’s straightforward but it’s basically an excuse to have fun with meta warping ideas, and have the X-Men fighting incomplete sketches, because that’s as far as the artists have managed to get in the time available. Having Skroce on the “real world” and Stegman and Greene on the sketches blends surprisingly well, and Skroce still does a great Wolverine in particular. I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

MOONSTAR #1.\u00a0<\/strong>By Ashley Allen, Edoardo Audino, Arthur Hesli & Clayton Cowles. The\u00a0Magik<\/em> ongoing series seemed to be doing pretty well so it seemed an odd call not to continue it after “Age of Revelation”. In practice, though, it’s been replaced by two books both written by Ashley Allen: the Magik & Colossus<\/em> miniseries, and this\u00a0Moonstar<\/em> miniseries picking up on the Society of the Eternal Dawn storyline. Still seems weird to me not to commit to one of them being a\u00a0Magik\u00a0<\/em>ongoing, but this book is absolutely a continuation of Allen’s storylines\u00a0 from there.<\/p>\n

Dani is deciding what to do after the collapse of the Society, on top of which nobody seems to remember Asgard any more (because of the current\u00a0Thor<\/em> storyline), which means other people don’t remember her being a Valkyrie either. So she’s gone home, giving us an extremely rare appearance by her parents, who haven’t appeared in decades, but get a nicely believable relationship with her here. Naturally, the remaining Exemplars show up looking for Dani’s help in dealing with a Norse magical artefact. There’s some really beautiful art in here – Brightwind hasn’t looked this good in years – and having Dani take the load of the Society storyline feels like it makes sense.<\/p>\n

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