{"id":11979,"date":"2026-05-01T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11979"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:55:08","slug":"the-x-axis-29-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11979","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – 29 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNCANNY X-MEN #27.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> Well, this is a weird storyline. The Outliers are off in a version of early New Mutants<\/em>, and a bunch of supposed New Mutants have shown up in their place. The first part had me a little worried that this story might be overestimating how much readers actually remember about the details of those early\u00a0New Mutants<\/em> stories, but this second part doesn’t really turn on any of that – which is for the best. It’s more of a loose parallel between the Outliers and the original rookie class, with increasingly surreal dream-like elements creeping in along the edges. The organic Sentinels are particularly nightmarish, and a great riff on the original design. Luciano Vecchio’s art really captures the feel of how the original New Mutants looked in their early issues, too. I’m not quite so sure what Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy robots are doing in here – the Rawhide Kid stuff didn’t really come to anything, after all – but for the moment I’m assuming that all of this is somehow to do with Inmate X trying to escape Graymalkin as the ailing Scurvy is no longer able to contain him. Presumably that’s why the story opens with Corina and Scurvy’s otherwise unrelated scene. I’m not a huge fan of the Graymalkin plot in general, but I do like their relationship as a low-key background development, and it’s nicely handled here to play into the general sense of Ellis trying to hold on to her persona with disaster looming for her on the horizon.<\/p>\n

GENERATION X-23 #3.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> You can’t look past the fact that this is a book which opens with an obituary for its own artist, or at least the artist of the first third of the story. Jacopo Camagni does get to go out on a high, though, with his last pages including a striking sequence in X-80’s bedroom, minimally furnished, but covered in Post-it notes swirling to the ceiling. The framing of X-92 as they gently draw Laura’s attention to the things she’s missing is really nice, as if the character fades into the background so much that the panels don’t even keep them in shot. The rest of the issue is completed by Marco Renna, and the transition is actually pretty smooth – he does a rather good X-Infinite in particular, switching from passive-aggressive casualness to fighting back.<\/p>\n

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As for the actual story, the idea that the Generated were stringing along the Facility, which always seemed a bit suspect, only lasts one issue before the bad guys show up mob handed. I think the idea here is that they were never actually fooling anyone, but we’ll see. The characters are going to need more memorable names at some point, but for now, Infinite, 92 and 99 are pretty strongly defined just by their appearance and their body language – the other two fade into the background a bit this issue, but there really isn’t room for them to get more. The new characters are working for me; hopefully we’ll get a chance to see them develop properly, but you never know in this market.<\/p>\n

WOLVERINE: WEAPONS OF ARMAGEDDON #3.\u00a0<\/strong>By Chip Zdarsky, Luca Maresca, Jesus Aburtov & Travis Lanham. I think we’re reaching the point where the story – which at root started as a fairly standard Wolverine plot about finding somebody else who’s been experimented on by one of those Weapon Whatever outfits – starts to get sucked into the wider Armageddon event that it is, after all, meant to be feeding into. Although it’s not so much that major plot points seem to be happening somewhere else – it’s just that the focus seems to have drifted off Wolverine himself, with this issue feeling more like a David Colton story. Colton’s a fairly interesting character as a disillusioned former Captain America from the gap which has now been opened up by the sliding timeline, but much of this issue is about expanding on his origin and his first mission before officially getting the job. It’s a nice flashback story, well drawn and with a neat echo of the death of Bucky Barnes to it, but the present day segments aren’t as interesting and it doesn’t really feel like a Wolverine story. Still, it’s a decent Captain America story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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