{"id":12014,"date":"2026-05-17T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:39:51","slug":"the-x-axis-13-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12014","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – 13 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNCANNY X-MEN #28.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> Well, I was correct in my assumption that all the weird New Mutants stuff was something to do with Inmate X. I’ve seen some people who were underwhelmed with the real of who Inmate X is, but it works well enough for me. Quite aside from the fact that this storyline looks suspiciously like it was derailed in order to free up Professor X for that\u00a0Exiles\u00a0<\/em>book that seemingly isn’t going to happen, I’d rather have a new character created for this role than try to shoehorn someone like Proteus or Jamie Braddock in. And there’s been at least some set up for the idea that Corinna’s brother was going to be significant down the line. So sure, I can go with that. And it also means that the Greymalkin plot is coming to a head, which is a relief, because it’s tended to be a distraction from the book’s other features. I like the relatively understated nature of the weirdness in the scenarios, as well, which seems more effective than just reaching for the sledgehammer. Vecchio sticks to a relatively clean look with oddity creeping in on the edges, and that works. On the other hand, it’s not at all clear at this point what the two New Mutants scenarios have to do with the Greymalkin plot, so the big question for this arc is whether it all comes together and becomes more than just strangeness.<\/p>\n

WOLVERINE #20.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> So this is the end of the Adamantine arc that started back in issue #1. It also parks the New Morlocks \/ Silver Sable arc, but that one is left sufficiently unresolved that I assume the plan is to come back to it down the line. As for the Adamantine, though… Well, it looks good. Mart\u00edn C\u00f3ccolo gives the Adamantine a nicely mythic feel, and his designs for the alternate Wolverines are quite fun. He’s certainly elevating the book. As for the story, though, the Adamantine arc just doesn’t work. In theory, you’d think there’d be something interesting in the idea of the “real” mythical metal taking offence at its Marvel Universe imitation, but ultimately the Adamantine just turns out to be a raving warrior spirit that wants to fight stuff. Much of the final issue depends on you being willing to accept that things have to play out in a particular way in order for the Adamantine to be defeated, and that the creature who could shatter Wolverine’s claws last issue becomes vulnerable to them once Wolverine’s shown sufficient fighting spirit. But this isn’t\u00a0interesting<\/em>. I just don’t see any wider resonance to any of this, and it winds up as a story in which things happen because the plot demands that they happen – both in the normal sense and in-universe. It’s clearly aiming for some sort of grand, epic scale, but doesn’t achieve it, and I have no real idea of what it was even going for beyond the surface level. A bit of a disaster for such a long-running storyline.<\/p>\n

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MAGIK & COLOSSUS #4.<\/strong> By Ashley Allen, Germ\u00e1n Peralta, Arthur Hesli & Ariana Maher. The ostensible plot here is very much secondary to the book taking its time over Illyana and Piotr’s sibling relationship, but it’s all the better for that, because its the characters who are the real point of interest. We do, finally, establish that there’s a sibling thing going on on the bad guys’ side as well, which explains why the main story is more than just a villain of the week. There’s a slightly odd bit where the story sets up a “quest to retrieve the parts of the bad guy’s soul” routine that would normally fill a whole arc, only for it to be derailed within pages – it feels almost like something that was intended to get another six issues, though that seems unlikely. But it’s the character work that really makes this book, both in writing and art; the idea that Colossus has yet to come to terms with his trauma in the way that Illyana has both makes a good starting point for rebuilding him, and provides a renewed anchor for their relationship. At the same time, Illyana’s patience with his self-pity understandably has its limits, particularly when he keeps trying to drag the conversation in an “if only we had been normal” direction that she would rather not think about. Colossus badly needed some direction, and he’s getting it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UNCANNY X-MEN #28.\u00a0(Annotations here.) Well, I was correct in my assumption that all the weird New Mutants stuff was something to do with Inmate X. I’ve seen some people who were underwhelmed with the real of who Inmate X is, but it works well enough for me. Quite aside from the fact that this storyline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-axis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}