The backlog needs hammered through, so let’s knock this one off quickly.<\/p>\n
This is something of an extended coda to the previous storyline, in which a space virus infected Roosevelt Island and Laura saved the day because her healing powers conveniently let her absorb and kill the virus. \u00a0That still leaves the stray plot thread of why a girl plummeted to earth with a space virus asking for Laura in the first place. \u00a0Since the alien girl died of the virus, Laura can’t simply ask her. \u00a0And so Laura and Gabby head into space with the Guardians of the Galaxy to retrace her steps and find out what was going on. \u00a0In other words, it’s a three-issue team-up with the Guardians of the Galaxy.<\/p>\n
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What we find is a base under siege by the Brood, who promptly cart off Gabby to provide a bit of tension. \u00a0The base turns out to be under the control of Fang, of all people – which I think is the first time anyone’s mentioned Charles Soule’s\u00a0Wolverines<\/em> miniseries since it ended on an unresolved cliffhanger. \u00a0And the virus turns out to be something that the scientists in the base came up with in a wholly failed attempt to kill off the Brood. \u00a0Conveniently, all communications were down, so naturally the solution is to fire a sick child in a rocket in the general direction of Wolverine…<\/p>\n Are you getting the sense that I’m not particularly taken by this arc? \u00a0Now, granted, I’m no huge fan of X-Men space stories to begin with, but Wolverine seems like a particularly unsuited character. \u00a0Sure, you can always play up the fish out of water angle, but that’s not the story here. \u00a0It’s just a fairly routine base under siege deal, with the Brood to help make it an X-Men story. \u00a0Even the creators seem to lose interest in the base rather quickly, as attention turns to Gabby being infected by the Brood, and the Guardians want to just blow up the moon in the interests of quarantine.<\/p>\n You all know where this is heading, and that’s exactly where it heads. \u00a0Laura won’t give up on her sister and insists on heroically rescuing her before the big boom. \u00a0Gabby’s healing factor means everything is okay after all. \u00a0Everyone goes home. \u00a0Oh, and the scientists turn out to be to blame for the Brood as well, so everyone gives them a kicking and Rocket blows up the now-uninhabited moon just for the hell of it. \u00a0There’s a weird coda where everyone argues about what to do with the bad scientist and Rocket just cuts the debate short by killing him, which is sort of interesting. \u00a0But it also feels unearned, because it’s taking something that was really just plot engine for most of the story and suddenly trying to elevate it into a “makes you think” thematic moment.<\/p>\n Quite honestly, this feels like a time-killing exercise while waiting for\u00a0Marvel Legacy<\/em>, so that the next major storyline can begin. \u00a0It’s not bad, it’s just rather average from a book which normally scores higher than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The backlog needs hammered through, so let’s knock this one off quickly. This is something of an extended coda to the previous storyline, in which a space virus infected Roosevelt Island and Laura saved the day because her healing powers conveniently let her absorb and kill the virus. \u00a0That still leaves the stray plot thread […]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3940","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\/3940","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=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}