Annotations here.<\/a>) Well, if you enjoy monologues covering basically the same territory as the previous issue, only again, you’ll love this issue, in which Beast spells out everything he spelled out in the previous issue, only again. All that being said, my basic problem with the Beast storyline isn’t the premise so much as the fact that it was allowed to escalate to absurd proportions before anyone acted against him. I do wonder whether this is a book that suffered from the decision to extend the Krakoan period, since if it had ended as originally scheduled, then Beast’s schemes would have come crashing down not too long after his secret conquest of a South American nation came to light, which would have worked fine. Instead it’s had to try and keep finding ways to escalate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Anyway, it’s impossible to take Beast seriously as a multi-dimensional character at this point, but once you’re committed to that angle, there is a certain charm in going all in and having him embark on schemes that are batshit insane. I don’t remember being quite sold on Juan Jos\u00e9 Ryp’s art in the past, but I really like a lot of his work here – there’s something about the clone Beasts that really works for me, and it’s not just the fact that they’re identical. Of course he can draw a character on model several times a page. It’s something about the casually relaxed body language he gives them, as if they haven’t really noticed that anything is a bit odd here. He does a really nice deer-hunting sequence, too.<\/p>\n
ROGUE & GAMBIT #2.<\/strong> By Stephanie Phillips, Carlos G\u00f3mez & David Curiel. Destiny has sent Rogue and Gambit on an inadequately explained mission to keep Manifold safe, but last issue he got captured and they had their powers drained. So this issue starts with the two of them making their way back to civilisation on foot from the Nevadan desert. It’s patchy but it has its charm. The characters have been kept in separate books for a while now, and it’s nice to see them just hanging out together; Destiny makes sense as a foil for them, since Gambit’s never really dealt with her before. The redneck bar where the locals simply welcome them as recognisable superheroes is a nice change, and I kind of like Gambit escaping a fight by drawing on Spider-Man villain tropes of endangering the innocent. On the other hand, there’s a data page of a magazine interview with Rogue that doesn’t really work (if you’re going to do that many interruptions, it kind of needs to be video), and the Black Panther’s guest star role feels forced. Art is nice in the superhero segments, maybe a bit too clean and bright when it’s doing small town desert settings.<\/p>\nX-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #81.<\/strong> By Grace Freud, Alberto Alburquerque & Yen Nitro. Jubilee has been packed off to Brooklyn to have a quiet word with the members of the Super Trans support group, who have gone viral after beating an old Sentinel and claiming to be the X-Men. These characters previously appeared in\u00a0the second\u00a0Marvel’s Voices: Pride<\/em> one-shot (and really, if we’re not going to do proper numbering, could we at least do something like\u00a0Marvel’s Voices: Pride 2022<\/em>?) and if we’re being honest, this is the sort of story where Jubilee seems to be included solely to explain why it’s in\u00a0X-Men Unlimited<\/em> rather than\u00a0Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic<\/em>. It’s quite good fun, though; it’s basically a comedy story about some kids with actually vaguely useful super powers doing typical support group stuff, to the point where they cheerfully welcome Mojo Jr to the group in wonderfully open-minded fashion. (“Hey, everyone! I’m Mojo Jr. I’m a transdimensional leech.”)<\/p>\nMARVEL’S VOICES INFINITY COMIC #47.<\/strong>\u00a0By Andrew Wheeler, Carola Borelli & Brittany Peer. Does this count as an X-book? It’s part four of a Negasonic Teenage Warhead story, and she started as a cameo in\u00a0New X-Men<\/em>, but she’s really better known as a Deadpool<\/em> character, but\u00a0Deadpool<\/em> is officially an X-book now, even though it’s really not, even though it has the trade dress. Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever read any stories where Negasonic did anything more than get memorably incinerated. Apparently she has precog powers which allow her to see different timelines in which she gets different powers, and then access the powers from her chosen timeline in the present, which seems fiddly. I’m not wild about this, to be honest. It’s quite talky for an Infinity Comic and there are a lot of very small panels in here. But mainly, I’m just not in the market for a story where Negasonic Teenage Warhead turns out to be cosmically important. I think I’ve got to already care about her as a lower scale character in order for that to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So, the review backlog has got to unwieldy proportions. It’s time to go for a fresh start and round out each week with a quick run through of all the week’s X-books. This week, that means… IMMORAL X-MEN #3. 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