(Annotations here.)<\/a> The X-Men go to Latveria to try and recruit Dr Doom’s mutants, and wind up having a fight with them. That’s pretty much the issue. The strength of it lies in the fact that Doom’s team actually seem like a fairly interesting bunch with some potential for future stories, even if it seems weird to be bringing them into “Fall of X” at this point. And Joshua Cassara has some lovely art in this issue, complete with a subtle change of art style for the flashbacks that feels like a direction worth exploring for him. On the other hand, the plot is real Silver Age level stuff – we’re the X-Men, you’re mutants, what do you mean you refuse to drop everything and come with us, let’s fight. The X-Men come across as pretty dim and arrogant, which surely wasn’t the intention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
ALPHA FLIGHT #5.<\/strong> By Ed Brisson, Scott Godlewski, David Cutler, Matt Milla & Travis Lanham. This is the final issue of the series, but of course “Fall of X” still has a way to run, which precludes any really satisfying resolution. Instead, we get something that feels more like a turning point into the next arc – which, according to the trailer page, will be in\u00a0X-Force<\/em>. Huh. So, Alpha Flight finally drop the pretence of being anti-mutant and burn their bridges with the government, Argent gets his tragic end, and the small victory is that most of the mutants that Alpha Flight were trying to rescue do manage to escape into space. It’s still a curious down ending, though I like the wrap up with the press conference recapping everyone’s status quo and ending the book with “I’m afraid that we will not be taking any questions at this time.” If you’re going to have an unresolved ending, might as well lean into it.<\/p>\nINVINCIBLE IRON MAN #13.<\/strong> By Gerry Duggan, Juan Frigeri, Bryan Valenza & Joe Caramagna. Over in the honorary X-book, Iron Man needs a big stock of mysterium, so he and Emma Frost head into space to steal it from Gameworld, a concept that Gerry Duggan is clearly very keen on, and which I still don’t get. Mind you, I don’t get the appeal of Las Vegas either, so maybe it’s just me. Unlike\u00a0Alpha Flight<\/em>, this book is building up the idea that we’re on the verge of the mutants fighting back and defeating Orchis, and I’m certainly glad to see us moving on to a bit more optimism. Oh, and for X-Men readers, this is the book where Forge finally shows up, having apparently built his own spaceship to get home from wherever it is he got stranded after the Hellfire Gala – though the ship doesn’t really look as thrown-together as the dialogue keeps telling us it does. Anyway, for those interested, you can see him team up with Ironheart next issue. Perfectly fine, though more for the momentum in an upbeat direction than for the Gameworld heist stuff itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A short one this week, because there’s not actually much out! X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #116. By Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, Guillermo Sanna, Java Tartaglia & Travis Lanham. The penultimate chapter of the Firestar arc, and naturally it’s the turning point where Firestar gets the upper hand, still without anyone noticing. Judas Traveller tries to […]<\/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-9659","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\/9659","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=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9660,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions\/9660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}