Thursday, 24 October 2013

REVIEW: BotA: Part 7: X-Men #6

Part 7, only three left!!
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The opener to this book is great, it's funny and pretty cool. Broo being a babysitter? Hah! Shogo is in there again, and it seems to only be filler for a couple of pages. Just talking about giving Shogo some sort of protection, I really think he's going to be important.

The next few pages are devoted to the current and future X-Men ("future X-Men" being questionable and unexplained at the moment). Xavier gets told that Iceman and Beast are in the future, and he gets very angry. I think things are starting to fall apart for the "future" X-Men at this rate Wolverine is getting pissed off with Xavier when Rachel makes a comment that reaffirms Wolverine's suspicions.

Just going to break from the review for a second, just for some thoughts.

Here they are; In our current time there are two or three factions of X-Men (three at a push). The first is Cyclops' Uncanny X-Men, the second Wolverines X-Men at JGS (this includes the books WatXM, XMen, ANXM), the third at a push is the Original 5 (or 4 since Angel abandoned them). What if one of these factions of X-Men over time became what is the future Xavier, Kitty, Beast and co.? The future alternative team (like Uncanny X-Men is to WatXM).

Especially since Xavier said he is apart of the X-Men in a manner of speaking.

Back to the review.

Wolverine gets his first proper test after losing his healing factor, he loses a lot of blood quickly and it's not shown whether he will survive or not. But they can't kill off Wolverine can they? All hell then breaks loose. X-Men against "X-Men", it's pretty unsurprising that people are beginning to suspect the future X-Men of something a little more sinister, especially after Rachels outburst earlier. But I still think that some of the current X-Men would like to see the O5 go back to their original time.

With Beast shutting down JGS completely, the Uncanny X-Men along with Beast and Iceman, and the future real X-Men. Pretty sure Colossus must be there in his Handlebar mustache glory. Seriously, they come back into fashion in the future?

The book then ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, the "Iron Man" type thing is revealed, GUESS WHO? Shogo. Yes. Shogo. I'm going to wait until Part 8 to see if he has much more to do with it.

My rating?

8/10: This issue was definitely more memorable than previous parts of the story. The pace is awesome and the story is getting better. I really hope they keep up this momentum until the finale. 

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