Chapter 6
May 10, 2010
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Like most mutant readers i have been reading the Second Coming saga. i will not tell a lie, I have no real idea the back story with the Messiah Complex and all stuff featuring baby Hope, (didn’t read comics till Secret Invasion.) Anyways I have been enjoying Second Coming minus spending money on EVERY X-men title out there, Uncanny, New, Legacy, and X-Force. I’m very glad Siege doesn’t include all the Avenger titles or I might need a new bank loan. Back to the story, this story has gone fast paced and has not skipped a beat, from all hands on deck Hope has arrived to finding her and returning her to Utopia.
That is till Chapter 6 came along. After Bastion’s plan to stop all teleporters and killing Nightcrawler in the process, the X-team is stuck on the island from fast travel. We see a very emotional funereal for Kurt that takes about 5 pages with a long Hymn read by Warren aka Angel. We see that inside the X-nation that Donald Pierce is aligned with Bastion to help destroy mutant kind, by lending his inside hand to disrupt cerebra the X-Men were lost in the field. Pierce’s next mission is to take out the jets leaving most of the muties stuck on the island.
Also Hope meets Magneto and Beast returns for the funeral. Overall I believe this chapter didn’t do much but to get Chapter 7 started. I know Kurt Wagner was a huge icon to the X-Men fans but not me, I have no feelings for Nightcrawler’s death. Also from sources everywhere about Second Coming is that many deaths are to come in the future. I hope we don’t have a comics dedicated to all the passing X-Men, I might pass on the issue then. I’m really enjoying Second Coming so keep’em coming.
