“The First Foursaken, Part 2: Family Lies!”
Marvel Comics – July, 2006 – $2.99 – Color – A
Writer: Chris Claremont – Art: Chris Bachalo – Cover: Chris Bachalo
Let me start right off by saying I’m somewhat sick of both Chris-es workingon the X-titles lately. Claremont’s turned them into the Rachel andBetsy show and with Bachalo’s whole “all my women look identical” thinggoing on (not as bad as Paco Medina, but it’s up there), that’s twostrikes against the book right there. The past few months have been sadfor me as a gigantic X-Fan.
Now let me continue to say thisissue was really good. The first part of this arc didn’t show muchpromise (like I said, the Rachel and Betsy show rolled on), but thenJamie Braddock shows up and is insane as usual, so that’s fun. Then theteam starts acting like a team, and things pick up temendously.
Anyway,on to the review. At the end of last issue Jamie was pulled into someinterdimensional portal (classic Claremont), this issue kicks off withthe team trying to make heads or tails of it, while the Watcher…watches. Kurt teleports the team away from the Sentinels and tosomeplace he didn’t intend to go, when Betsy reveals why Jamie wentinsane and the group of friends he had before that (the Foursaken).Then conveniently a giant energy beam blast out of building withfloating salamanders coming to steal people’s souls (once again,classic Claremont), and the Foursaken show up controlling Jamie,attempting to summon something they claim will “bring a world withoutend.” All the while, Betsy is basically off all radars because Jamieseemed to have rewritten her genetic code last issue. She attempts tostop the summoning, but instead they are all sucked into wherever theFirst Fallen was being summoned from.
Writing: 6.5 – Story: 8 – Art: 6.5 – Cover: 7
Overall: 7.0
