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Loz! Stop it! Stop doing this to yourself!
And maybe Charles *is* the next stage in mutant evolution........
Yeah, the evidence seems pretty strong in favour of Charles being trapped in Cassandra's body. For a start, there's the "Emma, I'm Charles! No!" thing, which could be read as "Emma, I'm Charles now". But that would be stupid: what kind of baddie attempts to foil their own evil designs by explaining to the goodies exactly what their doing? And there's the rumour that Cassandra's gonna return to fuck everything with a Shi'ar mothership, which seems one step closer to bearing fruit. And, as Flux points out, Charles IS described, in the solicitation for 121, as being in a "coma", mirroring the comatose state of Cassandra's body, perfectly preserved in cryogenic storage. And, finally, all this fits with the image on the cover.....
Now, knowing that Sublime and the U-Men are going to turn up in the next story arc, I can't help wondering when the events in the annual take place. The events of 117 seem to occur a few days after the the events depicted in 118. Wolverine's been up in the hills for a few days, recovering; The school terms just started; no mention is made of Xorn or the X-Men's Chinese adventure.... And Sublime turns up later, Jean is left in the institute alone (we know all this from the solicitations)... and all this fits with the events of the annual.
Another thing: will the Beast remember what happened to him? Will Cassandra allow him to remember? Does she even give a fuck? I mean, she's got the fucking Shi'ar on board now.
And that brings me to the gooood stuff:
The Royal Guard in the teleporatation Beam. Fucking great. Morrison knows drama: if you have no idea who they are, it's like "who the fuck are those hard looking bastards?", but if you do know what they're about it's the same: "who the fuck are those hard looking bastards?" They've never looked so good. So, kudos to Sciver for pulling that off (even if he does go for Jimenez-style naturalism and end up with horrible, morphy lumpheads).
"The Beak"? Sickeningly sad and sentimental, and...no! Cassandra! All he wanted to do was give the Beast his prized baseball bat, you evil, evil, red-eyed bitch! I loved the way Grant didn't delay in clearing up some of the mystery: Cassandra just doesn't give a fuck and the plot moves at the pace of a freight train.
And do you think Wolvie knocking Jean back puts a bit of a cap on the VERY OBVIOUS Jean and Wolvie infidelity thing, and clears the way for the real, adulterous, melt the anus, action between Emma and Scott? Now, that's far more interesting.......
The way Trish lets Henry down.... So clumsy and confused... But what the hell would you do? Good, complex stuff. And the way Cassandra insults him... That would be the way to get to the Beast, wouldn't it? "Devolver....where will your gift take you next, I wonder? Will you become an insect? A worm? A slithering, incoherent slime mold still trying to charm human women with it's awkward poetry?" Great. Morrison can pull off fear and horror without the comic's rating going up one inch and still make his books more "mature", more disturbing, etc than a million "Fury"s.
the students running around halls with cameras to get a snap of the mothership.... Lovely touch.
Cheers Grant.
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