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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

X-Men Legacy #247 "Age of X" Chapter 5






Well folks Age of X is heading toward a conclusion and this issues sets up  next weeks' big finale in New Mutants. But how does Chapter 5 compare to the previous chapters? Prepare to find out!

The issue starts off  with several things happening at once: Cannonball is waiting for the Human Forces to arrive with his troops, Gambit and Legacy have found the universe in a shoebox, Magneto is knocked out under a pile of rubble and Moonstar Cadre is about to throw down with the Force Warriors. 

Legion and Dani banter and Legion tries to crush his dear ol Dad with a giant steel rod, but Kitty is with him and the two phase out of it. Meanwhile Gambit and Legacy meet the culprit behind the Age of X....Moira. Yes Moira McTaggert is the culprit...but she's dead in 616? How is this even possible? We'll you'll find out very shortly.

We then jump back to outside the Fortress where Basilisk and Cannonball are arguing about what to do since the enemy hasn't shown up today.  Basilisk pretty much says too much odd shit has been going on, fuck fighting im going to find some answers. Cannonball tells him to stay but Basilisk leaves and so do the rest of the mutants leaving Cannonball alone. Lots of people have been calling for Sam to get a bigger leadership role in the X-Men. Many see him and Dani as the next leaders of the X-Men, but if Age of X is a reflection of his leadership...well then its obvious Sam has more growing to do. No another thing to note is that so far all the things i've talked about so far were released in preview that came out on the 7th of April. 

We jump back to the Cadre vs the Warriors and there at a stare down. Betsy asks Dani if she and her crew if they think they can honestly beat them.  Dani says its the only option she has. Magma, who i think has one of the best redesigns in AOX, warns Hellion she's got her eye on him. Hellion argues that he could stop her heart with a thought, but Magma says not if he's flash fried and she got a magma blast ready if he flexes when of his metal fingers. Now folks, I throw this question out to you: who would win in a quick draw fight Magma or Hellion? Magma's got a blast ready, but is she quick enough to beat Hellion? All Hellion has to do is think and she's down. I wish we could have seen how this would have gone down but Legion stops everyone by shouting and that SHE told him that Xavier would turn them against each other. Stand-Off (Unuiscone) asks him who warned them and Xavier says to him to tell them to whose tune they're all dancing too. 

We then switch to Moira holding Gambit and Legacy at Gunpoint. Gambit uses a card to disarm Moira but Moira says she created this world and therefore she is God. And God is omnipresent.She then knocks the two out. Back to the Cadre and Warriors. Legion asks who Xavier is and Chuck explains who he was and who the X-Men were. He uses his telepathy to show Legion one of their previous memories and then says he will explain everything to everyone. The Cadre and Warriors agree to listen and Kitty takes Xavier to Magneto's command room. Dani then suggests that one of the Warriors bring Magneto seeing as they knocked him out.

Xavier meets up with the whole AoX crew and says explaining  who they really are would take to long so he instead decides to show them. You know what this means kiddies? IT'S FLASHBACK TIME!

One week ago on Utopia, (Legacy #244) Dr. Nemesis and Charles were arguing over the procedure Nemesis has preformed on Legion by wiping out many of Legion's personalities. Charles begins to argue that Legion  is subconsciously adapting and making countermeasures to Nemesis's procedure. Nemesis wants proof and so Xavier dives into Legion's mind where he finds that many of the personalities have vanished...and not from the surgery ether.  Turns out that that in response to Nemesis's erasures Legion's mind has created a giant psychic antibody that has claimed to have eaten the other personalities. It tries to attack Chuck, but you don't mess with Chuck in the Psychic Plane, unless your name is Nate Grey, he'll whoop your ass. The Antibody decides to play dirty and uses the face of Moira against Chuck. "Moira" then uses this moment to attack absorb and create the Age of X. 

Some of the Mutants find it hard to believe that their world is fake and its only been around for Seven Days. Legion doesn't believe him and X/"Moira" agrees. She then reassures Legion that everything will be ok. Chuck says that despite Legion being the hero he always wanted to be...its still just a dream and one that's splitting at the seams. "Moira" starts to flip out and then says its time to pay for listening to him. Nightmare looks outside and sees dozens maybe even hundred of Exonims headed their way and that they've broken through the wall are coming down. 

And that's all she wrote. We'll get the Age of X Finale on the 27th and see how the X-Men will survive the Exonims' assault as well as the wrath of "Moira". But there are also some questions that still need to be answered: what happened to the Basilisk/Wolverine team up? And who/what the hell is Revenant? 

Mike's writing this is good, not great or terrible but good. Most of the issue is exposition so while things happen they really don't feel like things are happening. Clay Mann's art is awesome as always so nuff said in that regard. 


Overall Chapter 5 of Age of X is a little bit of a step down compared to the other chapters. It was predictable in only an OK way. But it's still an average issue so it gets a solid 7Gs out of 10.

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