Post by MC on Jan 19, 2010 23:10:45 GMT -5
X-Men Unlimited issues #2 & #3 by Brent Lambert
The Cast: White Queen, Professor X, Angel, Weapon X (various)
Antagonists Faced: Christian Frost, Ugandan Rebels
Stand-Out Character: Fatale (issue #3)
Best Moment: The peek into the inner workings of Weapon X.
The anthology X-Men book at MA has had two entries from the leading X-scribe at MA, Brent Lambert, that included two very different tones. In the first, Emma Frost was forced to confront her brother Christian and come to terms with his new position and her own feelings of her failure as a sister. The interaction between Emma and Charles showed the depth of their feelings for each other gave us a better look at that surprising relationship, including Xavier’s discussion about Emma with Warren. The actual meeting between Emma and Christian was surprising emotional for her, but took an ugly turn when Christian announced the partnership between Frost Biological Solutions and Singularity Securities, and an offer to Emma to come join him in his work. The manipulation of Emma’s emotions cannot end well in the end for Christian, but how it affects her work with Charles, with X-Force and her future dealings with Christian will provide a lot of ramifications for all of MA’s X-verse!
The second issue gave us a glimpse into the heart of the Weapon X organization that was introduced in X-Men: Alpha and developed further by Tony over in Uncanny X-Men. A den of evil overseen by Cassandra Nova and including such operatives as Sabretooth, Fatale, Scalphunter, Carnage, Dark Beast, Gryphon and others is a fantastic counterpoint to the various X-teams and even the Avenger teams at MA, as Nova has gathered not only mutants but also other types of powered villains, all for her own mysterious goals. The mission undertaken in this issue by Fatale and her team, a mission to Uganda to kidnap rebel mutants for experimentation and recruitment, was well handled, action packed and full of questionable morality and showed that no one inside or outside of Weapon X is truly safe from this organization, and everyone is expendable to Nova’s goals.
With both of these issues, Brent has taken the introduced items from various X-related items at MA and deepened them, fleshing out the threats on the horizon and giving some of our heroes, and even some villains, a broader range of emotion and motivation than they had before. This is exactly what an Anthology book should do, and I hope that Brent and many other writers find more of these insightful stories to tell in X-Men Unlimited and further dive into the rich tapestry established here at MA!
MC
The Cast: White Queen, Professor X, Angel, Weapon X (various)
Antagonists Faced: Christian Frost, Ugandan Rebels
Stand-Out Character: Fatale (issue #3)
Best Moment: The peek into the inner workings of Weapon X.
The anthology X-Men book at MA has had two entries from the leading X-scribe at MA, Brent Lambert, that included two very different tones. In the first, Emma Frost was forced to confront her brother Christian and come to terms with his new position and her own feelings of her failure as a sister. The interaction between Emma and Charles showed the depth of their feelings for each other gave us a better look at that surprising relationship, including Xavier’s discussion about Emma with Warren. The actual meeting between Emma and Christian was surprising emotional for her, but took an ugly turn when Christian announced the partnership between Frost Biological Solutions and Singularity Securities, and an offer to Emma to come join him in his work. The manipulation of Emma’s emotions cannot end well in the end for Christian, but how it affects her work with Charles, with X-Force and her future dealings with Christian will provide a lot of ramifications for all of MA’s X-verse!
The second issue gave us a glimpse into the heart of the Weapon X organization that was introduced in X-Men: Alpha and developed further by Tony over in Uncanny X-Men. A den of evil overseen by Cassandra Nova and including such operatives as Sabretooth, Fatale, Scalphunter, Carnage, Dark Beast, Gryphon and others is a fantastic counterpoint to the various X-teams and even the Avenger teams at MA, as Nova has gathered not only mutants but also other types of powered villains, all for her own mysterious goals. The mission undertaken in this issue by Fatale and her team, a mission to Uganda to kidnap rebel mutants for experimentation and recruitment, was well handled, action packed and full of questionable morality and showed that no one inside or outside of Weapon X is truly safe from this organization, and everyone is expendable to Nova’s goals.
With both of these issues, Brent has taken the introduced items from various X-related items at MA and deepened them, fleshing out the threats on the horizon and giving some of our heroes, and even some villains, a broader range of emotion and motivation than they had before. This is exactly what an Anthology book should do, and I hope that Brent and many other writers find more of these insightful stories to tell in X-Men Unlimited and further dive into the rich tapestry established here at MA!
MC
