The issue opens with Iceman facing off against Mole Man and his minions, but what was really cool is that this younger Iceman is actually learning from his older self! Imagine that. For the first time in 33 issues, our young time traveling heroes are learning from the future as well as the past, instead of trying to prevent a particular future. A future which must be completely different now, given all that has happened, but I digress. The ice hulks were, as always, great and Asrar does a fine job of showing motion and scale on the page. Now I want all of the younger mutants to start to change like Iceman is, but I’m not sure that will happen anytime soon.
The cliffhanger of who is there to greet them at the mansion is a letdown, not only because Jean could just show them what’s in her mind instantaneously, but also because these are characters that we either know from the Ultimate universe, or for regular 616 readers, we’re left thinking, “that’s it?”
All-New X-Men is an okay book, but at $3.99 (like most Marvel books now) it is becoming as tougher pill to swallow each month. At some point these time-displaced mutants will either have to go home or start making a better case for why we need All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Amazing X-Men, X-Men, Magneto, AXIS, Uncanny Avengers, Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Wolverine & the X-Men…that’s a lot of mutant affiliated books! Not that that’s an inherently a bad thing, but right now I don’t think the stories being told justify the price tag or the volume of books being published about characters who carry the X gene.
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