This comic review is going to be a little different than what you are used to. You see, there are so many great titles out there that I don’t always get to read them right away. For those of you who wait to buy an issue to hear what I think first, I apologize. My summer has started so I will be able to be more up to date, but there are issues that I have read that still need to be discussed so I am going to do what I call a Collective Review. For example, today I am reviewing All New X-Men issues #9-11. Yes, issue # 11 is the most current but I still feel you need to know what is going on in issues # 9 and 10. So, here we go.
In an All New X-Men #9, we find Kitty Pride training the original X-men in a real world scenario using the Danger Room. She is trying to get the original 5 up to speed on what they may face in the present timeline. Jean Grey is still working on staying out of people’s minds, but she pulls out the name Mystique from Scott’s mind causing Kitty to go in a panic and trying to find out how Scott knew her. While Kitty tries to gain the information she wants, we discover that Mystique has used her “gift” to sneak herself and Sabretooth aboard the Raft to break out a fellow mutant known as Lady Mastermind. Mastermind uses her talents to keep the guards occupied while they make their get away. Exactly what does Mystique have in mind? Well, we find out more in issue #10.
Issue #1o begins with Mystique, Sabretooth, and Lady Mastermind using their skills to rob a bank as well as make the citizens think it was the X-men doing the robbing and killing. While back at the School for Higher Learning, we have present day Cyclops and his Uncanny X-men trying to recruit some of the students still at the school. Of course this doesn’t make Logan or the others Happy one bit.
While both sides discuss why the other team is wrong for the students, the real Maria Hill is trying to piece together exactly what is going on. Why are the X-men attacking innocents? Is this a Cyclops ploy? Exactly what is going on? Well, we the readers know what’s going on, Mystique is pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes. Back at the school, one of the original X-men makes the decision to leave and join Cyclops new school. Who is it you ask? Well, you’ll find out in issue #11.
Well, as you already know if you have been reading the All New X-men titles, the original Angel has decided to join up with Cyclops, Frost, Magneto, Magik, and the others. Why? It’s simple, he feels that Cyclops’s “nonsense” sounds better than the nonsense he was already made part of when Beast brought them to the future. Although they do not like the decision, there is nothing they can really do. Jean tries to use her mental powers to order him, but Cyclops’s team has more telekinetic mutants and they are more powerful. Elsewhere, Mystique and her crew are at it again, thus time they are after Tony Stark and his Intel as well as money. This of course cause an alert to the real X-men and the go in pursuit to stop the imposters. They run into a little turbulence and they are forced to land. When they land, they realize they are in a world of hurt because the Uncanny Avengers are there to take them in. What will happen next? Just like me, you will have to wait for issue #12 to see.
I give all three issues a perfect 10 out of 10 rating. The writing of Bendis is legendary and the artwork throughout the series has been phenomenal! If you haven’t jumped on the All New X-Men bandwagon yet you need to because it is definitely worth the trip.
