All New X-men #6
First thing I should mention is that the variant cover is an anniversary variant that features one of my favorite x-men teams...Generation X. Extra points for just having that. The original cover shows jean literally living in the professor’s shadow. It must be tough to be with him one minute, then suddenly travel to a future where he is gone.
This book starts out pretty graphic, and that’s slightly off putting. Jean has a vision that Scott is going to come back, and suddenly wolverine jumps through the window and stabs her in the neck at the end of the nightmare. I've actually had dreams like this where I wake up after getting shot at point blank or something...so it’s pretty horrific.
Meanwhile, Cyclops is so shocked by everything that he just takes a motorcycle and leaves the school. I’m pretty sure that’s wolverine’s bike dude, I thought you DIDN'T want him to kill you. He already threatened you before, so you've pretty much sealed your fate now. Regardless, I think that young cyclops must be pretty dumb to just leave like that. The old cyclops probably would have decided to stick with the original team at least. Speaking of, wolverine hears the bike take off (He wouldn’t even need super-hearing for that, I mean...motorcycles are really freaking loud if you've ever been around one) and chases after it in his jeep.
Jean gets another psychic attack and among other things we get a few more plot points through her reading minds. There’s a bubble in the middle that I think is cyclops, who mentions wanting to see himself from the present. Hey, even if you wanted to do that...you should also realize that he is working with MAGNETO now! Why would you want to go see him when he might just try to blast your head off again. It’s not like he knows magneto has changed over the years, he only knew the 60’s super villain! Another hint is dropped about angel, a few of the students mention he went missing. Bendis is planting all these hints that angel is going to go against the team (at least, I think he will), it’s sort of interesting. I heard he also turned against the uncanny x-force and had to get his memory wiped. Warren seems like a pretty untrustworthy guy in general now.
Even I’m getting a headache trying to read all these thought bubbles! Some of them are just nonsense, but a lot of them seem important. The problem is that we don’t see who is thinking what so it becomes even more confusing. Kitty helps her focus her powers a bit more, or at least learn to calm them down.
Then we cut to cyclops from the 1960’s driving into a modern town. He is instantly confused by the idea of a smartphone and all that. He’s even confused by the fact that there is bottled water because (according to my googling abilities) that wasn't even mainstream until the 70’s (my mom was even able to confirm this)
“Five dollars?! For a magazine?!”- Cyclops, and everyone who used to buy comics for 12 cents back in the day. Scenes like this where the time-displaced person is confused by stuff is so cliche, but when it’s written well it always make me laugh...like right now.
Wolverine comes back and tries to drag “Slim” back to the school. Cyclops learns about Wolvie’s adamantium bones, and then decides to blast him backward (knowing that it won’t hurt) and drives off. We find out that the thought bubble about seeing himself was actually what Angel is thinking (which doesn't seem as dumb since like angel said, he never saw himself. What if he died or something? Would he still want to see that? This is just coming from me though...I study time travel and not only know it’s a bad idea to see your future, but I also don’t want to see it.) who is following cyke from the air. Just then, Archangel (as I should call him) shows up and starts to figure everything out. The issue ends with mystique seeing a video of the younger cyclops and becoming suspicious. This issue is still very good, and I’d be happy giving it somewhere around a 8.5/10. This series never disappoints and next issue features the first actual villain to take on the “all new x-men”.
Issue 7
The regular cover shows Mystique with her hands all over cyclops and it’s a seriously creepy one, but the variant is actually focused on one of my other favorites: Wolverine and the X-men.
It seems kinda strange to celebrate an anniversary with a newer series, but it still looks awesome!
That aside, I really don’t like this cover compared to the other ones. Anyway, cyclops goes to a bank and steals money from his future self’s account. Since he is a wanted terrorist though, the guards decide to call the police. Wolverine comes to bail Slim out, but then it turns out that it was mystique in disguise. She tells him that he’s probably the only one who can stop himself. Even Scott points out how weird it is to be talking about himself like this. She tells him to question Wolverine’s school as well as himself, clearly setting him up to just wreak everything for her.
When the real wolverine shows up, he explains that Charles probably wouldn't want him to kill the young or old cyclops, even if that would be for the better. He believes that Charles would've tried to save the older Scott, and not just kill him and be done with it.
Then we see kitty and iceman arguing about training. I love how much of a stupid goofball iceman used to be compared to now. He used to throw snowballs at magneto like it was serious business. The issue ends with Young Scott showing Teen Jean his old wedding invitation and walking away. I could only imagine what it’s like to see your future wife like this, it must be super awkward for him knowing that he’s going to marry her when in the comics they just recently met like a week or so ago.
This issue wasn't as strong as the other ones, but it does an alright job of setting things up for the coming story. The best stuff is yet to come, but for right now this issue is a 7.5.
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