The issue starts with the x-men robbing an armored car! Oh, that doesn't make sense, really? Well, Don’t worry, it’s just an illusion that Lady (from the last issue) uses to frame the young x-men, as well as make out with a few million bucks.
Meanwhile, also continuing from last issue, older Cyclops’s team comes in to negotiate with the Jean Grey school. He restates that he would never have killed Xavier on his own free will. Then...Krakoa (the mutant who is part of the earth) swallows them whole. Once it spits them out, Cyclops makes the announcement that they are recruiting mutants for their New Xavier School.
I’d like to remind people that in Schism (one of the first comic series I read next to Curse of the Mutants and Batman Reborn), Scott split away from Wolverine because he didn't want to use mutants as weapons.
By the time that dust settled (before/during AvX) Cyclops only had about 18-22 mutants following him (depending on who you count, since not every character was involved and some switched sides). That list has been shortened to about 8 now (though technically he could still recruit more from this point on).
Still, Scott has lost a lot of actual students for his school by starting this Revolution. I should note that he actually only had 5-6 people behind him at this point. If you compare this to the huge clumps of people Wolverine has got, Cyclops really has just proven how much of a fool he is.
Older Scott is pretty desperate here...basically going to wolverine’s door and begging for more people to join his mutant-revolution club. It honestly makes me laugh.
“New mutants are popping up all over the world and with that will come confusion that will lead to fear that will lead to hatred.”- Magneto, ripping off one of the worst lines in Star Wars. “We can train you to fight back and fight for each other.”
I need to remind Scott AGAIN that the whole point he went away from Wolverine (again, Schism) was that he did not want to use mutants as weapons. Now’s he’s just saying “oh, we need to fight the humans or even other mutants, so we need to gather mutants to use as (in his words here) warriors.”
Forgive me if I’m missing something here, but I’m starting to see why people really hate Cyclops. At least he’s being written as a pseudo-anti-villain or whatever. As far as I remember, Cyke wanted to take a defensive approach and protect mutants whereas Wolverine wanted to continue training mutants. Now they apparently just want to do the same thing by training mutants? If Cyclops wasn't such a “wearing an X on his head” freaky revolutionary...maybe they could work together...
I think it’s clear why I’m on Wolverine’s “team”. I don’t even think Cyclops has ever been consistent. It’s probably just because I haven’t read X-men for a bit, but it’s still kinda strange. I mean, I didn't read all of AvX (or even Uncanny X-men), and if I did I might have more context for Scott's position...either way though it doesn't add up for me. It does start to bring back that whole Xavier vs Magneto vibe, but now it's literally Scott verses himself.
Anyway, Young Scott is so conflicted by all the ideals of his future self is throwing out so he storms off again.
We also get a scene of Maria Hill heading back to The Raft and being informed of the breakout. She even points out they only took one person for like no reason besides that she was in the X-men. She then reports this to the x-men who are already busy trying to figure out who will join Scott’s team.
The Triplets leave to join Cyclops's team, since they are pretty much bound to Emma, that was expected. Suddenly, another voice speaks up...leading to a cliffhanger.
I don’t think I really liked this issue, not because of the underlying issues, but just that even less happened this time than before and the cliffhanger feels really cheap. I think the dialogue and art (I have a hard time criticizing art, personally...and most of the books with art I don’t like, I just don’t read) are still good, so I’ll be nice and hand this a 6.5/10.
Issue 11
The cover asks, in another 60’s style homage, Which all-new x-man will join Cyclops. I remember getting this spoiled for me already (according to what I've read, it was also already spoiled by the earlier issue of Uncanny), and it probably won’t be hard to guess if you follow the hints. Warren moves over to Scott’s side! At least they resolved that pretty quickly.
Just to clarify another background gag, one of Jean’s thought bubbles says that there was a Golden Age angel, seen here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Thomas_Halloway)].
I like how Warren prefers being an active superhero (basically what cyclops is doing) versus being a student. I got some clarification on Scott’s position: The divide is closer to that Scott wants to train people to be active/act like superheroes or positive role-models while wolverine focuses more on education and training before action. It really does seem like something Warren would want to do.
I also wanted to point out that I think the extinction costumes are pretty cool (besides cyclops’s), without getting into too much detail.
Anyway, Jean tries to pull her mind-hold on Warren, but the triplets knock her down. Wolverine starts to get mad, but Magneto throws him into the air. Jean gets brought inside after the scuffle ends, and the we cut to...Stark Industries?
Well, it seems like Mystique has used her skills (turning into Pepper Potts) to steal Stark’s personal funds. This whole heist scheme is working out pretty well, honestly. I mean, she better be careful because the fantastic four have scanners for shapeshifters in their building! Where’s she going to go next?!
Kitty gives another stern lecture to Jean, even giving her spidey's quote (that she heard from him) that with great power comes great responsibility. Jean brings up that she doesn't want the team to break up, because even when they did before...they later formed X-factor (I’m still reading that original run). She needs to learn not to go to extreme lengths to get what she wants, or she’ll turn into the Scarlet Witch when she lost her marbles!
Now the X-men focus on dealing with mystique, but the shape-shifter has already framed them for different attacks and called in the avengers. Thor crashes their jet (I figured storm could have done something about that, but then saw she wasn't on the plane). Now the Uncanny Avengers arrive. Time for the standard superhero “we have a misunderstanding, so we will fight” cliche. It’s also cool that wolverine point’s out that Havoc, Cyke’s brother, is on the team.
This issue is a bit better as we see Jean continue to develop due to all these shocking events as well as Warren moving into a different team (as well as different book). The next issue looks to be interesting as the original x-men take on some modern mutants. Overall, I think the issue has still earned a 6.8/10 for the funny references and good art, but it’s still not enough to make it really good. It’s still not a bad series by any means. I find it annoying that the new x-men are becoming less self contained. It’s pretty much the same thing Avengers and New Avengers are doing where the two books are heavily connected, but in this case it’s all new and uncanny.
I feel cheated by only following one series, and that does bring the score down. Also, to make a correction, I just double checked wikipedia (who has scott's full team) and he currently has 11 mutants with him for now.
And yes, I’m planning on seeing GotG tomorrow :)
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