Ah the
X-Men, my favorite comic growing up, let’s see what has become of Charlie’s
team of outcasts in the Earth X universe.
We start with a short conversation about Reed Richards’ actions and what
the Inhumans found at the end of the last issue (the time machine). We then cut to the history of the X-Men,
including the origin of Magneto and the formation of the original and “Giant
Size” teams. 
The
reason this issue is X-Men-centric is revealed in the first page after the
origin. Reed Richards is at the ruins of
the X-Mansion to try and locate Cerebro, the old mutant detecting device, in
order to use it to find the missing Inhumans, almost like a magnet to search
for a needle in a haystack. What Reed
encounters instead is a blast from the past as the X-Men are tearing up the
mansion in a fight with the Sentinels.
Of course, this is just a Danger Room scenario that was triggered by
Reed’s entrance into the mansion. Reed
shuts off the program and plugs himself into Cerebro to begin his mission.
We then
cut to one of the last remaining X-Men, Cyclops, as an old man, just walking
along when he stumbles upon a group of mutants.
He adeptly takes them all out though because, apparently this is an
alternate universe where Cyclops is a badass.
The group of mutants attacked Cyclops in order to show him how tough
they are. It turns out that Captain
America sent the group to Cyclops for training, which they did not think they
needed…and the best way to show that is to attack Cyclops. This obviously didn’t work as an old man in a
trench coat kicked their collective asses.
We now
travel to Dr. Strange’s house where Clea, the reigning Sorcerer Supreme with
Dr. Strange out of commission, is preparing to send the Hulk-Ape into the land
of the dead to deliver a message to Mar-Vell.
Apparently, Hulk-Ape, not having a real mind of his own does not have to
worry about going mad in a place like the land of the dead.
In Iron
Man’s sanctuary we get a conversation on ethics between him and Vision, where
Vision attempts to reason with him, explaining that Iron Man is actually needed
by the people out beyond his walls, possibly foreshadowing some actual involvement
by Iron Man in future issues. We quickly
cut to Cyclops agreeing to train the team of ragtag mutants, after he fits them
with new uniforms, that of course have an X on them, before we focus on
Spiderman and his daughter having a heart to heart on a water tower regarding
her involvement in superheroics.
We get
a quick glimpse of the Skull’s forces traveling across the country via train,
apparently heading to New York. Along
for the ride is Cap and Daredevil. We
end with an appendix that explains what happened to many of the X-Men. Iceman is alone at the North Pole; Angel is
flying around trying to help the unfortunate souls; Magneto has isolated
himself amidst a city of repurposed Sentinels; Multiple Man is basically a
living breathing CNN, providing info to everyone that wants it; Banshee,
Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, X-Man, Gambit and Rogue died; Dazzler is still
touring, singing Disco music, Longshot and Cable have disappeared and the
telepaths died when the Skull was born.
It’s a pretty shitty day to be an X-Man.
Next Issue: Cap rides a train, the new X-Men train and Reed
trains his brain to find Inhumans. You
see what I did there?
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