new issue:
very good, as usual, but the end threw me for a loop.
spoiler for all:
so it opens with a flashback of Damian Trypp's past. It's the preview, and doesn't make much sense to me. His secretary notes that an employee didn't come into work that day, and Trypp says to call a Mr. C to dispatch of him. Cut to this dude's house, and he knows Trypp will come after him, so he decides to seek help from Madrox.
Jamie wakes up, after a long night of drinking. Drinking because he was depressed about ruining all of his friendships and connections by his stance in Civil War. He tries to get into the bathroom, and out comes a dupe. A sexy dupe, commenting on how he has to return to his job as farmer (ploughing the ladies, ooooooh! ...that wasn't the line in the book). Annoyed, Jamie absorbs him. Theresa comes out, Jamie realizes what happened before she kisses him, noting how fantastique he was in the sack (another reason why Madrox is close to replacing Iceman as my favorite X-man). She goes into the bathroom, assuming they are dating. She goes into the bathroom.
Then Monet comes out, in similar half-clothes, and kisses Jamie as well. She says she knows why they call him Multiple Man, and says that they're going to be having a lot more sex. Jamie is now kind of nervous, understandably. He goes down the stairs, thinking, and passes Layla Miller. She knows stuff. "Dead man walking," she says. And that the downstairs bathroom is open. Jamie is about to ask her a hilarious question, but she cuts him off, and says that she is saving herself for their wedding night.
The ex-Singularity Employee runs into Guido in the street, commenting how some people are trying to kill him. Guido is incredulous, until he sees that a passing car has a bazooka pointing out the window. Guido jokes, covers guy, gets shot.
X-factor, hearing the X-plosion, rush outside. Both Guido and the guy are fine. Back inside, Layla comments on how he had no idea that the guy was gonna get shot at. For some reason, she doesn't know whats going to happen to Guido. "Weird, huh?" Theresa notes not as weird as Layla. The guy reveals that he was working, essentially, on remaking the Legacy Virus for Singularity. (he doesn't call it by name, and it is shown that he doesn't know what the Legacy Virus was) Jamie, having died from the Legacy Virus, loses it, and almost beats the guy up. He stops himself, and has Guido escort the man to the guy's bank, where he has stored evidence. Jamie notes how this just fell into their laps: the one way to take down S.I.
Rictor, meanwhile, has not been showed. As he is at Pietro's office. Rictor shows that he knows that Pietro's process hasn't exactly helped people. Quicksilver states that it is his destiny to make the mutant race strong again. According to him, as mutants proliferated, they became weaker, powerwise. Everytime he tries to give ones power back, it tests if that person was worth the power. If the person is worth it (at this point, though, who has been?), they will get their own powers back. Rictor asks if he will be judged. Pietro says "You tell me." Rictor looks incredulous, but is clearly thinking about it.
Guido is driving the car to the bank with that guy. He gets a call, acknoledges a change in plan... THEN KILLS THE GUY! WITH HIS GIANT FISTS! He's Mr. Carosella.
Great story, art was killer. Favorite artist after Sook, who will never return... sigh.
