Marching Towards Something Great
Nick Spencer is really creating some thing big here. If you have not been picking up this title, you need to start. After the first six issues, it looked like Quicksilver was seriously going to manipulate everything in his favor. With Magneto dead and gone, with Xavier dead and gone, with most of the heavy-mutant hitters gone, there was definitely a void left for mutant leadership.
When things went south in issue 6, I thought that perhaps everything had fallen into Pietro's lap, but as we find out, everything went pear-shaped, and he is freaking out in this issue. Of course, what does Pietro do when he's going out of his mind? Visit with Wanda, the love (isn't she dead) of his life. Only, she is just as disappointed in him for screwing things up, just like their pappy, Magneto, would have been.
There are serious burning questions to be answered in this issue. Who was Pietro supposed to visit in Egypt? Who was he supposed to swear his undying faith to? Why did his failure to do so, cause all of mutant kind to become hunted and killed? Will it all lead to a shocking ending? Hell yes!
Whatever Nick Spencer is building to, this is edge of your seat stuff. The mutant population is more screwed up than it has ever come close to in the main continuity, and whatever is bringing people back from the dead, is likely only to shock all of us at some point.
Read this book. Read it now.
