[Dr Kain]

I read through X-Cutioner's Song today and overall, it was a decent story. It wasn't as amazing as I remembered, but it wasn't as bad as I was fearing. The worst part of the series was Jae Lee's X-Factor artwork because my god, none of that even matched the art throughout the rest of the story. Did he even look at what Bishiop and Cable wear? Or did he just go off and make up his own looks for them? There were a few panels of his I did like, especially when Cyclops and Jean were on the moon, but for the most part, he was unfit to do the art for this crossover if he wasn't going to make it match up with the other three series.

Stryfe remained pretty bad ass and this was the storyline that made him be one of my favorite villains when growing up. It was pretty cool finally understanding his whole plight and why he wanted revenge. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be very much in the way of a story here though. It was just one action scene after another and having the different teams battle each other came out very forced. There was really no reason for this thing to be 12 issues long (well 13 with the epilogue) as it could have been half of that.

Overall, it was nice to reread this thing after 24 years, but it was not the 'OH MY GOD THIS IS SO AWESOMELY BADASS I LOVE IT!!!!" type of story I thought it was. Nevertheless, it was entertaining, if nothing else. On to Age of Apocalypse.