[Dr Kain]

I'm still debating if I want to off-load my Bastions and female versions on ebay and see if they sell. As a group, they look cool, but they're from an era of X books I just have no interest in. Then again, I've kept Onslaught despite knowing absolutely nothing about that character either beyond what my Encyclopedia and friends have told me.

Speaking of X-Men, I had borrowed from my local library Dawn of X Volume 1 and overall it was a mixed bag because none of them seem to really get to their main points, and yet, there were some stories I enjoyed.

X-Men - I like how it continued where PoX/HoX left off and that's about it.

Marauders - This one intrigued me quite a lot and it was the story of the book I was not looking forward to the most. I like the idea of Kitty running a ship to take other mutants who can't teleport to Krakoa to it. Not sure how I am about her now wanting to be called Kate, but overall it was a fun time, especially when Pyro got excited for being able to use Lockheed's fire in his attack.

Excalibur - So Psylocke is back in her original body? No idea how that happened, but okay. Other than that, I can't say this story did much for me. Morgan Le Faye is the villain, so I might continue it, especially if we get to see her take on Apocalypse, but right now, he's the only reason I want to stick with this book.

New Mutants - Uh... yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, wasn't a fan. I guess I'm lost as to why the team was aboard Corsair's ship. Something about retrieving Cannonball, though they never actually explained what he was doing in space. I did laugh at the part when the team ditches Sunspot (wait, is that Sunspot?) and he realized he should have known that was coming. Same with when he won Corsair's stash of bourbon from the fight between Magik and Raza.

X-Force - The artwork was kind of atrocious in this one and hard to follow. The pacing also seemed to be all over the place. Obviously they didn't actually kill Professor X, but I guess the cliffhanger has me wanting to read the next issue.

Fallen Angels - Wait, so Psylocke is Asian again? Oh, that's not Psylocke, but she's going to go by Psylocke anyway? So now there's two Psylockes? I am so confused. Anyway, this was easily the worst of the six issues and I have no interest in reading another one. I did get a kick out of her conversation with Mr Sinister though.

Overall, I do wish my library had the next few Dawn of X books, or even the regular books themselves as honestly, it got a tad loopy jumping between each run. Still, I continue to be intrigued with this run.