[Dr Kain]

More thoughts on the Dawn of X books.

Cable has turned out to be enjoyable. It was interesting to hear that the young Cable apparently murdered his older version. Not sure why, but whatever. The story with the robots was cool and the scenes with Deadpool (who is now a king) were entertaining.

Hellions 1-4 were equally enjoyable and it was nice getting to see some D list characters get the spotlight. I did not expect to ever see Wild Child outside of AoA. Having Madelyn back from the dead was a bit weird though. I am curious to see where this leads to.

X-Men Empyre (or is it Empyre X-Men, I'm a bit vexed on that aspect) was a bit odd. First we have a story revolving around Vulcan being some prince or something, but I guess it was a dream sequence leading to him blowing up some plant aliens who want to invade the Earth. Then we get Plants vs Zombies in the X-Men books which was far more entertaining than it should have been, especially when the Golden Girls showed up and mesmerized Angel. Their banter with Magik was awesome, so I'm curious to see where this leads. My only issue is I'm still waiting to know what is going on with the fight against the Brood because it seems like they forgot about that given how X-Men #10 didn't mention it one bit.

I really wanted to hate X-Factor #1 only to find myself enamored by its murder mystery crime drama aspect. I will say that knowing Aurora is going to be brought back does diminish some of the impact of her dying, however. What's up with this Drakken dude? Is he supposed to be some woke Wolverine? Anyway, I highly enjoyed everything about this book and want to continue on with it.

New Mutants introducing a new girl that can turn her nightmares real was better than I anticipated while Excalibur is starting to get way too convoluted for its own good.

One thing that annoys me is that both Marauders and X-Force seem to have also taken a backseat for all of these new series that are taking precedence. It seems like every few books now feature an issue from them.

Anyway, I think that's all I have at the moment. My library appears to stop at volume 15 so I guess I'm nearly caught up except for X of Swords, which is taking forever to come in.