From Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw, Justin Ponsor

 

Oh this title gets more and more nuts every issue.

There is a guest teacher today and its none other than… Deathlok?  Alright, first I don’t know when the hell Deathlok joined the mutant part of the Marvel Universe.  Not that I’m sure where I would have put Deathlok if I had to sort him in somewhere.  Maybe under Captain America, and thus kind of under the Avengers.   But anyways this is a Deathlok from the future, there’s enough D-Loks going around that score cards are needed.  ‘Lok tells everyone what the statistics are for them doing something good or something evil.  Its really messed up and the events of this issue will be referred back to for years.  More of the future of the Marvel Universe has just been written in this comic than any of us could possible realize at this time.  The “kids” in school are seen as adults in one of those crazy post disaster/battle wasteland alternate futures Marvel likes to throw at us every so often.

We all know Wolverine wont die.  The school principal aside, I think this is the most unpredictable book Marvel publishes today.  Anyone could die, anyone could change sides, the entire book could be reset on any page and it would flow naturally under the rules that have been established in these first four issues.  Those rules are, no limits, no rules, we’re going to throw everything at you.

I mean we have Genesis, the son/clone of Apocalypse and he’s not even a main character!  Angel, one of the original X-Men, has had his mind fried and believes himself to be…well, something more than mutant.  More drama is packed into every issue than in entire years of other titles.  There were things that I forgot happened, and then I re-read the book and got excited all over again!

This is the rarest of comics, the kind that are read in the shop or in the car before you’ve returned home from the comic book store.