Thursday, April 19, 2012

Uncanny X-Force: Otherworld Premiere HC [2012]

UNCANNY X-FORCE: OTHERWORLD PREMIERE HARDCOVER
Fantomex mentors Genesis who a child Apocalypse to become a leader and a hero. Wolverine tries to persuade the Age of Apocalypse Jean Grey to stay however it is Nightcrawler who stays to deal with Sugar Man, Drake, Dark Beast, and the Blob. Fantomex reveals to Wolverine he created Genesis so he will be raised well and wanted to know whether there is hope for him. Genesis is taken by Hank McCoy to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning as well as Warren Worthington.

Brian Baddrock leader of the Captain Britain Corps has taken both Fantomex and Betsy back to Otherworld. Brian has a psychic bond with his sister Betsy and knows everything. The Otherworld is under attack by within the Omiverse.

Fantomex is held on trial at the Supreme Omniversal Tribune for the death of the child Apocalypse and sentenced to death. X-Force use Gateway to travel to the Otherworld however they face an army of demonic invaders. Fantomex is injected with an anti-reality serum.

SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Betsy rescues Fantomex from death and escapes to find the Lord of Sorrows
- Betsy is now Lady Britain as Meghan and Nightcrawler hold off a demon army
- Lady Britain and Fantomex face Weapon III who slices Fantomex’s face off
- Wolverine and Deadpool attempt to kill the Goat leading the demonic invaders
- Fantomex used Weapon III’s skin as sentient bullets
- The Goat Monk is revealed to be a future Jamie Braddrock
- Psylocke uses her brother Brian to kill Jamie in the present to kill the Goat Monk
- Wolverine, Deadpool, and the AOA Nightcrawler take down AOA Iceman
- Nightcrawler takes him to a furnace where Iceman cannot use his powers

POINT ONE ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
- The Age of Apocalypse is revisited as the human resistance is led by William Stryker
- Weapon X is the new Apocalypse killing both Rogue and Magneto
- Scarlet Witch says “No More Mutants” and Jean Grey loses her powers
- The stage is set for a new series Age of Apocalypse #1

This hardcover collects
Uncanny X-Force #19 – 24
Uncanny X-Force #19.1

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5