Young X-men #2 Review

YOUNG X-MEN #2
Written by Marc Guggenheim
Art by Yanick Paquette

Ugh, god, $3 later and five minutes of my life I'll never get back are the only ways to describe this issue. Cyclops explains the finer parts of X-Men behaviour in the form of why they kill now and how the Young X-Men better get used to it. Skrull or imposter of some kind. It had better be this or heads have to roll for this insanity.

After a complete disaster of a training exercise to capture Danger Room versions of the New Mutants, Cyclops decides the team is ready to get to work and sends them to hunt down each member of the Hellfire Club individually. In another brilliant moment of strategy, he breaks the team up into two teams to go after two targets at once, despite how terrible the team works together as it is.

As expected, both teams fail horribly in their opening attempts. Magma seems primed to roast one team, but Blindfold and Ink somehow take down Moonstar. I don't know how exactly, as she just falls over, despite having Blindfold at gunpoint and Ink on the other side of the room. Ink celebrates by batting Blindfold upside the head with the shotgun, knocking her out. I'm not sure if he's as annoyed at her terrible dialogue as I am or if he's betraying the team here.

Verdict - Avoid It

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