Also this week:

CABLE #3 - More running around in the future.  I think I'm getting the measure of this series.  There's a reasonably interesting central idea about whether Cable is going to let himself be drawn into any other heroics, or whether he's just going to guard the baby to the exclusion of everything else.  Given that his aim is to rewrite history and prevent this sort of timeline from occurring, does he even regard the locals as people at all?  But with three issues to get to this point, the pace seems a bit languid; and Ariel Olivetti's art varies from striking to stilted.  It's okay, but unremarkable.  B-

YOUNG X-MEN #2 - Jokes about Magnum, PA?  Somebody's been re-reading their early New Mutants comics.  This is a strange book and, so far, it's not working for me.  We've got a bunch of random background characters, in a story which involves them being sent to take down the original New Mutants, who have apparently become evil.  This is so obviously going to be a feint that it's difficult to get worked up about the plot.  Marc Guggenheim hasn't really got a handle on writing Blindfold at all, and a scene in which we're solemnly told that Cannonball is more dangerous than Magma (because a "human cannonball" is more dangerous than a "human volcano") just makes my head spin.  I really don't get what they're trying to do with this series.  C

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Next week, it's the first issue of Captain Britain and MI-13, the Excalibur replacement from the writer of last year's highly enjoyable Wisdom series.  I'm looking forward to this one.  There's also the first issue of GeNext, a five-issue miniseries by Chris Claremont about the next generation of X-Men, set in a world where the series took place in real time. 

Wolverine #63 completes the "Get Mystique" arc, while Wolverine: The Amazing Immortal Man and Other Bloody Tales (no, really, that's the title) is a one-shot with three stories by David Lapham.  X-Men Origin: Colossus is a one-shot about Peter's back story.  X-Men: Legacy #211 begins a new arc, "Sins of the Father."  And New Exiles #6 has a biplane on the cover. 

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