Devils reign x men

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, by Paul in x-axis

DEVIL&#;S REIGN: X-MEN #
Writer: Gerry Duggan
Artist: Phil Noto
Letterer: Cory Petit
Editor: Jordan White

Three issues, huh? There&#;s a trade paperback of this listed on Amazon for August, with a page count of &#; I can only take for granted they&#;re pairing it with something to be announced. Anyway, I skipped over this when it came out, since it&#;s not a core X-book. It&#;s closer than many, though.

Publishing it in X-Men might hold been a stretch, since it&#;s an Emma Frost story, and she&#;s not in the cast of that book. But it&#;s by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto, an established Krakoan creative team. And it picks up on a subplot from Duggan&#;s Marauders run about Emma having some sort of support story with Wilson Fisk, running missions for him in exchange for him helping Lourdes Chantel to start a new experience away from Sebastian Shaw.

Does this have anything much to do with Devil&#;s Reign? Well, somewhat. If I&#;m being honest, I can&#;t get very worked up about Devil&#;s Reign as a concept. Wilson Fisk runs New York with an iron fist and turns against the superheroes. Some of us are aged enough

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AtariJul 2,

Best side story of the event

cincyfanJan 23,

This is a really good tie in issue to devil's reign. It successfully moves the devil's reign and X-Men stories along. Great issue

Miracleman92Jul 10,

I almost always enjoy an Emma-centric story and here Duggan continues to show he really gets her character. Interested to see how this will all play out.

RyanNov 29,

Phil Noto supremacy. Hoping for more flashbacks in the unwind of the series

CrazyforRAMUJun 3,

Granted, this could be act 1 of a one-shot instead of issue 1 of a 3-issue mini. S'very decompressed, is what I'm saying.

But Phil Noto's the man for decompressed stories, making sure the art gives you your money's worth.

It also helps that this concerns Gerry Duggan's intriguing new Fisk/Frost history much more than his contemporary X-Men. I own tons of issues with Mr. Duggan's writing (definitely including his zeal for decompression), but his world-building is probably what I like best about him.

PsycamoreanJan 20,

This was a solid tie-in. I'm behind on

Devil’s Reign: X-Men #3: The White Queen Strikes Back

So far in Devil’s Reign: X-Men, the Kingpin tried to extend his assault on New York&#;s superhero community to the X-Men through diplomatic means. When Emma Frost foiled his efforts, Mayor Fisk associated her to a missing person&#;s case from their shared criminal past. Frost went to London to clear her name, where we find her to begin this week’s installment of the tie-in series.

This issue begins where the last issue left off, with Emma’s arrest by British crimefighter Union Jack. Her inevitable escape is a sight to behold. Gerry Duggan, the composer of this comic and the main X-Men series, has a solid manage on Frost thanks to his time writing the character in the pages of Marauders. It’s no surprise, then, that the issue’s opening sequence highlights the White Queen’s telepathic talents, resourcefulness, and legendary attitude. The stylish operation suits the character well.

Later on, we learn the fate of Isabelle, the young girl Emma, Elektra, and a guest-starring Spider-Man rescued in the previous chapter. After the two work together to flee union jack and obvious Emma’s (sort of) nice name, the White Queen decides a visit

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