| Description: The issue
picks up exactly where the last one left off.
Generation X are the prisoners of Emplate who
along with Gayle Edgarton, Chamber's ex-girlfriend,
and his followers have managed to deprive most of
the GenXer's of their powers by restraining them
in various ways. It has also just been revealed
that Monet is the younger sister of Emplate. M
manages to escape and sets about trying to get
help for herself and her teammates. She pulls out
the wires for the fire alarm and tries to send a
message outside the Academy. The mutant called
Bulwark, one of Emplate's followers, comes up
behind her and they start to duke it out. Back at the
campfire, where Emplate is keeping the other
members of Generation X, he is about to feed on
Banshee when Jubilee starts to taunt him. Nearby
Chamber and Gayle are neck deep in some sort of
mud. (Emplate double crossed Gayle, and tried to
feed on Jono but she tried to stop him.) It turns
out that Gayle wasn't actually crippled when Jono
first manifested his powers. She just blames him
for changing, and taking away all her dreams of
happiness with him away.
Meanwhile
M continues to battle with Bulwark, when suddenly
he begins to shrink and he loses his strength. He
runs away from and straight into Artie and Leech.
Leech takes away Bulwark's powers and Artie
finishes him off. Jubilee continues to taunt
Emplate, making him more angry every minute. M
thanks Artie and Leech for their help but makes
them stay in the treehouse for their own
protection. She flies away, a strange purple mist
surrounds her and begins to suffocate her. She
falls to the ground where the purple mist comes
out of her mouth and takes a human shape. He
introduces himself as Vincente and before he can
get any further Bishop turns up, he came at M's
SOS signal, with his trademark grimace and big
shiny guns.
Comments:
I don't know why but I've never thought of
Emplate as a serious threat so, for me, it doesn't
seem like the GenXer's are in serious danger. But
it is a fairly good issue. Jubilee's taunts and
jeers are very entertaining and we get a better
idea of what kind of person M is. There's a mix-up
with the colouring with Artie and Leech. So that
it appears that Artie is talking and Leech has
psionic hologram projection type powers. This isn't
a bad issue, Tom Grummett's art is better this
issue than last, but it's still just an average
issue with not much to raise it about the norm.
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