| Summary: Paige is left
alone in the Academy while the others leave to do
various other things. 'Geeking out' over the new
security system, Paige is bewildered when the
system suddenly locks down. (See Generation X #73
for more details.) Trying to discover the cause
of the lockdown she looks around the Academy and
finds a classroom full of ghost. Paige runs away
but one of the ghosts, a girl, follows. The girl
pulls a book out of a shelf and opens it, inside
is a sheet of paper. The ghost hands the sheet to
Paige and tells her to read it. Paige does so and
then asks the ghost child whether what is written
there is true. The ghost, whose name is Hannah
McMurray, tells her it is and Paige sees the
marks of physical abuse on her body. Later, when
Jono, Jubilee and Monet return from New York they
find the Academy completely loocked down. M uses
her cell phone to deactivate the security system
and they enter. Paige runs down to them and out
to the car, saying that she's just going out for
awhile. Awhile later the car pulls up in front of
a house in the country. She knocks on the door
and it's answered by an elderly lady. The woman
is the sister of Hannah McMuray and Paige gives
her the letter and comforts the woman.
Comments:
Story wise my main reaction to this issue was 'So
what?'. An issue where Paige talks mainly to
herself and where nothing happens that shows
either any new side to the character or has any
real lasting consequences. Having the security
system lock down was an interesting idea but I
thought that this issue would have been more
about Paige vs. the Academy's security. I did
like how Paige used her powers, at one stage, to
husk into stone to try and blend in with her
surroundings.
Best
part of this issue is definitely the art. There's
a different colourist than previous issues. It's
a pity that Pugh won't be pencilling the final
issue of Generation X.
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