Creative Team
Writer: Christopher Yost
Pencils: Dustin Weaver
Inks: Jaime Mendoza
Art Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Story Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Overall Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
This mini-series is the lead-in to the “War of the Kings” event. It is an excellent start for the “War”.
Picking up on the past history of Marvel’s cosmic characters and X-Men plot threads, the pieces are put into place to begin the war. The Shi’ar empire is currently being ruled by Emperor Vulcan(Gabriel Summers-brother to Cyclops and Havok). He married the previous empress’s sister, Deathbird, in an effort to return the empire to greatness.
This issue begins with the Shi’ar invasion of the Z’Nox(an alien race who first threatened the Earth way back in X-Men #65 in 1970). With the assistance of the Imperial Guard, Vulcan easily conquers them. The empire is excited by the new military successes.
The remaining members of the Starjammers manage to free their ship from the empire. They plan to rescue their captured members.
Vulcan is still not happy. He has been torturing the captured Starjammers, especially his brother Havok. Havok will not bow down to him.
The issue ends with a sign of hope in Havok’s cell.
Overall, a very promising start to the war. The author shows the other races starting to rally. It looks to be an epic space war.
Weaver and Mendoza do an amazing job on the big battle and space shots. The special effects are great.
I look forward to seeing what happens in the next chapter. If this is an example of the war, it will be a very good crossover.
Highly recommended.
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It’s pretty ironic that currently the space characters at Marvel are the ones with the best stories.
Both the Silver Surfer and the cosmic X-men mythos is in a great shape. Annihilation, Guardians of the Universe, Emperor Vulcan, Nove were all such fun reads. I with the Earth 616 X-men and Avengers would be so consistently good reads as their space counterparts.