We come now to one of those disappointing moments in the curtailed life of a cancelled series. It's obvious, from the dialogue and from the lack of closure in the story, that there's more to the mystical war that is being set up. Sadly, tomorrow's issue is the last one, and as far as I can tell, Aguirre-Sacasa never continued the story he was setting up here.
A pity - a good, novel take on the X-Men, or on an X-Men character, is rare. It's what ended up driving me away from that section of the Marvel U - it never seemed that the situation of the characters changed very much. Yes, they moved from base to base, city to city, but it was always the persecution angle that drove the stories (as far as I could see, anyway). And while that is a vital part of the franchise, it can't be the only thing. Setting Nightcrawler up as the resident mystical investigator for the X-Men added some wonderful nuance to the team and their part of the shared universe. Whether his propensity for the outre lasts into other incarnations, I don't know.
But let's not seal it up quite yet. Still one more issue to go, and, who knows? Maybe we'll get some closure yet.
To be continued.
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