Jackson Tyler

Whoops, that podcast made me wanna read some X-Men comics, so I'm glad I picked one of the good ones.

One of the most quietly sad books I've ever read, about the inevitability of hurting those close to us with our pain.

Also it's short and well written, a tight and dense read that I recommend to you all.

Read this one before the X-Plain the X-Men podcast on it, hey it's pretty good who knew? Definitely less impactful to me however because every single plot point has been riffed on a thousand times in the decades since, but glad I went back and read it.

It's alright. Some really cool moments, especially at the beginning and the end, but it's disappointingly rote, and the eventual reveal, while cool in concept, doesn't really capture the potential. But I'm nitpicking, it's a perfectly fine horror story.

Millar is gone for all of two issues, and they are far and away the best issues in the whole series, having a real sense of pacing and tone, not to mention some actual heart. Then we're back to the usual crap, this time doing Xavier/Moira/David BUT DARKER and it's the best arc so far, technically, but it is not good.