X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

As much as I’m enjoying where this title has been going recently… I can’t help but be a little annoyed at how the writer just loves to refer to Ruth as a weirdo. Just because she wears the blindfold and has telekinetic and precognative abilities, as well as a speech impediment, doesn’t make her weird, at least by X-Men/Mutant standards. You would think that her fellow X-Men would be more forgiving of her differences? I suppose this is just an extension of Spurrier’s mad dash in the first issues to totally ditch on the X-Men in order to build up David, and I can kinda see the Cuckoo’s being all Mean Girl but Pixie? I dunno, it just bugs me.

But getting to the issue at hand, David believes he is going to end the world one day… and apparently has no idea how precognition actually works. For one, he took the power from one of his ‘demons’ which obviously has his own agenda. And there are things like self-fulfilling prophecies. And as for the ‘destiny’ that he thinks he sees… yeah… again… never trust the future, especially when destiny is involved because one thing is often not like the other. (and like his deal with the Xavier demon isn’t going to come back and bite him in the arse)

But that is no slight against Spurrier, he’s really taken David on a rollercoaster of emotions and he’s truly a mess. So it makes sense as to why he would want to get rid of his ‘mutant side’ as it were.

Also, nice to see a look at one of the glaring issues regarding super hero comics, there is always the collateral damage, the people who get stuck in the middle of stuff they have no way of fighting against and get hurt because of it. It’s a very real reason for people to be afraid of what mutants and superheros mean to them.

So, yeah, this should get interesting…