X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Alternately known as Battle of the Atom #3 or ‘every teenage cliche known to man in comic book form’.

Jean and Scott are on the run, even stealing clothes and doing the inevitable ‘almost saw you naked’ thing. Then the X-Men show up and everyone is bickering over what to do with the kids. They then use this distraction to get away. Going straight to the scary old man down the street who is actually just an old coot with a heart of gold… erm… I mean old!Cyclops and his crew.

This really is turning into a typical ‘coming of age’ story which doesn’t have be a bad thing as long as it’s played right. At the moment, I’m cautiously wary, we’re too early in to call it for sure.

As for the continuing plot arc of the X-Men comic, I know they had to put it half-in-half in this issue, I but I really hope the continual bickering over the command structure at least tappers down in the next issue or so, because it’s starting to get on my nerves. I can see it being realistic whether it’s men or women in that position,  but it’s not a plot point that does well being dragged out over time regardless of how realistic it is. Because, let’s face it, if you’re a part of a group with people doing that stuff, you’d find a way to remove yourself from it, and when it’s in a comic, you simply stop reading.