I honestly don’t understand the purpose of this issue.
The first teamup we get is a flashback to Spider-Man stumbling over Psylocke in the middle of a battle. Then a grenade goes off and she is mortally wounded. Then the X-Men come and take her away and Spider-Man is left to a very obvious trope or forgetting his grocery list. It’s all so very pointless. Even if it may be the turning point in the evolution of Psylocke, there is almost no indication of this for those who are not X-Men readers.
This is a story that should be very profound and heart wrenching but it’s not given enough depth and falls flat.
Then we continue with the Cap and Cyclops story where everything is turned on its head. The Skrulls aren’t bad people and Doctor Doom took out the LMD. This seems to be nothing but one long advertisement to buy the new Nova comic. Seriously, that’s what the binary means that the LMD sputters before he dies.
Nice one Marvel…
Yeah, I wasn’t impressed with the Psylocke/Spider-man story either. It’s like, I thought this was supposed to be a team-up story, not a story where Spidey stumbles onto a fellow hero, tries to help out, only to have the rest of the X-Men jump in and say “we’ll take it from here, begone with you!”. I came away from it thinking “and the point of this was…?”
And the Cap/Cyke team-up is just dull. I’ve only been glancing over it.
Overall I like this series, it’s just a shame so many of the stories are hit or miss.
Very much a Hit or Miss kind of series… ugh