This issue is more like an Annual than an actual issue of the long running title… but that doesn’t make it any less good.
Can we talk for the moment how the girl is a victim of rape culture? She’s feeling hurt and betrayed, as she she should, and goes to the X-Men because she figures she’ll be normal amongst the freaks. This is kinda messed up on so many levels.
Then you have the ultimate retcon… the dues ex machina itself… ForgetMeNot… a mutant with the uncanny ability to go unnoticed. It’s quite a handy ability actually, if a bit of an unthankful one. It’s nice to see the Legacy writers look back on the series through his eyes though. And now we know who it was that had a crush on Rogue.
It’s a nice little story that ties up a, ahem, legacy of story lines from over several years. It has your typical X-Men message of “you’re important and special no matter who you are and what your faults are”. And it doesn’t try to be overly edgy or angsty or anything like that.
What it doesn’t do is explain what the hell happened in the previous Legacy run…
Bonus: Chellerbelle created a ForgetMeNot kind of character for her fic, The Air That I Breathe, long before this issue came out… only the character doesn’t appear for like twenty more chapters or something like that… but still…
I hope we see ForgetMeNot again, but I suspect he’s just going to be forgotten. Still, I have to admit, despite being a die hard Rogue/Gambit shipper, I’m rather intrigued by the idea of a romance between him and Rogue.
Ironic… isn’t it…
hhmmm… Rogue and ForgetMeNot… interesting combo…
Indeed.
Which is exactly why I’m curious.
You need to write a short fic… 😉