New X-Men? #109

All-New, All-Different X-Men #109

“Home Are The Heroes!”

Chris Claremont and John Byrne

Synopsis

After the madness that has been their lives ever since the Sentinels return, the X-Men take a nice, needed break. But when Weapon Alpha, an agent of the Canadian Government, comes looking to bring Wolverine back home, things get ugly.

Rolling Commentary

Huh. “Wanted: Wolverine Dead or Alive!” I wonder if this issue will feature Wolverine heavily.

Page 3: Is it just me, or does Storm spend a lot more time being naked than the rest of the X-Men?

Page 5- Is Jean actually having second thoughts about saving the universe here? Because that’s what it looks like.

Page 6. There’s just something lovable about Peter Rasputin, isn’t there?

Page 9. Wolverine makes a good point, and he also shows that he’s better than everyone thinks he is. But why must he always be wearing his costume?

Page 11. And here I thought the Canadian government was just going to let him walk away. But I have Giant Size X-Men #1 right in front of me, Logan, and James MacDonald is nowhere to be seen when you cut Chasin’s tie. I called your bluff, Hah!

Page 12. The “Ultimate product of Canadian Technology”? He’s “the equal of any Avenger”? Does that mean Guardian/Vindicator/Weapon Alpha could take on Iron Man? How about Thor? Single handedly? I’m thinking "no".

Page 17, Wolverine is starting to learn to appreciate his friends. Yay!

Post Mortem

I’m not much of an Alpha Flight fan, but this was a fun little issue. It’s nice to decompress after everything that’s been happening recently in the book. Plus, you get a sense that Wolverine is starting to get over himself and actually feeling like he’s part of the team. Alpha Flight is going to come back, of course, and we’ll get a tiny bit of Wolverine back-story. Yay!

Plus maybe Kurt got to Scott, and he’ll stop acting like such a jerk.

But probably not.