Unstoppable, Astonishing X-Men # 23

joss whedon (buffy, toy story) continues to deliver. he had brought mr. scott summers (aka cyclops) back to the charts.

my favorite x-man, cyclops together with emma frost (the white bitch, err, queen), kitty pride (shadow cat) with her pet dragon - lockheed, piotr rasputin (the not-now-dead colossus), dr. henry mccoy (beast), new student hisako ichiki (armor) and the always cool logan (wolverine) team up with s.w.o.r.d. and danger (sentient being who used to be their danger room’s program) fight against the breakworlders. yeah, another allien race convincing everyone the shi’ar in never enough for the earth’s mutants.

anyway, issue #22 showed how dead cyclops was. breakworld soldiers attack. him volunteering to be left out in space as the rest drop to the breakworld and continue the mission. last page actuallys showed him floating lifeless in the space. is it really vacuum out there, cyke?

but this issue, however, lets readers be amazed how great a strategist cyclops is. all according to the plan. he was brought back to life by the breakworlders’ technology (same process that colossus went through) questioning him what their plans are. it is also explained how his lies/deception against the green metal coated warriors is planted. thanks to telepathy, things were sorted out. they, the enemy, definitely fell for it.

what i loved the most is how his insane calmness, as wolverine says it, is expressed. there you go dead. you wake up realizing how it felt to be.. umm, dead. then you see someone asking questions which makes you dizzy, in pain and is surrounded by alliens (i used the wrong word since cyclops is the allien as far as the breakworlders are concerned). what will you do? just listen and wait till backup comes a knocking.

i wish i have that ability. lol! and have i mentioned that he lost his powers a few issues back? thanks to the insane white queen who left him drooling in bed.

anyway, pissed cyclops explained everything then shoots the executioner with his eyeblasts and said, “to me, my x-men.”
sweet!