PoserPoints #12

X-Men #7 (Marvel)
By: Jonathan Hickman, Lenil Francis Yu, Sunny Gho

How do you get a mutant who lost their powers, their powers back?  The Crucible.  What is the crucible?  The entire book focuses on it.  You see several fascinating conversations, especially between Nightcrawler and Cyclops about the morality of this process, and if it is in violation of their laws of not killing mutants.  And then, we see it.  The crucible is a noble battle to the death, vs Apocalypse to re-earn the mantle of mutant.  The death, gives you back your powers.  My jaw was agape this entire issue, and I can't wait to see how else the mutants continue to stack the deck in their favor.

What should you do?  I've said all the long, if you liked House/Powers of X then you at the bare minimum should be reading what Hickman have been doing to re-shape the world of X, it has been fascinating, and this book for me has consistently delivered.

X-Force #8 (Marvel)
By: Benjamin Percy, Bazaldua, and Guru eFX

This book focuses entirely on Domino, and the potential threat of having her skin and DNA grafted into assassins and other threats to Krakoa.  It is pretty dope seeing all of the alternate Domino clones (who's coloring is inverse to hers).  You also see a lot of love given to Colossus (who is one of my favorites) in this book, the relationship he has with Domino, and his first excursion off the island. Where this book is solid is the reveal of the villain at the end, and I am ready for some more big-stick X-Force conflict.

What should you do?  Again, this book has always been high up on my X-spinoff list, I think the work Percy and crew has been delivering with the CIA of the X-Men has also been satisfying. You should read it.

New Mutants #8 (Marvel)
By: Ed Brisson, Marco Failla, Carlos Lopez

My love for new mutants has been a yo-yo.  Sometimes I've loved the book, sometimes I've hated it, but I have always read it each week.  This book brings us two storylines:
1. There is something hunting mutants in Nova Roma, and it is interesting to watch those battles go down, especially how they get killed.
2. Sebastian Shaw is up to no good in a book outside of Maurauders, using his control of the drug trade to disrupt cartels and control the black market.

In this book, like X-Force, there is a new villain revealed for this next part of the arc.

What should you do?  Ok, I think now since there are no more earth vs space new mutants, maybe the storyline will tighten up a bit more (although there is another new mutant in virtually each book....), This was good enough to stay on the pull for one more week!

Amethyst #1 (DC)--Twitter Pick!
By: Amy Reeder

In this book we meet a young woman (happy 16th birthday!) who is a child of two worlds, earth and the gem kingdom.  As she is preparing to celebrate her 16th birthday in her kingdom, she returns to discover everyone missing and her home destroyed.  As she turns to a neighboring kingdom for assistance, she gets a shady response which turns her off, and we see who the real perpetrator of the kidnapping and invasion may be.

This book is a simple staging of the conflict to come.  While the story was easy to digest, this book is worth the price alone for the art.  The use of colors and odd structures throughout the gem kingdom is a breathtaking display, and I'm glad my followers chose it.

What should you do?  Since this book jumps right into the conflict, and plays off of two worlds, I can see why DC had been pushing it in most of their recent books, because I think it will apply to a large audience, I'd give this a chance if I were you, as its staying on my pull for issue #2!