About Heroes

Author: Ed Brubaker
Penciler: Trevor Hairsine
Inker: Scott Hana
Cover: Marc Silvestri

This will be a short review I promise, nothing of importance happens in this issue at all!!! That's right I said it. Am I alone here, because I just don't give a shit about this story. Don't get me wrong its okay, but damn Marvel makes it out to be the best fucking X-men story in 20 years. I mean let's look at what we got: 1) The return of a character that we didn't know exsisted in the first place. Ehhh Shadow King, Moira, Strife, Mr. Sinister and Sabretooth. The difference being that those characters were built up for years before they returned. 2) A sibling gone bad. Havok, Warpath, Deathbird, and Cassandra Nova nuff said! 3) Earth shattering events that will forever change the lives of the X-men. Fuck! Do I really have to tell you? Every other fucking issue in these books have been shattering events.

Hairsine is an okay artist at best. I'm not sure if he just flew by these past two issues, but his art has been really lacking. Not even the great Scott Hana can clean up this mess. His action sequences are decent, but I have never seen an artist have so much trouble with people's chins.

What exactly happens in this story? Well, Scott throws a bitch fit because he doesn't believe Vulcan is his brother. Vulcan blows up a Sentinel and kills its pilot. Scott finds out that Banshee is dead, and finally somebody other than me, gives a shit! Rachel escapes, but only to find out that Vulcan had planned her escape to draw Professor X to him. Professor X and the X-men show up and try to take on Vulcan. We get a backstory of how Professor X and Moira tried to recruit the White Queen years ago.

When I said nothing of importance happened, I meant it! With all the solicitations and Wizard articles that Marvel has been pushing down our throats we already knew Professor X would be back and that he would be depowered. Its not just the overhyping that is killing this series, but the slow paced revelations is really dragging it down. I mean by issue two we already knew what was going to happen. Xavier also has the use of his legs, now I didn't bother putting that in the spoiler section, because how many fucking times is this guy going to get the use of his legs back? Its really becoming a joke to long time readers, and by the cover of next issue, it looks like the joke is on Xavier. One more rant before I end this; what the fuck was the point of trying to recruit Emma only to mind wipe her when she refused? Is that going to add to the impact of seeing Vulcan, not for this reader. Xavier should mind wipe me so I could enjoy this series, maybe.

X-Men: Deadly Genesis is all leading up to Ed Brubaker's run on Uncanny X-Men starting with issue 475. By the cover of that issue we know the X-men are on a galactic mission and that Vulcan is still being a bitch! Sad to say that this is probably one of the strongest Decimation titles, because frankly the rest have been a huge pile of shit! Vulcan is just not that cool; he's probably as cool as X-treme and that sucka could fry you with your own blood. So here's hoping something big happens in the next issue, after all Marvel promised Nothing Will Ever Be The Same!!! C