Uncanny X-Men #13 Review

Writer: Matthew Rosenberg / Artist: Salvador Larroca / Marvel  “But if these are the last days of the X-Men, I’m going to set things right.” These days the glamorous life of the X-Men involves living in the back of an upstate New York bar and passing the time with cheap beer and billiards. After successfully breaking into the Office of National Emergency, Cyclops and Wolverine rescued Magik, Havok, Wolfsbane, Mirage, and Karma to join their patchwork X-team.  The last addition is “he of the perpetual f#$! up” Jaime “Multiple Man” Madrox.  All of those dystopian futures and alternate timelines look silly in the face of the true present – mutants experimented upon and imprisoned, a public anti-mutation vaccine stopping the emergence of any new mutants and the disappearance of nearly all of the X-Men.  Cyclops, still struggling to compromise his more revolutionary path and Xavier’s Dream, proposes a new, if not final, act to leave their true legacy. Kill List…or Suicide Pact? The current X-Men lineup is far from a well-oiled machine.  Their ranks include two men fresh from the dead, two women infected with the techno-organic virus, and a wanted criminal. Cyclops knows their days are numbered. Unable to sleep, he comes up with a simple plan and a simple list.  One by one, he wants to take out all of the X-Men’s major threats and leave the world with undeniable proof of their existence.

Given their numbers and lack of resources, none of this seems like a good plan, but Cyclops …