Uncanny X-Men #10 Review

Writers: Ed Brisson, Matthew Rosenberg & Kelly Thompson / Artist: Pere Pérez / Marvel “Disassembled” Part X After ten issues, two and a half months, and a weekly shipping schedule, the X-Men have finally come undone. Will humanity and the world mourn those who protected it, even though they were hated, feared, and hunted? Or rather, will the world rejoice at finally being free from the fear of being replaced by a more powerful version of humanity? X-Man, having shed his birth name of Nate Grey, and taken over the body/mind of Legion, makes his final move to save the world from what he perceives as its greatest threat to utopia – the X-Men themselves. “Some men like to pretend they are gods. Some just are.” – Nate Grey In the previous issue, de facto team leader Jean Grey put out a telepathic call to all available former and current X-Men to take on the megalomaniacal X-Man.  Even with an inflated roster of all of your least favorite X-Men from the bottom of those Fleer Ultra card discount bins, the Children of the Atom are no match for Xavier’s heir apparent. In order to tip the scales back in their favour, Psylocke and Angel recycle the same tactic that freed Angel from X-Man’s control in order to release Storm’s mind from being used as one of the Horseman of Salvation. Free at last, and full of that real goddess rage, Storm strikes X-Man with a fury powerful enough to allow the team’s psy-chicks the time to separate X-Man from Legion.

After the successful separation, J…