Uncanny X-Men #9 Review

Writers: Matthew Rosenberg, Ed Brisson, &  Kelly Thompson / Artist: Yildiray Cinar / Publisher: Marvel “DISASSEMBLED” PART IX In the immortal words of Doc Brown in Back to the Future, “It’s your kids, Marty. Something’s gotta be done about your kids!” Without question, the X-Men can testify to that statement more than any other modern comic mythology. When it comes to the Children of the Atom, their familial trees overflow with not only offspring, but clones, doppelgägners from alternate timelines, clones from alternate timelines, and grandchildren of clones from alternate timelines. Their ultimate enemy then just may be the most Uncanny of X-Paradoxes – the lab-created clone son of Cyclops and Jean Grey from the Age of Apocalypse inhabiting the body and mind of the son of Charles Xavier. Is he sane? No. Is he powerful? Sweet Galactus, yes, enough so that every X-Person not caught up in another limited or ongoing limited series must assemble to stop X-Man. Nate Grey aka X-Man will not be denied. His dying wish is to turn the world into a utopia and reverse the ills inflicted upon it by humanity. On a political spectrum, he’s either so far left that’s right…or so far right that’s left. Megalomania plays all sides. When the X-Men try to imprison him inside the mind of Legion, he merely takes over his rival’s mind and body. After losing Angel as Horseman due to Psylocke forcing his Archangel persona to emerge, X-Man ensnares Storm as his replacement. As Jean Grey points ou…