X-Men Gold #4 Review

[divider type=”space_thin”] Writer: Marc Guggenheim / Artists: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Frank Martin / Marvel Comics Oh Hi! We’re here at #4 already! This book is twice a month…did you know that? Yeah, it is in my initial review, but I forgot. So we’ll just summarize #3 and roll on into #4 and pretend this little lapse never happened. It’ll just be between us. ‘Kay? Thanks. That said… Issue #3 found our X-Men team tracking down the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants — a comic book villain name if ever there was one — not only for the UN bombing but for kidnapping the mayor of NYC. The find the evil hideout and mount up, with a couple of the school’s students tagging along to improve the witty banter and the number of punches per panel (which is pretty high). None of the evil mutants pose much of a threat to our gang, except for Aurora, a former X-School student who can control fire. And just when you think Kitty will have to duke it out, it turns out Aurora was under mind control the whole time! Incident handled, bad guys in custody of S.H.I.E.L.D. (except for the lizard dude. They keep him around.), the X-men go off to confront the real mastermind of the scheme, who turns out to be — to absolutely no-one’s surprise at all — the anti-mutant television sensation Lydia Nance. Words are exchanged but no closure is achieved. This is all predictable and fun, if predictable is what you like in your comics. There’s plenty of punching and chatter and the gang certainly wins …