X-Men Prime #1 Review

Writers: Mark Guggenheim, Greg Pak, Cullen Bunn / Artists: Ken Lashley, Ibraim Roberson, Leonard Kirk, Guillermo Ortego / Marvel Comics I am going to put it all right up front for you, my readers. X-Men Prime is a bit of a mess. That is a product of where it is trying to go as much as anything else — getting one’s act together and taking it on the road leaves a trail. The entire plot of this one-shot is to bring Kitty Pryde back to the X-mansion and back in charge of an X-Men team, while also cleaning up the messes of the X-Men vs. Inhumans series, and moving the time-displaced teens out of the X-mansion and off to their own storyline. That’s a lot of ground to cover in 30-some-odd pages. Oh, and did I mention starting a plot featuring Lady Deathstrike in the middle? Yeah. With apologies for the DC meme in a Marvel review. [divider type=”space_thin”] Starting from the beginning, Kitty has left the madness that is Peter “Star-Lord” Quill (let’s be honest, that’s a dude that’s great in bed but has bad decision written all over him) and is busily trying to be a normal in Chicago. That lasts about as long as it takes Storm to fly from Limbo to Illinois, that is, not long.

See, Ororo is having some guilt about the whole Inhumans thing, so she’s leaving the team. Again. Some more. So Kitten has to come home and take over. Kitty does a half-a-job at pretending she doesn’t want the job. About as convincing of a job as Ororo does of pretending like she’s leaving. The drama there is …