Storyline: Angels & Demons Part 4 (of 6)
Date: May 29th, 2008
Price: $2.99 US
Writer: Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle
Artist: Clayton Crain

Synopsis: The Purifiers have gathered the most deadly pieces of the X-Men’s past— but their plans are far from over…While Bastion continues to shape the future, Mathew Risman sets in motion an attack that will forever change two of our heroes. If the team can’t stop them from achieving their ultimate goal, mutantkind has little hope of survival.

Opinion: Ok, so I have been reading this series since issue #1 and while I haven’t been reviewing it, every single time a new one gets in my hands I find myself getting more and more excited about the premise and the story.  This issue not only introduced an exciting and original premise, but it also packed one hell of a punch on the last page that literally gave me goosebumps.

Click through the jump to read my full review.

In issues 2 and 3, it got a tiny bit weak and I’m not much of a fan of X-23 or Wolfsbane, both of which were focused on more than I’d like.  Warpath I didn’t have much of an opinion on - but as of now he is in my top ten favorite characters.  Wolverine as always is a killer star for almost any book anyway, and this team is a perfect fit for him.

Honestly, it might do Marvel good to simply yank him from X-men teams and just stick him in here.  In this team, he runs the show and for what this team does, no one else could come remotely close to doing it as well.

I won’t ruin the story or the twist at the end for you - unless you highlight the text below:

The purifiers brainwash Wolfsbane to go berserk and rip Angel’s wings off in order to get the ‘apocalypse strain’ off of them, in order to generate techno-organic wings on select members of their flock.  What’s more, at the very end of story, we see Angel going through a transformation after getting his wings brutally ripped off - to reveal that he has turned into Archangel once again! How awesome is that!!!

Anyway, I will be first in line for issue #5 after these last four issues, let me tell you that much.  I urge you to immediately go pick these books up - you will NOT be sorry!

Oh, and let me mention the art - absolutely FANTASTIC.  Clayton Crain has full control over the series’ art and it’s a good thing because this man can draw a comic, let me tell you.  It’s definately the icing on an already delicious cake.

5 stars for this issue, for sure.

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