(The Story So Far: The young X-Men and their new mentor, Magneto, have moved to a base on the island nation of Madripoor where they can respond to incidents all over the world. One of those incidents was in Colorado, where they picked up an amnesiac sniktbub named Jimmy Hudson who is Wolverine's son from an alternate universe and discovered that the villain Ms. Sinister has gathered a team of extra-dimensional New Marauders for some sinister purpose.)

I thought that this issue was going to be the start of the Secret Empire tie-in, but it wasn't, so crisis averted... for two more weeks.

Anyway, I've been really liking this book, but this issue was just so-so (still don't really care about the will-they-or-won't-they with Scott and Jean, now with tertiary actor Son of Wolverine) until the fight scene with the Madripoorean ninjas! I was thinking how '90s the art and battle senes were the whole time, up until where the Raksha were like "we fight in honor of the one called Patch!" and I laughed and laughed. That dumb yet charming storyline is still bearing fruit! :P

Oof, the art was uneven in this issue, though, ranging from passable to just straight-out bad. The backgrounds and fight sequences were okay; every closeup on a character face was just cringy (especially Jean, ughhh).

I liked the bits of foreshadowing as to the villains the team has/will face! I know that Emma Frost is coming up as a villain and I am both excited and nervous about that... :/