Book: X-Men volume #3: Bloodline (issues #13-17) by Brian Wood
Illustrations by Clay Mann (issues #13-14), Matteo Buffagni (issues #15-16) and Gerardo Sandoval (issue #16), Paco Diaz (issue #17) and Phil Briones (issue #17)
Color by Paul Mounts
Bromo-Superior short story by Brian Wood with illustrations by Phil Briones and color by Matt Milla
Edition: Single Print Issue
Description:
Jubilee is haunted by her adopted baby Shogo's past...or is it his future?! When the Jean Grey School comes under attack, leaving a young X-Man dead on the school's front lawn, Jubilee's worst nightmare has come to pass...and the future is being rewritten. The JGS has always been a school, but is it time to become an army? Or will their differences prove their greatest asset? As a multi -generational war unfolds, with mothers against daughters, fathers against sons, Jubilee is caught in the middle. The future has come calling, and he wants his son Shogo back! But will Jubilee and the X-Men let their bouncing baby boy go without a fight? Hell no!
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
I don't know what writing process the author Brian Wood went through for these group of issues but whatever it was, it surely brought about a good story. Especially compared to volume #2 which was good but overall nothing special.
But for this volume, the writing was excellent and the story was exciting and engaging. The story centered around Jubilee and Shogo, the baby she found in volume #1 and The Future, a dangerous man who claims to be Shogo's father.
After escaping from prison, The Future set in place a deadly plan to capture baby Shogo, and he wasn't going to let anyone stand in his way. His first action was to go after the X-Men at the Jean Grey School. With two students severely injured, the X-Men were divided and Storm's leadership was called into question. Rachel Grey and Monet St. Croix took it upon themselves to go after one of The Future's minions who was the cause of one of the students injury. But taking him back to the school may have been a bad call.
Meanwhile, Storm was trying to get information about their current situation against The Future from Kymera, her daughter from the future. Kymera knows that The Future's attack on the X-Men to get Shogo brings deadly results but since the timeline has changed there is a chance things won't end the same way as in the future.
As Pyslocke secured the school, Rachel and Monet do the same with their captive. Meanwhile, Storm came to a decision to finally fix the problem of the lack of leadership among the X-Men, but before that was decided, the school was attacked. Their prisoner had escaped and he was almost too difficult for Monet and Rachel to stop. However, Kymera's surprise attack finally took him out but at what cost.
Stopping The Future's minion didn't derail his plan, he was already prepared for the second stage which left Jubilee being abducted and the X-Men having to stop him and get her back.
I thought this volume was a good read because there was a lot of action but most importantly the story was well-written. It also had a pretty interesting villain in The Future, he studied his opponent and knew their every move and if there was some kind of variable he was able to easily adjust his tactics.
I like that the teams' leadership was finally resolved because from the first volume to this one, there was this constant infighting among the team. Storm and Rachel clashed because although Storm was a natural born leader, she didn't immediately step into command leaving the team without clear leadership.
This was so good it left me really interested in reading the next volume.
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