It is now time to sit down and reach right into the Random Comic Book Box of Doom™ to review another Random Comic Book, this time being X-Men Black Sun Issue 4: Fourth Spell Light the Fire. Jean Grey and Beast are the only two members of the original X-Men left to not get their souls stolen.
X-Men Black Sun Issue 4 Review
This is the fourth part of the five part limited Black Sun limited series released for the X-Men by Marvel Comics in November 2000. The story was done by Chris Claremont, the script was done by Louise Simonson, Alitha Martinez was on pencils, John Stanisci on Ink, Pop Visuals on Letters, and Tom Smith was the colorist.
We are coming into the home stretch with two 1960s X-Men down and for this penultimate issue of this Black Sun series, things are going to hit. We are brought up to speed, the best that we can do, with the backstory of what is going on here. I do appreciate the attempt, and I’m sure those who somehow started this at issue two appreciate the attempt.
If had had skipped the little heading blurb right at the top, Jean Grey and Beast are the only two X-Men from the 1960s that are left that are not in trouble. And they are rather good. Jean Grey manages to actually not get her soul stolen, but Beast is not so lucky, with Belsaco being one step closer.
Once again we had a good start to this series, but the middle kind of lagged and we were heating up for a hot ending for this story arc. Thunderbird and Wolverine fighting demons in hell was rather great fun. In fact most of the fighting of this issue was good, the type of action and suspense that you can really sink your teeth into and keep turning the pages forward.
The little scene with Magik and Nightcrawler was a great bit of those who know their X-Men history.
We are in Limbo, with the N’Garai demon army about ready to invade, with Jean Grey, Thunderbird, and Wolverine the only ones that are still fighting for humanity. And Magik is going right after the big one, Belasco, with all of humanity hanging right in the balance.
And that is where we end for this issue, and this series is heating up for a good end. Will it deliver? Stay tuned for the final review.
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