Comic Book of the Week for 11/13/13

This week's comic book is All-New X-Men #18. If you haven't read All New X-Men up to this point, now might be a good time to jump on. All New X-Men follows the adventures of the  time displaced original X-Men. After the events of X-Men Schism and A vs. X, the X-Men end up in two factions. One side led by Wolverine who still upholds the ideals of Charles Xavier, and the other side led by Cyclops who after changing his mind about mutant and humankind co-existing, teams up with Magneto, takes hold of the Phoenix force and kills Charles Xavier. Crazy right? Refer to the two arcs mentioned above for more details. Beast of the present hopes to alter the future by bringing the past and original X-Men from the past into the present to show the original Cyclops how his future turns out in hopes to change him, and also to convince the present Cyclops to return to who he once was. 

The original X-Men in the present first stay with Wolverine at the Jean Grey School of Highler Learning, but after the Battle of the Atom saga, the OG X-Men led by present time Kitty Pryde leave Wolverine over differences in view on whether the Original X-Men should be sent back to their time, or have a choice to stay in the present. Kitty and they young mutants end up with Cyclops and his new band of X-Men free to do as they please. 

The OG X-Men displaced in time with brand new duds!

Issue 18 marks the beginning of what looks like to be the young X-Men's own adventures. Hopefully they will find the right direction and be able to do what the present X-Men have not. The central theme of any X-Men book in the last year has been the loss of faith in their original vision for mutants and humans to live peacefully together. Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Hopefully, the original X-Men can help their future counterparts to regain their faith in a more hopeful future while giving us comic book lovers a great read!