E is for Extinction #2
Chris Burnham (w), Ramon Villalobos (a)#
Marvel Comics
Liz says: Channelling the sublime weirdness of Grant Morrison’s epic 2001 X-Men run, ‘E is for Extinction’ delves into what happens when the ‘New X-Men’ grow old.
While the students they once mentored are at the top of their game, Scott Summers, Emma Frost, and Wolverine have been rendered embarrassingly irrelevant; unless, of course, they can get it together to go up against Magneto one last time.
Issue #2 brings us New X-Men vs. Old X-Men as healer Xorn enters the fray and Magneto’s true plans become clear. Meanwhile, Beast discovers a corpse that proves to be none other than that of Hank McCoy and tries to learn where it came from, and whether or not it is the only one of its kind…