"The End" Week: X-Men #41!

This issue had two covers, one of which is a nice Adam Kubert number with a ton of X-Men. The actual comic, well...from 2013, X-Men #41, "Tin Man, part 2" Written by Seth Peck, pencils by Jefte Palo and Guillermo Mogorron, inks by Palo, Mogorron, and Lorenzo Ruggiero.

I think this series started in 2010, with the Dracula storyline "Curse of the Mutants," but this was post-San Francisco, and I'm thinking Nightcrawler was dead for this stretch, so I didn't read any of it? Judging by this issue, I wasn't missing much: today, it's the X-Men versus a new Freedom Force, over a new mutant with power over machinery, Owen. This Freedom Force appeared to be soldiers given implants, and it takes the X-Men a minute to switch partners and fight them to a stalemate, which makes it seem like Storm and Iceman didn't have their heads in the game today. In the end, Storm says they can't make Owen's choice for him, and he decides to become a government stooge. I don't know if he or this Freedom Force appeared again, but there's no personality in any of them, so no great loss.

This title was being phased out, since Brian Wood and Oliver Coipel would get a new X-Men #1 that year, leaning more on the X-Women. If it wasn't for the cover, I wouldn't have even picked this one up, and it's very obviously limping over the finish line.