It was once again, "blog a random comic within arm's reach" time, but we got one that relates back to an old post! From 2018, Phoenix Resurrection #4, "Chapter Four: That a Great Princess Falls, but Doth Not Die" Written by Matthew Rosenberg, art by Ramon Rosanas, color art by Rachelle Rosenberg.

We're more than coming into this one midstream, and there is some fairly cool nightmare imagery in Jean's dream world sequences; but I noticed a throwaway line from Old Man Logan as the X-Men fight dead X-Men. (More accurately, Phoenix-generated copies of dead X-Men. Whatever.) "I've wanted to stab a Madrox since the first day I met him." That struck me as a bit much, but Rosenberg was one of the writers on Uncanny X-Men #9, which also featured some Madrox-bashing. But as CalvinPitt pointed out, Rosenberg also wrote the most recent Multiple Man series! (Which as I write this, the covers weren't on the GCD? The hell? If I wrote a comic, I'd have that uploaded so fast...)

Colossus and X-23 also take out some Maddoxes, but Colossus at least acknowledges they aren't really him. I don't think Rosenberg dislikes Madrox; but he seems to think the X-Men do. Weird. Elsewhere this issue, young Cyclops and Old Man Logan argue which of them should go into the Phoenix-guarded diner to confront Jean, which feels like a virgin and a long-time stalker fighting over who gets to mansplain to her first. That's not really fair, I may still be pissed about the Madrox crack.
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It happens sometimes, but it feels like it's been a week or more since I've read any comics. Well, any that I'd blog, anyway. I did read a couple weeks worth of Uncanny X-Men, as X-Men Disassembled trundles on...Crap, I just had to stop and order the variant cover for #8, I'll post it when it turns up. That's fitting though, since I was mildly enjoying the series to that point, and the last two issues didn't quite sit right with me. Maybe because I had gone back and read #2-#8 at once; or maybe because I've seen the upcoming Age of X-Man solicits: the series seemed to be moving along well enough, and then moved into a hard push to a bunch of spinoff miniseries. Marvel's chasing that Age of Apocalypse high; and not for the first time; but again, hard push.

Spoiler for #9, if you're not reading week-to-week: There's also a scene where Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, who had been mind-controlled and turned into a weapon earlier in the series, is nearly taken over again. It doesn't work, since he had bagged out and sent a duplicate instead. X-Man (controlling Legion at the moment) isn't able to force him to make more dupes, and the dupe is less than thrilled with the original. I don't know if that had changed at some point, but I thought the dupes could make more dupes? Also, while he is doubtless the absolute easiest character for a writer to bring back from the dead, I don't recall if Jamie's most recent demise in Death of X was even mentioned.

Storm and Kitty also badmouth Jamie, which I thought was mean and beneath them. And unfair, since I don't recall the X-Men ever helping Jamie in the least. Storm gets taken over and turned into a "Horseman of Salvation" almost immediately thereafter; joining Magneto, Blob, and Omega Red under X-Man's control. Outpowered, the X-Men clear the benches; with a ton of mutants we haven't seen regularly getting the call. There's Meggan and Kylun from Excalibur, Dazzler, Firestar, Sunfire, Maggott...It's getting everybody in one place for that Age of X-Man, yeah. And I'm already on the hook for the Amazing Nightcrawler book, so we'll see how that goes.

Scans from Uncanny X-Men #9, "Disassembled, part 9" Written by Matthew Rosenberg, Kelly Thompson, and Ed Brisson; art by Yildiray Cinar, color art by Rachelle Rosenberg. We're up to 61 covers by the tenth issue, because Marvel, that's why. I did have a reason for ordering the variant I did, but man, that's a lot of them.
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