X-Men Forever 2 #5

Literally continuing from the last page of XMF2 #4, Cykes and Remy are chasing after 'Ro after being brainwashed and mutated by Masque of the Morlocks. Things seem helpless until Kitty rescues 'Ro only to fall victim to a sonic scream from Scarshreik. Things look really bad until Masque's influence wears off Cyke and Remy and manage to hold off the attack.

Back at the Mansion, Jean Grey is still trying to probe Mystique to not so ideal results. Mystique sees this as playing a game and tries to get info out of Jean but accidentally causes her to manifest the Phoenix which scares Mystique and causes Jean to run away urging Nick Fury to send in Kurt and have him absorb Mystiques powers.

Back in the tunnel with the Morlocks more hell is breaking lose as SHIELD Agents strom the tunnels trying to take out the X-Men and the Morlocks. The Morlocks fight back allowing the X-Men to escape but they themselves to be taken captured. As the SHIELD agents are taking the Morlocks out of the tunnels they get ambushed by none other then Callisto!

Wow... this was quite the issue. I didn't touch on three plotlines that appeared in the issue cause I don't want to spoil it all for you, but a lot happens here. There was one really neat panel with 'Ro that alludes to exactly who she is, some us were kinda right but still wrong at the same time.

I don't really care too much for the Morlocks, I understand their use but they are just story fodder. I'm glad their story arc is finished, for now.

The pages of Jean interrogating Mystique were quite good. I seriously think Jean is gonna have a massive freak out/break down that is gonna allow the Phoenix Force to come out fully. And I am sure someone will die from it, or possibly come back! But I still get the feeling that Mystique is gonna use the X-Men for a far more sinister purpose that just reconciling with Kurt and Rogue.

Now at the end, a character appears who I have no idea who he is.. This may be due to my lack of X-Men knowledge but I including a pic of him so if anyone knows who he is, you can let me know. Click Here for Pix! (Yea, I could just goggle him but wheres the fun in that?)

All in all.. a good issue, definitely better then issue 4. Good work Mr. Claremont and Mr. Buchemi!