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Mys-Tech Wars #3
Issue(s): Mys-Tech Wars #3
Cover Date: May 93
Title: "Darkness visible"
Credits:
Dan Abnett - Writer
Bryan Hitch - Penciler
Bryan Hitch, Andy Lanning, & Steve Whitaker - Inker
John Freeman - Editor
Review/plot:
Big fight at Mys-Tech. Cyclops is killed.
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And he's not the only one.
Notice Dark Angel recognizing that something is wrong. When Professor X says that they have to flee, she realizes that the problem is that the universe is falling apart, and characters from alternate dimensions are replacing the real heroes. "This is some frail Xavier from another, mean-spirited dimension".
That explains Polaris' costume.
But some characters, despite taking a beating, manage to hang in there.
Captain America and Wolverine continue their misunderstanding fight with Motormouth and Killpower in the middle of all this.
Killpower is clawed by Wolverine and is knocked into a chasm, thought dead, but he'll turn up next issue.
And the encounter between the Warheads and Death's Head II on Un-Earth is repeated again (with more jarring differences). But they eventually head back to the real Earth to confront Mys-Tech, as we saw at the end of Warheads #11. And Death's Head II is angry enough to not worry about offending anybody.
The problem is that the Mys-Tech executive board's lives are woven into the fabric of the universe. Dark Angel warned the heroes about this in issue #1, but Death's Head wasn't there, and Wolverine is too pissed about the death of Nick Fury to care.
Basically we're at the big brawl portion of the crossover, so there's not much to say. I wish Hitch's art were inked more cleanly, or by less people.
Quality Rating: C+
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: One scene i didn't show is the arrival of the Knights of Pendragon to the main fray. It basically repeats the scene from the end of Knights of Pendragon #12, except that Albion is upside down.
As i say above, i take the alternate reality situation as an explanation for why X-Factor are showing up in costumes that they weren't wearing at the time i'm placing this. I suppose i shouldn't even list them as characters appearing but that's a bit tricky. It's hard to know who has been replaced or when. So i'll assume that any character that has been replaced has a real world counterpart that is at least behind-the-scenes. In any event everything gets reset so it really doesn't matter.
References: N/A
Crossover: Mys-Tech Wars
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
Polaris's costume is the one she starts wearing in X-Factor 87. Unfortunately, Cable is lost in time when she starts wearing it and by the time he gets back, Vision is red and green again, the Thing's face is scarred and the real Thor has returned.
I wonder if the explanation that the heroes were replaced by counterparts from other dimensions was added to cover mischaracterizations in the story- Wolvverine endangers his teammates and the world avenging Nick Fury and Jean Grey kills herself after Scott dies even though other people are in danger. I don't know what Abnett was thinking when he wrote these scenes- what's Abnett going to do next, white a story where Iron Man kills an innocent woman at the behest of Kang. Um, never mind.
People from alternate dimensions making their way to the real world as an explanation for out-of-character moments, you say?
This reminds me of Hypertime, a few years later at DC.
In the thrilling conclusion of Mys-Tech Wars, She-Hulk sleeps with the Juggernaut! Oh, wait that was a *different* alternate dimension character :)
Ben understands what my comment was getting at :)
