By: Grant Morrison (story), Brad Walker & Rags Morales (pencils), Andrew Hennessy & Mark Probst (inks), Brad Anderson (colors)
The Story: Hey, even extradimensional beings can have a Shakespearean romance.
The Review: Sadly, one of my favorite moments from Morrison’s run on New X-Men was “Magneto” giving Jean a massive stroke on a planetary scale. It was the most ingenious way to kill a being of her power I’ve seen. That scene clued me into the scale at which Morrison develops his ideas. He’s the only one who can embrace the sheer lunacy of the Silver Age and give it enough sense and logic to work for our highly technical generation.
In this issue, Morrison takes his ideas train into overdrive, almost flippantly tossing delightful bits of imagination at us. Tesseract mines which release a new predatory environment when triggered may seem wonderfully bizarre at first, but they have nothing on the fifth-dimensional material which follows.
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