X-Men: Second Coming – Revelations: Blind Science #1 – Review

By: Simon Spurrier (writer), Paul Davidson & Francis Portela (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors) & Rob Steen (letters)

The Story: The X-Club gets a taste of a nasty future where Hope wasn’t quite the savior of mutants.

What’s Good: I really enjoy Dr. Nemesis, so it was good to see the X-editors give the X-Men’s science team (the X-Club) a chance to shine in this one-shot tie-in to Second Coming.  This issue picks up right after the events in Second Coming where the X-Club is investigating a strange oilrig kind of apparatus that Bastion had created.  When we last saw them, it looked like they were going to get blown up, but instead they seem to get whisked off into a possible future.

And what a future it is.  I won’t spoil the set-up, but let’s just say that in this future, Hope wasn’t quite the savior that Scott Summers had hoped.  Of course, this future is bleak as hell.  Is there any other kind of future that is featured in an X-book?  However, as routine as the “bleak future” is in X-books, this has a pretty neat set-up.

One of the other things that I enjoyed about this issue is that it brought back the mutant “cure” that Dr. Kavita Rao developed during the first story arc of Astonishing X-Men.  What is more, the cure get’s used in a very interesting way.