By: Kieron Gillen (writer), Salvador Espin (art), Jim Charalampidis (colors) & Dave Sharpe (letters)
The Story: Hope and her new entourage (a.k.a. the “Four Lights”) head to Tokyo to meet a budding mutant with a bad disposition who they hope will be the fifth light.
What’s Good: Hope. That is the only really good thing about this issue. She has become a pretty important character as various X-writers have developed her over the last ~3 years and she has been central to that last three big X-events (Messiah Complex, Messiah War & Second Coming). So, it is nice to see the spotlight shine on her a little bit as a central character without the story being about everyone trying to kill her.
Espin’s art is quite good in places. He has a couple of odd moments with Wolverine and Cyclops (who look 28 years old), but the art is just fine and good in places.
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