And this issue has been the best of the current run as it just has gotten better and better. I assume because his name is the only one on there. So Colossus goes to a tattoo parlor and can't get a tat because every time the needle hits the skin, he goes all metallic. It's the best usage of Colossus in awhile and it feels like the old-school Claremont stuff. Then he immediately goes and talks to Nightcrawler in the SF compound's church area and they have a discussion. Again, setting back up that friendship. Hopefully it will include Wolverine, drinking, and porn in the next few issues.

The Sisterhood (Madame Mastermind, Madelyne Pryor, and Chimera) have taken their show on the road and request the joining of one Spiral. Just plain awesome. Again, another jump toward making what could have been a stupid idea something just all kinds of fantastic by not just including random female characters but instead actually getting characters that mean something to some of the X-men.

The fringe science team idea is ingenious. Hank and Warren are talking with Dr. Nemesis, the inventor of Jim Hammond the Human Torch, and they get to include him in the science team. One that is going to try and cure the X-Gene disappearance and save mutants. One that fights super-inbred Nazis of the Sixth Reich and doesn't bat an eye. Seriously. And the idea itself is one that presented me with a question for Fraction. Since Pryor can bring things back from the dead, and Hank mentioned him in Endangered Species, any chance for Nate Grey/X-Man to come back? A resounding no.

I was heartbroken. Fraction didn't want to tread on what the great Warren Ellis had done with him and didn't want to go somewhere like that. It made sense, but still broke my heart.

And finally, the biggest part of the book was the mind-search through Scott's mind. It was an open book, and Dodson had to have been the absolute best person to draw this. It was fun and awesome to see all of Scott's mind filled with women that he has looked at, had the hots for, and just desperately wanted to have sex with walking throughout his brain. Emma was searching for something related to Pryor (I think) and she came across the X-women from various parts of the series as well as just random nurses, doctors, and waitresses, and then she finds a black box, one she can't open, one that Scott won't unlock, one that hold certain secrets that he can't share with others for fear of them getting hurt because of them.

Stuff like X-Force is in there (I'm sure). Warren being Archangel and Angel at the same time. And all that does is make me smile a little bit and makes me wanting more of this newer and more exciting X-Men stuff. I haven't been this excited for years.