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Someone should explain to Tom Taylor how Nightcrawler's powers work. It's a strain for Nightcrawler to teleport someone in addition to himself and he would never port four people at once. Also, he never teleports somewhere he can't see unless the situation is dire. These are the sorts of things an editor should catch. This book has four of them.

Jean says "We're going to have their backs." Why does Jean speak like a millennial? Here's a tip. When the characters of a story all speak like the writer, it means the writer is not doing his job.

Apparently all the Polish military needs is for their political leaders to start issuing crazy orders and they immediately start shooting civilians. When the X-Men confront them they actually allow the army to fire at the mutants for a moment before Jean remembers that she's a powerful telepath. She then mind zaps everyone except the general. First of all, a general would never personally oversee a mass killing, that's what Colonels are for. Second, tactically speaking, if you were going to mind control a group quickly and in the heat of battle, keeping in mind your own limitations, it seems like you should start with the officers. This is why Storm should be leading this group.

Speaking of tactical mistakes, Tom Taylor singles out Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in a clumsy allusion to the real life aversion these countries have for muslim refugees. But at the same time he makes it clear that the political leaders are being mind controlled by Cassandra Nova, which would effectively absolve them of any moral responsibility. Taylor actually manages to neutralize his own virtue signaling, which would pretty impressive if he had done it intentionally.

On the plus side, Honey Badger didn't do anything stupid in this issue. more

I know it's comics but since when did planets grow giant magic trees of emotion, only for random space beings to eat? The realm of impossibility is endless in comics, I get it. But I just couldn't wrap my head around this outlandish plot. Things went too far over my head to care about what was going on.