Right off the bat let me get this out of the way. I sort of thought we had moved beyond basing characters' costumes or powers on their ethnicity. As I started reading this, I was thinking, "wait...he's making a villain who is Latina have a 'day of the dead' costume? For real?" At the same time I was thinking, "is 'day of the dead' even a thing in South America?" A quick google revealed that no, it is not. Ugh. So bad Brian Wood...you should really know better. Even beyond that little display of unintentional racism, this was not a great book. The beginning was a confusing jumble. Why does Cortes have a USB port in the back of her neck? How did she know about the Lady-Deathstrike-download and why did she seek it out? Who knows? Then there is a little subplot about the Roxy and Mercury conflict that has been drawn out way too long for what it is--we get another single page of it doled out here. And apparently Lady Deathstrike was planning on infiltrating the Jean Grey School solo. But that would have been so ridiculous that Wood had to introduce the coincidence that Deathstrike's target was out on a jog. And it still didn't go Deathstrike's way. I don't have too much to say about Dodson's art. The problems with the story distracted me from noticing it much. The one thing I did think of was that it seemed to be just bordering on cheesecake at times, which had been largely avoided in previous issues of the series. Anyway, knowing this is the first of a six-issue arc is disheartening. I may be dropping this title sooner rather than later.