Best Comic of the Week:
SWORD #1 – I’ve been looking forward to this series since I first heard it was launching. Al Ewing brings Abigail Brand back in charge of SWORD, only now it’s Krakoa’s space agency. Ewing has a lot of qualities that remind me of Jonathan Hickman, and he embraces Hickman’s tendency to over-organize and think of things in terms of systems. The Peak, the space station where this series takes place, is run by ‘The Six’, a group of mutants whose abilities complement one another the way the Five’s do in the resurrection chambers on Krakoa, giving the mutants a serious presence in space. Magneto is our POV character here, giving us the lay of the land, but it is the rest of the cast that has me excited. We’ve got (young) Cable, Manifold, and Frenzy in key positions, supported by mutants like Lila Cheney, Armor, and Random. For people who love deep cuts, we’ve also got Peeper, formerly of the Mutant Force. This book acknowledges the
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