Second Coming

I have to give Zeb Wells, Mike Carey, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and Matt Fraction credit, in that after stopping the bad guys in last week’s issue of “X-Force,” we could’ve ended up with “X-Men: Second Coming” #2 being a lot of pointless epilogues. And don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of epilogue built into this issue. But for the most part, it’s also setting up the status quo for the mutant books and what we have coming up next, and that’s a smart tactic. The first chapter, from “New Mutants” team Zeb Wells and Ibraim Roberson, is the one notable exception to the rule. Only Karma from the New Mutants makes a brief appearance, and it’s really more of a rundown of all the injuries that characters sustained during the crossover. (Well, except for poor Cypher, who despite being part of the New Mutants is nowhere to be seen in this chapter.) It’s too bad, because I think Wells and Roberson could have done a lot with this opportunity, but I suppose as low characters on the totem pole, the